Chapter XLIV. The Professionals’ Game

At the conversation app

Hoopoe: Hello, something strange happened.

Soofch: Hi, what is it?

-Robert called me, he wants to see me again

A long moment of silence…

Hoopoe: Are you here?

-Yes, did not he say why?

-He said, he is coming to visit his relatives, and is excited to meet me again and talk to me.

Another moment of silence…

Hoopoe: What is wrong with you? I am starting to worry! What are you thinking of?

– Do not worry, tell him you are welcome, and tell me before he comes to you, have you handed over to the house in Jerusalem where you met him?

Hoopoe: Yes, do not worry, he never affected me or her, but perhaps he is really coming to visit his relatives and remembered me.

Soofch: Perhaps, anyway, do not meet him unless I tell you first.

End the conversation.

New conversation

Soofch: Have you left the town?

Phoenix: Not yet, but I am far enough away from his area so that we do not meet even by chance.

Soofch: I want you in Istanbul as soon as possible.

Phoenix: Is my mission over?

-Yes, as soon as you can, be here!

-What is wrong?

-An unexpected thing, Robert asked Mousa to meet, he will return to Israel again.

-Excellent, that means the injection works perfectly, right?

– If he is lying and the real reason for his return to Jerusalem is Mousa, then this means that his mind has connected him with the site, and perhaps between you and them as well. Does he know your full name?

-Yes, he read it on my bag, maybe he still remembers it, but I do not see any cause for concern, maybe just curiosity; He wants to search further, we do not know anything about the indirect injections by his girlfriend, maybe she works hard with him.

-I am not worried about the possibility of his mind succeeding in linking events and people, what worries me is the reason for his return! Is the link worth coming back?

-Explain more…

-If he managed to link, why should he return to Israel? He is supposed to get scared, turn away, take longer to find where he is, but come back again! illogical.

Phoenix: Do you think it is them?

Soofch: That depends on why he is back, there is no need to hurry, anyway I want you here, on the first plane.

End the conversation.

Sitting in his office in Antalya, thinking about his options; he knows Robert well, as he knows himself, he will not connect things that easy, not while he is immersed in his relationship with Christine and busy with his university studies. Either the story of his family visit is true, or someone made the connection instead of him, but who could this be!

The voice: Alpha Headquarters?

Ozcan: Perhaps, but this is not their style, they will not interfere with changing the course of events so quickly, this is an established law.

-But you broke it, maybe you forced them to also break it

-They are not like me, they are very bureaucratic, a decision like this takes them months of research and study.

Bureaucracy, is the safety valve in the new world order, a series of protocols that are not often useful but have to be followed up thoroughly before a decision is made.

No one wants to bear individual responsibility alone, he will not take a step unless he takes the approval of his manager, and his manager wants a comprehensive study of the expected causes and results, to submit them in turn to his higher manager, who is often busy with many issues so he takes his time before consulting his advisors, and then make a decision.

As the issue moves up the hierarchy, it stands at each stage for studying and asking for more details. Although it is especially depressing for the intelligence agents eager to achieve it, it is already a safety valve. No one will take individual responsibility, and the matter will take time to think and discuss from different points of view.

Sometimes the approvals arrive in the form of a stamped paper and signed, but the intelligence officer holds it and throws it in the trash as it arrived very late, the whole case was lost while waiting.

In the case of the rebellious and professional intelligence men, they put the paper at the beginning of the case file, which they had already started, bypassing all sorts of bureaucracy, which is trivial in their points of view.

And when it comes to the alpha headquarters, and deterministic algorithms, the power of the bureaucracy multiplies, so who wants to stop a butterfly’s flutter or fabricate it, then he alone must bear the responsibility for the hurricane.

The voice: Maybe he said everything to a third party, and it linked things and events instead of him. What about his girlfriend?

-Where did he get the courage then? Why is he haunting the circle from its beginning? He is a physics student, not an intelligence man or a fighter. If things are linked, there are those who encourage and reassure him.

-Governmental entity?

– That is possible, it may be an influential party, chasing something, and stumbled him in its way, but how did they manage to convince him to return?

-So, what is going on is inevitable, then why worry!

-Until it is confirmed that it is inevitable, it is necessary.

-The possibilities are many, and you do not have enough information, let Mousa meet with him, and let’s see what would happen.

-No, he will not meet him again. When he goes to Israel, Mousa will disappear, and let’s see if he will continue his vacation normally, or he will take a second step, in this case, he will only have the website left.

Like a shepherd and sheep, its principle is simple, redirection towards the obligatory path, and speaking of Ozcan, he is the most proficient in this game. Watch the professionals do it in the reorientation of functional organizations.

There is no need to recruit them all, it is enough for them to do what a shepherd does with a flock of sheep; blocking the roads in front of them, putting a dog in one place, standing and waving his stick in another place, to force them to take the path he wants, towards the barn.

And if you spoke to one of them, it would swear to you that it is going the way it wants, which it chose with its full will, or chosen for them by their leader at the forefront of the herd, who knows the secrets of the ways, believing that they go the way they want.

He decided that he should play the game according to its laws since they are sheep, so do not try to address them or convince them, but rather direct them to where you want. He did not know anything about deterministic algorithms at the time, his decision was based on his innate, something inside him. He succeeded, however, by making a butterfly flutter, far away. Some straying out of the Shepherd’s path, then another artificial flutter associated with the first to accelerate the process, and then a third, and a fourth, then the chaos ensued, and the hurricanes blew up all the inevitable of Alpha Headquarters.

A butterfly fluttered where no one was watching, he studied and planned it carefully.

Words by a revolutionary Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish, summarized the whole story…

Throw a stone into the stagnant water, rivers will break out

Ring your bells in the kingdom of silence and sing your anthem

And let the wall of fear break into dust like pottery