From: GM
To: Michael Torrence
Subject: Re: Spy Campaign (for lack of a better title at this point)
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 13:24:23 -0600 (CST)

> 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?

You are assigned to the FBI International Training Facility in Budapest.
You work with your fellow FBI agents who are also teaching there. 
You are not part of a task force.  You are a teacher.  You are simply
supposed to report your findings on the Hungarian Mafia to the CIA as a
courtesy.  You can request dossiers on your fellow FBI agents.  I'm sure they
will think you are paranoid and recommend that you receive psychiatric
treatment.  Do you want a notation put on your file that you may be
mentally unstable?  If so, then you can request dossiers on your fellow
FBI agents.

> 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.

Local Budapest precincts.  The policemen who are taking courses at the
the FBI Training Facility.  You are teaching them how to fight organized crime.

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

Anyone not taking courses at the FBI Training Facility appears to be on the
take.  A couple officers who are taking courses at the Facility die.  Nothing
in common links their deaths except that they arrested suspected Mafia members.
A couple of arrested suspects who started to give signals that they might
be willing to talk to police spontaneously commit suicide.  The only thing
in common between these suspects is that they all had in their possession at
the time of arrest a small gold pin attached to their lapel.  The pin is in
the form of a bird with a long plumy tail.

> What types of clues?

Arrested suspects accidently drop names, especially after they get beaten
up by the police.  

> 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?

Public information on the company is available for gross income, net income,
members of the board, names of senior staff members (president, CEO, etc).
Notable stockholders are members of the Hungarian Parliament.  The company
has a gross income in the millions.  It does not advertise.  It has its
own supply and distribution branch.

> > 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?

As the Firebird Foundation is a privately funded foundation it is not
required by any known Hungarian or International law to reveal how it gets
its funding, who sits on its directorial board, whether it is non-profit or
profit, or make its charter available.  There isn't any literature
available on how to get a grant from the Foundation.

Tax records only show that the Foundation does not make any money.

What does Torrence do?