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out why." mean." leave it." Noforn?" "Nothing." 207 THE MYSTERY LINGERS "Well, for one thing, they took an awful lot of blood from me. They said it was necessary because of the things I was working on." "What else?" "They made me drink a glassful of a yellow liquid that smelled like pine. And it seems that they hypnotized me several times, I never found "How many doctors were there?" "They were women. A female doctor and a nurse." "Who paid you?" "Naval Intelligence." "Why did you stop?" "I didn't feel good about the project." "What form did the briefing papers take?" "They were thin booklets, letter-size pages. There were over two hundred of them." "What kind of document control system was used?" "There was no document number on them, if that's what you "What agency issued them?" "There was no indication of origin. It was straight text, take it or "What classification level?" "There was no secret stamp on it." "Were any of the pages marked with words like Confidential, or That, too, was absurd. Any document in a classified project is tracked by a control system. The booklets in question, which presumably de- scribed the most secret project in history, would have been tightly controlled. As it was, Lazar could have rolled one inside his shirt and legally walked off with it. After all, didn't he obtain a sample of famed element 115? I asked him about that, too. "Element 115 is not radioactive?" "Evidently not. I had it in my house." "I didn't think super-heavy elements were stable," I said.