More About RAMJAC

I'm just getting around to posting this but Evan and I talked about RAMJAC that night as well.  Since it was unusual that the file had been marked confidential, it turns out that he had decided to do some digging on his side as well.

Evan went back to his supervisor Carl to see if he had any more details.  Carl was able to dig up the original requisition for the environmental assessment. Normally if the work was referred from another firm, it would be flagged as such.  However this request was marked as having come directly from the customer -- Lea Wildersen.  Obviously this request wasn't made by me to Evan's firm, so was someone posing as me to make the appointment?  Or was the order request forged entirely?  This was very disturbing to say the least.  I filled Evan in with regards to my appointment being cancelled at the other firm without my knowledge.  This news unsettled him more than he'd already been.  It also turned out that the request at Evan's firm was made the day after my other appointment was cancelled on me.  That's too much of a coincidence!

Carl and Evan are on friendly terms, so he was comfortable with showing Evan a couple of emails he'd received.  The first one was forwarded to Carl from one of the partners of their firm and came from a contact within RAMJAC.  The email explained that there was a potential spill at the RAMJAC facility near my house.  It was thought to be contained and that there was no risk to the public but this was a warning in case any reports of issues came to Evan's firm.  It wasn't specified what the leak actually was though.  The date on the original email from RAMJAC was the same date that the appointment was supposedly made by me with Evan's firm.  Again, too coincidental.  The email also said to keep the spill confidential to avoid it going public, since it was already thought to be contained.  This was why Carl hadn't originally mentioned it to Evan before.

The second email (again forwarded through the same partner from the contact at RAMJAC) requested that the samples that were taken from my house should be sent back to RAMJAC so that the analysis could be handled internally.  Apparently that, in itself, wasn't completely unheard of.  However along with everything else, it just seemed to add to the load of circumstantial evidence pointing toward something more.

Between Evan's information and mine, we both agreed that it all lead to something that was, at best, confusing and unusual and, at worst, sinister.  After we compared notes on this, I brought up Josh's plan to hack into RAMJAC to do some investigating of our own.  At first, Evan was against it, worried about the legal risk to all of us.  However I only had to review again what we had already discussed to remind him of the potential risk to the environment... and the potential health risk to me as well.  He was convinced.

Now we just need to get together to formulate a plan.