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why I’m here and that’s why the Director gave us his plane to get here. It’s not just me who wants you back to work on this; the Director demands it. Jordan. We were wrong. You were right. But, we need to stop it. Can we get into the details of what we know?”
    “Sure. Tell me what you have, so far,” Jordan stated with a quick shrug of his shoulders.
    Max went on to explain how this individual made claims and provided information on how he’d been coerced by his government to leave his village to attend a meeting in the capital. During the middle of the week, they were quietly moved out of their hotel and taken to what seemed like a military base. They later came to discover the hotel they had been staying in had been destroyed by fire and each of them had been identified as a casualty of the blaze. In essence, they no longer existed. They then went through years of training, including English language classes, courses on American business, history and culture. They were paired up with a member of the opposite sex from within the program, and eventually given children to raise.
    Over time, each of these “families” immigrated and, eventually settled in the Philadelphia area. They would socialize on a regular basis, to allow the children to get to know one another; and, over time, the children were indoctrinated into the beliefs in which their parents had been trained to instruct them and began to believe America was evil and they were those destined to right the wrongs of their people. The families were under the guidance of one man, who made all of the critical decisions. He would decide who would work where, the house each family would live in, what car they would drive. He also provided a monthly stipend to each family, in addition to the wages they were earning. He also assured that no one achieved a lifestyle that might give them too much freedom or bring undo attention to their family.
    “So, why did he come in?” Jordan inquired, somewhat bored with the resuscitation of his own research.
    “I’m getting to that.”
    Jordan moved his hands in a circular motion like a football referee wanting to move things along.
    “He grew disillusioned when his wife was taken ill with cancer. She could have been cured with treatment available; but it would have been quite costly. The leader of the families would not agree to cover the cost of the procedures and medicines. He felt it would cause questions to be asked of how the family had the means to afford such treatment. The man was devastated he was not even allowed to use the savings his family had accumulated. So, he began to question his whole role in the operation. As you pointed out, Jordan, for some of these operatives, given a taste of America over time, they may grow more attached to the United States and begin to believe in the dream of the USA versus being soldiers of destruction for their former homeland.”
    She continued. “He knew he couldn’t talk with anyone else in the group of families. He didn’t believe anyone else was feeling the way he was and would be willing to risk escape. He knew the boy who had been placed as their son had bought into his future role and was actually being groomed as one of the leaders.” Max paused to let Jordan absorb what she’d said. He nodded for her to continue.
    “He agonized for weeks over what he should do. He received a call from the leader, stating he was going to take the children on a retreat, without the parents, during their next school break. This was not unusual and was happening more and more often, now that the children were older and the time was growing closer to when they would be activated. Our informant decided this was the time that he could disappear. It would be several days before he would be missed and he had an assistant in the store he owned, who was used to taking over when he’d go away.
    “After the son left, our man took his car and drove over to New Jersey and took the PATCO