Who's Who?

Vale, Zachary (Special Agent): FBI agent attached to the Counter-Terrorism Unit. Accompanied Lois Ellington and Derek Wireman to a mall in Brightstar, Arkansas on 21 August 2000. The purpose was rendezvous with agents from the security division. See case BRTS002 for more information.

Vargas, Catherine: Physicist who works in shielding technology who has been based at Dynamicorp's Think Tank in Winterset since January 2001. A member of the communications team. See case TL348.

Vauntings: Name of family that owned the farm outside Winterset, Iowa that was taken over by the Westwood Charity on. The last of the Vauntings died without an heir.

Vincent, Suzie: Sixteen year old potential victim of Apache Joe resident in Eagle Pass, Texas. See case S73.

Vitrano, Eric (Senior Special Agent): Codename Gold, Vitrno is an ex-KGB agent employed by NTOPFOR to infiltrate the United States. Vitrano is a mercenary paid by a Nigerian broker and doesn't know who he is working for. Along with Nicole Lavin he joined the NSA and served there for several years before transfering to the FBI. In 1995 Vitrano and his team took over the investigation in the serial Killer Apache Joe (case S73) from Walter Crondheim. Vitrano knew the truth behind Apache Joe, and managed to prevent him from being captured for five years, while at the same time trying to find out what MK Ultra had done to augment him. He was also behind the payments made to Apache Joe. The investigation of mid-west evidence response team into this case, tipped off MK-Ultra as to what Vitrano and his associates were doing. On 13 December 2000 they declared the case closed and arrested Constatine Perez who was set up to appear to be Apache Joe, and then be murdered by a grieving relative. The plan was largely successful. Vitrano and Lavin are still on the NTOPFOR payroll and were thought to be travelling the world hunting Elaine Ross (codename: White). However, they both appeared in Arizona on 10 June 2001 to assassinate Benedict Oaxaca. He and Lavin visited the National Radiological Institute in Nevada later that month, supposedly investigating case BRB012. Believing they were working for an outside agency, they have been permanently recruited by NTOP to keep them out of trouble. See cases S73 and 0018-GCF.

Voltchkov, Ivan: Assassin working for the Ukrainian Mafia in Newark, and jointly responsible for the killing of Peter Dubieniec. Ivan was sensible of some dark and worrying changes to the mafia in Newark over the last year. Seemingly random crimes and atrocities that frightened him. When his longstanding partner, Youri, joined the inner circle he came back changed. Ivan did not know that all of these changes were the result of brain bugs controlling the mafia from within. After being incapacitated by Julian Turn, Ivan was interrogated at the mid-west HQ in Wichita. He wouldn't talk at first, but the shape-changing Benedict was able to 'convince him'. Ivan was subsequently turned over to the Department of Agriculture. See case NW988.

Von Stein, Eric: Senior shift miner at the Copperhead Mine in Casper, Wyoming.