[Icelander]

David R. Connor
Codename Cowboy

David is tall, handsome and athletic. He has strawberry-blond hair and cultivates a dashing moustache to appear older. By natural inclination, he is bold, decisive and resourceful, as well as being constitutionally unable to concede defeat. Berlin is a tough beat, though, and he’s had to learn a modicum of circumspection and caution during the six months he’s spent there. Even so, David still allows himself dreams of grand gestures, heroism and audacity in confronting the hated Communists. He regards the moral superiority of the free Western World as self-evident and has little understanding or sympathy for counter-cultural ideas about mutual disarmament that are beginning to emerge.

David is the oldest son of Andrew G. Connor (1905-1943), an OSS officer captured and executed by Germans in Yugoslavia while working with partisans during the war. David grew up in Providence, Rhode Island with his mother and three younger siblings. His hobbies as a child and teenager included comics, boxing and spending time on his maternal grandfather’s grand Virginia estate. His family was well-to-do, but the death of his father, who had been a promising lawyer, had left his mother far less well-off than in the years preceding the war. The money stretched to a good college education, though, and David studied business and political science at Yale. There, his hobbies extended to include also wine, women and song, with a particular appreciation for and emphasis on women. Connor graduated in 1955 with a respectable, if not outstanding, grades and immediately joined the Central Intelligence Agency, to the keen disappointment of his grandfather, who had been hoping that the boy might consider a career in law.

He’s been in Berlin for almost six months now, working for the legendary Chief of Berlin Station, William King Harvey. He idolises Harvey and has taken to his habits of pugnacious paranoia, including wearing at least two pistols at all times, with considerable gusto. The CIA has trained him well for this important posting in its elite Soviet Russia Division and shortly before he arrived in Berlin he went through a three month commando course where he learned the skills needed to roll back world Communism, one émigré uprising at a time. This extraction is his first time in solo command of a major operation in East Berlin and he is anxious to prove to his mentor that he is worthy the trust placed in him.

Equipment:
Concealed Carry Black Leather Jacket (DR 1*; Holdout +3, Weight 4 lbs.); Parachute boots (DR 2*, Hiking +1, Weight 3 lbs.); Western jeans and blue-black flannel shirt; Expensive Silk-and-steel custom Dunrite Bulletproof Vest (DR 6, Holdout (+4-6) -2, Covers 9-10, Weight 6.8 lbs.); Colt National Match Automatic .45 ACP pistol (Fine (Reliable); Acc 3) with high-visibility sights in shoulder holster (left); 2 7-rd .45 ACP magazines in magazine pouch under right armpit; AMC M26 grenade in left leather coat pocket; AMC M34 WP grenade in right leather coat pocket; ‘Fitzed’ (2” barrel) S&W Model 27 .357 Magnum revolver in undercover ankle holster (Dam 2d+2 pi, Acc 1, Bulk -1, Fast-Draw (-1+1-2) -2 for position, Weight 3.5 lbs.); Belt-buckle fine-quality push knife (Dam thr+1 imp, Holdout +4, Weight 0.25 lbs.); Personal basics for urban survival.
Total Weight: 28.65 lbs.