The game that Ferrera had instigated, when it had finally played out to its lethal conclusion, would later be judged by the survivors and those on the sidelines to have effectively have been created out of a mere nugget of trivia, a kernel of information seemingly of no use to anyone.
Like most operations of the "great game" it didn"t come from a single source. Instead, it filtered down from a variety of avenues, like rice flung far and wide in the sky. Eventually, enough grains made up the meal upon the plate. A grain here, a grain there, none of them seemingly connected.
In a very real sense, the maelstrom began with the destruction of the CIA"s Black Orchestra network in Poland. Black Orchestra was a long term intelligence-run network that had been born in the aftermath of the Second
