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more do you know about the Nevilles, Colonel?"
"Very left of center politically, exceedingly Green, and never missed an opportunity to skewer those who didn't agree with them," Morgan said. "Excellent photojournalists. Thoroughly persuasive, unless you are well informed about the opposite view. If you argue, you are the enemy."
"Let me tell you more about the Nevilles," Ambassador Conroy said. "Last year they were on assignment for the National Geographic Society, following caribou migrations in the Canadian Northwest Territories, or something equally ecologically impeccable. But the aircraft they hired crashed into Hudson Bay, killing Jacob Neville and the pilot. Anna Neville survived. She was injured, on the ice, in shock, able to shelter only in a piece of the aircraft's wing, for about twelve hours. Maritime Command doctors who treated her after some Ilnuit trappers found her say she is fortunate to be alive. She had two broken legs, a broken collarbone, internal injuries, and frostbite. She has been in a hospital in Ottawa for nearly two hundred days."
"One hell of an accident," Morgan said.
"So it appears."
"Is there a question that it was an accident?"
"Judge for yourself. Anna Neville was released from the hospital and immediately called a press conference, claiming that an American submarine in Hudson Bay fired a missile at her plane and shot it down. She said she'd told all this to the Canadian authorities, but they'd done nothing either to prove or disprove her story."
"That's preposterous," Morgan said in annoyance. "For one thing, the water in Hudson Bay is too shallow for submarine operations and for another, only Canadian forces ships would be in the bay. The only time our ships would be there is if they were invited on a joint exercise."
"That is what the Adviser tells me. I am happy to hear you confirm it. But Anna Neville's sponsor is the Canadian Com-

 
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