"Beth Meenaghan - Masquerade" - читать интересную книгу автора (Meenaghan Beth)

Prologue





Spock sat regarding Admiral Kleiderer for a long moment. He did
not even try to conceal his disbelief. Finally, he spoke. "Am
I to understand, sir, that a man known to be a Romulan spy has
been directly involved with research relating to a highly
classified weapons project - and nothing was done about it?"



"Yes. Although Intelligence has known for some years that Tor
is a spy, we have not been able to discover who else is involved
with him. We believe that through him, we can finally uncover
the large scale espionage operation that we *know* the Romulans
are operating within the Federation. Nevertheless, he wasn't
working on the weapon hardware. In fact, none of the
researchers at the Vulcan Science Academy are aware of the
location of the actual weapon, or even who is involved with
developing it. They have only been told what is absolutely
necessary for them to develop the control system."



"Perhaps if Lt. Ashford had been informed that her colleague was
a spy, she might have provided you with enough information to
arrest him."



"Too risky. Can you imagine the uproar if we arrested a Vulcan
citizen for espionage? And after we arrested him, it is
doubtful he would lead us to anyone else. We decided Lt.
Ashford would be of greater value to our operation if she did
not know the truth about Tor."



Spock stood and walked to look out the window overlooking San
Francisco Bay and watched the city lights dancing on the water.
A dense fog was rolling in and starting to engulf the Golden
Gate. Spock did not agree with the Admiral, but knew that there
was no longer any point in arguing over a decision that had been
made three years ago. "Why am I being told this now?" he
finally asked.