Malcom David Stone, head of the CIA’s Special Activities Center, or SAC, sat brooding in his office. As the head of SAC, he had the responsibility to man, train, equip, and direct the teams from the Agency’s Ground, Air, and Maritime branches under the direction of the DDO. His teams conducted operations all over the world, all under his control. That was all operations but one.
Stone had no intelligence experience prior to becoming the head of SAC, but after his Navy career derailed, his friends in Washington, most of whom were U.S. Naval Academy classmates, pulled a few strings and Stone soft landed in his current job. He looked forward to working his way up the Agency’s career ladder with an eye on the DDO’s chair. However, that changed with the change of Administrations in the White H
