One morning, the investigators receive an e-mail message on their computer terminals when they log on in the morning.  The message can be read once before it disappears.  They are to meet at a local restaurant for dinner that evening.  When they arrive at the restaurant, the six members of the team should get acquainted with each other before their "controller" arrives, twenty minutes later. 

The team can include the following members: a Center for Disease Control chemist, an FBI forsenics specialist, a National Security Agency electronics and communications specialist, a National Institutes for Health physician, a civilian Pentagon specialist in chemical warfare agents, a Drug Enforcement Agency field operative, and, if more investigators are necessary, one or more FBI special agents, a Public Health Service psychiatrist, a Defense Intelligence Agency analyst, and a NASA astronomical  specialist.  Prepared character sheets should be provided by the Keeper, allowing the players to spend their non-career (INT x 10) points on skills as they  wish.

The "controller" introduces himself to the group as Doctor James Crisp, a scientist with the National Institutes  for Health in Bethesda.  He has assembled the group to look into a a strange illness on the West Coast which is apparently not what the press is reporting it to be.  Crisp believes that someone is deliberately covering up the incident and providing "official lies" to the press.


THE OFFICIAL STORY

The first case occured a week ago when a woman entered into a hospital, apparently suffering from respiratory distress and possible heart failure.  When an emergency room nurse begins to fit an airway tube into the unconscious woman, the nurse noticed a chemical like smell which caused her to faint.  A doctor was called in, and when she tried to insert a tube into the woman's arm she heard a brief hissing sound before a yellowish fluid seeped from the patient's arm.  The curious doctor, stupidly violating safety precautions, sniffed the fluid and was quickly overcome as were the four other emergency room personnel on hand.  The hospital called in the local hazardous substances team, who declared the emergency room off limits and began procedures to decontaminate the emergency room and to seal off the now dead patient.

The report of the incident made the local evening news and was picked up by CNN before it disappeared from the air.  Within days, a second incident similar to the first occurred, with similar results. The second woman is alleged to have consumed an unknown chemical pesticide in an attempt to commit suicide.  Reports began to circulate that the first victim also swallowed some unknown pesticide before being sent to the hospital.  The national news networks carried the story and news of the subsequent autopsy of the first patient, which offered no concrete results.  The officials are remarkable close lipped as if pressure is coming from somewhere.  The tabloids even seem to accept this "official" decision.


WHAT DR. CURTIS KNOWS

What the networks do not know is that the first patient worked for the federal government, preparing chemcial weapons for shipment to Johnson Atoll (in the Pacific).  There, they are to be disposed of in a multi-billion dollar state of the art incinerator.  Dr. Curtis provides the investigators with a copy of the woman's employment file and asks the investigators to try and find out what is going on and who is issuing the cover story to the press.  He believes that someone has altered the chemical weapon manifests, in order to slip in substances to be destroyed that the government doesn't want anyone to know about.  He also includes the address of the Pentagon's civilian contractor where the first patient worked and the home address of the patient. 

Dr Curtis will answer any of the investigators' questions, but he really doesn't know anything more than the above.  If asked who he thinks is behind the cover-up, he will admit it could be anyone, "The CIA, Army Intelligence, the Federal Communications Commission, hell, even the NIH or CDC could be behind the cover-up.  All on the grounds of national security, threatening long prison terms to anyone who reveals the truth.  I warn you that such an outcome could face those who cross the wrong people in this investigation".  Dr Curtis will excuse himself without touching more than the cup of coffee he ordered and a napkin.


THE REAL STORY

The rest of the adventure is up to you to plot out, especially the exact sequence of events.  But, the Keeper should know what is really going on.  Here's the truth.  Some three weeks ago, a shipment arrived at the company owned by the contractor.  Shipped across country by a private firm, the three tractor trailers arrived with a shipment of 1950s era chemical weapons to be disposed of.  Most of the shipment was made up of dozens of drums of liquid chemicals that were part of a binary weapons system.  In the midst of the shipment were three drums coloured differently from the rest.  Not only were there hazardous chemical weapons labels on the drums, but biohazard warnings were also posted all over the drums.  The workers, already in full decontamination equipment treated them like any other shipment of weapons to be prepared for disposal.  However, one of the workers had a small tear in her suit, and when the drum ruptured, the chemicals leaked inside her suit.  Within twenty four hours, she was dead.

What were the chemicals and where did they come from?  In 1947, a flying saucer crashed in the deserts of the American Southwest.  The wreckage of the saucer and the dead alien crewmembers were taken to a hangar at a remote airbase in the California desert.  The findings were highly classified and hidden under the Air Force's Project Bluebook investigations.  Since the ship was found in the midst of the Cold War, the Army demanded access to the ship and the findings so that it could possibly discover some kind of new technology to combat the Soviet threat. 

What the Army's scientists discovered was that the fuel from the ship was actually a living organism, similar to that found in the blood streams of the dead aliens.  The aliens had died from the impact of the crash, but they seemed able to survive with the organisms in their bloodstreams.  The fuel proved extremely toxic to humans, resulting in respiratory distress and heart failure within twenty four hours.  More importantly, the organisms could survive in the human host for up to forty-eight hours beyond the host's death.  Medical treatment would simply infect more individuals and the cycle would be repeated.  The government tried for nearly twenty years to recreate the fuel, but they were not successful.  However, the Army did use some of the fuel to create several chemical weapons that would have been used in the case of a nuclear war.

With the end of the Cold War, however, those in the government decided that it would be best to get rid of these dangerous chemical weapons and these three drums were intentionally shipped with a normal shipment due for disposal.  No one would have been the wiser if the woman had not become infected, but since the women did become infected with the alien fuel virus, the Army launched a massive cover-up, including intentionally poisoning another, but untraceable, government employee.


RUNNING THE ADVENTURE

The investigator's snooping should be hampered at all levels.  Local officials have been cowed by the vast federal power being brought to bear (any community officials who spoke out would find their communities declared infected with a deadly virus and thus uninhabitable by the CDC), and those at the hospital are too concerned about their odd and uncomfortable working conditions to have time for the investigators, unless they are able to use their positions effectively.  The infected doctor should be willing to talk to the appropriate investigators, as should a few of the hospital personnel not directly related to the case.

The Pentagon sub-contractor's facilities will be overrun with government officials looking for clues.  If the investigator's show up, they will be questioned by Army Intelligence field agents and may be held by Army Military Police guarding the facility.  They should find themselves being shadowed in their subsequent investigations after visiting the hospital or the chemical company.  If they get too close, have the government do something to scare the investigators off.


CONCLUSIONS

Eventually everything should trace back to the flying saucer crash in 1947 and the airbase in the desert.  Does the government have more of the chemicals?  What happened to the two other barrels?  That's up to you to decide.  Have the dead aliens be from any of the likely Cthulhu races: Mi-Go, Shaggai or Yithians.  Will the investigators be allowed to expose the cover-up or will their findings be buried or dismissed by a skeptical press?