Chapter 21

Chapter 21

A moment of silence followed the director's comment, while everyone meditated on the news heard that morning. Finally Matsumoto spoke.

" The situation that we have in front of us keeps on enlarging and getting more complicated. Let's review what we know so far." He coughed and continued." We started with an inquiry about the activities of the Aum Shinrikyo sect in the United States for its possible implications in terrorist activities in this country, Canada and Japan. Taking advantage of Aiko's presence among us, we threw the fishing net in a chain of restaurants where many members of the Japanese community in New York usually meet and when we lifted the line, what we found on the hook was a Korean allegedly involved in the theft and transfer of nuclear technology to North Korea."

The director paused and then said with a gesture of perplexity.

"They are disconnected facts that appear at random or is there a connection among them?"