The Midnight Recording: How a Pentagon Signal Officer Used His Wife's Own Voice to Cover Up a $185,000 Treason Scheme
👉 Previous Choice: You chose Option A – Intercept Private Thomas Higgins at the Pentagon switchboard to secure the wiretap log sheets.
Evelyn and Clara drove to the Arlington Signal depot, its imposing brick facade a stark contrast to the small, anonymous alleys surrounding it. Clara, with her reporter’s cunning, knew Private Thomas Higgins’s shift change. They waited, their sedan blending into the early morning traffic.
Higgins emerged, a timid young man in a rumpled uniform, clutching a worn leather satchel. Clara, quick and decisive, cut him off in a narrow alleyway.
“Private Higgins,” Clara said, her voice firm but not aggressive. “We need to talk about Major Hallowell.”
Higgins stopped dead, his eyes wide. He began to shake, his satchel trembling in his hands. “I… I just followed orders, ma’am.”
Evelyn stepped forward. “The automated audio line,” she said, her voice barely a whisper. “The one for ‘officer wives’.”
Higgins flinched. His face went pale. “He told me it was a top-secret DOD psychological resilience drill,” he stammered, his words tumbling out. “To test how they handled stress… He said it was classified.”
He glanced nervously down the alley. “He made me set up the whole loop. Automated it. Said it was for national security.”
Then, with a desperate sigh, Higgins opened his satchel. He pulled out a thick, official-looking logbook. “These are the switchboard logs. Major Hallowell’s direct offshore wire authorizations. Stamped with his signet. He said they were for… ‘operational expenses’.”
Evelyn and Clara looked down at the ledger, page after page detailing vast sums. $185,000, clearly marked, routed offshore, bearing Arthur’s unmistakable signature. The “resilience drill” was a cover for murder and embezzlement.
➡️ Read CHAPTER 12 to continue the story.
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