Known TENEBROUS Acvitivies

Memorandum - Los Angeles Activities - November 2003

To: JUSTIFY
From: ISHMAEL

As you are aware, a protest at FCI-Bellewether led by Walter and Deborah Davis, parents of FADE required that we return her to the Castle while media attention was focused on her. A lawsuit on behalf of incarcerated mutants at the facility was publicized but has not yet been filed. (Such a lawsuit would likely be based on the Civil Rights Of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA) and the Department of Justice is currently preparing a memorandum on the subject. At any rate such a liability analysis is outside the bounds of Agency operations, although the outcome might affect TENEBROUS activities.) This lawsuit was highly publicized by attorney Marcelino Rogalia from the high-priced lawfirm of Liman & Schumacher.

From conversations between FADE and her parents, we were able to determine that Rogalia and his firm had volunteered to represent them free of charge. This would be the first time that the firm would undertake either CRIPA litigation or mutant rights litigation, putting their motivations in serious question. However, in 1999 and 2002, Rogalia represented Ciro Guttierez, a Familia Torres capo who was arrested in Phoenix, Arizona on multiple charges of racketeering, murder, drug smuggling, and other state and federal charges. (Although he received a mistrial in 1999, Guttierez was convicted in 2002 of RICO and money laundering and is currently serving a 15 year sentence at Federal Correctional Insitution-Safford. He is not eligible for parole.) Thus it is possible that FADE's parents were used as pawns in an attempt by Joey Torres to gain access to FADE.

Although law enforcement sources are unable to connect the ensuing events, the following is known by various sources that report regularly:

• HAZE rented a set of hotel rooms at a ritzy Hollywood hotel.
• CONDUIT was seen at several Los Angeles area nightclubs and several underworld informants reported that she was inquiring about the whereabouts of several members of the Torres cartel.
• Fernando Aceda, a confidential informant for rogue FBI agent Victoria Gentzler was found tortured to death in his car in Avacado Heights. According to medical examiners, Aceda was killed while TENEBROUS operatives were confirmably in New Orleans being debriefed from Operation ADJECTIVE NOUN. Suspects included Charles "Charley" Savasta and Eugene Haydmann, both Familia Torres operatives. The case is being handled by detectives from the Foothill Division, who took the case from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department indicating that one or more of these persons were already involved in a LAPD investigation.
• Haydmann was found killed in his home by five .38 gunshots to the chest and head. LAPD sources indicate that it was potentially a gang-ordered hit and have several suspects and leads. Savasta's whereabouts, by contrast, are unknown.
• Hector 'Cousin Hector' Rosales, a high-ranking member of Torres' "ground team", formed since his incarceration, engaged in several calls to and from FADE's cellphone number. That cellphone was in Los Angeles at the time.
• PENNY did a confidential records search for Susan Brooks, a Catholic private schoolteacher whose name flags positive on FBI informant lists but who does not have a full entry. The LAPD responded to a report of a fracas at Brooks' home when Brooks was not home. The participants included several persons who match TENEBROUS personnel descriptions and a man matching Savasta's description. Nobody was there when the police arrived. Brooks told police she had assisted Special Agent Gentzler in securing evidence in a corruption case whose witness protection had been compromised. She also mentioned that Gentzler had contact with 'Tung' and Jesse LNU, both mutant criminals operating in Los Angeles. LAPD files on these persons are sketchy.
• 'Madam Natasha' took a call from 'Cousin Hector' after TENEBROUS personnel were back in New Orleans.