A silence. "You do not know what you are dealing with."
"I know exactly what I am dealing with. I have been dealing with it for eleven years. Someone photographed me in my sleep to frighten me, and you called me before I even reached out to you, which means you have been watching me too. Which means whatever is happening, you are not clean either, Marcus."
He does not deny it.
"I will handle this myself," you say, and end the call.
You turn the USB drive over in your hand. The photo file has metadata — shooting parameters, but also a file path from the original device. The path includes a folder name: "PROTOKOL_CPH". Someone's working directory.
If the original document — the Lindqvist memo — is what this is about, then it exists somewhere physical. Danish intelligence archives, most likely. The old Defence Intelligence Service files were moved to the National Archives in Rigsarkivet after the service was restructured in 2012.
You know someone who works there. Anna Voss, a former colleague from your Copenhagen years. She owes you nothing, but she trusts you.
You reach for your coat.
What happens next?
1 Contact Anna Voss at the National Archives