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Below you will find information that I have created for the name Sebastian Hoodle, the name you have presented within your message. I used the information in a church and practiced. Why a church? That will be explained below. As stated before I have no digital devices that will allow me to transfer anything to my computer to give as evidence. I hope that my word is enough(in passing let me say I enjoyed this assignment very much).

Sebastian Hoddle:
Born on July 18, 1976. He(I) was born in Rochester, NY. My mother, Laura Hoddle, currently has no college degree and works for the department store "Sears" in the mall over in Marketplace Mall. Laura was born on October 8, 1968. My father, Stephen Hoddle currently has a master's degree in Psychology and has been in the military for two years to pay for college tuition. He currently works in the Mental Health center in Strong Hospital down the road. He has been employed with them for 2 years now.

As of now, I am age 28, a student in law school, but I have an alcohol problem. Ever since my wife, who was killed in a car accident on the night of August 2, 2004, has been gone, I have had problems spending my nights alone with nothing but a 32 pack of Budweiser who soothes me through my emotional pain. Besides that, I feel that there is something else beneath surface which is bothering me, yet I cannot seem to discover what that something is. A feeling of emptiness, but why?

I am nearly finished with law school now. After I graduate, I have a position being held by a friend of mine over at the Celino & Barnes law firm. Hopefully, I will be employed with them within a few months(July).

I have no sibilings, I stood alone between my parents rocky marriage.

I am in search of something. I do not know what it is. I believe it may have something to do with spirituality. My parents never practiced nor encouraged religion in the house. Thus religion is something new to me.

I sat within a sermon at a christian church on Lyell Ave. on sunday, and I think I was taken. I think maybe I have found a calling in life. Thus a conversation with the pastor;).

The story above was given by me to a counselor I met a church to try out my new identity. I kept a straight face and asked him to help me with my problems, in the process I did the following:

Mirrored his speech patterns, gestures, posture, and learning style(he was predominately affected by audio, statements such as "I hear what your saying", "Sounds pretty painful", etc)
Mirrored his attribution style(good events attributed externally(God, luck, other people), bad attributed internally(bad events caused by him)).

I also appeared to his self interest for help with a mix of pity.

Results? I was asked to hang out with the Youth group and perhaps I can help become a counselor for adolescents and a camp counselor in the summer.

I signed a paper giving the address of Sebastian Hoddle(fake) and left never to return. Fuck them. Point is did it, convinced them, and manipulated them.

How is that?



Dear Neurocam Operations

Thank you for a thought-provoking exercise. As a longtime table-top
RPGer (aka "geek"), the sustained creation of an alternate identity
isn't something that's particularly new, but the creation of
supporting evidence that would stand up to (cursory) outside
investigation is a definition twist.

Unfortunately, after considering my approach to the exercise today,
I'm not particularly pleased with my performance. If I had to do this
again, I think I'd start much earlier in the cycle and establish a
staggered pattern of posting on boards, along with (eg) a CV on a
recruitment board and a couple of "real world" bits of documentation -
season bus tickets, bills (though both these would be limited by my
feeble artistic skills). However, it would be reasonably simple to
write to a company for information or a brochure in the assumed name,
and that would obviate the need for a quick bout of Photoshoppery. On
the other hand, I'd have to suffer a lifetime of junkmail for a fake
identity and that would quickly become less than novel.

Before the list of links to the e-evidence - oh dear - I feel
compelled to indulge my pedantic, nit-picking side by raising a
nit-picking, pedantic point. The exercise context states:

For a falsified identity to
maintain any degree of resilience to investigation, it is necessary
that a degree of collaboratory evidence exists.

and

(5) separate evidentiary instances which collaborate the apparent
existence of the selected identity.

Your use of the word "collaboratory" is questionable at best in the
first instance, and quite wrong in the second - the words I think the
writer was thinking of are "corroboratory" and "corroborate" - "to
strengthen or support with other evidence; make more certain." If
these are standard exercises given to multiple operatives, it might be
an idea to correct these.

