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TENGU - Winner of the Silver Medal of the West Coast of Books

Nancy spoke: "The most evil of all the seven Black Kami is called the Tengu. Even the most experienced adepts at the Shinto shrine are warned opening themselves up to the Tengu. It is said that the leader of the shrine had once done so, and had almost been driven mad."

"Nancy, please—" Gerard interrupted.

"No. You must listen to me. The characteristics the Tengu gave to those he possessed included invincible physical strength, the mad strength of the berserk, the ability to stand up to ferocious attack from any kind of weapon. Also, if the person he was possessing was chopped into the tiniest pieces, the pieces would regenerate and grow again into demons even more hideous than the original—"

"Nancy!" Gerard shouted.
"No!" she hissed. "You have to listen because it's true! They've done it! They've brought it here, the Tengu, the real Tengu demon! The devil of remorseless destruction!"



Tengu



STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL TEG/232/Ref:18a
FROM: THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY
TO: SENATOR D. R. NUSSBAUM
REFERENCE: USS Value October 17, 1958

Naval records show indisputably that the radio monitoring vessel USS Value was at Pearl Harbor on July 2, 1945, undergoing routine equipment repairs. There can be no basis whatever for your suggestion that the vessel was anchored at that time off the coast of Japan. Nor can there be any substance in your claim that the USS Value was connected with what you call the "Appomattox Situation." The Navy has no record of any file of that title or description.

EXCERPT FROM THE RECORD OF THE CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY INTO INTELLIGENCE PROCEDURES, MARCH, 1961

SEN. NEILSEN (N.J.): Did you at any time prior to this sortie appreciate that you might have to sacrifice the lives of all but one of your fellow operatives in order to achieve a comparatively minor intelligence coup?

LT. COL. KASTNER: Yes, sir. I was conscious of the risks. I might add that my fellow operatives were, too. We were trained.

SEN. NEILSEN: Do you now believe that what you achieved was worth the loss of all those lives, and worth the political risks which Senator Goldfarb has already outlined?

LT. COL. KASTNER: There was a possibility that it might have been, sir. I admit the net result was a disappointment.

SEN. NEILSEN: A disappointment?

LT. col. KASTNER: Not all such sorties are disappointments, sir. Appomattox was a good example.

SEN. NEILSEN: Appomattox? What was Appomattox?

LT. COL. KASTNER: I have just been given instructions that I am not to respond to that question, sir. It is outside the area of my competence.

SEN. NEILSEN: I think this inquiry deserves some kind of explanation of your remarks, Colonel.

LT. COL. KASTNER: I'm sorry, sir. I have been advised that any kind of response would be a violation of national security.

SEN. NEILSEN: Very well, Colonel. But I intend to take this matter further.

LT. COL. KASTNER: That is your privilege, sir.