Was the plan canceled by the higher-ups? As relations between the United States and the Soviet Union further eased in the late 1970s, or with the change of Soviet leadership, the hardliners within the Kremlin lost power, causing this high-risk plan to be urgently halted? This is the most likely and the most fortunate of possibilities.
Did an accident happen? The key operative or intelligence link responsible for activating this Safe House was broken due to defection being arrested or death before the plan was executed? For example, the gold coin that eventually sank in the Bahamas waters, could it be something left behind by a key figure during the execution of other tasks or on the way to defection?
There's also the most disturbing speculation, that this plan was not canceled but postponed indefinitely!
This Safe House, along with the nuclear device inside, lies like a forgotten "time bomb", quietly waiting for a new owner to restart and activate it?
