The same month that Kopkow is taken into British custody, U.S. troops capture Manfred Roeder. The chief prosecutor of the Red Orchestra trial is on the verge of being indicted as a war criminal when agents at the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) intervene, whisking Roeder away to a top-secret location and disguising his identity with the code name Othello. CIC Special Agent Benjamin Gorby is convinced that Roeder possesses “a wealth of information” that could be valuable to the United States, which faces a new enemy now that the Allies have defeated Germany: the Soviet Union.
