Isdalen

Isdalen

A Poem by Brett Hernan




  This night upon which he found himself caught up, as usual, at the very most outlying piece of land on the Earth which is still, in some way, habitable and with the resemblance, to a formulaic pattern, of a design intended for everyone, at some point in the future, or so he had become aware.

  Muscled in a two-tone cape and matching fake muscle suit, sinewy and with every vein right through to artery lying extremely visible on the surface of the figure's musculature, (just below the surface of the skin). The outside, made so as if, to appear, oiled, yet.... invisible!

  Alive now, the events of a life story narrative have been arranged, awaiting the okay to go and become a literal history, but with every permission forever denied.

She applies the thin layer of powdered lacquer to the line of skin,

that patch directly lain under the iris, as it sits, looking, carefully,

Moving an eye liner pencil with the intensity of a direct-minded forcefulness actually required to keep to the very edge of your eye line without permanent eye damage occurring, in a moment.

Recorded in magazine article and later digitized, all 898 pages of it held in literal and cache versions, heavily encrypted, of which, we have...

only these scant few pages.

Discovered sealed in an aluminum tube, a short sealed cylinder with just enough air in it for it to catch certain precisely researched and meticulously planned ocean currents, eventually, successfully depositing this cylinder, (after the melting of the original iceberg in which it had been embedded, frozen into its ice and then let out to drift on the freezing seas.

All of this arranged to allow the arrival of the vessel and its information, contained hereafter...

   A childhood at sea in a large wooden sailboat is rarely envied by the wild rabbit, nestling in its underground hollow with its young, in a type of rabbit fabric ball type arrangement, composed of at least 8 and perhaps as many as 18 baby rabbits, (which is their universally accepted official name, (these days).

The sleeping figures of these rabbits, at midday, (they're nocturnal, generally), whilst snug, they hide from the cold winds of winter on the plains above.

   Although, it was a converted barn, crammed with tubular metal bunks in a dormitory, where there was neither male nor female distinction made,

Everyone, (but the Grand Chief Commissioner and the Group Mother and Group Father, that is), everyone being all of the other children aged up to fourteen years, (when they are deployed out to their field of operation on their very first and sometimes final, official orders), they were nameless, like all of the others were just plain 'comrade'.

   Except for some special ones whose identities were to remain forever kept secret as it was considered absolutely forbidden between the junior agents to show or to engage in, any act of outward affection.

This ship, with red and gold beams, and built by a pirate whose skull now sat at the end of its stern, with its gusts and storms and even its seasickness,all of which was documented in short hand,dictated to their stenographers by research psychiatrists who had witnessed the efficacy of the hypnotic state of suggestion in these children from the first days that they could speak, and had existed within this school.

Books designed to convince, coerce and program, so that all of the children in 'The Compound' were bemused astounded by pure propaganda fantasy, in lurid eye bedazzling poster paint coloured pictures of gorgeously well nourished battle dressed exceptionally attractive rifle with bayonet wielding revolutionary soldiers of either gender.

   This was not a boat, however, to the little ones, initiating their lives as the offspring of couples whom had been neither, or otherwise had been rent asunder in order to take possession of a parentless child's mind. A roll of canvas, freshly unstretched.

By the age of four, there have been very few, if any, interruptions to the programmed comprehension of all.

'Instructions and acceptance and enforcement of the rules have been exhibited with an autonomy by female junior agent bk478, Isabelle, 5, to the extent that we deem it possible to remove this trainee from the hypnotic trance which has been used to modify and control both her and her fellows very behavior.

The aforementioned female junior agent bk478, Isabelle, 5, for a periodic assessment experiment to check her natural responses.

Tests estimated to begin 01.01.1928. Reports commencing 05.05.1928.'

   Unidentified female: The victim was discovered on November 29, 1970 in Isdalen, Norway.

Estimated Date of Death: Several days.

She was found in the ashes of a fire.

Vital statisitcs: She spoke German, English, Belgian and French with an unknown accent.

