Case 12: The Terrorist

Solution

To win, you must have:

  1. Identified Stacy McBride as "The Englishman."
  2. Located either:
    • The transmitter in McBride's cigarette lighter,
    • The four bombs, placed in each of the following locations:
      • The Municipal Building (J) boiler room.
      • The vault in the Bank (M).
      • The Hebrew School rooms at the Jewish Center (Y).
      • The Security Room at the Egyptian Country Estate (BB).

The Story

While Stacy McBride was a student at M.I.T., his parents were working for the International Red Cross in the Middle East. After a brutal P.L.O. school bombing, in which 19 children were killed, Israel retaliated by bombing a combination Palestinian refugee camp—P.L.O. terrorist school. McBride's parents were killed in the air raid. A P.L.O. representative expressed condolences to Stacy and asked if he wanted revenge.

Stacy did not want revenge. Because he was living in Cambridge at the time, he took the code name, "The Englishman." After graduating M.I.T., Stacy was instructed to get a job in or around Huxley, N.Y.

The Egyptians had just signed the Camp David Agreement with Israel and were considered traitors. The P.L.O. felt Stacy was too inexperienced to be used in New York City or Washington, D.C., but they hoped he might be able to breach security in the Egyptian U.N. Mission's Huxley retreat.

Stacy got a job with Cashman's Alarm and quickly demonstrated to Mustafa Sabry, the Egyptian Security Chief, that the Mission's security in Huxley was lax. The Mission became one of Stacy's accounts, and every month he went through the entire compound, supposedly checking for bugs. Actually, he was collecting the information his own bugs obtained!

When the new accords were signed, the P.L.O. decided to use their Huxley expert, proving to both the Americans and the Egyptians that no place was safe for them. They ordered "The Englishman" to plant and set off four bombs around Huxley. They left the actual choice of targets up to Stacy, as long as one was in the Egyptian U.N. Mission's country estate.

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