Libitina Returns
The next day Bond woke up in the safe house of Section "S". He got up and took a long cold shower. Afterward he did fifty push-us and sit ups top get his body fully awakened. He dressed himself in his usual coat and tie, and stepped out of the room. There, in the main room he found Libitina Fraud.
"Good morning James" she said. "Like some breakfast, we have French toast and fresh fruit."
"When did you get back Libitina?" Bond asked.
"Oh, late last night, work had me doing papers all night long. And I didn't want to wake you, so I slept on the couch. You where asleep for awhile I assumed."
"Yea well, my work had me running for awhile." Bond walked to the table and sat down with Libitina. "Tell me, what do you know about Laureth Lasko?"
"He sits up in the tall building in the middle of the city. He runs the new intelligence agency."
"Yes, well, from what I found out yesterday that intelligence agency is a branch for a new terror organization called CIRA."
"CIRA? What exactly do they do?"
"Well I haven't found many details, but it stands for Counter Intelligence for Revenge Agency. They simply want to create havoc by using our own information and intelligences against us."
"Sounds right, well I guess that explains it."
"Explains what?" asked Bond.
"Well I actually did some investigating myself. It seems Mr. Lasko has a little history with the Americans."
"Really? Where did you find this information?" Bond asked.
"I took a look at the personal files about Lasko in our branch. As you know he did work for us at one time, but went his own way. So we have a few files on him which, now that you mention this counter intelligence agency, turned out to be quite useful." Bond sat back and sipped some of his coffee.
"Well, this is how it goes James. During the cold war there was a project called ELF that that the U.S was working on. Lasko was the co-director of the project. ELF was an antenna that would be used to send Extremely Low Frequency; hence the name ELF, radio signals to submarines. The extreme low frequency would be useful since t would be harder to intercept and harder to jam. The submarines that where able to pick up this signal where ones that could intercept a nuclear missile attack if one every happened. But when the cold war ended any kind of nuclear attack seemed quite imposable due to knowledge that no country could finance the weapon and that any one that could was our ally. So they shut the project down. Lasko was angry at the American government for shutting down all of his hard work, so he moved to England to work in a branch over there. But I don't think his grudge disappeared. After working in England for a while he asked permission to be transferred over here to Australia. Here he worked for us and then left. Now, this is just an educated guess but couldn't he use CIRA to get the plans he had once made for ELF and maybe rebuild it. He was the Co-director of the project so I'm sure he would know how to rebuild it."
"Well, I don't know what you're getting at Libitina. What use would this ELF machine be to him?"
"Well I just thought."
"No, you don't think!" Bond interrupted her "Yes, at least we have some more information on the man, but we can't go around making assumptions. As of now he is just some business man who started an illegal company and I have to find a way to shut him down. Now yesterday his body guard stopped me at the airport and took to see him. He handed me these files about the peace keeping efforts in Iraq. Why or how he got them is anyone's guess, but if he is head of CIRA then there skills in espionage must be pretty top notch to steal this kind of information."
"I was only trying to be helpful, not trying to make up assumptions. Plus now that you mention this whole Iraq thing, ELF could play a role."
"Ok, what's your proposal?"
"Well, ELF was an American project, so it must use the Americans special codes. As we are all aware of, the Americans have submarines station around Iraq. If Lasko could build ELF he could send a message to the subs giving them permission to fire into the city or whatnot. The subs will think it came from a high official, and since it uses extreme low frequency, it wouldn't be able to be intercepted by the American which would recognize it as a foreign signal."
"Your smart girl Libitina, yet why would he be in Australia?"
"Hmm" Libitina pause. "Well, ELF isn't a small little radio. It's actually a couple of miles in diameter. It's a big hunk of metal. So down here in Australia it would be easy to hide it since we are secluded form the rest of the world and the outback would be a perfect place to hide a machine of that size."
"It does make sense, but there is only one thing we have to do now and that of course is proving it."
