"I spy you!" - 20

The instructor who was quite an old person said smilingly, “Young lady, this dot and dash language is very useful during distress. When you are in trouble or you find someone in trouble, even with torchlight you may send signal. If you are lucky enough to find someone who could read the Morse code you have a chance of getting rescued”

Vasupradha became very attentive to learn all the letters in dot and dash language.

“Read the book on Noor, a British trained Spy in Germany occupied France, a signal operator’s story of courage” said the instructor.

Vasupradha read the book and was thrilled and also felt sad. She imagined herself in the character’s place.

She was taught the hardware parts of the computer. At the end of the session, she came to know how to dismantle a PC and a laptop. How to copy files, how to retrieve the lost files, how to delete incriminating data etc.

She was also shown how to transfer files to a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), how to put a tracker in a mobile.

“Today your training is at the medical center” Durjaya said.

He had told her that the 5 persons who were apprehended belonged to a neighboring country and they were on the verge of making a bomb as they could not carry a bomb across the border. They were rounded and taken into custody.

“Their leader escaped. The net is getting tightened to capture him” informed Durjaya.

She felt very disappointed. In the movies everyone is apprehended. Even if they escape, it is only a matter of time before they are captured.

‘I do hope I shall be instrumental in catching him’ she thought.

May be someone was saying ‘Tathaastu’ from somewhere.

The medical training was interesting. They taught her how to give an injection to a person to make him/her survive and how and where to give an injection to make someone numb for a few hours and how to kill a person (may be an attacker or a terrorist) using an injection.

Vasupradha wondered whether she would be able to master all these things. But as she was a person to catch everything fast, she did pick up all the tricks of the spy trade.

The other interesting thing she learnt was the transmitter being injected to a person. How to escape the checking from the tracking device. She asked many questions.

One of her questions was appreciated very much. She had asked, “Here you injected a transmitter which helps in tracking the person who is being sent as a spy to the opposition. But is there a chance of hiding a device bigger that the size of the transmitter? How do they do it?”

The instructor clapped his hands. “A very good question! Suppose the secret of the country is to be taken to the enemy country. The equipment if bigger than the width of a grown man’s thumb, could be inserted inside the body of a person by a small surgery”