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A.R.Yngve
PARRY'S PROTOCOL
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Chapter 53
- This is Mike Moorcock on WRBC, and I've got some very exciting guests here in the studio, straight from the Westmoreham Institute! Next to me sits: Dr. Joyce Oregon, medical superintendent at the Institute; Patrick Rymowicz, a former patient there and recently released; and Dr. Abram Lemercier, psychologist from Virginia, who also works as part-time consultant for the CIA.
- Drop the bullshit, and let me say a few words.
- Okay, Mr. Rymowicz... you're on the air!
- I want to urge everyone living within ten miles' radius of the radio station, to immediately evacuate the area. This is not a joke. The entire transmission area may soon be in danger. I repeat, evacuate the area if you're within ten miles of the station. But stay tuned to this station, and spread the news. Please tape this transmission if you can. I repeat...
- Patrick, let me explain the entire story behind the explosions first. Okay?
- Okay, but be quick.
- Mr. Moorcock, this is my CIA security clearance card. Would you please examine it, and confirm it's real?
- ...yes, it seems not to be a fake.
- All right then. I've been studying a patient over at the Westmoreham Institute since September -- Patrick here. While doing that, I was working on a continuous futurological study for my CIA department. Its subject is the planning of security strategies for the next century, and the report was classified -- only the President, some CIA top people, and the National Security Agency were supposed to read it.
Three chapters had been delivered, before the incidents this morning interrupted my work. I was attacked, and had to escape the Institute together with the staff and a patient. All the others there were killed during the attack. I think my futurology report was the factor that led to the attack. It seems that I -- by complete coincidence -- had described certain secret arrangements which already existed, though I didn't know it by the time.
When the report reached certain high officials within the National Security Council -- it includes people from the CIA, the Pentagon, and the White House -- someone, somewhere, concluded that I had an informer in the organization, or otherwise was a security risk.
- What kind of secrets could it be, that -- ow! -- be careful, it might go off! Tell Red-Eyes here to calm down --
- It's okay, Patrick. Well, I don't know for sure where my speculations came too close to reality. But there was one suggestion, the "Mecca Doctrine" proposal, that was very likely to... to...
- Say it, Doc. Screw "national security" -- the world has the right to know. Say it!
- I... I will. The "Mecca Doctrine" proposal emanates logically from the Western World's interest in protecting the Mid-East oil production -- as was demonstrated in the Persian Gulf War.
I proposed a secret, informal agreement with the military establishment of Israel: that if there would ever be an escalating conflict between Israel and the Moslem states... that they must avoid a nuclear strike against the large oil fields. As a suitable alternative for nuclear retaliation, the Kaba shrine in Mecca would be chosen instead... considering the great demoralizing effect on the Moslem population, if it was totally destroyed.
My report also suggested a possible scenario, where Mecca was the first-strike target for nuclear weapons. But the entire idea depends on one condition: that our Arab allies would never, ever get to know about it. If the agreement existed, and I have no proof whatsoever of that, the consequences might be... Jesus, I shouldn't really have said this...
- The truth is cruel, Doc. "They" must've been shadowing him to find his "source" -- and when they couldn't find it, they decided to eliminate all who'd even talked to him -- just to be safe. It was that kind of "death squad" that attacked the Institute. "What a senseless waste of human life!" Ha ha...
- I don't find mass murder to be a laughable matter.
- Forgive him, Joyce, he hasn't tasted freedom in five years. It was with the help of the Institute staff and... some of the patients, that a few of us managed to survive the assassination attempt. Now all I wish, is to stay alive long enough to reveal the dirty game I'm fed up with. There isn't time to --