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Think now of THAT on-going circumstance. Chapter 2 TIFLIS, GEORGIA - 1919 There's an old saying that big things often begin in small ways, and sometimes in places where nothing is expected to begin at all. There is a good deal of truth in this. But I'll add one more facet to it -- that it often depends on WHOM the small thing happens to, and then upon what they and others do about it. In 1919 a small thing happened in a place which was in the middle of a cultural nowhere if judged by complacent European and American standards. Much the same kind of thing often happens elsewhere and throughout the world -- and is usually explained away, forgotten or ignored. However, the small thing happened to a certain young man who did something about it. And, as far as can be determined, what that small thing grew into eventually became the reason why the greatest force in the world, the American intelligence community, was ultimately compelled to do something it otherwise would never have considered doing.