Library Court Intelligence Service (LCIS)
Library Court Intelligence Service, commonly known as LCIS (Wadham College, Oxford, University of Oxford) is a German-Hungarian counter-intelligence special unit within the college's Library Court dwelling estate, brought to life in Hilary Term 2010. LCIS also works as a security agency. LCIS headquarters can be found at either Library Court 8 or 19, alternating on a monthly basis. LCIS is mainly concerned with internal security, it does have an overseas role on the continent as its founding fathers are German and Hungarian by birth.
History
LCIS' roots can be traced back to 25 October 2009. On that day, the founding fathers were situated in Southampton, and answered swiftly using the appropriate counter-intelligence techniques implemented from the US Military to the imminent threat of a possible Russian interception at Library Court. Following the successful countering of this threat, the founding fathers decided to pursue intelligence activities together which were carried out in Wales, Salisbury, Bournemouth and London. Further information AbOUT the missions and the threats encountered and treated can be found in the Incidents and Accidents section.
Command, control, organisation and funding
Since LCIS is a collaboration between the humanities and business art, its command and control reflect this duality in effectiveness and an hommage to ancient myths. Instead of calling the leaders Director General or Chief in Control, the founding fathers decided to name the leaders after ancient mythological creatures, namely the Centaur and Lapith. Besides the founding fathers, the only present member of the organisation is a converted Russian agent (following the successful counter-intelligence action at Southampton).
Further information about the agency's funding can be retrieved from the Wadham College Gazette .
Incidents and Accidents
Cymru Flat Tyre accident (15 November 2009)
On the first official mission of all LCIS members to Cymru, a sabotage occurred. The agents of the diabolic Welsh motorists caused the Aston Martin to clash against a stone wall on the left and thus sentenced LCIS agents to draw back to Capel-y-Fin, a booming local village with one house and a cemetery. The only inhabitant of the village (not counting the mad Rottweiler dogs) tried to explain to the LCIS leaders their obligations regarding road safety, but the Centaur's deadly look in his eyes convinced the eejit to stay silent and change the tyre.
The White Hat incident (22 November 2009)
The White Hat accident was carried out by the Black WIDOW, elegantly christened after the lethal spider of the same name. This overly dangerous agent (also known as Crna Vdovica) is of Serbian descent and is currently residing in Library Court. The Black Widow tried to reconvert our Russian agent on a mission to Bournemouth. Her method was trying to utilise a white hat that contained important information. But every time she tried to keep the information under her hat, the violent wind raised the hat. Her mission was aborted by one exceptionally fierce blow that finished off her hat in the English Channel. After this, she was obliged to wear the Centaur's hat, that obstructed further intelligence activities.
Burns Day Separatist Movement (22 January 2010)
Wadham College takes great pride in remembrance events, one of these is the formal dinner on the birthday of famous Scottish poet Robert Burns. The places allocated for that dinner are controlled by powers far beyond the reach of LCIS, nevertheless a separatist movement lead by an irritative and argumentative philosopher from Persia was formed and the separatists rebelled against the formal dinner. The rebellion's main activity was a huge overconsumption of French liquors with dubious origins and of Italian panettone, resulting in widespread alcohol intoxication around LCIS' realms. The threat was recognised immediately by LCIS and was treated successfully by the Lapith, who served as a brick in the movement and bravely subjected himself to the Persian's supposedly poisoned French liquor. After this accident, the wounded Lapith had to be treated by secret Teuton healing methods in his homeland.
Australia Day barcode accident (26 January 2010)
Just following the recovery from the separatist movement, LCIS encountered another threat. Formerly thought about as a person not involved in any intelligence activity, an Australian resident exposed himself on the national holiday, Australia Day. While he was about to disguise himself with spreading macadamia nuts among community members, his real identity surfaced. Illegible codes were written on his palm, later turning out to be secret barcodes that lead to safety storages in his room. One of the codewords was the name of our Russian agent's birthplace, casting doubt on her activities and loyalties once again. The case has been resolved, details follow shortly.
William Godwin hostage situation (4 February 2010)
The hostage situation has evolved slowly during the past weeks and resulted in the temporary retirement of our only converted agent. The main conspirator is William Godwin, the father of philosophical anarchism, who performed a predatory act and as of today is officially in a relationship with our agent and on top of all this, he holds her hostage. Our daily stalker's report found out that she said: "he does not let me get out of my room, evil [...]". But what is Godwin's opinion about this? "Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much."