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+harry with the launch of the apollo soyuz mission coming up i thought it would be a good idea to
+check in with mike and make sure he didnt have any leftover surprises for us after the tank
+pressurization problem on apollo xviii was not completely confident that he couldnt have set
+something in motion back when he was still working at nasa he seemed pleased to see me i dont think
+he gets many visitors but we didnt have alot to talkabout and it didnt take him long to figure out
+why i was there he still claims he had nothing to do with what he called the accidents though he
+admit she sent the letter to the press i pressed harder and asked him about the manifesto it had
+been readout in court so he knew we knew about it but he was definitely trying hard to steer me off
+the topic and i got the feeling he was hiding something i didnt get anything more out of the
+interview but i continued to worry about it on the wayback to headquarters so when i got there i
+dugout the manifesto and took another look i dont know how we missed it but we never carried out
+forensics on the document i guess i was so taken up with cracking the cipher and analysing its
+content that i forgot to ask someone to check it as soon as i realised the mistake i sent it over to
+langley and got them to run the tests the results are conclusive the manifesto was not produced on
+mikes typewriter i looked through the files but couldnt find anything written by him on another
+typewriter even at work there he had a secretary to type for him and in any case the ink and
+typeface on the manifesto dont match any of the nasa machines either a typewriter is too big and
+bulky to hide and we didnt give mike time to dispose of one so i dont think the manifesto was
+written by him i read it again more carefully for clues i should have noticed the phrase our son at
+the top it would have reminded me that mike was married putting that together with the keyword for
+the manifesto cipher niobe things began to get a little clearer homer wrote about niobe in the iliad
+she was famous as the queen whose sons were killed by the gods in revenge for her pride so i got in
+touch with interpol and made enquiries about mikes wife mikes wife is also english and the manifesto
+uses the english spelling of programme her friends says he had a breakdown after her son died and
+when mike moved back to the us she went to live with her in laws after what seemed like as low
+recovery she told them she was moving back to the states to be near her original family that was
+eleven years ago but her relatives stateside say they have not seen her and no one knows where she
+went i spoke to the security service in the uk and they told me she was an engineer who was quite
+capable of carrying out the sort of sabotage we saw on the earlier apollo flights significantly she
+learned her trade working with the uk atomic weapons authority aw re which fits perfectly with the
+worries in the manifesto she left after her son died in korea and started meeting with peace
+campaigners her security clearance was revoked and soon after that she left the uk soon after i
+received the report from london i took a call from the apollo soyuz team at nasa someone reminded
+them about the problems we had with the lunar flights so they called me back into audit their
+security i found a trail of edited service records that reminded me of the tampered files associated
+with apollo xiii the files were all scrambled using keys that came from homer apollodorus and other
+greek classics so far we have cracked all but one of them and found and fixed problems with guidance
+control life support and electrical power but there is one file icant crack without it we dont know
+if there is some other critical system that mikes wife may have tampered with she failed to provoke
+america into declaring war on russia three years ago but the peace is still far from easy if
+anything happens to the crew of the as tf we might find ourselves on the brink of war again with
+stafford brand and slayton scheduled for liftoff in the next few weeks it is crucial that we break
+this cipher
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