SOunds a lot like posturing - "Within 15 minutes Microsoft wanted to know why a second copy was installed"?... That just means his install was activated online - the other copy might never have been online
By the sound of things the "intellectual" is or should be in trouble for not taking better care such sensitive data.
You seldom walk around wiht "secret" data on laptops. hehe
The perp could just as easily ditch the laptop in a river someplace.
Either way, that guy sure was name dropping and posturing - was thre a single agency he wasn't involved with?