Well, that's probably not surprising at all. In every organization, especially in a war situation like today, there would always be spies. Valerie herself was also an intelligence. She had gone undercover and sought information from Princess Ivanka while she was serving in Jalad-hur.
Florentia were always ready if there were spies around them. Because of that, General Harvey von Maxwell, who was the head of the intelligence division, became one of the most mysterious vampires. He was listed as one of the users of cursed weapons but his strength was never explained in the data.
