DJ announced. “Who are they?” asked Caine. “Their names have been purged from every government system I could get into,” DJ said. “It’s like they’re un-people from 1984. They’re not in any search engines either, such as Google or Bing. But I started looking for them in newspaper data bases. They all popped in the New York Times archive, complete with photographs of each man.” Caine moved behind DJ’s station and fixed her eyes on the operative’s screen. “All of these people,” DJ continued, “were written about in conjunction with their leaving public life in the nineteen sixties and seventies for various reasons. Here are some excerpts. General Thomas Burmaster announced Thursday that he would be resigning as aide to the Secretary of the Army. He plans on spending more time with his daughters. Colonel Alexander Frost of the United States Marines is presumed dead after a ten-day search in the Andes. Frost had been hiking in the mountains while on vacation.
