Chapter 10: Infiltration
The republic’s covert operations department recruited and sent their teams to the Kingdom of Trena. Their destinations were McKay, the asteroid mines, the ship yard and of course the planet of Trena of Trena. They were not to take action right away. Their job was to infiltrate where they could and to observe and plan for the day.
She arrived in Turnervile, one of the small towns on McKay. It had been chosen as it was close to one of the anti-space craft batteries. She was a legal aid and found work in one of the town’s law offices. She started to work on wills, property transfers, divorces, and other family law cases. Many of the batteries enlisted personnel and officers were her clients. She had free run of the law office’s records. It took her very little time to find what she wanted. One of the batteries noncommissioned officers was in serious financial trouble. A gambler whose home was being foreclosed on he was ripe for the picking. Using her war chest, she purchased the mortgage. She then found the people he owed money to and paid them off.
A few days later the sergeant was approached by his bookie. He was terrified that the man was going to break his legs. Instead, the bookie introduced him to a woman named Virginia, “Gordon this is Virginia, she bought your debt. We’re through.”
With that the bookie tipped his hat to the republican agent and left. When he was gone the woman sat down next to him in the booth.
“Now Gordon,” Virginia spoke to the sergeant, “We’re not going to have any trouble. If you don’t do exactly what I ask, if you tell anyone what I ask you to do even your commanders, I will let your wife and children know what you have been doing for the last few months with your salary.”
He gulped. He knew he was in trouble. Although the militia didn’t care if he gambled or not, as long as it didn’t get out of control and the militiaman made their bets in an open and above board. When he started to use loan sharks to pay off his gambling debts he had crossed the line. His security clearances and his liberty were in serious jeopardy.
“I’ll make this simple,” Virginia spoke directly to the sergeant. “I want you to describe everything about the weapons storage bunker for the battery.”
He hesitated for minute thinking this could be a trap set by militia security. But he thought better about it. Over the next few days he told her everything he knew. He had missed several days’ duty. She killed him in a hotel room she had taken him to. When the maid went to clean the room she found his body with a suicide note he was so despondent over his gambling addiction that he had taken his own life. The bookie and the loan shark the sergeant was in debt to turned up dead. No one questioned how his debts had been paid. Virginia didn’t want the sergeant’s family to suffer. A few days later Virginia left the law offices she said she was going back home. That same day a new master sergeant reported to the battery’s weapon storage facility. Over the next few weeks the new sergeant managed to inventory all of weapons in the facility, as she did she manage to rig the weapons storage center to explode when it received a signal from the fleet. The republican agent left McKay for home her job done.
Book 10: More Problems
Every Last Mother's Child Page 147
