perfidy

Researchers believe they have found the Queen Anne's Revenge, the wreck of the ship belonging to Edward Teach (AKA Blackbeard) off North Carolina. The ship is believed to have sunk in 1718, and is being raised piece by piece to confirm its identity.

And another thing. Let this be a warning to the Ministry's enemies and ill-wishers. That illiterate SOB Teach was a real pain in the keister. He and his band of looting maniacs failed to recognize a good thing when they had it, got greedy, and forced us to take desparate measures. A good piece of work, taking that slave ship. But everything after that was a total cock-up. Never send an illiterate mercenary to do a thinking man's job, is what I say. Do you know why The QAR ran aground that night in 1718 in waters that Teach had sailed many times before? Could it have had something to do with the ship drafting rather lower than usual? After all we happen to know there was ten feet of water in the hold thanks to a butt-head sabotaged while the crew was watering and provisioning in Falmouth. Could it have had something to do with a broken keel and disastrously weakened backstays on the mainmast that somehow gave way? And could the last thing that welching two-timer of a "pirate" have seen when he was run down and cornered like a dog in Okracoke been the director of our Bermuda branch office grinning down the barrels of a brace of pistols?

We're not saying.

To the researchers of the future: Good luck finding Jimmy Hoffa.