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You think you've private lives, think nothing of the kind
WHO: ImPort investigators
WHERE: Maurtia Falls military base.
WHEN: Friday November 14th to November 28th- or the end of the investigation.
WHAT: Classified files have been leaked and tampered with. A mole is within the government. Five suspects have been detained, all with alibis. ImPorts are called in to help crack the case.
WARNINGS: Mild violence, mention of scars and torture.
MEMORANDUM CLASSIFIED TOP SECRET
TO: [REDACTED]
FROM: Sierra Thorpe, Mid-level Intelligence Division Lead
SUBJECT: Suspect Profiles
DATE: 11/11/2014
Below please find the summary profiles on the five suspects currently under investigation for the ‘Tattlecrime’ leaks. These profiles have all the information the ImPorts will be working with. If there is anything here the brass doesn’t want shared, you have until Friday to tell me.
I’m positive that the mole is one of these five, but no one has confessed yet. Hopefully our big ImPort heroes can put the pieces together before we have to let the suspects go. But I’m telling you now, they had better get results. If one of them wastes my time with nonsense, I want them off the base. I have too much on my plate as it is.
Above all we need to find out whether the mole was working alone or if there is someone else behind this crap. I'll let the ImPorts know about that angle too. Right now we’re looking at:
• The Soviets. Obvious choice.
• The Hornets. They’ve been more active lately.
• ImPorts. Either some new ‘villain’ or an individual we already know about.
• Someone linked to Parc Holiday. We know his ImPort records had ‘oversights.’ None of these individuals are connected to him, though.
• The people who ran that gladiator nightmare this summer. They had a lot of resources, and the investigation into them ran into a solid brick wall.
• Something we haven’t seen before. That would be the worst-case scenario. America has enough enemies already.
SUSPECT PROFILES
Identity: Alicia Waterhouse
Age: 37
Appearance: African-American female, rather short at five foot one, brown eyes, constantly wears horn-rimmed glasses, looks like she really needs to eat a proper meal.
Position: Computer Programmer, a lower-level worker for the FBI.
Means: As a programmer, Alicia works regularly with computers, programming various software, de-encrypting any sort of information they receive. She occasionally acts as tech support for the rest of the office.
Motive: Alicia was recently placed on probation for attending a freedom of information rally, which turned sour and led to multiple arrests. This is not the first time the government has reprimanded her for her outside activities.
Opportunity: With her work with computers, it is entirely possible that Alicia managed to find a back-door route to the ImPort files or, alternatively, downloaded them from a computer that she was repairing. She certainly has the technical skills to alter and distribute the files.
Alibi: Alicia went out to eat with her husband and daughter, both of whom verified that she was there. Interviewing the wait staff of the restaurant also proves that Alicia was there. The husband has remarked that Alicia showed up later than they were expecting, though--late enough that he had to call her multiple times to remind her of their dinner plans.
Other Notes: Her husband had recently been fired from his job and is currently looking for a new one. It’s suspected that Alicia is having an extramarital affair with a superior, Walter Mayhew, who is also being questioned. Additionally, Alicia has ties to suspect Veronica Hernandez, having lived on the same block as her during a stint in Nonah five years ago.
Identity: Colt Baum
Age: 42
Appearance: Caucasian male with close-cropped dark hair and grey eyes. A variety of scars are evident on his torso, back, upper arms and legs. There is no photographic evidence of him ever smiling.
Position: Black-ops field agent in classified CIA paramilitary unit. No official listed rank or record.
Means: Baum is highly-connected, holds top-level clearance for sensitive information, and has a reputation for being able to achieve the impossible. Accessing, altering, and leaking ImPort files would be well within his means.
Motive: Last year Baum was captured by the KGB while on a secret mission to Budapest. He spent two months in Soviet custody, enduring torture and brainwashing. He claims to have eventually escaped under his own power and made it to friendly territory, but there has always been some suspicion that he may have been ‘flipped’ by his captors, turned to the Soviet cause, and released to infiltrate the United States.