Onto the corroboratory evidence:

The name I chose was Sebastian Hoddle. I decided he was a technical
writer living in Midlothian in the Dalkeith area of Edinburgh with
some tedious interests (fencing, chess) and a website and blog he
created and never quite got around to fixing up as he'd intended due
to working with "techie stuff" all day at work and being less inclined
to deal with it in his leisure time.

Accordingly....

1) Email addresses: sebastianhoddle@yahoo.co.uk
sebhoddle@hotmail.co.uk

2) Blogs - a livejournal, friends only (and no posts):
http://www.livejournal.com/users/sebhoddle/

A blogspot one created a couple years back and sporadically updated:
http://sebhoddle.blogspot.com/

I noticed sebastianhoddle.blogspot.com - coincidence or another agent
on the same exercise?

3) An amazon wishlist:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/registry/MFVLBAP988JK/ref=wl_em_to

Unfortunately this shows creation dates of April 14 for everything - I
really should have thought of this one sooner and staggered it.

4) A membership on the popular site www.metafilter.com -
http://www.metafilter.com/user/17782

I had this lying spare and cunningly repurposed it to fit Sebastian.

5) A website - http://www.geocities.com/sebastianhoddle, which contains

6) a photograph of Sebastian (not me, I hasten to add - I've more
hair) taken in a location which anyone from the area would recognise
with a bit of thought.

In addition, there are the Yahoo Messenger and MSN Messenger IDs
associated with the email addresses listed, which would of course
allow the identity to interact with people if that were felt to be
necessary.

I hope this is acceptable - as I say, I think I'd do rather better
next time around. If you have further questions, let me know.

--



-BEGIN EXERCISE-

The identity I chose to use was Sebastian Hoddle.

1) News Clipping:

Say you're the owner of an eclectic little market and one of your neighbors, who happens to be a cop, dashes shoeless out of his house late one night to chase a burglar away from your store. How you do repay him?
If you're Katy Walker, you name a sandwich after him.

So, look for the Hoddle Ham Hero to appear soon on the deli menu at the Danby Market, the ersatz community center on Route 96B that Walker bought more than a year ago. The sandwich is named for Sebastian Hoddle, the Gunderman Road resident and Detroit Police Department investigator who caught the license plate of a car lurking outside the store in early March, leading to an arrest.

"I'll have to take my whole family over there and order it," Hoddle said on Thursday. "If this is the way she wants to say thanks to me and also benefit from it, that's great."

Before Huddle stepped in, intruders had broken into the Danby Market in February through a window of the The Scoop, the walk-up ice cream stand attached to the back of the shop -- leading Walker to make another change. The Scoop is now boarded up, and within the next few weeks, she'll start building a full ice cream counter indoors along with a second entrance into the main store.

That way, Walker won't have windows she can't see from the main part of the store, she told me.

She tends to put up a good front about the burglaries when her morning regulars (her "coffee boyfriends," as she calls them) stop by the store. But with other women, she might feel comfortable to admit she doesn't really like going back into The Scoop anymore.

"I just feel vulnerable," Walker said. "Our pretty little counter got dirty with their footprints." Plus, the burglar (or burglars) smashed glass, splintered wood and left a mess in place of the beer, cigarettes and money they took.

Ice cream is supposed to be a 100-percent feel-good thing, Walker explained, so she doesn't want to serve it out of a location once surrounded with police tape and still littered with bad feelings.

I had only just met Walker, but hearing her practical business approach, with a sprinkling of whimsy, I knew she'd be fine. She's an endlessly buoyant type with a penchant for chunky silver jewelry and a lot of ideas for the little place she likes to call a "rural bodega."

In addition to adding the full-service deli about a month ago, Walker has started stocking items like greeting cards, organic coffee beans and microbrew beer next to the more common groceries, all to save locals from driving into Detroit.

"We have a whole world of people who run out of white flour, and we have a whole world of people who run out of soy milk," Walker said.

