AFTERWORD
REYKJAVIK, ICELAND
Saturday, October 11, 1986
Höfði House, the former residence of John GreeSnway, British Ambassador to Iceland in the early 1950s, is a grim structure set on a bare plain facing the Atlantic just north of Reykjavik. Proclaimed haunted by the locals, the British had sold it in 1952 after pictures unaccountably fell off the walls. Memoirs of one of the earliest occupants of Höfði recount the presence of the spirit of a young woman who was either a suicide or drowning victim. The locals, however, insist that the house sits atop a Viking burial site, and that the liquor cabinet, therefore, is frequently raided by spirits.
Early on the morning of October 11, 1986, U.S. Secret Service and their Soviet counterparts checked their joint security set-ups and conducted
