The Gemini Divergence (54 page)

The
Divergence / The Divergence Exposed

“It looks as though my war time plot to pit
the Russians against the Americans almost came to a climax
yesterday,” boasted Von Sterbenbach, “wouldn’t you say General
Schwerig?”

Schwerig nervously swallowed, “With all due
respect, My Führer, I truly believe that they may be colluding to
deceive us… If they were in fact threatening each other, than why
are they not testing weapons that are a threat to each other? They
have no settlements or military installations in space, yet the
majority of their testing has been of space weapons which in fact
are a threat, only to… ‘us’.”

“I know that you are not one to speculate on
things that you can not prove. Are you certain of this?”

“I am more convinced than ever.”

“How can we tell? We have no operatives at
their top levels.”

“My Führer, yesterday they shook hands and
became friends. I am curious to see if their weapons testing in
space continues… Men who have settled their differences usually put
down their swords… If they are indeed deceiving us, the weapons
testing will probably continue ‘without’ protest by either
side.”

1 November 1962

The United States detonated ‘Kingfish’ in
space. It yielded a 410 kiloton explosion that caused radio silence
over the entire Pacific for an entire half day; it also caused
horizon to horizon auroras for days.

On the same day the Soviets detonated the
largest device they had tested in space to date over Kapustin
Yar.

Three days later the United States tested
“Tightrope” which was once again in space.

16 November 1962

The United States tested the second of its
‘Highwater’ rockets.

*~*

The Soviet Union began the PKO, an
organization dedicated entirely to developing a means of conducting
war in space.

*~*

Schwerig burst into Von Sterbenbach’s office
unannounced waiving a piece of paper over his head, “My Führer, I
have something for you.”

“General Schwerig! What is the meaning of
this?”

“I’m sorry; I knew that you would want to
know this immediately… Yesterday we conversed about not having
operatives in the higher echelons of Russia or America, but we do
have them in Argentina, and look what they have uncovered.”

Schwerig handed the paper to Von Sterbenbach,
who quickly read it, “This is an outrage! Where did this come
from?”

“Our operative recovered it from Frondizi’s
personal files. It’s the minutes of President Kennedy’s meeting
with Frondizi and El Ché.”

“They have been playing with us like
children! I’m outraged!”

“What would you like for me to do now, My
Führer?”

“I want you to teach them a lesson that they
will never forget…Take out both of their leaders! Question me not…
Consequences be damned.”

*~*

In The U.S., President Kennedy started
‘Project Saint’ to monitor and explain suspicious and unknown
objects in space.

*~*

Schwerig walked into Doctor Heim’s laboratory
and immediately cringed at the stench.

As he walked through the lab looking for the
doctor, he noticed the bizarre crossbred animals that Doctor Heim
had in cages throughout the room.

What on Earth could this crackpot,
possibly be doing with these mutated animals?
Schwerig thought
to himself.

When he finally came upon him, Doctor Heim
was doing some sort of experiment on a comatose young woman, bound
to an operating table.

The doctor asked, without looking away from
his work, “What can I do for you today, General Schwerig?”

Schwerig was startled for a moment that the
Doctor had recognized him without looking, “I have a Russian
prisoner that I want to use for a mission. I wondered if it would
be possible to have you surgically install some sort of tracking
device, so that he would not be able to run away from his
duties.”

Again, without looking away from his work,
“Yes, that would be relatively easy. As a matter of fact, I have
already built a couple of devices that may be suitable for your
use. They have a long range tracking device that’s battery lasts
for about one week, then it explodes, killing whomever I have
installed it into.”

Schwerig, surprised and startled, then
inquired doubtfully, “How can it detonate a bomb if the battery has
run out?”

“The battery’s charge actually separates the
catalyst. When the charge runs out the chemicals mix, and a charge
not much bigger than a fire cracker detonates… That may not seem
like a large charge, but let me assure you that when surgically
implanted between vital organs, it would be instant death, and
unexplainable to a witness, unless an autopsy were to then be
performed.”

“I have one subject already; the Soviet
Cosmonaut that we captured. I need two in order to perform
simultaneous assassinations. Do you think that your abduction squad
could find me another pawn?”

“Yes, I don’t believe that would be a problem
at all. Do you have any specific needs for this subject?”

“As a matter of fact I do. I am going to use
the captured Soviet to carry out an assassination within America. I
figure that if he is captured, he will appear to them to be a
Russian agent… So, diversely, I need a person that speaks Russian,
but is not a Soviet, so that they may be misled in the same
manner.”

“Does it matter whether the subject is male
or female?”

“Schwerig thought for a moment, “No, I
suppose that it doesn’t matter.”

“Well then we could use this young lady, once
that I have finished with her.”

“Does she speak Russian?”

“Yes, she is from Kirkenes, Norway, a small
town on the border between Norway and the Soviet Union, a couple of
hundred kilometers from Murmansk. It is so far north and off the
beaten path that it makes for easy abductions.”

“Sounds perfect! I will have the other
prisoner delivered to your laboratory. Let me know when you are
done.”

15 May 1963

NASA launched its final Mercury mission,
Mercury 9, carrying Gordon Cooper in his Faith 7 capsule.

Cooper was also the last American to fly in
space alone.

He circled the Earth 22 other times. On his
final orbit, over Perth, Australia, he encountered a UFO.

Once again NASA denied anything happened, but
tracking station technicians from other parts of the world, not
under U.S. Government influence, are again adamant that a UFO event
indeed occurred.

