The day after the dinner, Clapper won the release of the Americans and loaded them onto his plane. But before he left, he had one more encounter with the North Koreans. Along with the newly released Americans, North Korean officials handed Clapper a bill—for his share of dinner with the head of the Reconnaissance General Bureau, along with his room in the state guesthouse and the parking of his aircraft. “I had to pay in greenbacks,” Clapper later told me. “And it wasn’t a small amount.”
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