| From: | "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK> |
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| Subject: | More Strangeness |
| Date: | Thu, 21 Nov 1996 00:56:43 +0000 |
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*****PRIVATE: Lynch, Lilith
>>>>>[Hey, you two? I got visited by a couple of heavies from, of all
places, the Office of Naval Intelligence. They told me to lay off asking
about 329, the owner of that missing nose gear.
So I asked them, whose authority were they acting on, and they got
shifty. And then I told them to talk to my Director, and they got angry
and said "I was placing myself and my family at risk." Like, what
family? There's only me and Mom.
At that point I thought "what would you or Lilith do?" so I pulled my
sidearm and screamed for Security. The ONI bozos _never_ expected that.
Toad leapt out waving his weapon (NOT an impressive sight, har har), two
Marines turned up with machine-guns ready (and got really disappointed
when it turned out they weren't allowed to kill anybody today), and the
two ONI spooks then had to explain why they'd threatened a SIGA agent.
Coppinger turned up and asked what the hell was going on, and the upshot
is, they don't know, there's a standing order on file and "all measures
are authorised" to silence enquiries about the C-130K tail number 45329.
Coppinger said a few things in the right places and it turns out
_nobody_ knows why, which is kind of embarrasing, so now SIGA has the
job of finding out. So those (apologetic) ONI guys are flying out with a
batch of diving gear, so you can check the lake that the nose gear came
from.]<<<<<
-- The Two Jakes <Sergeant:Peppers:Lonely/Hearts-Club-Band>