Opportunity: Baum has no permanent post or office. He is not assigned to any base and is constantly on the move as his missions demand. Since there is so little solid knowledge about his location and activities, he would have had ample opportunity to access ImPort files without anyone knowing.
Alibi: Baum refuses to provide a clear alibi, stating that his whereabouts at the time of the leak are too classified for his interrogators to know about. When pressed, he says that he was ‘in the field’ and cannot state anything more for the sake of national security. Due to Baum’s status as a black-ops agent, his claims cannot be conclusively confirmed or denied.
Other Notes: Efforts to contact Baum’s superiors to verify his ‘alibi’ have been met with evasion. Attempts to investigate his story of escape from Soviet captivity have been inconclusive, although there are reports of a KGB facility in Hungary burning to the ground around the time Baum claims to have escaped. It should also be noted that the possibility of Baum being ‘flipped’ was originally raised in a memorandum written Walter Mayhew, another suspect. This could have given Baum motive to frame Mayhew for the current leaks.
Identity: Veronica Hernandez
Age: 48
Appearance: Five-foot five Hispanic woman with wavy shoulder-length brown hair and piercing dark eyes.
Position: Department of Defense official based in Nonah, involved in co-ordinating information security for government installations in the area.
Means: While not a technical expert herself, Hernandez has the authority and connections to easily access the leaked files and arrange for them to be altered- if not by herself, then by a knowledgeable third party.
Motive: In the past, Hernandez worked closely with the ‘first generation’ of American superheroes, both native and ImPort. When the relationship soured, Hernandez dissented from government efforts to register heroes fiercely enough to cost her a promotion. Her personal ties with former heroes include possible members of the Hornets. In the government’s eyes this gives Hernandez possible links to a terrorist organization.
Opportunity: The suspect often manages her work via cell phone and laptop, which means she could have accessed the files from anywhere, at any time. There is a long list of possible third parties who could have been contacted by her, and the FBI is following up to narrow down the possibilities.
Alibi: Hernandez was on a vacation to Amistad, Texas during the file leak, and has produced travel records and hotel bills to prove her whereabouts. It is possible she could have executed the leak remotely, however.
Other Notes: It is theorized that Hernandez could have used her Department of Defense authority to order others to compromise and alter the files. Examination of her records have turned up no evidence of this, but it is possible the records have been altered just as the files were. Suspect Alicia Waterhouse, who shares Hernandez’s history of dissent, used to be her neighbor in Nonah five years ago, which may be important. Also of note is an e-mail argument she had three months ago with Yelena Lipniskaya, over some data she was requesting for the Secretary of Defense.
Identity: Yelena Lipniskaya
Age: 35
Appearance: Caucasian female with long brown hair, often pulled up into a bun or a ponytail, brown eyes. She tends to look a bit tired.
Position: Administrative Assistant for the Secretary of Defense
Means: Because of her position, Yelena often comes in contact with information through delivering inter-department memos, filing and sorting mail, delivering information to her boss, as well as attending Defense Department meetings on a regular basis.
Motive: Yelena is from Belarus, now under Soviet control. While she managed to defect as a teenager, coworkers report that Yelena still manages to hold some degree of nationalism towards the USSR. She also has had regular problems with her supervisors and co-workers in the government: Yelena has filed multiple harassment reports against people slandering her or refusing to promote her because of her Eastern European ancestry. None of those reports have been acted on.
Opportunity: Through her credentials with the Secretary of Defense, Yelena has the ability to request access to the files at any time. Aside from that, she regularly works overtime, staying at the department to catch up on work when there is nobody else there.
Alibi: Yelena's alibi is that she was at home, catching up on television with her cat. While people did see her leave the office at her regular time and did place her on the bus headed towards home, her neighbors were unable to verify whether or not she ever left her apartment that night.
Other Notes: Yelena's supervisors have stated that she's a great worker, though her interpersonal skills could use some work. Her neighbors, on the other hand, she gets along wonderfully with. She's a member of a Russian Orthodox church, which recently was the target of anti-Soviet graffiti. Three months ago Yelena had a lengthy e-mail debate with Veronica Hernandez while trying to acquire some documents under her jurisdiction. Hernandez initially refused to release the documents, saying Yelena did not follow proper procedure; Yelena accused her of obstructionism based on her ancestry and eventually convinced her to relent.
