Mole in the Hole

This is a work of fiction. Many of the organizations, facilities and the surrounding historical facts are correct, but they were never integrated into the story the author has presented here. We are not saying that they could not have participated in the scenarios that make up the chapters of this book, but if they did I don't think the formal record would have been as visible as presented here. 


The key characters are Greg Stone, his partner Harry Biter, and Joan, a young lawyer who is Greg's significant other. The group, as outside consultants, is asked by a prominent Senator to do some investigative work for a private company. The task is masked as a Security Audit. The company turns out to be a spy agency in the private sector, who spies on spies, for five governments; the U.S., the United Kingdom, the Canadians, the Australians and the New Zealanders.


The justification for the client to exist is that age old separation and conflict between career civil servants and their politically appointed agency leaders. The civil servants view their politically appointed leaders as four year term-limited interlopers into their private domain, and the politically appointed leaders view the civil servants of that agency as a conspiring group with their own agenda no matter the agenda of the Administration then in office. The politically appointed agency leaders feel they need an independent source of information and intelligence generated outside of the 'old boy' network. This problem has existed ever since JFK saw the CIA as his political competitor in the 1960's, or maybe even before that, when Harry Truman saw John Foster Dulles, who was Secretary of State, and his brother Allan Dulles, who was the head of the CIA, as the 'evil twins', and chose to have all reports and recommendations, authored by the Dulles Boys, vetted by third parties.


The Senator's helping hand to get our lead characters some consulting work turns out to be just another element of the Senator's highly classified Nuclear Weapons upgrade program that may be in violation of various international treaties, if not a clear violation, then certainly in violation of the ethics and intent of such treaties. The Senator sees the consultant client as the ideal company to carry on the nuclear weapons engineering work, at the client's secret location to do the work with Greg and company as the best ones to manage it. 


The Senator also knows that DOD, DOE, the CIA and the NSA, not to mention all of the civilian contractors who originally built the nuclear weapons, collectively think they should be in the lead of such a large and well funded project. The Senator's main co-conspirators are the President and his National Security Advisor who would be in the hot seat if the nuclear weapons upgrade program came to light, and who would have the most to lose, politically speaking.