And Sloane's mention here of abandoning the CIA suggests that Jack's description (as we learn in "The Telling") of Arvin as "disgraced, abandoned, alone" (misquoting) was Arvin's cover story for his exit from the CIA?
And why the time lag--if he learns about Rambaldi thirty years ago but leaves the CIA only about ten? (To be honest, I'd prefer a longer time-frame for the existence of the Alliance: ten years just doesn't seem long enough for the organization we see in S1. I may have to re-check the DVD to make sure that I didn't mishear Jack's explanation.) Unless, of course, the CIA was at one point interested in Rambaldi, but (perhaps due to an administrative change) abandoned the project, making Sloane decide that he'd work mnore effectively on his own?
And where the hell, by the way, did the NSA get two dozen Rambaldi artifacts (vide The Telling)? Not simply in the course of the struggle with SD-6, surely. They've been Rambaldi collectors too?
Perhaps the NSA were involved in the FBI group that investigated Sydney in S1? We might expect that group to have an interest in Rambaldi prior to the formation of SD-6, and it's possible that they were collecting Rambaldi artifacts, which then somehow ended up in NSA hands--inter-agency divisions being rather blurry in the Alias universe.
I fear that attempting to trace the Rambaldi plot will only lead to madness and confusion, but it does interest me.
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And why the time lag--if he learns about Rambaldi thirty years ago but leaves the CIA only about ten? (To be honest, I'd prefer a longer time-frame for the existence of the Alliance: ten years just doesn't seem long enough for the organization we see in S1. I may have to re-check the DVD to make sure that I didn't mishear Jack's explanation.) Unless, of course, the CIA was at one point interested in Rambaldi, but (perhaps due to an administrative change) abandoned the project, making Sloane decide that he'd work mnore effectively on his own?
And where the hell, by the way, did the NSA get two dozen Rambaldi artifacts (vide The Telling)? Not simply in the course of the struggle with SD-6, surely. They've been Rambaldi collectors too?
Perhaps the NSA were involved in the FBI group that investigated Sydney in S1? We might expect that group to have an interest in Rambaldi prior to the formation of SD-6, and it's possible that they were collecting Rambaldi artifacts, which then somehow ended up in NSA hands--inter-agency divisions being rather blurry in the Alias universe.
I fear that attempting to trace the Rambaldi plot will only lead to madness and confusion, but it does interest me.