Identity: Walter Mayhew
Age: 55
Appearance: Six-foot Caucausian male with thinning dark hair, brown eyes, thick spectacles. Notable comb-over.
Position: FBI policy advisor specializing in domestic security matters.
Means: Mayhew holds top-level clearance as a result of his participation in Senate intelligence briefings regarding FBI involvement in national security.
Motive: Mayhew has complained about his pay level on multiple occasions over the past two years. He believes that he deserves greater money, recognition, and status within the government. Investigators have theorized that this may have made him susceptible to bribery by a hostile power.
Opportunity: Mayhew’s activities during the time the files were sent to Freddie Lounds cannot be verified. He claims he was working alone in his office, which would have allowed him time and opportunity to remotely access ImPort files.
Alibi: Mayhew does not possess the technical qualifications or the high-powered computer software necessary to alter the leaked files in the way they have been changed. It is possible he has more tech resources than anyone is aware of, or that the alterations were carried out by an unknown accomplice.
Other Notes: Examination of Mayhew’s financial records have turned up no evidence of new income. If he has been bribed, the funds have been expertly laundered. Mayhew has previously raised doubts about the loyalties of Colt Baum, who is now being questioned regarding the leak. Additionally, there is suspicion that Mayhew has been having an extramarital affair with one of the other suspects, Alicia Waterhouse, which may be relevant to the investigation.
WHERE: Maurtia Falls military base.
WHEN: Friday November 14th to November 28th- or the end of the investigation.
WHAT: Classified files have been leaked and tampered with. A mole is within the government. Five suspects have been detained, all with alibis. ImPorts are called in to help crack the case.
WARNINGS: Mild violence, mention of scars and torture.
MEMORANDUM CLASSIFIED TOP SECRET
TO: [REDACTED]
FROM: Sierra Thorpe, Mid-level Intelligence Division Lead
SUBJECT: Suspect Profiles
DATE: 11/11/2014
Below please find the summary profiles on the five suspects currently under investigation for the ‘Tattlecrime’ leaks. These profiles have all the information the ImPorts will be working with. If there is anything here the brass doesn’t want shared, you have until Friday to tell me.
I’m positive that the mole is one of these five, but no one has confessed yet. Hopefully our big ImPort heroes can put the pieces together before we have to let the suspects go. But I’m telling you now, they had better get results. If one of them wastes my time with nonsense, I want them off the base. I have too much on my plate as it is.
Above all we need to find out whether the mole was working alone or if there is someone else behind this crap. I'll let the ImPorts know about that angle too. Right now we’re looking at:
• The Soviets. Obvious choice.
• The Hornets. They’ve been more active lately.
• ImPorts. Either some new ‘villain’ or an individual we already know about.
• Someone linked to Parc Holiday. We know his ImPort records had ‘oversights.’ None of these individuals are connected to him, though.
• The people who ran that gladiator nightmare this summer. They had a lot of resources, and the investigation into them ran into a solid brick wall.
• Something we haven’t seen before. That would be the worst-case scenario. America has enough enemies already.
Identity: Alicia Waterhouse
Age: 37
Appearance: African-American female, rather short at five foot one, brown eyes, constantly wears horn-rimmed glasses, looks like she really needs to eat a proper meal.
Position: Computer Programmer, a lower-level worker for the FBI.
Means: As a programmer, Alicia works regularly with computers, programming various software, de-encrypting any sort of information they receive. She occasionally acts as tech support for the rest of the office.
Motive: Alicia was recently placed on probation for attending a freedom of information rally, which turned sour and led to multiple arrests. This is not the first time the government has reprimanded her for her outside activities.
Opportunity: With her work with computers, it is entirely possible that Alicia managed to find a back-door route to the ImPort files or, alternatively, downloaded them from a computer that she was repairing. She certainly has the technical skills to alter and distribute the files.
