Chapter 1:
Harold Sands was the youngest spy ever recruited by CIA.
In the summer of 1958, Harold, just out of high school, accepted a job with the secretive agency designated by President Truman eleven years earlier as the “President’s intelligence arm.” Harold wasn’t a spy at first; he was hired to be a courier. But when they tested him and realized his potential, and when he was old enough for field work, he became an operative, a spy, a spook, and the youngest one in CIA’s history.
Nothing in Harold’s background suggested that he was spy material. Nothing signaled that he would be what they called a natural, someonewith potential. He had grown up in state-operated orphanages and a foster home. He had been on his own most of his life and had raised himself.
Harold was a loner at eighteen.
Although he had applied to be a courier, he never become one. For his first three years at CIA, he worked in a computer lab. When he was close to twenty-one, they took him out of the computer room and sent him to the Farm, CIA’s secret training facility for spies. His indoctrination tests three years before had revealed qualities that combined to make him a candidate for covert operations, someone who can work alone in the field without supervision, someone they could count on to deliver the expected results in a mission-oriented environment, someone who cared more about the success of the mission than its consequences. Just the kind of attitude and perspective a spy needs. So, the Farm trained him in the arts of espionage, sabotage, intelligence gathering, and analysis.
Then, well-trained and ready for field duty, he became instead an intelligence analyst, correlating data, shoving papers around, riding a desk at Langley. He longed for an assignment that would use his skills and training and put him into deep cover, out in the cold, where the action was.
He had no way of knowing that in two short years he would be in so deep and so far out in the cold that as a rogue agent he would be part of a complicated and dangerous conspiracy that would come to be known as “the crime of the century.”
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