Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

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"Clark, how's the time going?" Cheyney consulted the stopwatch. what do you do? said object, or shake it either. We're better equipped than the Navy was then—but we're working against a From every point of view it was a bad week end for the CIA to mix storyteller, an organization like Civilian Intelligence Associates gets to all its facts backwards, entering the Certainly nobody at CIA so much as thought of Braun when the news first came through. Harry Anderton, the Harbor Defense chief, called us at 0830 Friday to take on the job of identifying the egg this was when our records show us officially entering the affair, but, of course, Anderton had been keeping the wires to C&amp R—clean and routine). I was in the central office when difficulty in making out precisely what Anderton wanted of us. "Slow down, Colonel Anderton, please," I Braun was in the suit with him. "I come over as soon as your runner pitch, Andy?" "Mr. Braun, this is Joan Hadamard, Clark Cheyney, Colonel Anderton. I'll be quick because we need hold—" something out in the harbor. We don't know what it is. It may be a hell-bomb, or it may be just somebody's old laundry. Obviously we've got to find out which—and we want fitting for ships carrying explosives, radioactives, anything that might act "Well, there was a timer on the dump-cell floor, set to drop the egg surprised with you. I thought CIA That worked fine, but the automatic bulkheads that are supposed to keep the rest of the ship from being flooded when the ship came up the river. "It's just a lump of something, Dr. Hadamard. Can't even tell its laid an egg or not." "That's what I keep trying to explain to you, Dr. Harris. We don't know what she dropped and we haven't any way of finding out. It could be a bomb—it could be anything. We're sweating everybody on board the ship now, but it's my guess All right, maybe it's got a clockwork fuse that didn't break with the impact. Or a gyroscopic fuse. Stick a stethoscope on it and see if you pick that none of them know anything "You've got divers down?" "Sure, but—" "We'll worry about the buts from up a ticking or anything that sounds we can direct the work. Better get on over here yourself." show-down hand. We've got to have an expert call it for us—somebody in CIA "Right." He sounded relieved. Braun. One throw of the dice—one more likely, some scapegoat—for having failed to develop a comparable government department. of Washington's doing that. Official was the Associated Universities "Then we're all dead ducks. But CIA had been started the same way, by a loose corporation of universities why should you guess wrong? Your hunches have been working for sixty "Unscrew the cap?" the audio administration, with its emphasis on private enterprise and concomitant CIA. I buzzed for two staffers, and in five minutes got Clark Cheyney and Joan Hadamard, CIA's business manager and social science division chief respectively. The titles were almost solely for the benefit of the T/O—that is, Clark and Joan do serve in those capacities, but said service takes and their time. I shot them a couple of sentences of explanation, trusting to the present. "All right," he said. "I told you the truth, Andy. Remember that. So—is it a bomb or ain't it? That's what's up for grabs, right?" I nodded. He closed his eyes. An This is CIA, Harris calling. Come in, "All right," he said. "You guys wanted it this way. I say it's a bomb. " bearing burst. Words poured out of it. "Now you guys do something, do your job like I did mine—get my wife and kids out of there—empty Cheyney, looking even more like a bulldog than usual, was setting his stopwatch by one of the eight clocks "Keep trying." the city—do something, do something !" shielded that dump-cell is." "It isn't shielded at all," Anderton's voice said behind me. I hadn't prove anything. The egg might have carried sufficient shielding in itself. Or maybe the Commies didn't care squawked. "But Dr. Hadamard, if that sets it off—" "It won't go off. That's the one whether the crew was exposed or not. Or maybe there isn't any egg." thing you can be sure it won't do." "Yes." "Get the reports through to me, "We're getting plenty of radiation now. Just a minute— Yeah. Dr. Hadamard, it's a bomb, all right. But it hasn't got a fuse. Now how could they have made a fool mistake like that?" phone down again. "Are you going to duck out just like that? Remember, Dr. Harris, we've got to evacuate the city first of all! No matter whether it's a real egg or not—we can't take not being an egg!" "Don't move a man until you get a go-ahead from CIA," I said. "For all we know now, evacuating the city may be just what the enemy wants us to do—so they can grab it unharmed. test how our facilities would stand up in a real bomb-drop." "A real drop?" Anderton said. "Are you trying to say that CIA staged this? You ought to be shot, the whole pack of you!" "No, not exactly," I said. "The enemy's responsible for the drop, all right. We got word last month from "If you want to evacuate without our O.K., you'll have to fire us first. It'll take another hour to get that cleared going to do it, and that the bomb would be on board the our man in Gdynia that they were when you hired us," I pointed out. Ludmilla from Washington—so you might as we didn't know in detail—after it was dropped here. So we had our people in Gdynia defuse the thing to miss. We wanted to find out just how long it would take us to figure out the nature of the bomb—which after it was put on board the ship, but otherwise leave it entirely alone. that object was a live bomb. We asked whether it was a bomb or not. You said it was, and you were right." right on the button as far as it went. We didn't ask you whether or not a racket-ridden union now sole visible function of which had been to write policies for the ILA a deadline on the test, Mr. Braun. Obviously, in a real drop we wouldn't have all the time in the world had to allow evacuation of the city, with all the attendant risk that that was exactly what the enemy wanted us to do." "You passed your authority to us Joan had the divers unscrew the cap. In a real drop that would have resulted in a detonation, if the bomb was real we'd never risk it. That "And that means that you were the only person who did come through, Mr. Braun. If a real bomb-drop ever comes, we're going to have to have you here, as an active part of State Building. (The thinking of running for Congress member of Buskin and Brush who's never written a play, acted in one, or so much as pulled the rope to raise "What's a dump cell?" "It's a sea lock for getting rid of "CIA business?" was with CIA." an expert. Can you come down to CIA's central headquarters right away?" Braun." I called headquarters and sent a them, with orders to scorch it over to Braun without stopping to breathe bent over a seismograph, echo-sounding for the egg through the river bottom. If that even had a prayer of "Yes. What's he got to do with it?" "Nothing's gotten us anywhere," Anderton interjected harshly. "We don't even know if that's the egg—the Harris, you've got to let me get that alert out!"

<question>:
What is the CIA?

<options>:
A We never learn
B A civilian organization in charge of keeping the country safe
C A government agency in charge of keeping the country safe
D A group of people in charge of defusing bombs

<answer>:

B