The Danby Market picked up a gig this weekend catering for the movie crew shooting "Waiting on Alphie" in the nearby CNY Book Auctions building, Walker said. She's also trying to arrange a dance in her parking lot this summer for the annual Danby Fun Day. Walker also talked about starting a line of stylized T-shirts printed with tongue-in-cheek phrases like "Danby is the new Trumansburg."

Maybe it's Walker's nature to focus on the future more than the past. Maybe she's too busy preparing for the summer ice cream season to think about what happened last winter. Either way, she says she loves her job and it shows.

"It's like putting together a puzzle every single day," Walker said.

2) Michigan State Identification- Sebastian Hoddle

3)Michigan State Police Academy photo excerpt- Sebastain Hoddle

4)Wikipedia entry on Sebastian Hoddle.

5) Letter of comendadtion, to Sebastian Hoddle

-END ASSINGMENT-



Neurocamians,

I am late submitting my assignment. I feel very bad about it. It was due yesterday.

Here are the results of my efforts.

I chose the name Sebastian Hoddle. There are only FOUR Hoddles in all of Canada. A major oversight on the part of Canadians everywhere. Here are the steps I took to bring Sebastian to life.

1. I started off small. I sent an email to my gullible coworker Mike. He asked me a few questions about it, but bought the story. This was to test the waters.

***
Mike,

Did I ever tell you about my friend, Sebastian? He's coming to town this
weekend. I met him in university when I lived in student residence. He was
studying physics, but he dressed like an art major, with his hair dyed,
wearing one of those hemp necklaces. I haven't seen him in years, but he's
going to be sleeping on my couch this weekend.

We used to stay up late in the student lounge, watching weird movies on
Showcase at four o'clock in the morning. Sometimes he and I, and a few
other people, would walk around late at night, talking philosophy and shit
like that.

He hooked up with a girl in residence named Julie. They were very alike, in
a lot of ways.

After Christmas break, when we both came back to student residence, he
didn't talk to me for a while, avoided me. I couldn't figure out why. Then
one day, he said we should talk. Turned out while he was home on break, he
cheated on his girlfriend. He didn't want to talk to me because he knew
he'd have to tell me, and he thought I'd be disappointed in him.

It was an odd friendship. Although he was the same age as me, he looked up
to me like I was an older brother. I don't know why.

Don't know why I'm mentioning him. I'm a little apprehensive about seeing
him, because it's been -- Jesus, around 7 years!

What are you up to this weekend?

Nik

***

2. I printed out ten copies of a note that read as follows:

***

SEBASTIAN HODDLE IS A REAL PERSON

Despite whatever rumours you may have heard to the contrary, Sebastian
Hoddle is a real person. He is not a figment of your imagination. Nor is
he merely a character in some book. Sebastian Hoddle is as real as you or
I. In some sense, even more real than either of us.

Now that you are aware of the facts, please stop pretending Sebastian Hoddle
does not exist. Your animosity towards him is simply ridiculous. Cut it
out.

***

I then took these notes and put them in various free newspaper boxes around downtown Ottawa. As proof of my efforts, I include three photographs. (See attached 1.jpg, 2.jpg and 3.jpg.)

3. I posted a complete lie on my blog, detailing how Sebastian is sleeping on my couch this weekend, and might have killed a rapist with a baseball bat when he was a kid.

http://killeverything.blogspot.com/2005/04/sebastian-hoddle-is-real-person.html

4. Finally, I decided to become Sebastian Hoddle. I happened to be near the Ottawa Humane Society, and on a whim decided they would be my unwitting victims. Someone I know used to work there, so I was fairly familiar with their procedures. It seemed like an easy con.

I told the woman at the counter that I'd lost a (fictitious) cat named Marmalade that I was pet-sitting for a friend. I kept the story as simple as possible, and made up a street address and phone number.

The young woman -- her name tag said "Tara" -- took me at my word, entering all the information into her computer. I told her that I had no photo of the cat, as it wasn't really my cat, etc.

