In December of 1943, Norfolk, Virginia, was teeming with wartime activity. Ships were in various stages of construction, sailors and ship builders were everywhere. It was a vibrant, busy place. Klaus and his four colleagues landed there, after an uneventful crossing that was considerably different than the desperate trip of four years before, when he had been packed on the small merchant ship that had brought him to Canada and his nine months of virtual imprisonment. This time he came as a respected British citizen, on his way to further the war effort.
After some preliminary check-in, the British scientific delegation took a train to Washington, D.C., where loyalty oaths were signed and Klaus's reliability was attested to by Perrin. Then they boarded another train, this time to New York City, where the British were to assist in the research going on at Columbia University. Once established in a small residential hotel, there was an opportunity to visit his sister Kristel, married and living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. But first, there was a meeting to be held, a meeting with a man named Harry Gold, who was known to Klaus only as Raymond.
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