Slowly but surely, I've been pulling information out of the CIA archives from the '50's and '60's that were made public following the election. That research has thus far yielded our most recent photograph, as well as the knowledge that the CIA was researching a man in Kiev by the name of Sam Bailey for potentially funnelling western money into Eastern European communists interests. In light of Sam Bailey's earlier activities that century under the name of Grigory Rasputin, some financial (and possibly even personal) ties in the western Soviet Union make a good deal of sense.
Mind you, the CIA had also connected Sam with the Bristol Trading Company - his centuries-old financial interests in England.
What strikes me as odd now is that the investigator in charge, Special Agent Francis Matthews, was issued numerous pieces of equipment not normally required for fieldwork: medical supplies, poisons, and geiger counters, of all things. I'm trying to sort out if this agent was working on any other cases. It's not looking like it.
Consider the possibility that the CIA feared Sam Bailey was leaking nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union in the early part of the Cold War. Altogether not unlikely, given the prevalent paranoia combined with his unusual behavior. At the same time, medical supplies? Poison?
Were they onto something else? Were they hoping to find something other than uranium and plutonium with those geiger counters? Back then, atomic science could explain anything, or so it seemed.
It's a thin lead, but I'm looking into it. I'll get back to you all when I have more.
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