The Town Hall Archives

Rachael Blackgaard

THis is my hangout for seriously villainous and shady characters. Chat, get a drink (I'll only drug your ginger ale if you work for the government), and discuss your plans of world domination or getting rid of any and all traces of a mayor here.
Am I doing this right? Oh yes: part of this place is also my Bio lab, so don't mess with any test tubes or pitri dishes, please, thank you.

Elf of Rivendell · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 8:47 am Post subject:

Well, well, well. Alatariel, is it not? To see you reduced to such villainy and scum! O foulness!

*snaps back to reality* I must be going before she drugs me! *hightails it out of the building*

Rachael Blackgaard · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 9:22 am Post subject:

Why, You work for the CIA? I won't drug you as long as you don't work for the CIA, FBI, or the police. Besides, all I put in your drink is a vitamin complex, which is really harmless.
So have no fear, fellow Villains!

Rachael Blackgaard · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 10:03 am Post subject:

Guess what? I have just eaten my first hamburger in 13 years! It actually tasted pretty good, better than those Boca burgers that taste like cardboard. It was was of those grilled cooked burgers, and I put mozarella cheese, lettuce, tomatoes and mayonnaise on it. That may not seem like a big deal to anyone else here, but I've been forced to be a vegetarian since I was one. I think later I'll eat some chicken...

Elf of Rivendell · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 10:07 am Post subject:

Well, who knows? FBI or CIA agents often don't make it known that they are working for said agencies, especially to shady personages!

I feel somewhat stupid standing in the doorway and jabbering about nothing... Wink

Nice drink bar, by the way.

Rachael Blackgaard · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 10:30 am Post subject:

But you don't know I'm a shady character. You might know perfectly well that I work for the NSA as a molecular biologist. I just have some other jobs too.
Okay, I let the baby in the office and he's starting to do some dangerous things. I'm going to put him down for a nap and be back in a bit.

Jared · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 11:09 am Post subject:

Some people here seem to have confused views of the FBI and CIA...

First, let's take the FBI. It's not nearly as secretive of an organization as you might think, especially in recent years. Robert Mueller is nothing like J. Edgar Hoover.

I question sometimes whether or not the change is good, however. They have a cleaner slate under Mueller and those between him and Hoover, but you can't deny that under Hoover, the agency was at its peak.

The FBI focuses primarily, by the way, on criminal investigation. Its agents don't keep their identities secret; they work in field offices. They have ID cards. You can contact them via the field office switchboard. The Federal Bureau of Investigation primarily focuses on domestic crime investigation, not counter-terrorism.

And when they do focus on counter-terrorism efforts in the United States (the FBI does not have jurisdiction outside of the country; the CIA and a few other agencies do), they might be running a raid or operating a sting, but once again, its with named agents. The FBI runs a few undercover operations, but if no visible ties with the FBI is of importance, the person running the operation is not usually on the FBI roll in the first place.

The CIA, on the other hand, has a lot more power in counter-terrorism. They can work overseas, many agents have faked passports to get them around under false identities (but the passports will NOT be American, as it is a violation of federal law to forge an American passport! Smile

), etc. They do some undercover work, some black ops... They are operating throughout the world doing things that most of us never would imagine have to be done.

Their role is often downplayed - except for in thriller movies. People generally don't like the idea of the CIA. But I have to wonder... if tactical portable nuclear weapons are missing in the quantities we often hear about (90 gone from the former U.S.S.R., a handful missing from China, etc.), what happened to them? Uranium is often sent on through the black market... And I mean weaponized U-238, not some useless isotope. What happens to all that stuff that it doesn't reach here? I don't know, but I'd guess that we have organizations like the CIA to thank for that.

But I'm really taking this whole thing down a strange path...

Anyway, welcome, Rachel!

Rachael Blackgaard · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 11:23 am Post subject:

I feel BAD now. My friends and fellow villains went byebye, and now the only person I have left to talk to the mayor of Odyssey! No offense, Jared, but I don't want to have a mayor. No mayor whatsoever. It interferes with my evil diabolical villainous scheme!
I'm going to be a molecular biologist and cryptanalyst for the NSA when I grow up. I still don't like the CIA, because they don't follow their own rules. As far as I've heard, the NSA is pretty good about not testing drugs on their own employees.
Does anyone else here really mind that the mayor of Odyssey is in our Anti-mayor campaign headquarters? (Heehee)

Rachael Blackgaard · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 11:25 am Post subject:

Just out of curiousity, what happens if I do this?

Jared · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 12:19 pm Post subject:

The drug-testing-on-employees story about the CIA is extremely questionable. I am familiar with the supposed incident and it is mentioned in quite a few places, but there's only one source for the story: an angry ex-employee who also made quite a few other claims about the agency that have been disproven.

The whole thing is based on that story and, in the even more conspiritorial circles, the occasional "so-and-so once bumped into someone who had a friend whose cousin was the subject of one of the CIA's tests" tales...

From what you've said at the former Mole Boards and at AI0 Digital, you seem to be way too quick to buy into conspiracy stories about the CIA. I'd advise you to take them with a grain of salt... or perhaps, the whole salt shaker.