"M" Offers a Moral Dilemma

Bond took the elevator up to M's office. Haines was for now in the basement in a locked cell. He bent over and kissed Moneypenny behind her ear.

Moneypenny with her trusty laptop

"I'll get you for sexual harassment, James"

Bond smiled.

"Do you have the cuffs to bring me in?"

Moneypenny opened her desk drawer...

"As a matter of fact, I do..."

The intercom buzzed.

"Moneypenny send the serial womanizer in immediately. He's done enough interrogation games for one day..."

Moneypenny kissed her finger and placed it on Bond's lips.

"Someday you should interrogate me?"

"I'll keep that as a rain check"

Bond opened the padded red door and stood at a loose form of parade, rest in front of M's desk.

"Go ahead, sit down....Welcome back, 007".

Bond took the seat directly in front of M.

"Glad to be back, Ma'am."

M looked down at her desk and turned on the flat screen Tele behind her.

The American Congress today will be voting on the High-Speed Interstate Transportation Bill today. Supporters say the recent explosion on a French train will not change their votes in light of their overall safety record.

M looked at Bond.

"It looks like someone has you under enemy control. First you stumble into one of our smash 'n grabs, now you foil a terrorist attack on a train"

Bond smiled. "So you know, then."

M nodded.

"Do you think Quantum is behind this?"

Bond was convinced they were not.

"No, ma'am. Haines laughed and told me that there were SEVERAL secret societies out there and he even belonged to a few."

Bond unfolded one of the flyers from the train incident and laid it on the desk.

Death to America! Death to Infidels who use technology!

M looked at it and up at Bond.

"Drink, 007?"

"Bourbon and water please."

M mixed themselves each a drink and passed one to Bond.

"There are a lot of American business interests who stand to lose BILLIONS of dollars if our cousins over there got to their senses and started using fast trains instead of killing themselves each year in their cars"

Bond nodded. "I think they lose around 50, 000 dead each year..."

M cursed. "Ghastly affair. No one makes monuments to some mother trying to raise two kids on her own when she crashes and burns in her car trying to get to a second job".

"No ma'am they don't."

"What do you know about the Rockefellers?"

"They essentially run America with their whole oil-based economy. A lot of people call them the 'Illuminati'....they meet in secret all their players who are the movers and shakers in society..."

"Right".

"We have reason to believe the Rockefellers not only did 9/11 for oil profits but are now wanting to stage a war in India-Pakistan. We know our own Rothschild Illuminati gangsters didn't mind the opium trade from Afghanistan to start flowing back here, too....killing our youths who can't get a decent job because the rich people don't want to employ them to make things..."

Bond shows M the red letter he got from his team member during the recce;

"This comes from Queen, right?"

M was dumb-founded.

"How did you get that? I am only one of 4 people in Her Majesty's Government that can get these directives. They are above top secret. I could have you killed for just having it."

Bond was sardonic.

"WHO ordered me to the ball?"

M stood up...

"How did they know you'd mess everything up? Do you know 4 of our agents are missing from the Pakistani embassy blast?"

M rings Moneypenny on the intercom: "Tell Tanner to come in."

Bill Tanner walks in.

"I have been listening to your conversation as you directed, Ma'am. Hello Bond."

Tanner winks at 007, then continues.

"I think we are on verge of war. Someone within our organization doesn't want that war to happen."

Bond was dumbfounded.

"Isn't this what we want?"

M turned back to Tanner, "That's all, brief 007 on his way out, won't you?"

Tanner thanked M then left.

M sat back down and took a drink from her glass.

"I'm putting you in charge of Operation SINCERE. We almost lost WW2 you know? Some say we actually did when we lost the empire.

During the war, I was just a young WREN and worked with your father in the plotting room, Commander Fleming on defeating the U-Boats with ULTRA intercepts. You know we had to sacrifice a civilian convoy, SL125 for the military Torch landings in North Africa to be successful; would you think this was morally justified, 007?"

Bond; "Wouldn't this prolong war, why not land on France or even North Germany and march to Berlin and end the war immediately?"

M laughs. "That's what the Americans wanted to do. We never would have made it. We could only land at best a dozen divisions and the Germans had 90. If we hadn't first diverted their attention all over Europe they would have thrown us into the sea on D-Day. As Winnie said, the "truth has to be protected in a body guard of lies".

M took a sip of her drink.

"Sometimes 007, we have to let the enemy think he has some of our agents under his control so we can feed him false information back to him, do you understand?"

Bond nodded. M continued her WW2 history lesson.

"If we had waited for the Americans to save us we would have been lost, as it was we almost lost with them when they got here. We were losing cargo ships faster than they could be built to the U-Boats...England was starving so we built the CAM ships and MACs...it was not the escort carriers that first began to defeat the U-Boats..."

"Yes they were ships with a Hurricane fighter with a rocket to shoot-down Focke-Wolf Condor 200s trailing our convoys and simple cargo ships with a flight deck slapped on top..."

M was pleased. "You know your history, 007, bravo..."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtzWHDUtTJc

"We're going to need a modern equivalent in future war; Atlantic Conveyor only had STOVL Sea Harriers and no anti-missile defenses, ARAPAHOE solves this; we need longer-range patrol aircraft to thwart civilian maritime patrol planes like the Fw-200 Condor or the militarized American 737 you jumped from so we've created a new class of containership aircraft carrier built from ARAPAHOE 2 Container Kits that can operate helicopters, STOL and sea planes some even launched by rockets like the American ZEL system; Q will brief you

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oImq1glnOds

We know an attack is being planned of multiple gunmen from a fishing trawler the Ptarion to sneak a backpack nuke in; you will intercept her from the Container ship MAC stop this group attack on the Pakistani President, I have assigned you to run flight ops"

"Moneypenny, please have the Chief of Staff come in to fully brief 007"

"Yes, Ma'am".

The CofS Tanner walks in....as he briefs him on details, Bond tells him his daughter is AOK by firm hand shake and Masonic thumb signal--we're being monitored--Tanner winks back at him.

Bond was not a member of the Illuminati by a long shot--but he knew that someone who was--had to be within MI6. And who would have sent him to save Anne Tanner. The reciprocal hand shake signal verified it: It was Tanner. However, he certainly was no longer acting on their behalf, yet he was still privy to their secrets...operating ostensibly under their control...

Continue to Part 8!