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"Un-Man."

Prior, secretly working for the UN, is officially:

"...a semantic analyst for a large trading outfit..." (V, p. 53)

Robert Naysmith is officially a cybernetic analyst. His degrees are in epistemology and communications theory and he describes his work as:

"'...basic-theoretical consultant. Trouble-shooter in the realm of ideas.'" (p. 56)

Fourre comments that this also makes him "'...something of a linguist...'" (ibid.)

Naysmith is too old to have received Synthesis training so an epistemologist or semanticist is the closest approach to an integrating synthesist. Naysmith's knowledge of language, psychology and the sciences should enable him to integrate information and derive a larger picture, Fourre hopes. That seems to be asking a lot.

Peter Christian, a younger Brother with Synthesis training, is able to estimate with 80% probability that Besser, chief of international finance, is the head of the secret anti-UN gang. This estimate is based on:

Besser's past history;

his known character;

his country's recent history;

the necessary communications for a planet-wide least-effort anti-UN organization;

other data.

It is also highly probable that Roger Wade, president of Brain Tools, Incorporated, and prominent Americanist Party supporter, is the anti-UN chief for North America.

Assuming that Besser will act logically and on a survival axiom and also taking into account his insufficient understanding of modern socio-theory and his personal bias, Christian calculates the best course of action for his Brothers to apprehend the leaders of the gang.