Just then, one of the CIA staffers said, “Sir, we’ve got Ms. Austin on the screen via her tracking device. Well, we’ve got her location. We’ve also got an open cell phone. It looks like the one carried by Smirnoff.”
Then another CIA staffer said, “And we’ve got audiovisuals, too, Sir.”
Overly anxious, the commander shouted, “Will somebody bring something up on one of those damn screens with some people in it? Can we at least see where they are and what’s happening?”
At once, images of several men dressed in camouflage appeared on the screen. They were in the back of the cabin of the private aircraft. Some of the men were standing and laughing and talking. At least two of them were seated.
Then the CF commander and everybody else within viewing of the big screen inside the library of th
