But then the engineers who left that imaginary meeting went back to their own area and said, okay, now we're in trouble.

"Nice meeting you, Colonel," she said without looking at him.

He stopped after the meeting; said he should leave the country the next week, and I have never seen him since.

"Nice meeting you, too," I said, shaking hands with him.

But between scheduling the meeting and having it, the person said, the owners changed their plans.

"The meeting that night started off pretty regular," he said.

I've seen him at several of the tank meetings stand up and say, 'Wait a minute.

Staff who attended the meeting said they'd listen to the augments.

"I come in after every meeting and he says, 'Have you saved the centre yet?'"

"Good," said the colonel as Pankov came running into the meeting, a look of morning fear on his face.