Upstairs in the casino's darkened security center, agent Glenda Bixler and her team had been watching Talanov on a TV monitor. Bixler was the CIA's European Chief of Operations. With her was agent Donna Pilgrim and Spanish interpreter, Paul Franco. In front of them were other monitors connected to feeds from various cameras located in the foyer, corridors, and throughout the hotel and casino. The room was filled with the quiet hum of electronic equipment. "Did you see the way he looked up at us just then?" Bixler said. "It's as if he knows we're watching." A women's rowing champion from Dartmouth who majored in European history, the blond-haired Bixler was a competitive woman of twenty-nine who spoke fluent Russian and German. Her hair was cut in a classic bob and she was dressed in a dark blue slack suit and white shirt. An ide...
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