Alibi: Alicia went out to eat with her husband and daughter, both of whom verified that she was there. Interviewing the wait staff of the restaurant also proves that Alicia was there. The husband has remarked that Alicia showed up later than they were expecting, though--late enough that he had to call her multiple times to remind her of their dinner plans.
Other Notes: Her husband had recently been fired from his job and is currently looking for a new one. It’s suspected that Alicia is having an extramarital affair with a superior, Walter Mayhew, who is also being questioned. Additionally, Alicia has ties to suspect Veronica Hernandez, having lived on the same block as her during a stint in Nonah five years ago.
Identity: Colt Baum
Age: 42
Appearance: Caucasian male with close-cropped dark hair and grey eyes. A variety of scars are evident on his torso, back, upper arms and legs. There is no photographic evidence of him ever smiling.
Position: Black-ops field agent in classified CIA paramilitary unit. No official listed rank or record.
Means: Baum is highly-connected, holds top-level clearance for sensitive information, and has a reputation for being able to achieve the impossible. Accessing, altering, and leaking ImPort files would be well within his means.
Motive: Last year Baum was captured by the KGB while on a secret mission to Budapest. He spent two months in Soviet custody, enduring torture and brainwashing. He claims to have eventually escaped under his own power and made it to friendly territory, but there has always been some suspicion that he may have been ‘flipped’ by his captors, turned to the Soviet cause, and released to infiltrate the United States.
Opportunity: Baum has no permanent post or office. He is not assigned to any base and is constantly on the move as his missions demand. Since there is so little solid knowledge about his location and activities, he would have had ample opportunity to access ImPort files without anyone knowing.
Alibi: Baum refuses to provide a clear alibi, stating that his whereabouts at the time of the leak are too classified for his interrogators to know about. When pressed, he says that he was ‘in the field’ and cannot state anything more for the sake of national security. Due to Baum’s status as a black-ops agent, his claims cannot be conclusively confirmed or denied.
Other Notes: Efforts to contact Baum’s superiors to verify his ‘alibi’ have been met with evasion. Attempts to investigate his story of escape from Soviet captivity have been inconclusive, although there are reports of a KGB facility in Hungary burning to the ground around the time Baum claims to have escaped. It should also be noted that the possibility of Baum being ‘flipped’ was originally raised in a memorandum written Walter Mayhew, another suspect. This could have given Baum motive to frame Mayhew for the current leaks.
Identity: Veronica Hernandez
Age: 48
Appearance: Five-foot five Hispanic woman with wavy shoulder-length brown hair and piercing dark eyes.
Position: Department of Defense official based in Nonah, involved in co-ordinating information security for government installations in the area.
Means: While not a technical expert herself, Hernandez has the authority and connections to easily access the leaked files and arrange for them to be altered- if not by herself, then by a knowledgeable third party.
Motive: In the past, Hernandez worked closely with the ‘first generation’ of American superheroes, both native and ImPort. When the relationship soured, Hernandez dissented from government efforts to register heroes fiercely enough to cost her a promotion. Her personal ties with former heroes include possible members of the Hornets. In the government’s eyes this gives Hernandez possible links to a terrorist organization.
Opportunity: The suspect often manages her work via cell phone and laptop, which means she could have accessed the files from anywhere, at any time. There is a long list of possible third parties who could have been contacted by her, and the FBI is following up to narrow down the possibilities.
Alibi: Hernandez was on a vacation to Amistad, Texas during the file leak, and has produced travel records and hotel bills to prove her whereabouts. It is possible she could have executed the leak remotely, however.
Other Notes: It is theorized that Hernandez could have used her Department of Defense authority to order others to compromise and alter the files. Examination of her records have turned up no evidence of this, but it is possible the records have been altered just as the files were. Suspect Alicia Waterhouse, who shares Hernandez’s history of dissent, used to be her neighbor in Nonah five years ago, which may be important. Also of note is an e-mail argument she had three months ago with Yelena Lipniskaya, over some data she was requesting for the Secretary of Defense.
