Operation Youngblood

About the Book

In this first Whiffenpoof novel, which is also the most liberally fictionalized of them all, the author deals nevertheless with actual events which took place during his twenty-eight year career in the NATO intelligence community. In 1968, the Whiffenpoof was really assigned by President Lyndon Johnson to find a boy who had run away from his billionaire grandfather’s home in West Palm Beach and was later seen in Europe and North Africa in a condition of legal involuntary servitude as a sexual servant to a Moroccan diplomat. In the real world, this operation extended over a period of more than a year, being completed during the presidency of Richard Nixon. Personal relationships between the Whiffenpoof and the female West German intelligence agent he married in real life, Helga, have been re-arranged fictionally to accommodate the telling of this story in an orderly fashion. The true chronology of that love affair is accurately retold in the last Whiffenpoof novel, “Helga and the Whiffenpoof,” as published by Xlibris.

CHRISTOPHER BOWMAN was a U.S. Air Force master sergeant, a medical security specialist who had high levels of responsibility and authority despite his enlisted rank. He roamed the country on a schedule that he dictated himself, only after making his calls reporting his findings to his superior officer in the Air Force’s Bureau of Medicine at the Pentagon. As a security specialist, he was, in effect, a law enforcement person. Surprise was an important element in making his inspections effective. He would show up at an Air Force base, order an immediate shutdown of its medical security areas, like drug storage safes and warehouses, and do an immediate roll call of all medical personnel who were supposed to be on duty at that time. This was good duty. But Bowman had done something some years before that now was being used against him. Blackmail and extortion were the devices that led him to become a tool of the Soviet KGB.

KGB General ALEXANDR EVSTAFIEV paid Bowman generously in money and privileges to do the special things that his Air Force job made it possible for him to do. The loose schedule permitted him to make weekly trips to meet a certain yacht off the east coast of Mexico, for example. Here he traded stolen or discarded, outdated, worthless legitimate pharmaceutical drugs for kilos of heroin and cocaine with astronomical street values after he brought them safely to the United States. He also imported Mexican babies for illegal adoptions, and Mexican kids, boys and girls, runaways and throwaways, from age six on up to teenagers, to be sold to American pimps for use in big American cities as prostitutes and performers in porn films. Evstafiev used revenues from this activity as a source of off-budget funding for the KGB’s North American operations.

The Whiffenpoof, LT.-COLONEL JAMES A. DAUTRY, had been working on Lyndon Johnson’s personal top priority project. The buzz-word all over Europe and Asia and now being heard in the United States, was that President Kennedy’s assassination was not done by Oswald acting alone. Common sense and their own national histories told people all around the world that when a leader is assassinated, the guilty party is always the one who gains benefits and power. To Frenchmen, Germans, and Chinese, it was accepted as simply logical that Johnson was behind a conservative conspiracy that planned and executed the assassination. Johnson was a paranoid schizophrenic. His illness was mild when he was not under too much stress, but the fear that his glorious place in history might be tarnished was literally driving him crazy. He wanted proof that someone else had been behind the killing. When Dautry got that proof for him, he knew it could not be published. The Warren Commission Report would have to stand as the official government document on the matter. But Johnson knew that some years into the future, classified docum

About the Author

Now in full retirement, Jim Sauls lives in a mountain community in Western North Carolina and writes about his intelligence career on six continents. He has four children and four grandchildren. He also maintains contact with the family mining business he started in California in 1993 and vacations at his lodge above Lake Tahoe.