Not knowing his identity beforehand, Allen and Quinn, in an isolated location in Washington DC, meet with Andrew Garner, who arranged the meeting through calling the Congressional switchboard, and who implies he is working for someone in high political places who wants, like them, to expose what he believes is a cover-up concerning the existence of extraterrestrial life, reports they being Russian hoaxes only undermining the US' position in the Cold War. Garner provides them with files about other sightings that they have not been made privy to for reasons they understand upon their general description. Harding and Valentine learn of the meeting, they also knowing the man that Garner is. As Garner is a DC insider, they enlist a recent foe in trying to discover who Garner is representing. Returning to the Blue Book offices, Allen and Quinn learn that there has been a security breach in the form of a theft in Valentine and Harding's offices, Blue Book thus suspended until further notice. That theft has implications to a surprise meeting that Allen and Quinn had six months earlier with a purported base employee named John, they at the time unable to get the complete information that John wanted to divulge. Things come to a head in these matters at the Hynek home where Susie has taken refuge.
—Huggo