the trail, as john le carre has written, is a very repetitious profession. finally, after she had been running the operation for a while, she confided to him that she needed to get the ciphers. he came up with the plan. he said, let's approach the night watchman, andre. we will tell him you are my girlfriend. he knows i'm married and have a wife and that you live with your parents. he knows how difficult it is to get a hotel room and washington, d.c. during the war. we will tell him we want to come into the embassy at night because we need a place to be together. he says, what frenchmen will not want to help promote l'amour? and he is right. they start going to the embassy tonight night for a week or so and building their cover, and they do it with great passion. --ing the days, the oss america's precursor to the cia, as you know -- is helping betty. they have taken a man out of jail in georgia, given him a pardon, he is a safecracker. in the oss files, he is called the georgia cracker. [laughter] howard: he teaches betty how to crack a safe. the oss tech gu