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"Yes."

"Then, we begin again. I am going over to rest. If you will all excuse me." George pushed past and into his cavern sleeping area.

Back in the situation room in Washington, Ferguson had established contact with Bluebird. He had decided to organize the debriefing of Erisa and Randy himself. "Everyone. We are going to establish a video conference between our two locations. I have Major Henderson here, and we have a professional debriefer from the Air Force. His name is Franklin. Scooter, or Jim, can you get everybody there under a camera? Right now?"

Jim responded, "Yes its on the mbone." The 'mbone' was the multicast backbone for the Internet permitting users to subscribe to a broadcast, like pay-per-view. Because it supports live video broadcasts, it was often used for video conferencing. "It's address is 'www dot bluebird dot mil slash now.'"

"Got it." Jill spoke, even though she was not in the camera in Washington. She noted, "We are 'www dot FBI dot gov slash ZZ23BB32.'"

After and exchange of security passwords, both groups could see each other in the large computer terminals.