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“But this is not really proof.” Hassan protested.

“Pay her and that's a direct order.” Then turning to Dina he handed the dancer her tape and said, “Thank you for you help. You have lived up to your part of the deal, but we now find that the soldier's homosexuality or heterosexuality is no longer a factor or of any value to us. You can if you want send me the entire tape and anything else you might have or you can keep all of it yourself. I don't care and our government no longer cares. We no longer have any need for it. Now take your money and please leave.” Alli said and turning to Hassan he continued, “Pay her off and escort her from the building, arrange for her to get home or anywhere she wants to go safely, and then come back here. We have some work to do. We have wasted too much time on this silly matter.”

After paying Dina off and seeing her out, the enraged Hassan stormed back into Alli's office and started shouting and yelling at him, “Why did you order me to pay that bitch off? We wasted thousands of dollars and not only did we not get the full tape and still photos, but the bitch took the preview tape with her! What are you doing? What's going on here?”
“Fazzi demanded that we stop investigating Joseph.” His boss said.
“Demanded? Demanded? What right has he to demand that we do anything, and since when do we listen to anything that pervert has to say? How does he know what we were doing?”

“Remember I told you not to underestimate that viper. Let me enlighten you and bring you up to date. It seems that his daughter must have inherited some of her father's shrewdness. She must have spotted that sloppy agent of yours, your Don Juan, and she must have thought that her father had sent him to check up on her. In any event she called her daddy and she must have tore into him thinking it was he that sent lover boy to make sure that she was 'keeping herself Pure' so to speak. And 'that pervert', as you call him, became incensed. So he called a few of his friends in Damascus and they called here and were told that you and I started this investigation. Like I told you before, the snake has important friends and it appears that from now on we are to report to Fazzi directly on what we are doing and also we will get our orders from him. The powers that be have placed him in charge of our entire network of agents in the USA. The home office is more impressed by his new money scheme than they are about his love life. I made the mistake of asking for conformation of that in writing and never in my life have I seen the government move so fast. Here read this. It came in a while ago. Note who it came from and therefore we have no choice but to obey.”

Hassan read the decoded secret cable with growing fear in his eyes and heart. “Have they gone crazy? This means that that depraved idiot is now our boss. He has been chosen to be the leader of all operations in the western hemisphere. His word is now law! And he is the judge, the jury and the executioner of that law.”

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