FINISHED BRIEFING RUBENS, Ambassador Jackson returned to his desk in the research and analysis section, planning on taking care of some odds and ends before checking back in with the FBI and Secret Service. While he’d been up with Rubens, the Pentagon had answered Jackson’s request for contact information regarding the members of Tolong’s unit. Among the information was an address and phone number for Reginald Gordon, the last man who had seen Tolong alive.
Jackson called the phone number, only to find it had been disconnected. That wasn’t particularly surprising—the Defense Department data was many years old. Next, Jackson entered the name and last known address into a commercial database used by private investigators and others trying to track down people. Within a few minutes, he had an address and phone number in Atlanta.
This phone, too, had been disconnected.
Jackson then did what a layman might do when looking for information about someone—he Googled Gordon.
The screen came back quickly. All of the top hits were from newspapers.
Reginald Gordon had jumped from a hotel window in Washington a week before.