I think everything worked out so well because my nervousness worked in my favor. She assumed I was nervous because I'd lost my friend's cat, not because I was lying about being Sebastian Hoddle. I was going to ask for some kind of receipt, as I wanted to be able to prove to my friend that I actually went to the Humane Society. I didn't have to ask. She gave me what is labeled as 4.jpg. She told me that if I wanted to check up on the animal, I could use the animal ID number.

When I got home, I immediately called the Humane Society to let them know that the cat was found, alive and well. I thanked them repeatedly and said that I would make a donation in the near future. (I probably will because I feel guilty.)

I wish this story was more exciting that it is. Not much happened because of my efforts, but it was strangely exciting to pretend to be someone I'm not. Maybe Tara will see one of my "Sebastian Hoddle" notes and become confused.

5. I include, for no reason at all, a photograph of some graffiti which reads "OBEY THE GOVERNMENT" -- 5.jpg.

Nik











Dear Charles/Operations Team,

The following missive contains my report for Neurocam Training
Exercise 9004/04, Alternate Identity Creation.

As you can see from the forwarded message at the end of this email, I
have created an email account for Mr. Jarvis Clewett. These days, not
having an email is almost like not having a Social Security card in
the States, so I figured we'd get Mr. Clewett started with a Gmail
account to show him as a man of supposed geek-chic status. This email
account (jarvis.clewett@gmail.com) is submitted as Article #1 of the
establishment of Clewett's online identity, and it was created through
several dummy accounts on different computers, thus making it
virtually impossible to trace back to myself or to Neurocam.

To further his geek-chic status, and to be submitted as Article #2, I
created a personal blog for Mr. Clewett at the following link:
http://jarvisclewett.blogspot.com/

This was a no-brainer, as blogs are a popular way for people to stay
in touch and report on their lives. What better way to create a
backstory for our Mr. Clewett than to backdate a few blog posts and
give Jarvis Clewett a little life. I chose to create him as a man who
works downtown in Finance, making him a typical example of a perfectly
generic Boston man. As you can see, I took the liberty of
establishing his identity back to January.

While these are all well and good, I felt I needed to further the
Clewett story a little. So far, all we have is Mr. Clewett speaking
about himself and publishing a blog from his private email address. I
riffed off of a post from 5/4/05 on Mr. Clewett's blog, and for
Article(s) #3, posted as his ex-girlfriend Lisa on the Craig's List's
Missed Encounters board -
http://boston.craigslist.org/mis/78944902.html

Just to add a bit more reality, I had Jarvis respond on the same site
-http://boston.craigslist.org/mis/78959400.html

Shortly after that was posted, someone else responded to those posts,
which I thought was kind of funny and was exactly what I had hoped
would happen - http://boston.craigslist.org/mis/78963252.html

My response, as Jarvis, is here: http://boston.craigslist.org/mis/78991794.html

To further establish our Compliance Officer, I made him a workbadge to
show that he works downtown at Fidelity. The attached picture
(Article #4) shows Mr. Clewett's fully-functional entrance badge,
complete with obligatory blurry picture and "contractor" designation
(apparently, they don't want to pay the poor man's health benefits).

To further propagate the myth of a living, breathing identity, I
created a MySpace account for him as Article #5. These "friend rings"
are perfect for this sort of thing, allowing for blogspace, meeting
new friends, and posting pictures. It's just the sort of thing that a
bored, office drone might use to talk to "the ladies" and meet some
new people during a long work day. You can see Mr. Clewett's space
and his new found friends at http://www.myspace.com/jarvisclewett

I used this to fill in a little more about Mr. Clewett, and all
friends made on that account were made under the pretense that they
were "meeting" Jarvis Clewett.

Thus ends my report for NTE-9004/04. I look forward to your
assessment of my report, and hope all is well.

Warm Regards,



What follows is my late report. I've had a large project at work and was unable to complete this assignment on time. I assure you this will not be a problem in the future.

Attached is evidence of one Xiao Yamato. Contained are Identification cards, website captures, and a phone message.

Again, I apologise for the late nature of this report.