Mock

Submitted by AlbertE. (United States), Nov 25, 2019 at 22:02

"What was the point of the exercise? The Americans naïvely hoped to learn; the Soviets stupidly hoped to convince. In short, the whole undertaking completely failed both sides."

Merely to make a mockery of Americans. Daniel is lucky they did not try to compromise him and recruit him.

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