CIA Headquarters, Langley, Virginia
When he stepped off the elevator and charged into the turmoil within the Agency’s Asia Section, the man called Bayer knew the TV reports were true. He elbowed into a circle of analysts who were speculating wildly as reports from network foreign correspondents blared in the background. North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Il was dead of a heart attack, and Pyongyang was in turmoil. Apparently, his son Kim Jong-Un was moving up into the vacant leadership spot, but none of the analysts seemed to have a good grasp on what that might mean to the ever-shifting geopolitical scheme in Asia. He listened to the conversations intently wondering what it might mean for his sub-rosa surveillance mission and what he might need to do about it in the next hour or so.
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