AKA Genevieve Lancier; Claudia Tielt; Alexia Zerner-Merches; Vera Jarle; Fenella Lorch; Elisabeth Leenhower .She carried nine fake passports and used wigs on several occasions

   The victim was located in Isdalen, outside of Bergen, Norway on November 29, 1970. Located next to her was a St. Hallvards liquor bottle, 2 plastic bottles smelling of gasoline, a glass that had contained sleeping pills Fenemal, and a silver spoon with the monogram filed off. The drawing made of her was by witnesses who recognized her as a pretty woman who had checked out of the Hordaheimen hotel.  She had signed out of the hotel with a false name.

   The boxes at the railway station were checked, and the police found clothing, a wig, several eyeglasses (no prescription), similar silver spoons, 500 German marks and 130 Norwegian crowns, and also, a black notebook with number and letter codes. Possibly her travel route and contacts in Norway. All labels had been removed from the clothing, and all identifying things removed from the luggage.

    What is known about her travels: March 20, 1970 - she travels from Geneva to Oslo March 21-24, 1970 - she lives at Hotel Viking in Oslo using the name "Genevieve Lancier". March 24 - flies from Oslo to Stavanger, takes the boat to Bergen, stays the night at Hotel Bristol using the name "Claudia Tielt". March 25 - April 1- stays at hotel Scandia in Bergen, still as "C. Tielt" April 1 - travels from Bergen to Stavanger, and on to Kristiansand, Hirtshals, Hamburg and Basel.

   That's the last trace of her in Norway until she returns six months later. October 3 - travels from Stockholm to Oslo, and on to Oppdal, stays the night at the hotel there together with Italian photographer Giovanni Trimboli October 22 - stays at hotel Altona in Paris October 23 - 29 - stays at Hotel de Calais in Paris October 29 - 30 - goes from Paris to Stavanger and on to Bergen October 30 - November 5 - checks in to hotel Neptun using the name "Alexia Zerner-Merches"; she meets an unknown man at the hotel.

   November 6 - 9 - she travels to Trondheim, lives at hotel Bristol using the name "Vera Jarle". November 9 - goes to Oslo and on to Stavanger where she stays at Hotel St. Svitun using the name "Fenella Lorch". November 18 - goes with the boat Vingtor to Bergen where she stays at hotel Rosenkrantz using the name "Elisabeth Leenhower" from Belgium.

November 19- 23 - stays at hotel Hordaheimen, stays in the room a lot and seems watchful.

   November 23 - leaves the hotel in the morning, pays in cash and goes to the railway station where she places 2 pieces of luggage in a depository box.. November 29 - she is located dead in Isdalen.

    Police claim she committed suicide; rumors say she was a spy and the answers to her identification will be found in Moscow; other rumors theorize she was killed by someone she was close to.

Some more information on the case from Wikipedia, 'On 24 November, five days before the discovery of the woman, a local 26-year old man was hiking with friends around the same area. He reported to have come across a woman of foreign appearance, her face completely distorted by fear. He noted that the woman was dressed elegantly, although not appropriately for being outdoors, let alone hiking in the hills. As they passed each other she formed her mouth as if to say something but appeared intimidated by two black-coated men who followed her. The men also had a foreign appearance.

   The 26-year-old contacted the police after hearing that a young woman was found dead in the same area. He immediately recognized her from the composite sketches, but according to him the policeman with whom he spoke answered, "Forget her, she was dispatched. The case will never be solved", he followed the advice, waiting 32 years to tell the story publicly.'

   To me this is case of international espionage and skullduggery on a grand scale, involving the co-operation of numerous governments. Why?

  The policeman used some very loaded language here. The word dispatch is one which is used in diplomatic and political circles, eg 'We dispatched an envoy' or 'We sent a dispatch'. Had this officer been informed by those higher up in the Norwegian Government that this was some type of assassination of a known 'enemy' spy?

His words imply that she had been 'dispatched' to the next world after having been 'dispatched' to spy in Norway.

'Forget her. The case will never be solved.'

