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Teleportation?' For a moment the Party Leader was thoughtful, then came on impatient: 'You
know, the more I hear the less I'm inclined to believe. I wouldn't believe, except I saw Borowitz's
results. And how else am I to explain a couple of hundred Tartar corpses, eh? But right now... I've
spent enough time with you on this. I have other things to do. In five more minutes I'll have your
go-between on this line. Think about it and tell him what you want done, anything you need. If he
can come up with something he will. He's had this kind of assignment before. Well, not exactly this
kind! One last thing


'Yes?' Krakovitch's head was whirling.


'Let me make it quite clear: I want the answers. As soon as possible. But there has to be a
limit, and that limit's a year. By then the branch will be working at 100 percent efficiency, and you
and I will know everything. And we'll understand everything. You see, when we have all the
answers, Felix, then we'll be as smart as the people who did this. Right?'


That seems logical, Party Leader.'


'It is, so get to it. Good luck...' The phone emitted a continuous buzzing tone.


Krakovitch replaced it carefully in its cradle, stared at it for a moment, then started for the
door. In his head he made lists - in loose order of precedence - of things to be done. In the western
world such a massive tragedy could never be covered up, but here in the USSR it wouldn't be
nearly so difficult. Krakovitch wasn't sure whether that was a good thing or not.


1. The dead men had families. They would now have to be told some sort of story - maybe
there had been a 'castastrophic accident'. That must be his go-between's responsibility.


2. All E-Branch personnel must be recalled at once, including the three who knew what had
happened here. They were in their homes right now, but they knew enough to say nothing.


3. The bodies of twenty-eight E-Branch colleagues would have to be gathered up, coffined,
prepared as best as possible for burial. And that would have to be done here, by the survivors and
those returning from leave of absence.


4. Recruitment must be started at once.


5. A Second in Command must be appointed, so that Krakovitch could begin a proper,
complete investigation from scratch. That was something he must do himself, just as Brezhnev had
ordered it.