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I nodded, since I couldn't speak. She was right. If my car was bugged, this could mean trouble. As she withdrew her hand, cautiously, I started the car up to go back to the pub I had seen earlier, the one at the corner across the street. I made no more attempts at speaking, except to ask if they still made that famous malt beer that I had heard so much about from an ex-GI that had served in Germany after the war.
The pub was mostly dark, noisy, with a few still darker corners where we could be more private.
"What was your reaction in the car about?" I asked, as we sat down facing each other.
"Your car might have been wired by our state security people. It's routinely done when diplomatic visitors arrive. I didn't want you to get into trouble revealing your national security secrets."
"You mean you didn't know about NSSM200? The way you were talking about the development of AIDS, you spoke with such confidence? How else could you have known?"
"I have seen the results, Peter. You were merely confirming that my extrapolation was correct."
"You were more on the mark than you may realize. This document, that I won't mention again, calls for policies of depopulation, targeting Africa and other third world nations. It calls for controlled depopulation for the purpose of conserving the natural resources of these countries. These people were set up to be killed by policy so that they won't use up the natural resources of their own countries which the USA might require itself in the future. That is what the document states, in essence. It doesn't say it directly, but it spells it out clearly enough across a hundred-twenty pages."
"Oh my God! You saw this spelled out in black and white?" she replied, putting her hands over her face. "Couldn't you have...?"
"No," I interrupted her. "I didn't know anything about this document until recently when it became declassified. It's part of history now. Only a few people knew of its existence when it became the centerpiece of our foreign policy from 1975 on. Unfortunately, the document is very real. It's not an imaginary document of a 007-spy fantasy tale. I saw the document."
"You are telling me that it became the official policy of the most powerful country on the planet to setup conditions for the depopulation of an entire continent for imperial reasons? That's monstrous."
She buried her face again in her hands.
"I told you about the document because I thought you already knew and understood the reason why these things happened the way they happened. It seemed right to tell you, because of your research in biology."
She didn't reply anything for a long time. When her hands came down I saw her smile again. "Thank you my friend," she said quietly, "I am honored by your courage and the risk you have taken to reveal a secret that was not known to me. It will remain safe with me."
I reached out my hands. "It was for your research, Erica. I also know that I have risked nothing. I know you won't abuse the information. Besides, nobody would believe you anyway. I can barely believe it myself that human beings can stoop so low, but I saw the evidence with my own eyes."
"I have seen the evidence, too, in Kenya and Tanzania," she added quietly. "I have also seen a different kind of evidence today, tonight. I have seen evidence of an unfolding love. That evidence is more important. It pertains to our future."
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