 just the worst desert of Kazakhstan, flea-bitten, scorpion-ridden, snake-ridden, just a nightmare place. Nobody but nobody wanted to be there. They called it the Baikonur Cosmodrome. It was, in fact, a few hundred miles away from the town of Baikonur, but it was another one of their attempts to throw the CIA off, and they thought the CIA would not know where it was.