xp_changelingNina,
Look, this is going to sound a little nuts, but I ran a COINOP back in '65 here in New York against a SOVIET asset named HELIOS. Look, I know it was forever ago and the chances of any connection are remote but... well, just in case, can you look for a current residence for Dorothy Smith. She'll have been in New York since 1981 but will have no footprint before then. Actually, she'll likely have next to no imprint now. I mean, she's probably dead. She's ten years older than I am.
Just... see if you can dig up an address if she's still alive. It's remotely possible that some kind of intel is connected, like the Sapiens League dug up some old files or a related cache or something. When it turns out to be nothing, you can laugh at me over Eggs Benedict at Norma's in the Parker Meridian on me.
--Syd