Sneakers/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions

** There is also the practical concern that Abbot does not know who else they've told, and whether or not those people are sitting on instructions to release the news if Bishop and co. turn up dead. He also knows that they, especially Crease, are intelligent and experienced enough to remember to take this kind of precaution. Now, if the gang was bound and determined to release the news anyway then Abbot has nothing to lose by shooting them and hoping they he can catch up to any dead-man arrangements they have made before they go pop... but if Bishop and his crew ''are'' willing to keep silent in return for what are in fact relatively minor bribes, why ''not'' pay them? Abbot can easily afford what they're asking, it would hardly be the first time in the history of US intelligence that somebody was paid off as part of a cover-up, and its less risky than trying to successfully cover up multiple murders.

*** There's also that he doesn't need them to stay quiet forever, just long enough for memories to fade and evidence to be even more thoroughly burned. If they try to write a tell-all years later by that point everything is buried well beyond the point of plausible deniability anyway, but if the Sneakers crew has got their hands out asking for a payoff then they're already signaling that they're not interested in immediately revealing the secret.

 

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