Now, that's a statement telling of a previous conversation with someone from an intelligence agency who knows what's going on!

   Realistically, what truly dutiful officer of the law would make such a statement as this when referring to a blatant homicide unless he'd received a full briefing as to who she was and orders had been received from much higher up to quieten everything down?

The policemen to whom this 26 year old man spoke was either an agent of some type of government intelligence department who was given the task of impersonating a police officer to the ends of silencing this young man or, as I previously stated, he was told the facts by someone much higher up.

   She was on the run from her own government as she was being 'retired' for some reason or other or she had simply been tracked down by agents who knew what she was and wanted her activities ended.

   Apparently, her dental work had been done in Latin America, so she could have been a victim of any number of South American fascist dictators or she was from Cuba or Russia and had simply had the work done in Cuba, (or South America), either way, it's leaning toward a possibly Communist base for her activities.

   The fact that the woman had a terrified look on her face and yet did not say anything might be an example of the fact that the men following her had already told her that her fate was sealed and that if she encountered anyone on the track and alerted them to their task then they would also 'dispatch' that passer by innocent person.  If she was an spy and therefore trained in violence she would well have known that these men would have killed this hiker before he could react to her pleas for help.

   Perhaps, as she knew she was about to exit this world, her refusing to speak was the last virtuous act of a person who had throughout their professional life as a spy had to leave all traces of 'normal' morality behind (such as a spy must)?

According to Wikipedia her fingerprints had been sanded off. What killer amateurish to try and burn a body with a meager amount of petrol would think so deeply as to bring along sandpaper to sand off the fingerprints? That defies logic. These were trained professionals.

   There were traces of 50 sleeping pills in her system. She also had carbon monoxide poisoning and had been bludgeoned to death in the neck area. Sounds like spies trying to create a long and convoluted trail of confusion for whoever came to investigate, such as their modus operandi usually is. The official ruling to these brutalities was oddly, 'suicide' which, given the facts, reeks of a cover up. Considering they found a list of addresses she'd been written in code, one must ask why would she encode these addresses? Perhaps because she knew she was being hunted and these addresses were safe houses that she could go to, hence the need to disguise and guard the addresses with encoding?

   She had said that she had 'Six months to see the most beautiful places in Norway'.Perhaps she speculated that those chasing her would most likely catch up with her within six months?

According to Wikipedia,

'The last observation of the so-called Isdal woman was when she checked out of room 407 at the Hotel Marin. She paid in cash and then asked to be picked up by a taxi. The woman was described as 30"40 years old, 164 cm tall, wide hips, small eyes and good-looking. Hotel staff said the woman stayed mainly in her room, and seemed to be on guard. Another hotel guest told police that she smoked South State cigarettes, a native Norwegian brand.

   One witness testified that she had overheard the woman while she was talking to a man across the hall in a hotel in Bergen and that she heard the woman say,

"Ich komme bald" (German: "I am coming soon").'

East German Communist agents perhaps?

Could it be that she had said this to the man who was one of her soon to be murderers and he was in her hotel room that day? Had he said to her,

"Hurry we must go to meet the taxi?" To which she replied,

"Ich komme bald"

Was it the taxi driver, an embedded East German Communist agent, who was the other killer? All of those differing intoxicants in her blood stream discovered post-mortem suggest that those who were to kill her, mercifully offered her the option of taking a large number of sleeping pills in order to kill herself instead of them killing her. It is not beyond the realm of imagination spies allowing another spy to swallow an overdose of sleeping pills, and guzzle dozen a bottle of hard liquor as they are trained to swallow poison if captured and hard drinking is a noted characteristic of the espionage industry.

   Then, when unconscious the killer had realized that she was not yet dead, this process perhaps taking enough time for them to share a bottle of liqueur (which she had packed along with the sandwiches for a picnic that she had unsuspectingly arranged with these men who had not yet revealed to her their true professions or intentions).

(A vehicle must have been present as the fuel they poured over her dead body probably came from it.)

