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Suddenly Rushia strained his hearing. The noise had been only a tiny peep,

but the DF needle had swung a fraction to the east. ‘Go East,’ he commanded.
‘Gently. Cut back speed.’
Two minutes later the signal returned, very weak, hardly audible, but
nevertheless there. He looked forwar
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there were trees, a small secondary road, and a house, big, solid and set plumb
on a grassy slope. He could see a couple of cars parked openly on a turning
circle at the front which faced East, and another drawn up near a big clump of
trees on the southern side. Obviously a lot of work had gone into building and

landscaping this house, hemmed in by rocks and bleak terrain. As they did the
final pass, he even saw what appeared to be a dog pound on the other side of
the trees to the south of the house.
The DF needle quivered, and the little red ‘guide light’ weakly winked on
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and off while there was an unmistakable morse J & K – the two homer call
signs – faint in the headphones.
‘Photographs!’ Rushia ordered. ‘Photographs. Then let’s get the hell out of
here.’ He had found them, but heaven knew what was shielding the signals.

They sounded, he thought, as though they were being transmitted from the
centre of the earth.
Rushia made contact with base, being the carrier with the Curve operations
team aboard, calling out co-ordinates, and passing on all positive information

that he, Indexer, had tracked down Custodian and Checklist.
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Within fifteen minutes of Rushia’s report reaching the carrier, a piston-
engined Lockheed SA 2–37A quiet reconnaissance aircraft lifted off from
Moffet Field – the centre for much secret aerial and electronic ‘watch and

listen’ work – heading for the co-ordinates Rushia had given. The SA 2–37A is
younger brother to the old YO-3A which was used extensively by the US
Army, CIA and NASA for some time during the Vietnam War and proved
invaluable for gathering information on enemy troop movements. There are not

many of them left in service but the SA 2–37A looks like an ordinary, small,
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one-engined private airplane, yet is fitted with high-definition cameras, and all
the sensor and heat-seeking photographic equipment you will find in larger,
high-fly reconnaissance aircraft.

The SA 2–37A did its work quickly. Its two crew members, seated side by
side, were both experienced men and within two hours, M, Grant, Tanner and
Franks were looking at the resultant photographs with the help of a Recce Pix

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