The next day Bond woke up in the safe house of Section "S". He got up and took a long cold shower. Afterward he did fifty push-us and sit ups top get his body fully awakened. He dressed himself in his usual coat and tie, and stepped out of the room. There, in the main room he found Libitina Fraud.
"Good morning James" she said. "Like some breakfast, we have French toast and fresh fruit."
"When did you get back Libitina?" Bond asked.
"Oh, late last night, work had me doing papers all night long. And I didn't want to wake you, so I slept on the couch. You where asleep for awhile I assumed."
"Yea well, my work had me running for awhile." Bond walked to the table and sat down with Libitina. "Tell me, what do you know about Laureth Lasko?"
"He sits up in the tall building in the middle of the city. He runs the new intelligence agency."
"Yes, well, from what I found out yesterday that intelligence agency is a branch for a new terror organization called CIRA."
"CIRA? What exactly do they do?"
"Well I haven't found many details, but it stands for Counter Intelligence for Revenge Agency. They simply want to create havoc by using our own information and intelligences against us."
"Sounds right, well I guess that explains it."
"Explains what?" asked Bond.
"Well I actually did some investigating myself. It seems Mr. Lasko has a little history with the Americans."
"Really? Where did you find this information?" Bond asked.
"I took a look at the personal files about Lasko in our branch. As you know he did work for us at one time, but went his own way. So we have a few files on him which, now that you mention this counter intelligence agency, turned out to be quite useful." Bond sat back and sipped some of his coffee.
"Well, this is how it goes James. During the cold war there was a project called ELF that that the U.S was working on. Lasko was the co-director of the project. ELF was an antenna that would be used to send Extremely Low Frequency; hence the name ELF, radio signals to submarines. The extreme low frequency would be useful since t would be harder to intercept and harder to jam. The submarines that where able to pick up this signal where ones that could intercept a nuclear missile attack if one every happened. But when the cold war ended any kind of nuclear attack seemed quite imposable due to knowledge that no country could finance the weapon and that any one that could was our ally. So they shut the project down. Lasko was angry at the American government for shutting down all of his hard work, so he moved to England to work in a branch over there. But I don't think his grudge disappeared. After working in England for a while he asked permission to be transferred over here to Australia. Here he worked for us and then left. Now, this is just an educated guess but couldn't he use CIRA to get the plans he had once made for ELF and maybe rebuild it. He was the Co-director of the project so I'm sure he would know how to rebuild it."
"Well, I don't know what you're getting at Libitina. What use would this ELF machine be to him?"
"Well I just thought."
"No, you don't think!" Bond interrupted her "Yes, at least we have some more information on the man, but we can't go around making assumptions. As of now he is just some business man who started an illegal company and I have to find a way to shut him down. Now yesterday his body guard stopped me at the airport and took to see him. He handed me these files about the peace keeping efforts in Iraq. Why or how he got them is anyone's guess, but if he is head of CIRA then there skills in espionage must be pretty top notch to steal this kind of information."
"I was only trying to be helpful, not trying to make up assumptions. Plus now that you mention this whole Iraq thing, ELF could play a role."
"Ok, what's your proposal?"
"Well, ELF was an American project, so it must use the Americans special codes. As we are all aware of, the Americans have submarines station around Iraq. If Lasko could build ELF he could send a message to the subs giving them permission to fire into the city or whatnot. The subs will think it came from a high official, and since it uses extreme low frequency, it wouldn't be able to be intercepted by the American which would recognize it as a foreign signal."
"Your smart girl Libitina, yet why would he be in Australia?"
"Hmm" Libitina pause. "Well, ELF isn't a small little radio. It's actually a couple of miles in diameter. It's a big hunk of metal. So down here in Australia it would be easy to hide it since we are secluded form the rest of the world and the outback would be a perfect place to hide a machine of that size."
"It does make sense, but there is only one thing we have to do now and that of course is proving it."