   After not dying from the sleeping pills quickly enough for their liking and perhaps spooked by the young man they had passed, the killers became impatient and so placed her inside her car or their car or perhaps even a hire car that either she or they had been using, (was this investigated as a possibility?) where they attempted to asphyxiate her with the exhaust fumes from the vehicle Assuming they had some type of hose with them as they needed something to siphon out the petrol from the car tank and had done successfully previously, (possibly).

   Then, as she had not yet expired, one or both of the assassins used the (military style, as per trained spies) karate chop to the neck to break her neck? Lastly, the fact that whoever killed her made no effort to hide her body indicating that they wanted her to be discovered, so that either those they worked for could be certain that she'd been killed or they simply wished to try to make the crime look as though it was some amateur murderer, (which is why they doused her in petrol and lit her body to appear amateurish, as so many inexperienced killers seem to assume that cremation is an easily carried out practice involving a few gallons of fuel, when in reality it takes upwards of 6 hours under butane gas jets running in the thousands of degrees to reduce a corpse to ash.)

   Either way, whoever killed her made no great efforts to conceal her body other than taking her out into the mountains and this was most likely purely to isolate her to get away from potential witnesses, which indicates they weren't particularly worried about concealing her corpse to prevent an investigation as they knew, 'The case will never be solved'.

Some Unexpected Errors Have Occurred...

NARRATOR (VOICE OVER): “I'll bet you never thought you'd ever hear me talk like this, but:

