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purpose would that serve?

When will you see Cicero?

Next Thursday evening.

- Very well.

Fly back to Ankara and

keep the appointment.

Try to get some facts on him.

Tell him we can't pay out...

...such sums unless we know

how he gets his information.

I'll do my best, sir.

Try to do better than that.

- Yes, sir.

This is your responsibility,

Moyzisch. I warn you.

Yes, sir.

Half-witted paranoid gangsters!

Refusing to warn the Rumanians...

...thousands of dead...

...millions of gallons of precious

oil and gasoline gone...

...because they will not admit that

anything in the world is genuine!

The air raid will convince them.

Even if it does, now

they can't admit it.

But if Ribbentrop found out

Kaltenbrunner made a mistake...

...and Goebbels found

out about Ribbentrop...

...and Himmler found

out about Goebbels...

It's time you understood...

...we represent a government

of juvenile delinquents!

Yes, sir.

- Well...

...if Berlin doesn't know how to

utilize Cicero, I most certainly do.

What about the Turkish Premier?

His Excellency will be unable

to see you this evening.

He's attending a reception.

- What reception?

At the Countess Staviska, I believe.

At the Countess Staviska?

- I shall be there myself.

What's all this about?

You were invited, but you declined.

- So I did.

I didn't realize.

The Countess has found

a benefactor after all.

I wonder who.

- No, sir. Not on my income.

This could only happen in Ankara.

And only to the Countess Staviska.

Last month penniless...

...this month the Turkish Foreign

Office supplies her guest of honour.

Call the Countess. Say I find

myself free this evening after all...

...and would be delighted to attend.

Yes?

- You'll have to wake Morrison.

Ask him to come at once.

- Yes, sir.

Will you change, sir?

What? Thank you, Diello.

Morrison will be there directly.

- Thank you.

Turn on that lamp, will you, Diello?

- Yes, sir.

This bulb must be burned

out, sir. I'll have it replaced.

Yes, sir.

- Morrison, sorry to waken you.

Get this dispatch off to

Whitehall at once.

Have this coded and classified

as most secret:

...'Upon representation from

Turkish Foreign Office...

...there is strong reason

to believe...

Diello, will you shut

the door, please?

...there is strong reason to believe

that von Papen is in possession...

...of top secret information...

...which would indicate a

leak in security here... '

Upon receipt of this highly

classified message...

...the Foreign Office in London

took immediate action.

Let me read you what we received

from Ankara early this morning.

'Upon representation from

Turkish Foreign Office...

...there is reason to believe

von Papen is in possession...

...of top secret information, which

would indicate a leak in security...

...or Nazi access

to secret documents...

...or possibility have broken

British cipher... '

Colin Travers, a special agent

of British Counter Intelligence...

...left London by plane next

morning, bound for Istanbul.

Colonel von Richter of the Gestapo

Counter Espionage Service...

...left Berlin by plane

the same day.

Travers and Colonel von Richter

arrived Istanbul the same evening...

...and boarded

the Anatolian Express.

They reached Ankara next morning.

Von Richter carried

a Swiss passport...

...identifying him as

Herr Rudolph Hodler...

...a tobacco buyer from

Berne, Switzerland.

He was met at station by a

Gestapo agent named Siebert...

...and escorted to the German

Embassy to confer with von Papen.

Travers was greeted outside

the station by Keith McFadden...

...a British agent attached

to the Embassy in Ankara.

McFadden?

- Glad to see you, Captain.

They left without delay to meet

with the British Ambassador.

To begin with, sir, I think we

must assume that the source...

...of information to the Nazis is

someone here at the Embassy.

It's been ruled out...

- Our personnel and permanent...

...employees have had previous

security clearance from London.

I've never known a self-respecting

spy without a security clearance.

Where is classified information kept?

Here in my safe. And

in the first secretary's.

And the code room?

- Under guard, day and night.

Don't you think it most likely

that this lapse in security...

...was due to a slip of the lip

at some party or reception?

My lips are not in the habit

of slipping, Mr. Travers.

Nor do I imply that they are. But our

material passes trough other hands...

...and might pass through other lips.

Now McFadden was telling me

about an unattached lady...

...a certain Countess Staviska.

Thank you, Diello. You were saying?

A certain Countess Staviska.

It seems she has quite recently

and suddenly begun to entertain.

Informal, gay little gatherings.

I assume some of our Embassy

personnel have attended.

The Countess has a wide circle

of friends which includes me.

That circle would also include

Herr von Papen and his associates.

Mr. Travers, the Countess

is doing her very best...

...to live neutrally in

a neutral country.

The circumstances...

- Mac says...

...her circumstances have taken a

startling change for the better.

Does anyone know the

source of her fortune?

It concerns anyone but

the Countess Staviska.

I cannot see what the

source of her income...

...has to do with our problem.

Now I'm probably

just a gossip at heart.

Maybe that's why I like my work.

Counter-espionage is the

highest form of gossip.

Obviously Cicero is paying

the bills for the Countess.

Why would he choose her villa for

his next rendezvous with Moyzisch?

What a strange, and sudden,

and perfect relationship.

Too strange, too sudden

and too perfect.

The unknown Cicero and the

well known Countess...

...well known for her

anti-German sentiments.

Yet only recently she pleaded

with me personally...

...for an opportunity to

work in our interest.

At the suggestion of British

Intelligence, no doubt.

Colonel von Richter, just

what will convince you...

...that Cicero is what

he says he is, a spy...

...selling us genuine

documents of great value...

...for a great sum of money?

I have come here to convince

myself one way or the other.

A talk with Cicero might help.

Moyzisch, when do you meet him next?

In the villa, next Thursday evening.

Then you will arrange for Mr. Hodler,

a Swiss business man to be present.

My incognito.

I think it's preferable that Moyzisch

remain our only contact with Cicero.

I'm afraid you do not understand

why I am here, Excellence.

I've come to Ankara to

relieve you of all...

...the responsibility in

our relations with Cicero.

I cannot be relieved

of that responsibility...

...except by the order

of Herr Ribbentrop.

Kaltenbrunner hopes he won't be

forced to by-pass Ribbentrop...

...and bring the matter to the Fuhrer.

What further instruction

has the Gestapo for me?

All documents from Cicero

will be sent directly to Berlin.

Those which are pertinent

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