Langley, Virginia
Fulton sat at the head of the conference room table. All the CIA technicians who were involved in the final stage of Project Crossfire were in the room. Besides this small group, only Peter and the DCI even knew the project existed.
“Item one, encryption. Where do we stand?” Fulton was known for being somewhat direct with his subordinates. He didn"t waste time with small talk.
“Well, Sir, I"ve developed a double blind system no computer in the world could c***k within thirty days. You will have a choice of two transmissions – one to execute the mission and one to abort. In the first case, an encoded set of coordinates will be sent to the Prometheus. The captain and first officer will have booklets to break the code, but the solution will be a set of dummy coordinates.
