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May 8th, 1943. The German embassy in Madrid, Spain.

German intelligence officer, Major Karl Erych Koolenthal, enters a room slightly out of breath.

Having rushed here, he now looks expectantly at the Spanish intelligence officer who was waiting for him.

It's been a week since Koolenthal first heard about the dead British soldier found floating

off the Spanish coast with a briefcase full of top secret documents.

Ever since, he and his fellow Arpfair officers have been trying to get access to those documents.

But with the British pressing the

Spanish to return the briefcase, time's running out. And that's a problem for Koolenthal.

His spymasters in Berlin want those documents and failures not an option. Not least because

Koolenthal's one-quarter Jewish.

Officially, he's been declared erionized, but many in Berlin are waiting for him to trip up.

So ever since the British briefcase arrived in Madrid, Koolenthal's been lobbying every friend in the Spanish

government to help him get access to those letters.

He sits down opposite the Spanish intelligence officer and looks at him, hopefully.

You have something for me?

The Spanish intelligence officer nods.

Yes, but these must be returned in one hour.

The Spanish intelligence officer hands him the letter from the sealed envelope in the briefcase.

Kualintal reads it with mousing excitement.

The letter is from a senior British general in London to another based in North Africa.

It's not explicit,

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