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Message no. 1
From: Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Harrow
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 10:30:01 +1200
*****PRIVATE: The Plough-breakers
>>>>>[Any of you still around? Harrow = farming implement = trouble?

Lynch, you paying attention to Seattle still? Or busy elsewhere with your
spook drek? If the latter, someone named Harrow has been hiring, and he
seems to know too much about me for my comfort. Think it means
anything?]<<<<<
-- Squatter <16:28:53/08-12-58>
Message no. 2
From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Harrow
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 23:52:23 +0100
*****PRIVATE: Squatter
>>>>>[+++++relay: Global Tech ChatSat 3.13

Hey, good to hear from you. Say hi to the Rat for me and Lilith.

Harrow. Ouch. Sounds like part of the Farmer constellation... mind you,
it's been a few months.

You want my advice? Pull a fade. Switch areas, do all that paranoid
stuff you do so well, shake any shadows you've acquired. You want help
doing it, need some clean cred, let me know. I still owe you for your
helo taking down Ginelli.

Could be nothing, 'Harrow' is a vaguely Kewl HaNdu11... but I'd rather
be safe than sorry.

Thanks.]<<<<<
-- Lynch <23:42:15/08-12-58>

*****INTERNAL: SIGANet
>>>>>[TO: All SIGA Staff
Harrow just resurfaced. Let's see who, what and why.

Maybe it's just a recycled name. Or maybe not.

And no, I don't want much if any effort diverted from the Curry case.
Harrow is a useful lead: Curry hit one of our people and is still
breathing. Figure it out yourselves.]<<<<<
-- 1Lt J R W Lynch <23:45:31/08-12-58>
Strategic Intelligence Gathering Agency

*****INTERNAL: SIGANet
>>>>>[TO: 1Lt J R W Lynch
Sir, request permission to focus my energies on those persons who caused
harm to come to my friend. The Squatter is an able decker, and I
respectfully suggest you utilise him for Matrix support on this one.

Because I will not rest until I have carved myself a raw and bleeding
slice of payback for my friend: for as you taught me, Lieutenant,
payback is truly a motherfucker.]<<<<<
-- Sgt J S Karlsbruhn <Sergeant:Peppers:Lonely/Hearts-Club-Band>
A God in the Matrix, or a Matrix inside God?
Strategic Intelligence Gathering Agency

*****PRIVATE: The Two Jakes
>>>>>[You learn your lessons well, Jacob Karlsbruhn. Hunt those men with
my blessing and my best wishes.

Wolf guard and guide you.]<<<<<
-- Lynch <23:49:31/08-12-58>
Message no. 3
From: Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Re: Harrow
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 13:53:12 +1200
*****PRIVATE: Lynch
>>>>>[Thanks for the offer of cash assistance, but the day I take money
from Uncle CASper will be a week or so after the day I paint a big target
on my forehead and yell "trogs is pansies" in the middle of
Renton.]<<<<<
-- Squatter <17:51:54/08-12-58>
Message no. 4
From: "Mark A. Imbriaco" <mark@******.NET>
Subject: Re: Harrow
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 09:08:07 -0400
***** PRIVATE: Plough-breakers
>>>>>[ Just what I needed .. as if I don't have enough to deal with right
now. Do you have anything other than a name on this character, Squatter?
Lynch, did you guys come up with anything more that we need to know about
after we all split up? ]<<<<<
-- Imp <08:55:50:/08-13-58>

***** PRIVATE: Angela Morgan
>>>>>[ Hey Ange, can you do me a _big_ favor? There's a guy going by the
name of 'Harrow' that is hiring for an infiltration/recon gig .. see if
you can get hired and find out what he's up to. I've got reason to suspect
that he might be involved with something that happened a while back. Scan
this:

+++++ include file: plough-breakers.summary

I owe you one ... ]<<<<<
-- Zachary Turner <09:00:12/08-13-58>

***** PRIVATE: Zachary Turner
>>>>>[ You don't ask much do you? Alright, alright, for _you_ I'll do it.
Cover my normal rate, plus dinner and dancing when I'm done. ]<<<<<
-- Angela Morgan <09:04:32/08-13-58>

***** PRIVATE: Angela Morgan
>>>>>[ I haven't gotten a deal like that in a while, Ange .. you're on. Be
careful out there -- if Harrow _is_ involved with that escapade from before,
there are still a _lot_ of unknowns. ]<<<<<
-- Zachary Turner <09:08:44/08-13-58>

***** PRIVATE: Harrow
>>>>>[ I apologize for the delay in responding to your recent enquiry
regarding reconnaisance specialists for an upcoming mission. If you are
still in need of skilled help, I find myself available. Attached is a
short summary of my skillset and some background:

+++++ include file: static.dossier ]<<<<<
-- Static <09:12:34/08-13-58>

***** PRIVATE: Lynch
>>>>>[ FYI, since I suspect that you're going to put some effort into
finding out about this Harrow character, I've asked a friend to respond to
his job offer. If he's serious, she should be in there. I've never met
anyone as good as her at recon and infiltration -- including myself. <grin>

Here's some background .. I'd appreciate it if you pull the bottom out from
under Harrow if she didn't go along for the ride.

