It had been agreed between President Dulles and the British Prime Minister that the use of the OSC to curtail the deployment of Red Mercury on US soil would never become known.
This would be one operation in the OSC’s history that would be kept in a file marked as top secret and on no occasion would be revealed or opened for public perusal.
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Everest meeting
10 Downing Street
City of Westminster
London SW1
Lat = 51 degrees, 30.2 minutes North
Long = 0 degrees, 7.7 minutes West
Friday 6th October 1989 (four days later)
Fifteen hundred hours BST
The Everest team were all seated in the cabinet room along with Sir Robert Dawson of the Metropolitan Police.
Major Strayker and Colonel Storm had just arrived and seated themselves down at the remaining two seats.
A couple of minutes later The Prime Minister entered the room and the group stood up, she beckoned them to be seated and sat down in her chair and said, “First on the agenda is the report from Sir Robert on the Met’s status, over too you sir Robert.”
Sir Robert stood up and said, “thank you Ma’am, gentlemen it has been nineteen days since the attack on New Scotland Yard, the building although badly damaged is structurally sound and work has already commenced on the repairs, estimated to take several weeks. All the Forces departments from the building are fully operational from a number of other Police stations.”
Sir Robert paused before continuing, “The revised casualty figures are now fifty-one dead and one hundred and twenty injured, and it has to go down as the grimmest day in the Met’s history!” Sir Robert sat back down.
The room was silent for a few moments before the PM spoke, “thank you Sir Robert, I am sure everyone here shares your grief at this senseless loss of lives.
Everyone in the room nodded in agreement, the PM continued, “as you are all aware following the OSC’s recovery of the Red Mercury it was handed over to the Americans and presently they are not prepared to hand it back to the Russians. As far as I am concerned, we have played out our role in this matter and no longer have a role to play, the Americans and Russians can play it out themselves. Pierce do have you any Intel for us?”
Pierce Evans head of MI6 stood up and said, “Our sources in Russia have hinted that something big is about to happen possibly on border of east and west Germany but no further Intel is available,” he sat back down.
The PM turned to Strayker and Max, “Major, Colonel again I must commend you and your teams on a job well done, both here and in America. I hope that we can all get back to normality and the world stays sane.”
Strayker replied, “Until that day comes we will be ready, hey Max?”
Max replied, “Always sir, for Queen and country.”
Five weeks later on the evening of the 9th of November 1989, parts of the Berlin Wall came down and East and West Germany were reunited.
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