Part 32 (2/2)
”You bet your ass, I did” hoe It was Miles' way ofsome control over the situation His di homosoto's reaction ”It turned out to be siht”
”Would you be so kind as to elaborate?”
”Gotcha” Miles opened his briefcase and brought out a sheath of papers with charts and scribbles all over they is pretty simple Here are the fundamental systems to use in the attack, there are only four of them After all, there are no defenses, so that's not a problem”
”Problem?” homosoto raised his eyes
”Ok, not probleether is not the issue The real issue is creating an effective deployment of the tools we create” Miles was matter of fact and for the first time homosoto saw Miles as the itiner- ant professional he was capable of being The challenge Just as Miles proe, the new, the undone and I will be the best' Miles was shi+ning in his own excel- lence, and his ego was gone, totally gone His expertise took over
”I have labeled various groups that ill need to pull this off”
”Pull off? Excuse me”
”Oh, sorry Make it work? Have it happen?”
”Ah yes, So sorry”
”Not at all” Miles looked at homosoto carefully Was there a ?
”As I said, ill have to have several groups who don't even know about each other's existence At NSA we call it contain- ment, or need to know”
homosoto cursorily examined the printouts on the table in front of him, but preferred to address Miles' comments ”Could you explain, please? I don't see how one can build a car if you don't knohat it's going to look like when you're done You suggest that each person or group functions without the knowledge of the others? How can this be efficient?”
Miles smiled For the first time he felt a bit of compassion for ho why 1 plus 1 equals 2 homosoto was used to the japanese work ethic: Here's a beautiful picture of a car, and all 50,000 of us are going to build it; you 5,000 build the engines, you 5,000 build the body and so on After a couple of years we'll have built a fabulous automobile that we have all shared as a coe a war, although he apparently afford it Miles realized he could be in control after all, if he only sold homosoto on his abilities, and he ell on the way
”You see, Mr ho to do requires that no one, except a few key people like you and I, understand what is going on As we said in World War II, loose lips sink shi+ps”
homosoto immediately bristled at the mention of the war Miles hardly noticed as he continued ”The point is, as I have it laid out here, only a handful of people need to knoe are trying to achieve All of the rest have clearly defined duties that they are expected to perform as we ask Each effectively works in a vacuuine you would like to keep this operation as secret as possi- ble”
homosoto took immediate notice and bolted his response ”Hai! Of course, secrecy is important, but how can we be sure of compli- ance by ourassociates?”
”Let me continue” Miles referred back to the papers in front of hiroup is called the readers, the second will be dedicated to research and development” homosoto smiled at the R&D reference He could understand that ”Then there will be a public relations group, a coroup, a software coroup I call the Mosquitoes and a littlewhich I assume you can handle” Miles looked for ho, very easy I don't fully understand the others, but I am most impressed with your outline You mentioned prob- lem Can you explain?” homosoto had become a different person
One who showed adolescent enthusiase of his seat
”As with any well designed plan,” Miles boasted, ”there are certain situations that need to be addressed In this case, I see several” Miles was trying to hook homosoto onto the prover- bial deck
”I asked for problem” homosoto insisted
”To properly effect this plan ill need two things that e ”What do you need?”
Miles liked the sound of it You What do _you_ need ”This operation could cost as much as 50 million Is that a problem?”
homosoto looked squarely at Miles ”No proble you need?”