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“Surveillance began four days ago, when my people first staked out the Watergate. Bonnie and Clyde have been under the microscope. Bonnie left the Watergate, drove her Lexus to Reagan National Airport, and took a 7:00 A.M. flight to Newark, New Jersey. In the long-term lot, she picked up a black Honda that had obviously been left there for her. She then drove to Menlo Park and went straight to the Hilton. She didn’t register, but she had previously rented one of their conference rooms. She ordered fruit, coffee, and Danish. Within an hour, ten people entered the room. All ten people appeared to be business types, and all of them carried briefcases. My operative managed to get pictures of all ten plus Bonnie. He also videotaped the parking lot, making sure to get the license plate numbers of all the parked cars. We’re in the process of running the plate numbers now, but so far nothing has come back. There were hundreds of cars in the lot.

“Our current thinking is that the business types would have been using their own cars, not rentals or stolen vehicles. Also, for your information, Bonnie’s Lexus is registered under the name Angela Bookman, the name she’s using at the Watergate.

“Bonnie reserved the conference room under the name of Carol Stewart. She used a credit card under the same name to pay for the room and food. The meeting lasted a full ninety minutes. My man stayed with Bonnie and followed her back to the airport, where she next boarded a flight to Pittsburgh. We had just enough time with her layover to get another operative onboard. He flew with her to Pittsburgh, where she did exactly the same thing she had in Newark. She picked up a car, another black Honda in the long-term lot, and drove to another Hilton. This time she used the name Tammy Jessup. My man followed through just the way the operative had in New Jersey. Ten people, all business types. Same food ordered, and the meeting lasted ninety minutes.

“This time, though, we had an extra operative, one who followed one of the business types. We are now profiling her, and I’m waiting for that report. My man followed Bonnie back to the airport and waited to be sure she boarded the flight back to Reagan National, at which point another one of my people picked up the trail and followed her back to the Watergate.

“Dennis Bookman, Clyde, if you prefer, did exactly the same thing, but he went in another direction. The MO was exactly the same as Bonnie’s. He flew south to Florida, then to Georgia on his second leg. He arrived back at the Watergate an hour after Bonnie arrived. On the third day, they did exactly the same thing, only with different destinations. With each name change, there was also a change in appearance. Different hair, a change of jacket, high heels to low heels, different purse for Bonnie, that kind of thing. Clyde was more casual, baseball cap, jeans, jacket, all either reversible or he carried a spare in his backpack. The alias he used on the first leg was James Ferris; the second was Timothy Black.