Identity: Yelena Lipniskaya
Age: 35
Appearance: Caucasian female with long brown hair, often pulled up into a bun or a ponytail, brown eyes. She tends to look a bit tired.
Position: Administrative Assistant for the Secretary of Defense
Means: Because of her position, Yelena often comes in contact with information through delivering inter-department memos, filing and sorting mail, delivering information to her boss, as well as attending Defense Department meetings on a regular basis.
Motive: Yelena is from Belarus, now under Soviet control. While she managed to defect as a teenager, coworkers report that Yelena still manages to hold some degree of nationalism towards the USSR. She also has had regular problems with her supervisors and co-workers in the government: Yelena has filed multiple harassment reports against people slandering her or refusing to promote her because of her Eastern European ancestry. None of those reports have been acted on.
Opportunity: Through her credentials with the Secretary of Defense, Yelena has the ability to request access to the files at any time. Aside from that, she regularly works overtime, staying at the department to catch up on work when there is nobody else there.
Alibi: Yelena's alibi is that she was at home, catching up on television with her cat. While people did see her leave the office at her regular time and did place her on the bus headed towards home, her neighbors were unable to verify whether or not she ever left her apartment that night.
Other Notes: Yelena's supervisors have stated that she's a great worker, though her interpersonal skills could use some work. Her neighbors, on the other hand, she gets along wonderfully with. She's a member of a Russian Orthodox church, which recently was the target of anti-Soviet graffiti. Three months ago Yelena had a lengthy e-mail debate with Veronica Hernandez while trying to acquire some documents under her jurisdiction. Hernandez initially refused to release the documents, saying Yelena did not follow proper procedure; Yelena accused her of obstructionism based on her ancestry and eventually convinced her to relent.
Identity: Walter Mayhew
Age: 55
Appearance: Six-foot Caucausian male with thinning dark hair, brown eyes, thick spectacles. Notable comb-over.
Position: FBI policy advisor specializing in domestic security matters.
Means: Mayhew holds top-level clearance as a result of his participation in Senate intelligence briefings regarding FBI involvement in national security.
Motive: Mayhew has complained about his pay level on multiple occasions over the past two years. He believes that he deserves greater money, recognition, and status within the government. Investigators have theorized that this may have made him susceptible to bribery by a hostile power.
Opportunity: Mayhew’s activities during the time the files were sent to Freddie Lounds cannot be verified. He claims he was working alone in his office, which would have allowed him time and opportunity to remotely access ImPort files.
Alibi: Mayhew does not possess the technical qualifications or the high-powered computer software necessary to alter the leaked files in the way they have been changed. It is possible he has more tech resources than anyone is aware of, or that the alterations were carried out by an unknown accomplice.
Other Notes: Examination of Mayhew’s financial records have turned up no evidence of new income. If he has been bribed, the funds have been expertly laundered. Mayhew has previously raised doubts about the loyalties of Colt Baum, who is now being questioned regarding the leak. Additionally, there is suspicion that Mayhew has been having an extramarital affair with one of the other suspects, Alicia Waterhouse, which may be relevant to the investigation.
no subject
Do we have warrants for registered people to search the houses or offices of the suspects?
[ because finding correspondences would be great. or just... looking for something beyond the facts on paper. ]
no subject
If you're Registered, you have access to wherever you need to go. It doesn't matter what powers or qualifications you actually have.
[SILENT YET IMPLICIT GRUMBLING.]
Is there any particular place you want to look at? I can get transport ready for you.
no subject
No, no, I'm not Registered. [ he says it distractedly, shaking his head. ] But someone should check out Mayhew and Waterhouse's places. Look for correspondences, evidence of the affair. When they planned to meet and where.
[ a pause, chewing at the inside of a lip. ] And see how close she got to his computer, or his access codes. Are there logs of when Mayhew's sign ins were used and where?
no subject
We'll get people on it. All that information is findable if you know what you're doing. I'll let you know when we have a report back. It won't take long.
[Because Sierra will bust people's asses to make sure they get the results she needs. She leans forward, clasping her hands, thoughtful as she rests her elbows on the papers crowding her desk.]
