It was February. We were looking out the window at the tracks of wild animals in the snow that had fallen the night before.

"By which I mean," scibe continued, "that it is possible that in its origins, the organization that became the CIA had missions not known to most of the brave men and women who spied for the OSS in wartime. One was to set up an International spy-controlled network that was a law unto itself and another was to put resistance efforts they wanted to covertly suppress, and people whom they wanted to persecute in positions of danger." ___________