Retrievers of Truthiness...and friends

The Lost Experience Clues asked: What is your opinion of the Retrievers of Truth? Here's mine:

Could these images be ROT calling cards, signals that they were hot on Persephone's trail. The first one actually says, "Persephone if you can read this we know who you are." I think they've been around, and hacking, since Act 1--I can't figure out on whose behalf they're working. Mr. Werner Middelwerk as opposed to Dr. Thomas Middelwerk?

It's interesting they’ve recently left the scene.

Departed--Vincent “Wally” Bole wrote that he is now on his way to Australia and Korea

Missing/presumed dead: Interestingly, mathematician Vigi Benoffski was on his way to Perth and should have been there for the mathematical symposium…unless he was extinguished in the Vik Foundation fire. The common initials seems more than coincidence.

Departed: BBB has also recently packed up and departed for destinations unknown

And does Mandrake Wig fit into this group? MW…Middelwerk?

Here's more on that...question and others

What is your opinion of Mittlewerk?

I think there are two: Werner and Thomas. Twins? So far we’ve seen Middelwerk the pony-tailed and Middelwerk the Younger. Are they the same? He’s taking good drugs if that’s the case. Then again, in Bad Twin, Zander was the nickname for one of the Twins of the title. Maybe the now missing Dr. Armand Zander of the Vik Institute could explain the coincidence of his name? One of them apparently hopped on the phantom Helgus Antonius with two other men and hasn’t been seen since.

What is your opinion of Hugh/Darla/Gidgetgirl?

Why did they have to die? Or did they? Hugh and Darla are also MIA/Presumed dead in a car wreck. I don’t know if I believe that Darla is/was Gidgetgirl. Where’s Hugh’s wife? The one he’s supposedly been cheating on with Darla? She could be GidgetGirl...I can't remember or find the wedding picture: did she look like Sally Fields perhaps?

What is your opinion of DJDan & Tanya?
I don’t believe DJDan & Ta/onya are who they say they are. I believe their “shuttin’down the man” act is a cover. I think his show and website act as a conduit of information but I’m not sure if he works for Mittelwerk and his confederates or Rachel-Persephone (and I’m not convinced they are the same woman). Since the only characters named in the original phone call who haven’t come into play are P. Thompson and Irene…maybe they’re the conspiraspys.

What is your opinion of Ironman?
He knows who Rachel really is, which is more than I know. I think it’s possible he’s the private investigator hired by Dr. Perez to track down Alvar Hanso. He infiltrated Mittelwerk's posse...