Are you thinking that she used him to get his codes? Or maybe that he used her to get at her tech resources.
no subject
Thanks. Do I get to know if you find anything?
[ he knows he's not registered, so he won't have clearance for everything, but it'll bug the hell out of him wondering. ]
Maybe. I doubt it was Mayhew using her. He seems too dumb for that.
no subject
[TIMESKIP TO THE NEXT DAY! Sierra calls Thomas back to her office as soon as he's available. She has something for the ImPort: yet another file folder to hand over.]
It's all there, everything the agents found. There is absolutely an affair. Creepy bastard knows she's married and just doesn't care. [Sierra's nostrils flare slightly.] Even if he's not the mole, his career is crap after this. Complete violation of regulations, not to mention ethics.
[Thorpe opens the folder for Thomas and points to a particular tidbit: a text message exchange dated the week before the files were leaked.]
Here's something. She didn't get close to his computer, but he got close to hers. He insisted on meeting at her house twice, even though that could only happen when her husband and daughter were gone. And once he asked her to bring her work laptop to a hotel, so he could "take a look at something." We're questioning her now to find out just what that was. It could be important.
Sry for the icon, phone tagging
[ that... Wasn't expected, but now that he thinks of it, it makes sense. He didn't think mayhem would be smart enough, but he is definitely petty enough. There wasn't a bribe, unless he got it in cash and didn't deposit it, but there could be a few million other reasons.
Thomas moves into the room from the doorway, taking a seat in the chair opposite her desk and leaning forearms on it, brow furrowed in thought. ]
It'd be a good frame, putting it on Waterhouse, with her history if trouble with the goverent. If she had any kind of program that... scrambles IPs or encrypted sources, all he'd need to do would be send it from her laptop or computer. Or take the program.
[ he thinks for a second longer, chewing at a thumb nail. ]
If you can get a hold of her laptop and computer, I'd look for a program like that, or for something deleted. It's not always totally gone after a deletion, and I doubt Mayhew knows how to cover up those tracks.
why would you apologize for the best icon though
You're on to something there. You're definitely on to something. Mayhew's only alibi is that he didn't have the tech to make this work. If he got something from Waterhouse-
[She stands up.]
We already have her gear in evidence holding. I need to call our tech people. Wait here and don't touch my desk.
[Sierra is already pulling out her shoebox-sized cell phone (pseudofifties technology is weird!) from her uniform jacket as she exits the room, leaving Thomas alone. He can look at the information she gave him some more, or disregard her warning and examine her desk (not recommended). When she comes back in, she's beaming about as much as anyone like Sierra Thorpe ever does beam, which is to say not much.]
There is a program called BackCover on Waterhouse's laptop that can be used to send information anywhere without an electronic trace, just like the files were. And it was copied to another location on the night Mayhew asked her to bring her laptop to the hotel.
[She sits back at her desk, looking at the meddling teenaged ImPort with a lot more appreciation now.]
We're still checking, but I would expect that we'll find records of that program installed and then deleted from Mayhew's office machine at the time of the leak. With that program, he could have sent the files anonymously without being tracked.
[Sierra resumes her finger steepling, smiling a little.]
If I take this information into an interrogation, I might get Mayhew to crack. But it will be easier if I can throw his employer in his face as well. Get back to me when you have an idea who put him up to this- unless the bastard was working for himself.
its the most wonderful time of the year okok
the theory stiles was onto keeps coming back, and he can't help thinking about how the hornets had mentioned Lawrence, and how Annie had named him as one of the missing imports. there has to be a connection somewhere there. maybe there wasn't a motive. maybe he'd been controlled into it. he did seem pretty weak minded, after all.
when Sierra comes back in, thomas hand snaps away from the picture he'd been looking at, eyes jerking back to her, to hear the news. eff yeah, there was a program on there. no doubt, it has to have been him, then. there's another short, contained smile, but he's quickly furrowing his brow after, rolling it over in his head. ]
I dunno yet. Stiles was on to something. Think we need to look over it some more. I'll let you know when we've got some theories.
Thanks.