Those dates don’t add up right!
I have read that people assigned to this duty must be rotated out after a few months or they get sucked into the evil pit. I don’t know if that is what happened but I feel for people who are assigned to this kind of work. If this was a few decades ago, the FBI would ask for people to pray for God’s protection for their agents assigned to this work.
Good catch! Maybe he was spying on his fellow plebes, too!