What kind of safe-houses, survival kits, etc. would our favorite conspiracy have established over the years? What would they maintain in their new, covert incarnation?

It's a safe assumption that we have the resources you'd expect of any intelligence agency--since we have members in most of them who access to those resources. We just have to be careful about using them.

But aside from those second-hand resources, we do have some primary resources at our disposal, generally safehouses of various types and locations. Several of these are gifts from former members. Others have been acquired by us, either by erasing a safehouse asset from the records of a legitimate agency and appropriating it--they'll never miss one here and there--or by buying them outright.

This raises the question of funding. The simple answer as to our funding corresponds to the erased-asset technique I just described, only we apply it to the countless offshore bank accounts set up for countless intelligence operations by various agencies (U.S. and foreign) over the last five decades. We've appropriated bank accounts formerly used for a variety of purposes: to fund French partisans in WWII, to hold profits from heroin smuggling during the Vietnam conflict, to pay for arms for the Contras, and so forth. So many secret accounts have been set up over the years that more than a few of them have simply dropped off the books of the agencies who set them up--often with substantial sums of money still present. We have a reserve of such accounts quietly acquired over the years. It's not a huge amount of money, but since we have little overhead, it goes a long way. Compound interest helps.

As for equipment, this is largely at the discretion of the agents. Technology has proven so unpredictable in its application against our foes that we hesitate to recommend anything in particular as being essential. It's not like having crosses and garlic will protect you. We recommend firearms (with the proper training) because so many otherwise unnatural phenomena are accompanied by hostile human collaborators; past that, who knows? On rare occasions we make a breakthrough, as with the chemical detection system developed for the Groversville incident --but sure enough, we haven't had a single instance of that system being applicable on even a single op since then.

Recently, one of the largest DG operations ever in the continental United States has been going on in Chicago. The details are still pending, but despite a tremendous amount of weaponry and scientific specialization being brought to bear on a single foe, said foe is still acting with impunity. When M-60 machine guns, claymores, white phosphorous grenades, and the most sophisticated and multi-purpose surveillance equipment on the market fails utterly, my only useful advice on the subject of equipment comes down to packing a lunch and a good pair of running shoes.


be seeing you,
Alphonse