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The evacuation was an arduous process and accomplished entirely through the use of carriers, because subcapitals couldn't make it through the Swarm blockade of the system.  Several other Veritas carrier pilots helped out, and as a group Blitter and his companions would jump between JLO and 28Y and back, all night, until every personal and alliance asset in JLO had been cleared to safety. Pilots would trade Blitter their ships and items and in theory he would deliver them back in 28Y. In reality, Blitter was taking the items and putting them on escrow (the primitive precursor to the contract system) to himself so it looked as if the items were not being stored in his hangar. Each time, Blitter would undock from JLO and jump to 28Y with an empty cargo hold to keep up appearances. Once in 28Y, he used GIA funds to fully buy up Veritas's market in 28Y, which was a factory hub, and then bring this war materiel to JLO to be sold to the Swarm once JLO fell. As the night wore on, the other Veritas carrier pilots tired and went to sleep, leaving the rest of the work for the 'loyal' and 'tireless' Blitter. When the evacuation was at last complete, it was time for the reveal:

Lenutza > Well folks, have some bad news. I'm actually a goon spy. I was responsible for the carrier theft yesterday and as for the 20 or so carrier jumps out of JLO- I just did
Lenutza > Well, all of those POS fittings are going to Goonfleet. The Mittani sends his regards. So long and thanks for, well, everything.
Kirby Khariton > :o
Nari Teko > wtf
General Dynasty > holy fuck
Lenutza > the 31 large arty batteries and month's worth of POS fuel especially will help.
Kraydon > hows he get his hands on all those pos fittings
Lewisc > just been handed to him to jump out i think
Kraydon > er, er wtf
Chi Ana > ouch
Meteorus > The scumbags have to resort to underhand tactics they cant win a fair fight.
Jokull > why the fuck does someone get his hands on that kind of stuff after being in corp 8 day´s ????????????
Lewisc > iwas thinking that too
huxorator > ask dorm.
Lewisc > warfare of faggotry
Kraydon > exactly why i asked the question i asked in the first place :-(
Lewisc > typical goon shite
Lewisc > dirty underhanded
Lenutza > fofo, etc etc
Anomaly21 > That's WHY YOU DON"T RECRUIT DURING WAR TIMES....
huxorator > lenutza did you do that before, I mean are you experienced in spy stuff?
Alpha Dread > lenu is a piece of shit
Chi Ana > tbh someone should prolly have checked his employment history also.lol
Anomaly21 > might have been a good idea
Jah'Ret Khan > He may ahve stolen all that shit, but he's still a fat goon with a neck beard. THe morale victory is to -V-!
Anomaly21 > and you know like not recruiting people during war times...
Meteorus > Fair point
Chi Ana > take heart v spying is a sign of desperate peeps

The impact on the Veritas morale was catastrophic. Not only had they lost a system in JLO, but their compromised evacuation to 28Y had compounded the loss. The incident severely shook the confidence of the Veritas members in their leadership; why, it was asked, was a pilot who had only been in the alliance for eight days been given so much control and responsibility? Why was he not caught and booted after the incredibly obvious theft of Dr. Einstein's Chimera? Because the leadership could not be trusted to provide effective counterintelligence, an atmosphere of 'witch-hunting' developed, where individual pilots would investigate and accuse each other of being hostile spies. Usually the victims of such a witch-hunt are unpopular but innocent; one corporation in Veritas summarily kicked any pilot who had been with that corporation for less than three months in hopes that this would clear out GIA spies; none of those booted were actually working for us. Bitterness soared and fleet participation plummeted. In the end of the campaign for Scalding Pass, the greatest defenders of the region were Veritas' neighboring ally, Lotka Volterra, not Veritas themselves.

It didn't take a convoluted cover story for Blitter to achieve all this: just a bit of forthright lying and enough charisma to be likeable, along with a willingness to work for the cause of his target alliance above and beyond what a regular member did. On Veritas' part, it wouldn't have taken anything fancy to catch our agent: a basic background check, investigation of references, or - in the aftermath of the carrier theft - a modicum of common sense. It might cause chaos and carnage, but the espionage game is best when it's uncomplicated.