S.O.G./Transcript

ROOM 9

Mason: Somehow, I knew Dragovitch was still alive

Interrogator: He became your obsession. You spent the next five years trying to track him down.

Mason: He was... He was... He was everywhere! Just... Couldn't get him out of my head. Just like the others --

Interrogator (ignoring Mason, to the other interrogator): We pumped so much shit into him he doesn't even know what he's saying.

Mason (hallucinating flashes of Dragovitch and Kravchenko): Voices -- Russians -- always in my head --

Interrogator: No, I want to keep pressing him --

Mason (noticing that they are ignoring him): HEY! Who are you people? What do you want from me?

Interrogator: We want the numbers, Mason. That's all we've ever wanted.

Pre-Level Interrogation

Interrogator: Take us back again, Mason. After Baikonur, where did Washington send you next?

Mason (after a long pause): Vietnam. Fucking Khe Sanh.

Interrogator: This was in 1968?

Mason: Yeah. I was part of the SOG unit led by Frank Woods. It was recon on covert Russian activity in Laos.

Interrogator: What about your CIA handler, Hudson. Was he in Khe Sanh? Do you remember him there?

Mason: Hudson... [laughs] Yeah. Mr. Shades. That guy was an ice cube.

Khe Sanh, Vietnam

T ransmission# 4-5-1-4. Designate: NOVEMBER

S.O.G. team to investigate evidence of Soviet involvement in Vietnam.

Khe Sanh will provide support for operation.

Agents Mason and Hudson are already on the ground.

0900 hrs January 21, 1968