Amazon's Coliseum III (ENG)

Chapter 44: FM-84

Somewhere in the State

In a private room in some club, Viktoria was talking to her boss: Molnár. The middle-aged Hungarian man sighs and then looks into the eyes of the woman, who remained impassive.

-I heard that an EU INTCEN's agent tried to overtake the railway and it caught up with him. The guy was torn to pieces.

-It's a shame.

-I know very well that your little friends are behind all this, and the truth is you know that the last thing I want is those guys busting my balls. If they ask me to hand someone over to them, I will have no choice but to do so.

-And are you sure it was them?

-Please, Viktoria...

-Do you have any proof?

-No, not really.

-So, if you don't have any, they don't have to bother you. It's all speculation. And anyway, whether she was responsible or not, they're looking for her anyway.

-It's true...

-I asked you a question about what you found out in Brussels and what you did was answer me with the case of that guy who got killed by a train.

-Well, this is not easy for me, but... it seems that the CIA and the people in Budapest think that you are taking very risky paths.

-And you don't?

-Do you think that the Americans haven't faced a crisis like this? It will be better for them. It will be the same as in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria or other places where they have stuck their noses. It will help them politically; hell, even it will even help them economically. We are just putting one our best agents at their service, but disagreements have already begun to emerge between us. In addition, the NSA is increasingly yanking our chains.

-The CIA knows that the NSA has also a lot to lose if they screw things up, and that involves the cabinet of the president of the United States.

-Another Watergate? They can handle it.

-Do you think this will be like Watergate?

-What I want to tell you is that they now feel that it's easier and more practical to just open the gates of hell and then pick up the rubble. And in Budapest they seem to be convinced because many people will benefit. You know, the president wants to get rid of the German interference with the INTCEN, and the CIA offered a better deal than the FSB.

-So now what do we do? Will we let all the animals out of their cages?

-Well... there are also several options and several risk factors: we know about your little friend, that Romanian whore, who wants to start dropping names of high-ranking politicians involved in the agreement; we know that she's related to Fenyvesi, who is a high-ranking boss in the Balkan crime federation, and that she may have access to certain information, especially because of her ties to Momcilo Milutinovic. I know that you don't want that, but there she is.

-If we act in time, we can prevent it.

-Do you know what the option would be to prevent Dumitrescu from releasing extremely compromising information that could ruin the Bucharest agreement?

-... Tell me...

-Getting rid of her and Momcilo.

-Is that what you proposed?

-No, "she" proposed it...

-... maybe it was a mistake to involve her...

-But, at the end of the day, she's your eyes, and she is the one who tells us all the movement in Mexico City. You were the one who chose her, and I have to say that I am quite... surprised by her performance, but at the same time worried because maybe, like you, she has become fond of a certain person.