Technicians from Muchea, Australia’s radar
tracking station even report that they tracked the UFO near
Cooper’s capsule.

Also, never before done by NASA, media
representatives were told that they were not allowed to ask Cooper
any questions about the encounter when Cooper was finally allowed
to grant interviews.

Cooper kept his silence for years, but after
his retirement, he became an outspoken advocate that UFOs did
indeed exist and that the U.S. Government was in fact covering them
up.

He later reported that he not only had an
encounter in his capsule, but witnessed one flying over West
Germany in 1951, and was with a test flight crew that filmed one
land at Muroc Dry Lake (Edwards AFB) in 1957.

*~*

“Guten Tag, Herr General,” greeted Doctor
Heim as Schwerig walked into his laboratory again, after being
summoned. He could see that both subjects were conscious, but still
bound to their respective operating tables.

“Have you told them anything about their
missions?”

“I’m sorry, I couldn’t if I wanted too, I
don’t speak Norse or Russian.”

“Have you ascertained their names?”

“Yes, the female’s name is Inga Norgeman, and
the male cosmonaut is Kapitán Constantine Novikov.”

Schwerig then addressed them in Russian, “Ms.
Norgeman, Kapitán Novikov, I am General Schwerig… I have met
Kapitán Novikov, but without introduction, and it is always a
pleasure to meet a beautiful young woman,” he lightly snapped his
heals and tipped his hat in a standard German officer’s greeting
for a lady.”

“What have you done to us?” asked
Novikov.

“Where am I?” asked Inga.

“You are onboard a Raumsfahrtwaffe battle
station, and Dr. Heim has implanted you both with remotely
controlled explosive tracking devices.”

“Explosive?” reacted Novikov as Inga asked
“Why?”

“Yes, deadly explosive.” Schwerig held up one
of the hand held tracker-controllers, “With this device, I can find
either of you anywhere on earth… I can also terminate your
individual lives at any time I please, and if the devices are not
removed within one week, they will explode automatically.”

“Why?” cried Inga, as Novikov remained
silent.

Schwerig smiled and bowed politely at Inga,
“Because my dear, I want you both to do something for me.”

“What would you have us do?” demanded
Novikov.

“You are both going to be equipped and then
implanted into a country other than your homeland, where you both
will assassinate an assigned target for the Raumsfahrtwaffe.”

“And if we don’t?” asked Novikov.

“Then you will die.” Schwerig casually said
with a smile.

“But I am not a killer,” cried Inga, “I’m not
even in the military.”

Schwerig again, smiled and facetiously
remarked, “You are now… even I had my first day.”

19 June 1963

The Soviet Union launched the co-missions of
Vostok 5 and 6.

For peculiar reasons, both capsules were
ordered to abort and de-orbit prematurely.

All cosmonauts returned safely to the
Earth.

Soviet Officials later reported to the press
that they were called back because of threatening solar flares, but
astronomers in many nations pointed out that there were no solar
flares that day.

*~*

“Do you think that they will carry out their
missions?” asked Von Sterbenbach, as he lit one of his old Bavarian
pipes while he sat in his captains chair next to a picture window
with a stunning view of a lunar valley.

As Usual, Schwerig could not mask his disdain
for the smoke, but politely said nothing about it, then responded,
“Kapitán Novikov would have let me kill him on the hanger floor if
he didn’t have a strong will to survive. I believe he will carry it
out, merely in the hope of someday reaching home. I also think that
with his military training that he has the skills to complete the
objective.”

“What about the young lady?”

“I think that she might do it totally out of
fear… If I have any reservations… it would be about her because she
has no military training; she has never even hunted in her
life.”

“Can she even shoot a rifle?”

“Yes, we trained her, and she is not a bad
shot… Dr. Heim also gave her some subliminal suggestions while
hypnotized, to find courage and to ignore fear as well as totally
block out her identity or her past.”

“Are we actually going to risk extricating
them once their missions are completed? If someone witnesses one of
our saucers; well, you know the ramifications.”

Schwerig laughed, “Oh, heavens no. They
believe that we will come rescue them and remove the devices, but
in reality their timers will run out and they will die; erasing any
memory that may be extracted by torture if they were to be
captured.”

August 1963

All nuclear and non-nuclear states, with the
exception of France and China, sign the Partial Nuclear Test Ban
Treaty.

The treaty now forbids signatories from
detonating nuclear devices in the atmosphere, underwater or in
space.

1 November 1963

The Soviet Union launched the world’s first
‘killer satellite’, Polet 1, which was also the world’s first
maneuverable satellite.

22 November 1963

Constantine Novikov was waiting silently in
the bushes on the grassy knoll of Dealy Plaza.

He had assembled his rifle, and was now
laying on his back with the weapon on his chest listening for the
motorcade.

Then he heard the people start to scream in
adulation as the President approached, sitting on the back of his
convertible waiving to them.

He rolled over and drew a bead on Kennedy’s
head.

He relaxed, exhaled, and the moment he felt
the last of the air leaving his lungs and his aim was true. He
squeezed the trigger.

He watched as the President fell away from
him… but just as everyone else was finally figuring out what was
going on, he heard rapid gunfire coming from the book depository up
the street.

Everyone on the street that didn’t know what
was happening yet when he fired his shot was now pointing up at the
book depository… screaming.

Constantine watched in amazement as all of
the authorities that were not shuttling the President away were now
converging on the book depository.

He quickly disassembled his rifle and stowed
it in the attaché, and when the coast was clear, he slipped
anonymously into the crowd.

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