+++++ include file: static.dossier ]<<<<<
-- Zachary Turner <09:14:08/08-13-58>
Message no. 5
From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Harrow
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 20:01:11 +0100
*****PRIVATE: Plough Breakers
>>>>>[There was a Harrow attached to the Farmer clan a while ago, and as
far as I know we never managed to hit much of his network. I didn't have
much time to dig, I was trying and failing to stay ahead of Drake and
his bloodhounds of the Law.

So far this pans out as a standard Shadowland address, routed through a
satellite uplink, footprint somewhere on the East Coast. Not much to
work on so far, we'll keep at it.]<<<<<
-- Lynch <19:57:31/08-13-58>

*****PRIVATE: Zachary Turner, Static
>>>>>[I'll keep an eye on Angela. We'd definitely like to have words
with Harrow, if possible. If she hits problems, break for the airbase
and yell for help <g>

+++++include security_frequencies.dat

Those will get people's attention.]<<<<<
-- Lynch <20:00:42/08-13-58>
Message no. 6
From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Harrow
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 19:53:30 +0100
*****PRIVATE: Static
>>>>>[Excellent.

+++++include mission.outline

I would like to place you on retainer in case actual infiltration of the
site proves necessary. I am prepared to offer >>encrypted<< for you to
remain in the New Orleans area for two weeks.

If your services become necessary, I will pay >>encryption<< for a
penetration of the site.]<<<<<
-- Harrow <19:52:21/08-13-58>
Message no. 7
From: "Mark A. Imbriaco" <mark@******.NET>
Subject: Re: Harrow
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 15:50:10 -0400
***** PRIVATE: Harrow
>>>>>[ Accepted. I will be on the ground in New Orleans in 24 hours, and
will be prepared to initiate a penetration any time from 48 hours after
arrival on. ]<<<<<
-- Static <15:45:26/08-13-48>

***** PRIVATE: Lynch, Imp
>>>>>[ Bingo. I've got a bite. This guy is looking for talent bad .. he
made me a very nice offer for a two-week retainer against breaking into a
facility in New Orleans. Mission details are attached below. Anything
you can add to this, Lynch?

+++++ include file: harrow_mission.data
+++++ include file: harrow_response.msg ]<<<<<
-- Static <15:45:28/08-13-58>
Message no. 8
From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Harrow
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 22:41:06 +0100
*****PRIVATE: Imp, Static
>>>>>[Holy Mary mother of God, he's got detailed data.

Okay, this has got to be part of Farmer's empire. Inside job, probably
briefed off Farmer (whoever he might be). This might narrow it down.
We'll see what we can get.

I'm inside the wire, by the way <g> Flying one of those MiGs. There _is_
an Ares protoype out here, but the aircraft on the flightline isn't it.
Nice plane, too, I've ridden it in sim and it is _sweet_.

If he sends you in, Angela, then we'll get Ares to cook you up some
footage that will set his customers' aerospace projects back five years
<g>]<<<<<
-- Lynch <22:40:31/08-13-58>
Message no. 9
From: "Mark A. Imbriaco" <mark@******.NET>
Subject: Re: Harrow
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 08:27:07 -0400
***** PRIVATE: Lynch, Imp
>>>>>[ Okay, let's work backwards here. From what Zack tells me we might
be
able to narrow down a list of possibles for Farmer's identity. Get your
deckers to check out who had access to the data for the New Orleans
facility, and cross-reference against who had access to the data from the
last time that Farmer raised his head. There's got to be a correlation
if these two are really related. ]<<<<<
-- Static <08:26:35/08-14-58>
Message no. 10
From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Harrow
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 16:46:48 +0100
*****PRIVATE: Imp, Static
>>>>>[Crossreference the data and see who Farmer might be? That's a good
idea that never occurred to us.

And after we finish that, I'll teach my grandmother to suck eggs <g>

The problem is, who are his agents? All he needs is a mole in Air Force
Intelligence, the NSA, or Air Force Special Ops (or somewhere in the CAS
hierarchy, a whole new can of worms) to pass him word that there's
something worth looking at here at Stockdale. The two things we know
about the Farmer is that he's high-placed and that he doesn't work
alone.

He knows how the standard counterintelligence stuff works and sidesteps
it, otherwise we'd have nailed him (?) down.]<<<<<
-- Lynch <16:46:52/08-14-58>
Message no. 11
From: Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Harrow
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 12:48:24 +1200
*****PRIVATE: Ploughbreakers
>>>>>[What's going on? Any news on Harrow? Hello?]<<<<<
-- Squatter <18:47:05/08-19-58>
Message no. 12
From: Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Harrow
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 15:11:10 +1200
*****PRIVATE: Lynch
>>>>>[Covered up any cattle mutilations lately? Hah, I kid...

Any news on what Harrow was up to? I don't feel very safe out here.]<<<<<
-- Squatter <21:09:54/09-02-58>

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