Officer Barnes then said something that took me completely off guard and made me forget about Patten, "While you were at that meeting,
some crazy crude went down."
"Like that?"
"A pair of CIA agents visited the station, flashed their badges, confirmed their identity, then confiscated the body of our 'OSS' man, along
with his gun and ID, any photos or sketches we took of the body, and one of them drove out with the car with government plates we took in.
I tried to stop them, but they just kept saying 'national security' like it was a magic wand."
"You've got to me kidding me!"
"That's what I said, guess what they said in reply?"
"'National security?'"
"Bingo."