
One morning I sat at the mass graves for MujibÕs family, killed in the same lightning raid. Ants crawled on stone, dried husks turned into soldiers and an orange peel refused to cooperate. I sat there and made a list of all the phrases I had highlighted in Lawrence LifschultzÕs research on 1975: No comment Embassy spokesperson Station chief deep throat two Congressional Committees illegal covert actions Agency so-called diplomatic and intelligence bureaucracies illegal clandestine action tip of the iceberg South Asian monsoon aborted the man who would be King came to an understanding stay out of it and disengage I canÕt say whether there was any approach no Embassy personnel were to have further contact end run Let me answer this question theoretically There have been lapses referred to himself in the third person separate channels extraordinary mixture of allegations and innuendos question the motives of your informants coups take place because of the people themselves




