A REPORTER AT LARGE. In the form of imaginary testimony before two officers of the Central Intelligence Agency, the writer tells of "The Edinburgh Caper," which took place when he was vacationing in Scotland in 1959. It was the summer when President Eisenhower was considering a summit meeting with Khrushchev in Europe & when Queen Elizabeth & the Duke of Edinburgh were visiting in Canada. The writer became aware of what he though might be a plot by the Russians to kidnap the President, the Queen, & the Duke in the environs of Edinburgh. Daily, he became more convinced that he was involved in the counterplot--managed by the British agents & the C.I.A.--but he didn't know how he was involved or how to translate the clues that turned up. He brings in everyone he met socially & all of the background of Edinburgh. An "inactive" lieutenant colonel in the Air Force, he attempts to alert U.S. Security Forces to the Russians' plot. They are not alarmed when they recall his Guam caper of denouncing Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet & Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Ocean Areas, for high treason.
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