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Declan and Priya contacted a journalist who worked for a regional investigative paper. Declan had known her from fifteen years, when she had covered another story around the canal. She was methodical, cautious, and entirely fearless. She listened to everything Declan said without interrupting, then asked him three questions. Then she went to work to research everything she could on the story.
The story ran four days later under the headline: SUBMARINE FOUND IN ALDERMOOR CANAL — GOVERNMENT ISSUES GAG ORDER. WHAT ARE THEY HIDING? It included translated excerpts from the logbook, which turned out to contain not just navigation records but a series of coded technical notes in English describing what appeared to be experimental listening technology: a sensor system far in advance of anything known to have been deployed by either side in 1943.
The logbook described the system as operational. It described it as having been tested successfully in the Aldermoor Reservoir tunnels. And it named the project lead designer as Commander H.R. Voss, along with two German engineers whose names did not appear in any Allied prisoner-of-war record.
