The gist of the meeting involved several fronts.
First: Special Forces moved up the schedule for taking out the drug Cartels. It seems the captured Pilot wanted to avoid being sent back to the Cartels after both failing to kill us as well as losing the attack helicopter. The information he gave included safe houses, banks, travel routes, hangouts, names of affiliated associates, their homes, number of children, cell phone numbers, underground facilities, storage facilities, how the drugs were transported, who the leaders of the distribution network were...etc..
The Pilot spent years accumulating all this data just in case he was hung out to dry and needed some collateral with which to negotiate. The fact he also was collecting it for the Chinese didn't escape us.
Second: Satellites had already verified the traffic patterns and several special forces groups were in the final planning stages for a combined strike on the families, bank assets, infrastructure, and known associates.
"What about the Innocents?" I asked for Sue.
The CIA rep said, "To the best of our ability they will be kidnapped immediately prior to a coordinated and overwhelming use of lethal force. After which, they will be released and recompensed so they can live either in South America, Mexico, or the U.S. comfortably from a portion of the seized banking assets."
"Thank you. I realize we are dealing with animals, but that doesn't mean we have to kill innocent women and children. That puts us on the same moral ground and I have issues with that." Sue added.
"A Portion of the seized assets, which totals almost ten billion dollars by the way, will be given to the respective heads of state in the affected countries. This is to assure they will not create a problem for us or leak the information to our targets should they come across any. We are keeping them in the dark until the shit hits the fan and they will be notified as the strikes are being made. The rest will be used to finance the operational costs of the off the books operations."
Additionally, five hundred million tax free dollars will be deposited into an off shore account for your use.
I quickly copied down the names of every staff member, family member, Seal Team members of both squads, the boat personnel, and the pilots. I handed the list to the CIA representative and said, "With your permission, Dad?" He nodded. "We want everyone involved here, all 60 plus of them who are working for us and protecting us on site to have an equal share. And higher ups need not be in the loop on this so as not to create issues."
"Everyone also needs a letter from the IRS stating the tax free nature of these proceeds and all combatants need a signed Presidential Pardon for any and all work done for this task force."
Homeland spoke up, "The separate accounts and tax free letter from the IRS are not a problem. However, Presidential pardons are out of our hands, I'm afraid."
James interjected, "Let me pursue that one. The President and I go way back. I am sure I can swing it for a one time deal."
The CIA representative gave Dad a guarded look which Dad saw but didn't acknowledge. Everyone else just looked at him dumbfounded.
Brannigan looked at Dad and asked out loud, "Who the hell are you people?" and then let the matter drop...not sure he wanted to know the answer.
It was decided we would meet again after everything settled down in about a month or so to discuss possible entrance into the Witness Protection Program. We were too good a decoy to get out just yet and our protection details were up for the job. As the group got up to leave, the CIA representative gave Dad a manila envelope. They shook hands in the way men long familiar with each other do, and they left.
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After the meeting had adjourned and the alphabet soup people left with their guards in tow, Dad and Marion got on the phone with the special weapons armorer who supplied our special forces with their weapons.
"Hello, Jim! Marion and James here!"
"Oh! Hey fellas! How are those specials I did for you holding up?"
Dad laughed, "I think they are about to marry their rifles, Jim. You did a bang up job on those. Which is why we are calling."
"Oh?"
Marion spoke up, "My sheriffs each need one, with the case, done just the way you made the previous ones and we need a full slate of those.45's as well. Any chance we can get a volume discount on 350 of each if we agree to support your bragging rights as a sales pitch?"
"These are for the department and not for individuals, right?"
"Yes for the carbines, no for the pistols."
"Okay, so you want a three stage selector switch: single fire, three round burst, and full auto on the '15's?"
"Yes."
"Okay, I will sell them to the department at 5% over cost which will be a 15% discount. That will give you 15 free of each on an order of 350. That sound reasonable?"
"Fantastic, just send me the bill. The County isn't paying for these. When can you have them ready?"
"I will get my current orders finished in a day or so and we can begin work no later than Thursday. That will give me time to begin receiving the additional shipments. I have enough parts on hand for the first 60. My guys can get 20 done a day of each so I need three weeks for delivery. That meet your needs?"
"Don't over tax yourself, we want the same quality as the last set."
"Marion, it's your weapon but it is my reputation, if I run into a snag I will let you know. I assume you want presentation boxes for the handguns and 4 mags for each weapon?"