Operation: Coarse Wood

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As of 1901 hours, 20 October 2010, Operation: Coarse Wood is in effect.

We will now commence your debriefing of Operation: City Two. City Two was designed as a low-budget reconnaissance mission to gather intelligence on a target of high importance. These ends were to be achieved through any means considered necessary. Agents made contact with intermediaries who were "very close" with the target. The agents befriended the intermediaries as a way to get closer to the target, which succeeded. The intermediaries came to trust the agents quite well, and still believe in the connection of friendship with the agents. The target, despite her wary confidences, slowly began to divulge information of great use. Approximately seven weeks into the mission, the agents confronted the target when she was alone. The agents, through technicalities in protocol, established their intentions, and the target voiced her thoughts and reactions. They were negative. Three weeks later, in a more semi-public setting, the agents confronted the target again to be sure of the intended outcome, and at the insistence of one of the intermediaries. The results were the same: negative.
At approximately 1930 hours on 18 October 2010, High Command brought in a consultant on the issue, who gave guidance regarding the results of the mission. Command decided to scrub the mission.

Currently, the agents are being withdrawn from the field and being debriefed individually. With the initiation of Coarse Wood, the Special Agent-in-charge will confront the target before 30 October 2010, as the last of the agents are withdrawn. The Special Agent-in-charge will inform the target of the upcoming actions, and the Special Agent will sever ties with the intermediaries. Resources will be withdrawn and sent back into the General Fund, as controlled by the Office of Finances. Probes will be occasionally sent (no less than once per quarter, nor no more than four times per quarter) via tertiary channels inquiring about the target, as the information that she and her acquaintances (the intermediaries) holds might prove to be useful in subsequent missions, though this outcome is not likely.
The Special Agent-in-charge is not to maintain contact any longer than is necessary to inform the target, not exceeding any total length of time beyond one hour. The Special Agent may inform the intermediaries if he so desires, but this is also included in the one hour total time limit. The Special Agent is ordered to inform the primary intermediaries if and only if they inquire.
Retrieval squads are to be standing by for extraction of the Special Agent. The radio frequency on the CRM-114 is to be: OPE. The distress call for the Special Agent is "'Nevermore' quoth the raven." Live rounds are not to be used in the process of this operation.

As per operational protocol, complaints and requests are to be sent through the Office of Professional Management, Department of Human Resources.

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