[War] US: Here we go again.

[John Penta]

"Here we go again"
3 August 2014
Pres. John Williams
USA
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<Washington>

"Damn."

John Williams didn't know whether to be impressed. Or pissed.

Impressed, because the Canadians had pulled off one of the hardest ops
that he could imagine having occurred in years.

Pissed, because they'd just gone ahead and done it, and the Chinese
were pissed at both of them.

Either way, he had a situation to deal with.

"Okay, first things first," he briefed his cabinet, after they'd
discussed things.

"Shut down every post in China - except Shanghai," Williams decided.
"Burn all classified documents, the usual 'we're outta here'
procedures.

"Tell Vice President Stevens that our position is this:

"He continues to Beijing, We're going to keep talking.

"We're still trying to figure out exactly what the Canadians pulled -
We're as surprised as *they* are, to be honest."

"Meanwhile, put safehouse protection on our rescued."

"Thinking of Melenkov?" Secretary Hill asked.

"Yup." The story of the defector killed by the Bulgarians, Georgi
Melenkov, was hard to forget.

"After that?"

"We wait."
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Actions:
OOC: I'm writing with a headache, I know this is short.
1. All diplomatic posts in China, except Shanghai, to be shut down.
Burn the sensitive documents, bolt the doors, we're goin home!
2. Rescued CIA personnel to be kept in safehouses, safe from the Chinese.
3. Signal to China that we're still trying to figure out what happened, too.