They say he was on an intelligence mission and somebody murdered him.

"But you came on an intelligence mission, all the same," Olga said.

The pair traveled extensively on intelligence missions over the previous months.

"I performed two covert intelligence missions there right out of the Academy."

This was a pure intelligence mission, one of the few on which they'd been dispatched.

"And this is an intelligence mission, so the intelligence services will have some questions."

The broad outlines of the new intelligence mission are already taking shape.

And the day before their date, he was called away on a secret intelligence mission, and never showed up.

He'd never gone into the field on an intelligence mission.

And I'm afraid that's just what this might soon become: an intelligence mission.