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Mission Briefing 5A: Derailed
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Jodie, I can see why you are concerned, but I find it hard to believe that Agatha could have been part of a conspiracy. She was a faithful colleague in all the time I worked with her, and no-one ever suggested otherwise. Of course we ran the usual spot checks from time to time, but nothing unusual was found. Having said that, the message you found in the archive is really worrying. My first thought was that she might have been acting as a double agent, trying to destabilise Nazi intelligence, but that doesn’t fit with the text: “it is crucial to our mission that we maintain the balance of uncertainty”, and “direct it to our advantage” make it look like she had definitely had another agenda. I trawled through my own records to see if anyone else Agatha and I worked with might have been involved. I hate to say it, but the only person of interest at the moment is Charlie. We worked together on the Koh I Noor Twins case, and Agatha was her great aunt. Not that treachery is a genetic trait, but in vetting circles it can be treated like it is inherited, so I suppose we ought to take that seriously, especially since she became pretty senior in American intelligence. I checked our current case files, and although she is retired she still acts as government liaison. She is in London at the moment in the new Embassy building, which will make it difficult to get hold of her if she wants to stay hidden. We can’t afford to upset our US cousins, and if we are wrong about her we might also poison the well when it comes to intelligence exchange. They haven’t forgiven us for Philby and Maclean yet, so I can imagine how they would react if it turns out that one of our own is a double agent and has infiltrated their inner sanctum. I sent one of the Elves to take a look at her apartment in New Jersey. It was pretty clean as you can imagine, but they were able to lift the following extract. It was hard to read, and even harder to decipher since she used a Vigenere encryption, but one incriminating feature stands out even without a decrypt. She used the AD morse encoding on top of the Vigenere cipher. I am not sure what we should do next. Could you get the team to take a look at the file? Maybe this is all a big coincidence, or a misunderstanding. If not then we may have to tell London and Washington, and I am really not looking forward to that. All the best, HarryMission Intercept 5B: Transatlantic
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I think BOSS might suspect something. They drafted the report on the Lighthouse discovery over a month ago and have still not forwarded a summary to us here in the US. I can’t risk making enquiries through the usual channels but I think we need to investigate. I am disappointed that the Trinity team left files in the basement when they shipped out, but they did not have a lot of warning, and at least they don’t seem to have left anything current for Harry to find. If they had he wouldn’t have passed the investigation to the Archaeologists, it would have gone straight upstairs for action. I am in two minds about it. If anyone else was investigating, I would say we should ignore it. They are unlikely to make much of a historical curiosity, but if anyone could trace the link to us now then Harry and Jodie are the ones to do it. Jodie is a terrier who won’t let anything go once she has her teeth into it, and Harry has been around long enough to know when something trivial is actually important. On balance I think I will need to be on the ground where I can hope to influence the direction of their enquiries. For the good of everyone we need to keep a very low profile, at least while the BOSS investigation is hot, so unless the system flags a real crisis we will have to dial down our activities for a while. We will carry on with forecasts, but will not act on them unless the threat level rises to ten. Even then, the Curia will need to meet to decide whether it is wise to take action. I will head to London to take charge of misdirection. You can contact me at the Embassy. Charlie.RULE REMINDER: Rapid fire multiple submissions put an unreasonable load on the servers and make it difficult for others to submit. Anyone who makes an unreasonable number of submissions will be open to disqualification. In the first instance this will mean that anyone who submits more than 20 times in 10 minutes will be disqualified.