Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Soviet Union planted number of long-term deep-cover sleeper agents over United States, Fact2: spies be activated by special code phrase, Fact3: mission was to sabotage crucial parts of civil and military infrastructure in event of conflict, Fact4: Nikolai Dalchimsky travels to America taking with him Telefon Book, Fact5: Borzov has chosen agents by first letters of American hometowns
Output (English): After the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union planted a number of longterm, deepcover sleeper agents all over the United States, spies so thoroughly brainwashed that even they did not know they were agents and can be activated only by a special code phrase. The phrase is a line from the Robert Frost poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, followed by the agents real first name. Their mission was to sabotage crucial parts of the civil and military infrastructure in the event of conflict. More than 20 years pass, and the Cold War gradually gives way to detente. Narrowly escaping a relentless purge of old Stalinism loyalists, Nikolai Dalchimsky Donald Pleasence, a rogue KGB headquarters clerk, travels to America, taking with him the Telefon Book which contains the names, addresses and telephone numbers of all the sleeper agents. He starts activating them, one by one. American counterintelligence is thrown into confusion when seemingly ordinary citizens blow up what were formerly top secret facilities that have since become relatively inconsequential, and then commit suicide. The KGB dares not tell its political leaders, much less the Americans, about its negligence in not deactivating the spy network. KGB Major Grigori Borzov Charles Bronson, who is selected for his photographic memory, memorizes the contents of the only other copy of the Telefon Book. He is then sent to find and stop Dalchimsky quietly, before either side learns what is happening, which would greatly embarrasses the KGB and possibly even start a war between the powers. Borzov is given the assistance of only a single agent, Barbara Lee Remick, planted in America years before. Eventually Borzov realizes the method behind Dalchimskys pattern of attacks: he has chosen the agents by the first letters of their American hometowns, writing his own name in sabotage across America. Using that information, Borzov is able to anticipate Dalchimskys next chosen sleeper agent, and locate and kill Dalchimsky. However, there are a number of twists. Barbara has orders from the KGB to assassinate Borzov once he succeeds, to get rid of a dangerous loose end. In addition, she is a double agent actually working for America. When she informs her American superior, Sandburg Frank Marth, he also tells her to kill Borzov, so she will retain the confidence of the KGB. However, Barbara has fallen in love with her wouldbe target. She informs Borzov, and together they blackmail both sides into leaving them alone, holding the threat of the remaining Telefon agents over their heads.