"The 24-hour transfer time was somewhat painful."
The amount was too large, requiring multiple transactions for the international wire transfer. Naturally, it couldn't be too fast, but this was the speed at which Gao Guang received money.
Sell the securities, and the CIA would collect the funds directly; that is to say, Pavel's first installment of money had already safely arrived. Gao Guang could have retired with his mission accomplished.
But he had used his own credibility to guarantee for the CIA, and to get Pavel to cough up the rest of the money smoothly, Gao Guang still had to persist for two more days.
If he delayed too long on this end, the situation in Armenia would become critical. Military intelligence was urgent – wartime affairs wait for no one.
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