The camera closed in on particular people, and Herbie muttered something about high-powered talent. He recognized faces of men and women he had not seen for years. People he thought long dead. The Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service was there, of course, as was the Director General of the Security Service, MI5. There were also politicians and ranking officers of other services—notably the American CIA and NSA. The main body of the people there were outstanding field officers and folk who had worked in dangerous secrecy during the Cold War. Men like Oleg Gordievsky, who had escaped the old Soviet Union by the skin of his teeth, having been a British asset within the KGB for over nine years. Kruger saw that the camera held his face for a few seconds, as it did with two other exceptionally well-known former agents. Gus had drawn a capacity crowd of highly select members of the Secret World. Herbie did not recognize the theater, but thought it was probably a facility below the old SIS HQ in Century House.
