Quarters and the field station where the new asset was. We went back to basic toes communicate. It wasnt the stone age, but it was pretty close we said. We did have a technical something that was sort of out of this world at the time. We have our new asset. He is okay. We are keeping this one alive. Enter my coauthor who is on assignment in garbone as our chief of stations. She returns home and she is trapped with trying to determine what in the heck happened. She has a Small Task Force of people who begin this effort. At the same time jean and her people are looking at our losses, the fbi has also established a task force. They suffered similar problems with their soviet cases during the same time period as we. All right. Now we are going to have to fast forward. It is early 1991, a little over five and a half years later and we still dont have a clue as to what happened. That is not to say there were not plenty of explanations and leads. There were lots. Each was fully investigated a
These were monthly tea and coffee events. Fabulous scenes that are not reproduced in womens gathering today because times have changed, doubled as and over crowing overflowing ashtrays and martini hours and just sort of being there to support each other and going through something very few will ever experience. The way the wives dont with the pressure was very different. You have the pressure of your husband and the pressure of the media. And the most dreaded moment, even more than the possibility of something going wrong on the launch pad, was opposed flight press conference. This was the moment when all the wives would have to walk out on their suburban lawn, face the cameras and give a statement and receiving very little formal coaching from nasa besides what they heard back in their air force and navy days which was feed your husband a Good Breakfast of steak and eggs so he doesnt get white headed up in the air. These women were basically just told to act pictureperfect and so they
Went back years to frank church, the church committee. [laughter] and their stories match on this. Of install oneandahalf years before he was arrested. She found the note that was obvious this had to do with the soviets. But she never once asked one question about the thousands of dollars were the bags of cash in the garage sale and she spent every single cent in that she could. [laughter] it is my personal opinion to listen to them something would happen to her. But that is the reason she got five years. [applause] if thank you for coming. Sandy will sign copies of her book which are for sale if you dont have one. [inaudible conversations] [applause] i know it is a friday night the united is miami. [laughter] there will be plenty of time to get to the clubs on the beach. I will see you there. [laughter] ping pong dilpomacy anisette it was an extraordinary moment in 1971 where this deeply ingrained to antagonism that exist between china and the United States of fractured it does seem t