While they’d intended the Orchestra to remain in the US indefinitely and raise children there—it was a very long-term program—nobody in the office complex on the Frankfurter Allee had considered the possibility that the first generation of sleepers would enter their dotage on hostile soil. Nor had they imagined that the Workers’ Paradise would collapse and their agents still be living in the United States in their eighties, at risk of succumbing to dementia, babbling state secrets in nursing home day rooms. If anyone had given it any thought they’d have arranged to repatriate the pensioners
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