The President’s Mistress

Donna Morton has been secretly meeting the President for several months, using a safe house in Washington for their assignations. She is routinely picked up by a Secret Service agent, highlighting the dangerous closeness of their relationship. The arrangement hints at a volatile political fault line should their affair ever be exposed.

In Moscow, a US agent at the Kremlin manages to obtain a secret document identifying Donna Morton as a KGB agent sent to spy on the President. The document is quickly sent back to Washington, where it falls into the hands of the CSA. This revelation kickstarts a high-stakes surveillance operation.

Back in Washington, the CSA begins monitoring Donna Morton as a potential Soviet asset. Investigators track her movements and connections to the President. The surveillance marks the first step in a tense cat-and-mouse game between intelligence agencies.

Donna's brother, Ben Morton, returns to Washington and meets Mugsy Evans on the plane, striking up a romance. This reunion plants the seeds for his personal stake in the unfolding events. The new liaison adds a human dimension to the political intrigue.

Donna Morton is found dead in her apartment moments before she would be picked up by her Secret Service driver. The circumstances suggest foul play and immediately trigger a criminal investigation. Her death becomes the catalyst for Ben's deeper inquiry.

Ben begins piecing together Donna's secret life, including the affair with the President. Through CSA contacts, he learns that a CSA agent was seen leaving her building around the time of her death. The pieces push him toward a personal crusade to uncover the truth.

The Secret Service driver who regularly collected Donna informs Ben that the CSA were present at the scene. Before any further details can be relayed, the driver is killed, silencing that line of inquiry. The loss deepens the conspiracy and motivates Ben to press on.

Realizing the CSA has played a major role, Ben confronts the head of the CSA. The CSA chief tries to redirect blame, claiming it was the Soviets who killed Donna and that she was a Soviet agent. The confrontation exposes the tangled web of lies and counter-lies surrounding her death.

Ben corners Anatoly, the Soviet head KGB agent in Washington, and interrogates him at gunpoint in a car. Anatoly remains evasive but ultimately reveals crucial truths about Donna and the forged document. This tense interrogation shifts the balance of the investigation.

Anatoly explains that the document identifying Donna as a Soviet agent was a deliberate fake designed to mislead the CSA. The KGB had intended to let the misinformation fall into American hands, triggering a destabilizing chain of events. The revelation reframes the entire murder case as a geopolitical gambit.

The KGB's broader aim, as explained by Anatoly, was to destabilize the White House at a critical moment in negotiations with China. Donna's death and the fake document were tools in that plan. The scene underscores the high-stakes chess game between the CSA and the Soviets.

With the truth emerging, the investigation reveals a larger espionage struggle between the CSA and the Soviets. The immediate events—the affair, the death, and the forged document—are exposed as a fragment of a broader plot. The timeline closes on the realization that geopolitics drives personal danger.