thorities weren't definitive on what the divers were up to at the moment of discovery, they cited fishing as the most likely answer.

xxi Lining the walls: This and other details derive from both interviews and offi- cial police accounts, e.g., "Joint South Pacific law enforcement operation re- sults in huge cocaine haul," Australian Federal Police Media Release, November 16, 2012. See also regional news accounts, e.g., "Decomposed Body, Cocaine Haul Found on Yacht," ABC News (Australia), November 15, 2012.

xxi organized a gathering of cryptography buffs: Runa A. Sandvik, "That One Time I Threw a CryptoParty with Edward Snowden," Forbes, May 27, 2014.

xxi the agency couldn't break it: "Inside the NSA's War on Internet Security," Der Spiegel, December 28, 2014.

xxii "The scope of his criminal conduct": USA v. Hunter, Document 591, April 17, 2018.

xxii just started his shift: Details on Jimena's discovery derive from an interview with Jeremy Jimena; the Philippine National Police (PNP) case file on the mur- der of Catherine Christina Lee; and USA v. Hunter, Document 580, April 5, 2018.

xxvi 300,000 people: Philippine Statistics Authority, "Highlights of the Philip- pine Population 2015 Census of Population."

xxvi Photos taken at the crime scene: Philippine National Police (PNP) case file on the murder of Catherine Christina Lee.

xxvii target-shooting videos on YouTube: See, for example, youtube.com /watch?v=TOU00HiPuog.

xxvii below the poverty line: "Razon: 60% of PNP Men Live Below Poverty Line," The Philippine Star, June 3, 2006.

xxviii 5,000 pesos, or around $100: Human Rights Watch, "Philippines: Death Squad Linked to Hundreds of Killings," May 20, 2014.

xxviii police technicians were unable to check: USA v. Hunter, Document 574, April 3, 2018, at 71.

xxx two men were arrested in Roxboro: "Feds: 2 NC Men Traveled to Philip- pines in Murder-for-Hire Plot," WRAL, July 22, 2015.

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3 On a hunch: The details of Brill and Holdren's background and investigation, unless noted otherwise, are drawn from and cross-checked between interviews with Brill, Holdren, and Kent Bailey; trial testimony from Brill and Holdren in USA v. Berkman; evidence presented during USA v. Berkman; grand jury tes- timony from Brill, filed under USA v. Berkman, Documents 952-1 to 952-7, 2010 and 2012; and interviews with an anonymous Department of Justice official directly familiar with the investigation.

4 Phentermine is a "controlled substance": DEA Drug Fact Sheets, dea.gov /druginfo/concerns.shtml.

5 the DEA had become concerned: Over the early and mid-2000s, the agency