Smoke and Mirrors Read Free Page B

Non-SIS Employees:
    *London CID and MI5 will file reports separately
    Minutes recorded by Administrative Officer Sheldon York
    C flipped to the summary. He liked Ellen’s style. It was concise, accurate and unwaveringly impartial. John’s would be useful too; but C knew, in this case at least, very few of the interviewees were likely to be harboring suspicious motives for which John’s heavy-handed tactics and cynical postulations would be needed.
    So C read on.
    Summary:
    Without detailed reports from Forensics (preliminary attached as appendix D), Technology (pending), and Trades and Services (pending) it would be imprudent to assume that the events occurring outside St. Paul’s Cathedral on 10, February, 2012 were caused by the deceaseds’ (SIS Agent Nigel Forsythe and SIS Driver William Blake) involvement with British national security. Furthermore, there is, as of yet, no evidence that Agent Forsythe’s wife’s, Samantha Forsythe (nee Bond), enemy(ies) might have planned her death, despite her work for ‘AG’ and her connection to Russian Kriminalnaya through her deceased father, ex-agent and Russian-born, Vasily Demidov or her mother, former American CIA Operative and MI-5 attachment, Kirsten Bond. Yet, with data gleaned through the statements given by abovementioned SIS personnel, it is reasonable to suppose that further forensic evidence may indicate otherwise. Certain irregularities, which may be brought to further light by future depositions, possibly point to a carefully planned and perfectly executed terrorist attack/assassination.
    A specific reference to “Dr. Brothers’s scream”, prior to the explosion, in Agent Bradley Milton’s statement is the chief basis for this secondary hypothesis. All interviewees concur with the timing of her “warning” (word used by Dr. Brothers on page 16, paragraph 5, line 2). Estimated to be within two to five seconds of the actual blast, it, in her words “had no correlation to any external factors” (same page, paragraph, line 7). Upon further questioning, Dr. Brothers guessed that a possible “scent” might have triggered the response. No further clarity of that scent could be determined, but the interviewee certainly warrants further questioning should future evidence point in that direction.
    No other depositions revealed any indication of the explosion’s imminence. However, Agent Milton, upon being asked by John Thibaut why the scream motivated him to run after the Bentley, remained silent for ten seconds. His answer, repeated below, is located on page 5, paragraph 11.
    “It wasn’t a conscious decision on my part. She (Dr. Brothers) isn’t prone to overreacting. I concluded, subconsciously perhaps…” pause of seven additional seconds, “that something was threatening Nigel and Sammy’s lives. Thinking back upon the incident, my knowledge of former KGB and current Russian Kriminalnaya vehicle hits must have induced my reaction.”
    “What do you believe made her scream?”
    “The same trigger which made me react.”
    “And that ‘trigger’ is?”
    “Instinct.”
    C sat forward, returned the page he was reading to the folder, and rubbed the bridge of his nose with thumb and forefinger.
But was instinct enough?
He rifled through the tea tray for a chocolate Hobnob and set to work reading the second file.
    C flipped past the Patient Document Release form and eyed the Patient Care Plan begun by Dr. Brothers’s GP. It was dated 20, July 2009 and under the Focus/Problem section, there was a symptom list that included headaches, neck and back pain, and varied GI symptoms. Additionally, the GP had noted that the patient was complaining of unusual emotional fluctuations and abnormal levels of anxiety. The next column, Outcomes, indicated the patient’s desire for emotional composure, freedom from stress/anxiety and a relief from the physical symptoms previously indicated.
    The notes covered several visits within a span of 32 days. A variety of