Open Sources and Cover-Ups: 09JAN2014

Seen recently at the Delta Green page on Facebook and the Delta Green Mailing List.

UNBELIEVABLE ASSASSIN BUG WEARS ITS VICTIMS’ CORPSES AS ARMOR
It gets ugly when the byakhee starts wearing human remains for camouflage.

assassin bug

160 YEAR-OLD DOCUMENTS INTENTIONALLY DESTROYED IN FRANKLIN COUNTY, N.C.
Some secrets are best left unknown. Good work, agents. Damn good work.

IF YOU KILLED SOMEBODY, HOW WOULD YOU DISPOSE OF THE BODY WITHOUT GETTING CAUGHT?
There are some pretty amateur responses, but one from someone called ‘scarabic’ sounds like it was born from experience. —Jason Fritz

MERMAIDS: NEW EVIDENCE
Footage from Black Cod Island? via David Mark Bragg

MAN’S HAND GRAFTED TO HIS FOOT FOR TRANSPLANT
I’m praying that this will turn out to be photoshop. Otherwise this is clearly a candidate for Plan F.

TAMERLAN TSARNAEV BELIEVED HE WAS BEING FED ORDERS THROUGH ‘MAJESTIC MIND CONTROL’
Someone has been getting sloppy.

CLIMATE CHANGE EXPERT’S FRAUD WAS ‘CRIME OF MASSIVE PROPORTION,’ SAY FEDS
We can all guess where he really was.

FBI DROPS LAW ENFORCEMENT AS ‘PRIMARY’ MISSION
Old news to many Delta Green agents. A useful reminder to the rest of us.

DARK-MATTER SEARCH CONSIDERS EXOTIC POSSIBILITIES
‘The combined shock of the revelation and of the abrupt command gave me a kind of paralysis, and in my terror my mind again opened to the impressions coming from what Tillinghast called “beyond.”‘

HISTORIANS LAMENT DESTRUCTION OF FRANKLIN COUNTY RECORDS
Another job well done and no one the wiser. Good work, agents.

NSA SEEKS TO BUILD QUANTUM COMPUTER THAT COULD CRACK MOST TYPES OF ENCRYPTION
Be careful what you wish for.

US TOWN LEFT RED-FACED AFTER FAKE FEDERAL OFFICER LEADS FIVE-MONTH WAR ON DRUGS
Sometimes a cover takes on a life of its own.

THE NSA HAS NEARLY COMPLETE BACKDOOR ACCESS TO APPLE’S IPHONE
Which smartphones does your team use for Delta Green ops? If the answer is anything except “None,” we need to have an unpleasant conversation.

THIS IS AN ACTUAL ACADEMIC PAPER ABOUT TRACKING TIME TRAVELERS ONLINE
If you do meet a time traveler, don’t shake hands. We don’t need another Artifact Zero situation.

INSIDE TAO: DOCUMENTS REVEAL TOP NSA HACKING UNIT
Inside one of the deadly temptations of modern Delta Green agents.

$0.60 FOR CAKE: AL-QAIDA RECORDS EVERY EXPENSE
Instant coffee, propaganda, workshops abroad, rockets and rifle ammo: It’s all in the numbers.

IT HAPPENED TO ME: I HAD DINNER WITH A CULT (UH, I THINK)
“If you have to ask whether you’re in a cult, the answer is ‘Yes.’”(Stephen Colbert)

A BROOKLYN CHURCH UNCOVERS A LONG-HIDDEN CELESTIAL SCENE
Someday we might hear such a breathless report about a renovation of an old Esoteric Order of Dagon meeting hall. And that’s why every cell needs to be ready to act at all times.

ZAPPING THE BRAIN CAN HELP TO SPOT-CLEAN NASTY MEMORIES
If only forgetting erased the scars.

HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU HAVE A MAGICIAN PROBLEM? SUMMONING-CIRCLE GRAFFITI
IMINT?

WALTER DE MARIA “LIGHTNING FIELD”
What terrors are called down with the lightning on certain nights of the year? Via Agent Donald at the DGML.

YOU’LL NEVER GUESS WHERE THIS FBI AGENT LEFT A SECRET INTERROGATION MANUAL
(1) If you plan to copyright a secret handbook, even reading up on copyright law on Wikipedia is better than just making it up for yourself.

(2) If you plan to copyright a secret Delta Green handbook, we need to discuss why you created a Delta Green handbook in the first place.

(3) Interesting reference to FBI “clean teams” whose object is criminal prosecution — or in our parlance, “cover.”

A CREEPY 15TH CENTURY LANGUAGE EXPERIMENT TOOK PLACE ON THIS ISLAND
So, apparently the Cult of Transcendence weren’t the first to give this a try.

THE COMING ‘INSTANT PLANETARY EMERGENCY’
The Deep Ones’ long game may be just to leave us alone for a few more years.

REVEALED: THE SOVIET UNION’S $1 BILLION ‘PSYCHOTRONIC’ ARMS RACE WITH THE US
“He shows how Soviet research evolved more or less independently of work in the western world but focused on many of the same unconventional themes as secret US programs. And he shows how the Soviets and the Americans used what little they knew of each other’s work to create a self-sustaining cycle of funding. This psychotronic arms race cost as much as $1 billion and only ended in the early 21st century when the funding bubble burst.”

THE CAMBRIDGE CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF EXISTENTIAL RISK
“Many scientists are concerned that developments in human technology may soon pose new, extinction-level risks to our species as a whole.”

THIS $145,000,000 SPIRITUAL HEADQUARTERS IS JUST RIDICULOUS. I’M SURE YOU KNOW WHO BUILT IT.
Enolsis today?

FACIAL-RECOGNITION SOFTWARE UNCOVERS A BIZARRE CONSPIRACY IN THIS SHORT
Needs investigating…

NEW CALCULATIONS SUGGEST THE UNIVERSE COULD COLLAPSE AT ANY TIME
With our luck, new calculations will CAUSE the universe to start collapsing in on itself. We’ve certainly seen gravity do weird things with those glyphs from the Roswell wreckage.

MISSING AMERICAN IN IRAN WAS ON UNAPPROVED MISSION
What sketchy ops look like from the outside.

SKYJACK: THE DRONE THAT HIJACKS OTHER DRONES IN MID-AIR
“Just get a drone to take out the Deep One tunnels,” they said.

UNDER SEATTLE, A BIG OBJECT BLOCKS BERTHA. WHAT IS IT?
What has blocked progress through the earth and detritus beneath Seattle?

THE MYSTERIOUS OBJECT BLOCKING SEATTLE TUNNEL WAS JUST A PIPE
“I applaud the team who worked the cover story. Mundane, disappointing, forgettable, perfect.” —David F McCloskey

FBI’S SEARCH FOR ‘MO,’ SUSPECT IN BOMB THREATS, HIGHLIGHTS USE OF MALWARE FOR SURVEILLANCE
If you insist on phishing as part of an investigation, at least make sure the code works.

THE CASE OF INCEST AND DEPRAVITY WHICH CAME TO REST IN THE HILLS OF A QUIET COUNTRY TOWN
G’day, mate, and welcome to Dunwich.

30 NEW ANTARCTIC MARINE SPECIES FOUND
Getting closer…

Shane Ivey runs Arc Dream Publishing and is lead editor for Delta Green.

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