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My dearest Charlotta,
I am sending this letter to your office by a dear friend and associate, Olga Vetsayeva, whom we both can trust implicitly. Should I have any further need to get in touch with you privately, it will be through Olga, may God bless her and keep her safe.
I have been recalled to Moscow by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ostensibly "for consultations on pending business in the United Nations." I am to leave as soon as the General Assembly session on Sudan is adjourned. In actual fact, I suspect Soyuz wants me in Moscow for a different purpose altogether. This evening I received word from David that he has been asked to go on an extremely dangerous mission on behalf of President Cherny. Cherny is a good man, but an innocent in the world of political beasts. Will he ever learn that he is not dealing with a university faculty senate? I fear that Dovi Milsrein may pay for the President's naïveté. If he does, it is possible that I, too, will not return to the United Nations.
My dearest Charlotta, how I wish that we had met earlier. I go back to Moscow with the greatest regret, but go I must. I have prepared a special letter for you to send on to your President should it be necessary. Olga Vetsayeva will bring it directly to you when word reaches her, no matter what the hour, in which case you must take the utmost care, both for her life and your own. Soyuz will be watching you around the clock.
Take care, Charlotta. Let us pray for saner times.
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Handwritten memorandum to Vincent Kellner, National Security Adviser to the President of the United States, from Charlotte Conroy, United States Ambassador to the United Nations: PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL.
Vincent
I have just received a letter from Nathan, telling me that he has been called back to Moscow on a pretext, and that he will

 
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