London Station

In her experience, when the case officer did not have time to build rapport and trust with a Chinese target over time, the most credible path to cooperation became not ideology nor greed but whether CIA could open a hatch for the target to escape political pressure. Pan described as “appetite management,” and she’d been choking it the entire flight, sweating beneath her thick cotton body padding. They did not have confidence that that one would survive long, but the worst-case scenario was that if a kid or a squirrel or something knocked it out of place, all they would have to do is reposition it. Finally, when Ollie had pulled alongside the runner, he looked over at the man until the man returned his look.