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LANGLEY, VIRGINIA
(MAY 7, 1970)
"The commandos, having accomplished their mission, went (along with Kaikala and Vasco Gonsalves) to retrieve their kayaks. Brevet Captain Phillips and Sub-lieutenant Coppersmith accepting the story offered, by my mother and Lt. Alexandrov, for the death of Flying Officer DeCoteau. En route to the hiding place of the kayaks, they discovered the bodies of the security detail sent to investigate the diversionary explosion of the Waco 3.5. Every single one of them were dead. Completely exsanguinated, in fact! No doubt by the giant empusa."
"Young Capt. Phillips made radiophone contact with the exfiltration aircraft from the American airbase at Pernambuco. The pilot of which said they would be arriving three miles east of the island, with fighter escort, in about thirty minutes. My mother was given DeCoteau's kayak, with Lt. Alexandrov jury-rigging a tow rope to the stern of his own. This quaint-looking flotilla then disembarked from the eastern shore of the island. Kaikala re-enlarging to giantess size so she could dog paddle beside them, with Senhor Gonsalves remaining high and dry atop her head!"
"The fighter escort in question proved to be a DeHavilland Mosquito, which circled in a holding pattern while the exfiltration aircraft (a Consolidated Coronado flying boat with RATO gear*) made a surprisingly graceful landing on the lake for something so massive. Though not as massive as Kaikala, of course! And, naturally, she shrank back to normal human-size in order to board the flying boat."
"When the local radio stations in Buenos Aires announced the destruction of the 'Red Cross facility,' twenty-four hours later, a spokesman for the Peron dictatorship blamed it on Japanese saboteurs smuggled into the country by Manchurian Chinese collaborators (called 'the Bear Eagle Tong') based in the Barrio de Los Chinos section of Buenos Aires."
"As to the fates of the participants of Operation: Beanstalk? I am unaware of what happened to the Gurkhas, save for their group citation for distinguished service during the post-war Malayan Emergency."
"My mother returned to Mother Russia, where she was intensively debriefed concerning all the data she had memorized while posing as Dr. Santapietro (Professor Kraus' research assistant). She then held an equally intensive reunion with my father! The two of them continuing to loyally spy for the Kremlin until their respective deaths--Father predeceasing Mother--a little over ten years ago."
"Deaths, by the way, I was never informed of because it would supposedly interfere with my duties as a double-agent in Switzerland!"
"Lt. Alexandrov eventually left the People's Air Force to work for the KGB in Hong Kong."
"Sub-lt. Coppersmith died in Hungary, during the Russian invasion of 1956, after going AWOL in an ultimately vain attempt to rescue some of his parents' gypsy relatives. Conversely, Brevet Capt. Phillips has remained with U.S. Army Intelligence right up until the present day."
"Kaikala became Senhora Gonsalves a year later. A result of her husband's decision to enlist in the Smoking Cobras. Fortunately, for the both of them, Vasco lived to return to her, in Pernambuco. The couple ultimately moving to the American seaport of Gloucester, Massachusetts (where Vasco joined the Army National Guard after becoming a naturalized citizen)."
"Of their three children, by the way, they have two daughters...who are exceptionally taller than their father."
"Speaking of giantesses; Mother Russia continues to mass produce nolongitol (a.k.a. Solution 62), despite the brazen theft of certain samples from Cuba eight years ago, because of one disquieting fact. To this day, there are stories, from the back country of the Amazon Rain Forest, about a tribe of blue-eyed blonde giantesses who worship a raven-haired goddess with a black-feathered cloak. These rumors remain unconfirmed, however, as every single team the KGB has sent to investigate them...has failed to return."
"I, Pierre LeGrande (nee Helmut Petermann), confirm all of the above as true."
CIA Deputy Director Bryce Paxton finished reading the lengthy deposition. Dropping it on to the top of his desk before massaging his tired eyes with the palms of both hands.
"This thing reads like the screen play for one of those cheesy Hammer Films!" he exclaimed.
"I concur, whole-heartedly," replied Dr. Ezra Long (psychiatric consultant to the M.O.C.): "But, as you know, I conducted the polygraph questioning, myself. And all his answers, pertaining to Operation: Beanstalk, show he's telling the truth! Which means one of two things. Either he's completely insane (sincerely believing all his delusions); or..."
"Or, one day, we might just find ourselves getting paid a visit," Paxton finished for him: "...by a goose-stepping army of thirty foot-tall bimbos. And frankly? I don't know which thought scares me more."
THE END?
Giantess World
Author's Chapter Notes:
Epilogue
Chapter End Notes:
*RATO: Rocket Assisted Take Off.
Malayan Emergency: sort of a British version of the Vietnam War that was waged for twelve years (1948-60).
Smoking Cobras: an initially derisive nickname for the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, which served (aggressively and courageously) in the European Theater of World War II from circa July 1944 to May 1945. Mostly in Italy!
M.O.C. (Miniscule Operations Command): the Cold War-era predecessor of M.A.C.H.O. (Multi-Agency Counter-Homunculist Organization).
An early Happy Memorial Day to all those (living and otherwise) who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces.
Malayan Emergency: sort of a British version of the Vietnam War that was waged for twelve years (1948-60).
Smoking Cobras: an initially derisive nickname for the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, which served (aggressively and courageously) in the European Theater of World War II from circa July 1944 to May 1945. Mostly in Italy!
M.O.C. (Miniscule Operations Command): the Cold War-era predecessor of M.A.C.H.O. (Multi-Agency Counter-Homunculist Organization).
An early Happy Memorial Day to all those (living and otherwise) who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces.