One more thing potential readers of Damian and Mongoose should know even before they read the book: I never say in the book that investigative techniques practiced or promoted by others in the opoeration are wrong, only that they were not appropriate for this particular operation. I always understood why the target suspect was totally underestimated by my superiors.
In the history of U.S. Army counterintelligence, a suspect like Clyde Conrad had never been seen. I was critical of my superiors' lack of imagination, but only as it applied to Clyde. While I remained open to the possibility that Clyde could be "jacking us around," I never believed he was.
To this day I suspect there is even more to Clyde's espionage activities than he revealed to me. The FBI stated to me that the only reason they stopped searching for more of his associates was that too much time had passed and not enough evidence was available to guarantee a conviction.
Mongoose
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