The Iceberg - [richard Mariner 05]

Peter Tonkin

Authors: Peter Tonkin

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“One came direct from England and the other, more circuitously, from Washington via East Germany in the normal liaison between the STASI and the KGB. Thence they were passed to the records section as neither report was tagged urgent or important. In the old days, they would have been filed - everything was always filed - and forgotten for years until some grey apparatchik made a connection on the third or fourth routine check. But not now. Now they were fed straight into the computer to join the... millions of other random pieces of information in its almost infinite memory. Because the mainframe was only updated with non-urgent information once a month, it happened that the news of both Dougie Dundas’s strange death and the form of Paul Chan’s unusual scar were fed in together.
Seven years or so previously, in the aftermath of Chernobyl and before Tomsk Seven had demonstrated how little anyone really cared about nuclear accidents in Russia, a perpetual file had been opened especially to contain facts related to the disaster.MoreLess Read More Read Less