Stupid Luck and Happenstance.

[Knightmare]

Well Finley, congrats.

You just alienated the best backdoor source into Germany you had. While Truman's doing a purge of the dead wood.

Hope that resume is updated.

 

[Theoretical_TJ]

And now we get the TTL Red Scare, the Kraut Scare.

 

[LordVorKon]

women were too flighty for this sort of work, being run by passions and emotions

Pot, kettle... what?

 

[jlckansas]

Congratulations sir you have now brought in the Grand ol Man himself, one who would be striking fear into folks, Robert Anson Heinlein.

Part deux, does Finley actually think that Kat would let him see her coming, strike that she might make it look like she is coming just to have him looking under couch cushions and behind doors.

 

[holyknight]

OK, Finley it's not a moron.

His kind of utter idiocy certainly lacks an adequate term in the English language to even remotely envelope that sheer scale of bigotry and stupidity in a single human package.

Nancy it's likely to leave, but Finley forgot the ancient saying..... "Hell hath no Fury like a Scorned Woman".... and he pissed off TWO.

Add, that he forgot that Nancy had possibly access to a LOT of dirt on some stuff in the OSS.... and that Kat will certainly ask Schultz for some select and country wrecking stuff from the Hoover archives to "answer" to Finley's utter stupidity.

In a few weeks, a month top, Finley it's going likely to be in front of the VP Johnson, and being subject to the finest selection of insults, screams and questioning of his intelligence, sex preferences and what else he can think as likely Kat's retaliation set Washington to burn by four corners... And Nancy likely absconded with the information on all the known informants and outright spies in the American side.... in a nice fell swoop, Finley possibly destroyed nearly 30 years or more of intelligence efforts because he couldn't stow his pissing contest with one of the deadliest specialists in Germany's side.....

 

[weasel_airlift]

Apparently he doesn't know what happened to Mike Smith...

And pulling this on someone who has personally briefed the President, and whom he has a high opinion of? Someone will be counting seagulls in the Aleutians..

 

[Dan]

Apparently he doesn't know what happened to Mike Smith...

And pulling this on someone who has personally briefed the President, and whom he has a high opinion of? Someone will be counting seagulls in the Aleutians..

This especially.

 

[jlckansas]

Apparently he doesn't know what happened to Mike Smith...

And pulling this on someone who has personally briefed the President, and whom he has a high opinion of? Someone will be counting seagulls in the Aleutians..

Nope, you forget Admiral Byrd has an Antarctic station or two. They most assuredly will need someone from "intelligence" down there to find out what the other countries are doing, you know running some penguin or pinniped spies

 

[matzeskatze]

Apparently he doesn't know what happened to Mike Smith...

And pulling this on someone who has personally briefed the President, and whom he has a high opinion of? Someone will be counting seagulls in the Aleutians..

I think hand feeding Polar Bears in Alaska myself...

But would the police / border guards / FBI be demanded enough to imprission Kat? If she is in any slightly official persona then she should have, Imo, a diplomatic passport and dear Paul may find that his fantasies come crashing down... not that he deserves anything other.

And then it may appear that this whole thing was motivated by personal revenge and pits the USA against the foremost European Power and additionally sours relations with the UK and Commonwealth. As the Germans did more to stabelize the World right now, then the USA. Think Spain, Japan and maybe even Mexico if some information surfaces.

 

[Knightmare]

But would the police / border guards / FBI be demanded enough to imprission Kat? If she is in any slightly official persona then she should have, Imo, a diplomatic passport and dear Paul may find that his fantasies come crashing down... not that he deserves anything other.

Oh no, she's got a diplomatic passport no doubt, as well as just literally a well earned reputation.

Anyone suggesting an arrest is gonna be told to go play in traffic while the adults are talking.

 

[weasel_airlift]

But would the police / border guards / FBI be demanded enough to imprission Kat? If she is in any slightly official persona then she should have, Imo, a diplomatic passport and dear Paul may find that his fantasies come crashing down... not that he deserves anything other.

She may not have a diplomatic passport, but anyone who agrees to arrest a personal friend of the German Empress for espionage deserves the posting he is about to get. Paul will be in real trouble if he causes a major diplomatic incident over a petty grudge. Especially when Truman is cleaning deadwood.

Personally, I'm a bit meaner than the suggestions so far. To smooth things over, I'd call up the German Empress and request to attach Paul to a German division as a military attache. Under Kat's brother, for instance. I'm sure they would value the opportunity to do some extra training. I'm sure Hans would make Paul value the chance to do Polar Bear dentistry in Alaska by the time he was finished...

 

[Theoretical_TJ]

This is a great way to turn someone loyal into someone disloyal. Now all he needs to do is trump up charges of espionage against Jehane and the circle of stupidity will be complete.

 

[Theoretical_TJ]

On the other hand, hopefully Kat doesn’t have to kill her to protect Gia, as she would have had to do previously.

 

[matzeskatze]

Better yet for reasons of morality and decency. Much better to get her there as those are, Imo, easier to manufacture and press through.

 

[A. Morgan]

As others have commented ... “stupid is as stupid does”. Absolutely marvelous storytelling!!!

 

[FBKampfer]

Finley is about to get the boot hard, isn't he?

 

[duckie]

Finley is about to get the boot hard, isn't he?

LOL, thinking the last few comments trough, I think Finley will be held up as the Prime Example One, as to why the "cowboys" of the OSS had to go. After his public dismissal he won't even get elected as an dogcatcher. And guess who is going to get his Job.....

 

[mkemp]

A few thoughts:

• This is brains-oozing-out-of-your-ears stupidity on the level of the Dummputsch.
• I'm glad that nobody seems to have bugged Nancy's apartment because of the convo about Johann Schultz.
• Didn't Truman abscond with the Hoover files?
• If this guy mixes it up with Kat she's likely to disable his other arm if not remove it entirely ('Do not look into laser with remaining eye' - common warning sign).

Edited to add:

• L. Ron Hubbard is one person for whom I'd planned an even more ignominious end than MacArthur in my 183rd Survey Group.
• Lovely to see a mention of Admiral Heinlein.

 

[A. Morgan]

LOL, thinking the last few comments trough, I think Finley will be held up as the Prime Example One, as to why the "cowboys" of the OSS had to go. After his public dismissal he won't even get elected as an dogcatcher. And guess who is going to get his Job.....

Johann Schultz?

 

[Md139115]

This is going to be unpopular to say, but...

Paul is being an utter jerk and doing this for all the wrong reasons, but I actually agree with his logic.

Nancy working in U.S. intelligence always struck me as one of the more implausible aspects of this story just because of all the potential for her to have divided loyalties due to her many close friendships with the other side. As I see it, she should have been kept away from anything remotely secretive and any information given to her or received from her should have been done in the context of her being a possible double-agent.

Given this, I really don’t think that her midnight plane to Europe isn’t going to look like “Finley screwed up, let’s send him to Alaska.” I think it will look like “****, how stupid were we to not see this coming?! Thank you, Paul for the damage control!”