The background details for Michael Torrence were generated through email and a phone conversation. The email messages have been editted for clarity and to remove nonessential information (like, where is your character sheet, I don't like anchovy pizza, etc.). The phone conversation is summarized on the last page of this series of pages.

From: GM
To: Michael Torrence
Subject: Spy Campaign (for lack of a better title at this point)
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 16:13:51 -0600 (CST)

Let's see...

[editted for clarity]

3.  What has happened to your character...

	Ok, so Michael Torrence goes back to work for the FBI.  Administrators
in the upper echelons of the organization decide that he would best serve
his country by acting as an instructor for fledgling police organizations
overseas.  He is assigned to the Education Program in Budapest, Hungary as an 
instructor to help them learn how to deal with organized crime, new
computer systems for tracking criminals, domestic violence, and drug
prevention enforcement.  Before he leaves for Hungary, he takes a short
course in Hungarian (you get Language-Hungarian at 0.5 pts).  Additionally,
Assistant Director Hooper calls Torrence into his office for a private
conference.  Hooper tells Torrence that in a joint effort with the CIA,
the FBI is interested in learning who is in charge of the Hungarian mafia.
Part of his teaching assignment will involve helping the Hungarian police
solve some cases and that he should keep an ear open for information
which will help define the structure of the Hungarian mafia.
	The Hungarians are horribly inept at dealing with organized crime.
Most criminals arrested who are associated with some criminal outfit are
quickly released (bribes, death of officers, really poor evidence).
As the FBI helps the Budapest police force improve its technique, a picture
of the Hungarian mafia devlops.  The crime in Hungary is divided into 
three groups who have ties to the organizations in Poland and Russia.
There is little evidence of inter-organization competition/violence at this
point, possibly because there is so much new territory unfolding that
competition is unnecessary.  Small clues point to the existence of an
uber-organization called either Phoenix or Firebird.  A computer search
pulls up several companies, foundations, and societies with either of 
these names.  After three months of investigation, Torrence narrows the
leaders of the Hungarian Mafia down to three men, Lajos Karoli, Matyas
Bujony, and Imre Corvinus.  Lajos Karoli is the president and Chairman
of the Board of a company called the Flame of Phoenix, a company which
makes frozen food.  Imre Corvinus sits on the board of the Kossuth Foundation,
a research foundation which supports basic research in the biological sciences.
The Kossuth Foundation funds several grants based at the European Molecular
Biology Laboratory.  The Foundation, itself, is funded in part by the
Firebird Foundation, another Foundation whose Board members' identities
are unavailable for public perusal.  Matyas Bujony doesn't even pretend
to have a legitimate job.  He just lives off the excesses gained by his
criminal activities.

Who does Torrence investigate further?