Some more information on the case from Wikipedia,
   ''On 24 November, five days before the discovery of the woman, a local 26-year old man was hiking with friends around the same area. He reported to have come across a woman of foreign appearance, her face completely distorted by fear.
He noted that the woman was dressed elegantly, although not appropriately for being outdoors, let alone hiking in the hills. As they passed each other she formed her mouth as if to say something but appeared intimidated by two black-coated men who followed her. The men also had a foreign appearance.
   The 26-year-old contacted the police after hearing that a young woman was found dead in the same area. He immediately recognized her from the composite sketches, but according to him the policeman with whom he spoke answered, "Forget her, she was dispatched. The case will never be solved", he followed the advice, waiting 32 years to tell the story publicly.'
This is case of international espionage and skullduggery on a grand scale, involving the co-operation of numerous governments. Why?
  The policeman used some very loaded language here. The word dispatch is one which is used in diplomatic and political circles, eg 'We dispatched an envoy' or 'We sent a dispatch'.
Had this officer been informed by those higher up in the Norwegian Government that this was some type of assassination of a known 'enemy' spy? His words imply that she had been 'dispatched' to the next world after having been 'dispatched' to spy in Norway.
'Forget her. The case will never be solved.'
Now, that's a statement telling of a previous conversation with someone from an intelligence agency who knows what's really going on!
Realistically, what truly dutiful officer of the law would make such a statement as this when referring to a blatant homicide unless he'd received a full briefing as to who she was and orders from much higher up to quieten everything down?
It can only be asserted that the policemen to whom this 26 year old man spoke was either an agent of some type of government intelligence department who was given the task of impersonating a police officer to the ends of silencing this young man or that as previously stated, was told the facts by someone much higher up.
Perhaps, she was on the run from her own government as she was being 'retired' for some reason or she had simply been tracked down by agents who knew what she was and wanted her activities ended.
   Apparently, her dental work had been done in Latin America, so she could have been a victim of any number of South American fascist dictators or she was from Cuba or Russia and had simply had the work done in Cuba, (or South America), either way, it's leaning toward a possibly Communist base for her activities.
  The fact that the woman had a terrified look on her face and yet did not say anything might be an example of the fact that the men following her had already told her that her fate was sealed and that if she encountered anyone on the track and alerted them to their task then they would also 'dispatch' that person.
If she was an spy and therefore trained in violence she would well have known that these men would have killed this hiker before he could react to her pleas for help.      
   Perhaps, as she knew she was about to exit this world, her refusing to speak was the last virtuous act of a person who had throughout their professional life as a spy had to leave all traces of 'normal' morality behind (such as a spy must)?According to Wikipedia her fingerprints had been sanded off. What killer amateurish to try and burn a body with a meager amount of petrol would think so deeply as to bring along sandpaper to sand off the fingerprints? That defies logic. These were trained professionals.
There were traces of 50 sleeping pills in her system. She also had carbon monoxide poisoning and had been bludgeoned to death in the neck area. Sounds like spies trying to create a long and convoluted trail of confusion for whoever came to investigate, such as their modus operandi usually is.
The official ruling to these brutalities was oddly, 'suicide' which, given the facts, reeks of a cover up.
   Considering they found a list of addresses she'd been written in code, one must ask why would she encode these addresses? Perhaps because she knew she was being hunted and these addresses were safe houses that she could go to, hence the need to disguise and guard the addresses with encoding?
She had said that she had,
 'Six months to see the most beautiful places in Norway'. Had she speculated that those chasing her would most likely catch up with her within six months?
According to Wikipedia,
   'The last observation of the so-called Isdal woman was when she checked out of room 407 at the Hotel Marin. She paid in cash and then asked to be picked up by a taxi. The woman was described as 30"40 years old, 164 cm tall, wide hips, small eyes and good-looking. Hotel staff said the woman stayed mainly in her room, and seemed to be on guard. Another hotel guest told police that she smoked South State cigarettes, a native Norwegian brand.
   One witness testified that she had overheard the woman while she was talking to a man across the hall in a hotel in Bergen and that she heard the woman say,
 "Ich komme bald" (German: "I am coming soon").'
East German Communist agents perhaps? Could it be that she had said this to the man who was one of her soon to be murderers and he was in her hotel room that day? Had he said to her,
"Hurry we must go to meet the taxi?"
 To which she replied,
"Ich komme bald"?
Was it the taxi driver, an embedded East German Communist agent, who was the other killer?
   All of those differing intoxicants in her blood stream discovered post mortem suggest to me that those who were to kill her, mercifully offered her the option of taking a large number of sleeping pills in order to kill herself instead of them killing her. I can imagine spies allowing another spy to swallow an overdose of sleeping pills as they are trained to swallow poison if captured.
Then, when unconscious the killer had realized that she was not yet dead, this process perhaps taking enough time for them to share a bottle of liqueur (which she had packed along with the sandwiches for a picnic that she had unsuspectingly arranged with these men who had not yet revealed to her their true professions or intentions).
(A vehicle must have been present as the fuel they poured over her dead body probably came from it.)
   After not dying from the sleeping pills quickly enough for their liking and perhaps spooked by the young man they had passed, the killers became impatient and so placed her inside her car or their car or perhaps even a hire car that either she or they had been using, (I wonder if this was investigated as a possibility) where they attempted to asphyxiate her with the exhaust fumes from the vehicle (I'm assuming they had some type of hose with them as they needed something to siphon out the petrol from the car tank). Then, as she had not yet expired, one or both of the assassins used the (military style as per trained spies) karate chop to the neck to break her neck?
   Lastly, the fact that whoever killed her made no effort to hide her body indicating that they wanted her to be discovered, so that either those they worked for could be certain that she'd been killed or they simply wished to try to make the crime look as though it was some amateur murderer, (which is why they doused her in petrol and lit her body to appear amateurish, as so many inexperienced killers seem to assume that cremation is an easily carried out practice involving a few gallons of fuel, when in reality it takes upwards of 6 hours under butane gas jets running in the thousands of degrees to reduce a corpse to ash.)
  Either way, whoever killed her made no great efforts to conceal her body other than taking her out into the mountains and this was most likely purely to isolate her to get away from potential witnesses, which indicates they weren't particularly worried about concealing her corpse to prevent an investigation as they knew, 'The case will never be solved'.

   All that is evil and wishes to channel destruction with some kind of control, as though funneling tornadoes with a series of guide ropes, is held subjected beneath what holds it, and that, is benevolent.











© 2017 Brett Hernan


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Brett Hernan

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia



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