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
doesnt 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
kohinoor twins case and agatha washer 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 cant 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 havent for given us for phil by 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 avi genere encryption but one
incriminating feature stands out even without a decrypt she used the ad morse encoding on top of the
vi genere 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 harry