Different kinds of Operas for different kinds of Ops.

From: Cell A
To: all Agents:

As ADAM puts together interarea / interagency task forces, some Opera Nights will involve daytime personas. Also, some parts of Operas might necessitate Federal law enforcement powers ( even if those powers are exercised under cover ) and/or coordinating with non-DG personnel. Some Operas would require a cover not affiliated with ANY agency, or even an identifiable cover.

Therefore we have introduced different kinds of Operas, each requiring different procedures. To quickly identify what a particular Opera is expected to involve, the Operas are coded according to a seating plan. When an Agent is invited to the Opera, he can ask where he's sitting. The question and answer both seem innocuous to a listener yet convey desired information.

Refer to the Opera Seating Chart for the New York Metropolitan Opera:http://www.metopera.org/infodesk/seatingchart.html

For the following sections.

Opera, Orchestra Seating:
These activities are fully legal and within the scope of the assigned Agent 's normal duties, although the product of their duties in this case is related to Delta Green.
Examples include criminal / financial record checks, real estate ownership checks, credit / background checks, etc. The gathering of background information or regular research.

Opera, Parterre Seating:
These activities are mostly legal, yet require secrecy and discretion.
Examples include illegal research ( such as a team of hackers breaking in for targets credit card bills ), servicing green boxes, and looking after Agents locked in psych wards.

Opera, Grand Tier Seating:
These activities may or may not involve the scope of the assigned Agents normal duties; the Agent might even be impersonating a member of a different organisation.
Examples would be an Agent sent to observe local law enforcement types who've uncovered something preternatural related, covering up the existence of the preternatural / DG, or investigating a report of possible preternatural activity.

Opera, Dress Circle Seating:
These activities may or may not involve the Agent's normal duties. They are very high risk raids or assaults on large or particularly active groups of cultists, usually with the assistance of non-DG personnel who've been fed a cover story.Examples would be the recent ICE raid on chaucha illegals in Los Angeles, or something similar to what happened at Amalgamated Bio-Carb's Gemstone facility.

Opera, Balcony:
Black op. The Agents are certainly working outside of their normal duties and definitely working under assumed names, with false identity documents to match. They are to use no identifiable gear, and assume they are under observation at most, if not all, times. Full Moscow Rules.Examples include the elimination of cultists ( secret killings, involuntary frontal lobotomies, arson, etc. ) and anything involving MJ12.

Additional information might be passed via comments on attire; an admonition to "shine your shoes" might mean "bring a false ID which identifies you as a US Marshal".

Most investigations will start from either the Dress Circle Seating or Balcony. If it remains something small enough to be dealt with off the books, that's what happens. If it gets big enough to require reinforcements, everyone regroups and works out how to get an agency or two officially involved, and how they will control possible witnesses to Outside phenomena.

The best rule of thumb is that you never ever flash credentials with your real life (whatever that means) identity on 'em unless you are on the clock with your day job, and you are wherever you are and doing what you are doing as part of that job.

The more distance between the Agents "real" identity and the identity they use for DG the better, but this has some disadvantages as well.

Should a "Day at the Races" use of non-DG personnel in an operation be required ( with or without red shirts ) there would most likely be news media coverage and an after-action report.

If there were personnel directing Federal LEO's in an assault on a cultist compound (for instance), and later it came out that these personnel were using false credentials or the identity of those personnel could not be determined, I'd expect some internal investigations to look into the events of the raid.

Also, any DG type impersonating a LEO from an agency not their own seems to be at a disadvantage as they would be unfamiliar with the procedures and jargon.