From: Michael Torrence
To: GM
Subject: Re: Spy Campaign (for lack of a better title at this point)
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 12:39:26 -0600 (CST)

On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, GM wrote:

> 	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).  

Cool. 

>							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.

With whom am I working? Am I the only US agent (FBI or CIA or otherwise)
in this task force? If there are others, what are their backgrounds? What
independant investigating on my own can I do about my co-workers? Do I
have their files? Dossiers? Anything?

> 	The Hungarians are horribly inept at dealing with organized crime.

With whom am I working in the Hungarian police? Are these Federal
Hungarian agents or local Budapest precincts? Same questions as above
about anyone I might be working with. -- If such people are involved.

> Most criminals arrested who are associated with some criminal outfit are
> quickly released (bribes, death of officers, really poor evidence).

Who are recieving bribes? What officers have died? Are there leads along
these lines worth investigating?

> 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.  

What types of clues?

>						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. 

Do I have other information about this company? Is it public? If so, who
are notable stockholders? What is it's annual gross income? Do they
advertise? If so, with whom? Who are their suppliers? Distributors?

> 		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?

The Firebird Foundation. I'm looking to answer the following questions,
and any other information that might be interesting or useful.

How do they generate their revenue for funding projects? Do they produce
anything? Take donations? If so, who are major contributors? Do they have
an endowment? Where is the money kept? What bank? If invested, in what
stocks or bonds? Who administers the endowment?  What caused the growth
of such an endowment? Who founded the foundation? Is their charter
available? Are they for-profit? not-for-profit? If not-for-profit, are
they registered as such with the Hungarian tax code? If I were interested
in getting a grant from them, how would I apply?