Prompt ….
PHOTO PROMPT – © Sean Fallon
Agent X sent in a coded report that had been long awaited. It read …….
There is a small grocery just outside the airport which supplies the terrorists with batteries and detonators. It also furnishes the incoming terrorist with suitable garments, duplicate documents and their other needs – bla bla bla …………..
The chief read it and sent it to the in-house geo-political expert for substantiation .
The document came back with a stick-on note that stated – This is the 2016 version of ‘Our man In Havana’ and ‘The tailor of Panama’.
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Thanks for the prompt Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. SHALOM.
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were the inputs actionable, seems not
John le Carré’s The Tailor of Panama, follows footsteps of Graham Greene’s Our Man in Havana Greene’s humble vacuum-cleaner merchant, Jim Wormold, was made into a reluctant agent by British intelligence and makes an ass of his superiors by feeding them fabricated, vacuum-cleaner-inspired blueprints and plots, causing all hell to break loose in sultry Havana. Likewise, Le Carré’s humble tailor, Harry Pendel, feeds nonsense to his boss.
Agent X is a modern version. Thanks for the visit.
Ah I hadn’t read those. Good story.
They make fun of espionage.
Thank you.
Good luck Agent X.. The Falcon has landed.
Thanks for the visit. 🙂
Got it, am I safe to visit the shop?
Perfectly. If there is such a shop.
Thank you.
I like where you took this and especially enjoyed the down-to-earth sticky note.
Thank you. 🙂
Hah, this is fun. I hopeagent X got paid well for these messages, s/he may be out of a job now.
I am sure he managed to get good money otherwise the report would have been further delayed. 🙂
Thank you.
Good story, Yarnspinnerr. Some of the plots you hear about and turn out to be real, do sound like fantasy. It must be hard to tell. I wouldn’t want the job of deciding. 🙂 — Suzanne
So true I am sure that there are many such ….. out there.
Thank You.