Transcript SARS Threat to Major International Conference

SARS Threat to Major International
Conference
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January 12, 2005
• Tokyo is hosting the “Hi Tech Millennium” (HTM)
Conference beginning on January 15th. It is to
have a dual purpose. The first 2 days are
designed to hold a “Davos” like meeting bringing
together most of the world’s leading figures such
as John Stuart the like to discuss key current
issues and future prognoses for the world of
science and technology.
• 1,500 of the most prominent have been invited
from all over the world to Tokyo. Phase 2 of the
week-long conference will be a trade fair of hitech goods with foreign attendees numbering
10,000 and at least double that amount from
Japan. Security officials are fully prepared and
alert.
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January 13
Morning
• U.S. and U.K. security officials provide their
Japanese counterparts with sketchy,
“unconfirmed” information they have obtained. It
reports that an extremist group known as the
“Return” is planning violent disruptive acts
against conference attendees. Few details are
available on the “Return” other than it is a
recidivist, back-to-nature group of young
anarchists who have harassed and threatened the
World Bank and IMF. An underground leader of
this group has been identified as a Swiss
biochemist, Hans Jung.
• Recent reports from Interpol have tied Jung,
strangely enough, to contacts with a suspected
Saint Brigade representative in Zurich.
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Mid-day
• CNN reports that there is a degree of alarm in Hong Kong,
Singapore, and Shanghai over a number of recently
discovered SARs cases.
Late Afternoon
• Seashore Hotel security officials in Tokyo alert the Tokyo
police to a potential suspected drug smuggling
operation at their hotel. The police detain a German
national, Helga Fried, for possession of drugs and drug
paraphernalia. Her traveling partner, Hans Wolf, fled the
hotel before the police arrived, and is at large.
18:00
• At the police station, Fried clearly under the influence of
drugs reveals that Hans Wolf is actually the
“Revolutionary” Hans Jung, and that Jung has devised a
plan that is already underway to spread SARs among the
Millennium Conference and to plant explosives at at least
two venues. She has no further details as to how he
plans to accomplish this mission.
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19:00
• A preliminary check of airlines indicates that the
bulk of “HTM” attendees from China and
Singapore will begin to arrive for the conference
mid-afternoon of the 14th.
19:30
• Police checks confirm Fried and Wolf/Jung
arrived 2 days ago and appeared to be in a party
of 6. The other four – 3 Europeans and one Asian
(non-Japanese) – are at the moment nowhere to
be found, and identification information is
sketchy.
20:00
• A doctor who examines Fried is uncertain of the
degree of her rationality but confirms she is
under the influence of drugs.
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22:00
• A high-level meeting between government
security officials and the “HTM” conference
organizers is to be held.
• Provide advice on courses of action available and
options to be pursued by decision-makers at this
juncture.
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