PRELIMINARY REPORT TO ADAM
#DXI-888-217-76B- CELL B

Commisioner,

I need your advice on how to proceed with the matter of Agent Bruce.  He is in too sensitive a position to be dismissed, but his behavior merits disciplinary measures.  He is, in my opinion, the least valuable of our team, and as such transferral might be preferable.

Enclosed is a ‘report’ indicating example of this behavior and a transcription of my official reprimand.

AIC Benson
CO, Cell R
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COPY

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REPORT OF FINDINGS TO CO, CELL B
#DXI-888-214-60C
TITLE:  CULTURAL RESEARCH NODES, PART 1

This report is the culmination of intensive research in the private sector.  I have isolated a list of musical groups and individuals in the popular world that should be regarded as security threats or targets for observation.  Please forward at once to Ops for immediate implementation of security procedures. (Please note that the first seven entries are British, and deserve special emphasis in light of recent occurrences in the UK.

Sic:

David Bowie (David Jones)
George Harrison
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
Peter Gabriel
Martin Barre
Charlie Watts
Black Sabbath
Lou Reed
Jello Biafra
Slayer
Doobie Brothers
Fairport Convention
Link Wray
Aretha Franklin
Alan Holdsworth
Donald Fagen

All documentation available in files Code ERIFRT 1-10, 34-36, 98

Agent Bruce
Cell B

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TRANSCRIPT,
OFFICIAL REPRIMAND
CO BENSON
(TRANSCRIBED BY DON ARTLINGER, SPECIAL ASSISTANT)

[First speaker is CO Benson]

Before we begin the official reprimand, I would like to ask… what the hell do you think you are doing?

CO, my report was intended as the preliminaries of an ongoing investigation.

Investigation?  How so?

To… um… [clears throat] investigate possibly overlooked avenues of investigation.

Agent Bruce, you’ve used the word investigate three times now in two sentences. You must realize that you are part of no such active ongoing investigation.

Yes, sir, I thought however-

May I remind you that you are not a field agent.  You are strictly a medical examiner, and not cleared for the liberties you have taken.  Would you please explain yourself?

Um… I pursued all possible avenues of invest- um, research, and discovered an alarming dearth of surveillance on popular figures.  I began a program of cataloging their involvements and suspected ties.

David Bowie?!

Sir, David Bowie is the richest entertainer in the United Kingdom, with estimated holdings of $952 million.  His latest recordings reveal information that could be interpreted in such a way as to hint at—

For Christ’s sake, Emerson Lake and Palmer?  Are you mad?

Yes sir, I mean, no sir.  The group Emerson, Lake, and—

Emerson Lake and Palmer!?  As in, ‘ooooh what a lucky man’?

That song in particular reveals an occult doctrine that is extremely complex.  I have all the documentation if you’d like to see it.

Agent Bruce, I happen to own that album.  I know for a fact that Greg Lake wrote the song ‘Lucky Man’ when he was twelve years old!

Indeed, sir.  Mr. Lake and his colleagues are representatives of a multi-national consortium of—

Let the record show, Agent Bruce, that you are full of shit.  ‘I hereby give you notice of official reprimand, for behaviors unbecoming an agent and uncompliant with policy, in accordance with Statutes 11.5 and 7.8.  You will refrain from all activities aforementioned, and all others prohibited agents with your clearance and orders.  Infringement of these rules shall result in further disciplinary action at the prerogative of your commanding officer.  End official reprimand.’  Aretha Franklin, Agent Bruce?  Are you mad?  Have all copies of this destroyed, and continue in your capacity as medical examiner.  Is that perfectly clear?

END TRANSCRIPT
 

Message 212
Sent:  drpaularquette@ruealsa.eurasia.net
From: jbenson@businessplans.com
/Paul:
/I was wondering if you could supply me with some information relating to
/human electrochemical emotion suppression?  It’s for the science fair.  Say
/hi to Maliy and the boys.
/
/Jim

Message 745
Sent:   jbenson@businessplans.com
From: drpaularquette@ruealsa.eurasia.net
/Jim,
/Aren’t you going to send me some work?  Or clue me in on that project
/you’re with?  A man has to make a living, and an interesting one.  It
/seems that neurosurgery is in as much demand as ever, and I’m still as
/senior (haha) as ever, but I’m in danger of losing my position.
/’Unorthodox research practices,’ mon pied!  Merd.  Sure you can’t
/help me out?  Ah well, enough crabbing from your aged grandfather.
/
/Paul
/Ps… here is the information you wanted.
 

TRANSCRIPTION OF INTERROGATION OF JOHN DOE #802
OFFICIATING OFFICERS LT. JEFF MOORE & SGT. PHILLIP SOUTH, LAPD
CONSULTING SPECIALIST JAMES BENSON
(TRANSCRIBED BY BRADY MEYERS, LAPD)

MOORE: Thank you for coming on such short notice, Mr. Benson.

BENSON:  No problem gentlemen.  What can I do for you?

M:  This is John Doe, suspect in the Downey murder.  He was found fleeing from the scene with the Downey girl’s severed leg in his hand.  Saliva, hair, and semen traces found on the victim are all a match.

B:   Sounds pretty open and shut… why do you need me?

M:  Frank Harrison from Internal Affairs told me to get you ASAP.

B:  Ah yes, Frank’s a friend of mine.  Any reason?

M:  The… occultic nature of the suspect.

SOUTH:  This evidence was declared Top Secret, Eyes Only, Delta Green Clearance, you name it.  Harrison went right over the DA’s head, and is he pissed.

M:  It’s FYEO, Mr. Benson.

B:  Thanks… I’ll take a look at it back in DC, if you don’t mind.

M:  Shall we take a look at the suspect?

[Officers enter the interrogation room]

S:  John Doe, we’d like to have a few words with you.

DOE:  [sounds made by John Doe are rendered accurately as possible] Eeya eeya, fuhtagun!  Nyarlothotep!  Fuh ungooey!  Rely eh!

M:  It’s no language we’ve found, and he refuses to speak any English, if he can.

S:   I’ve been guessing that it’s schizophrenia, and he’s doing a running stream of, what are they, logarithms?  Neologarithms?

B:  Neologisms.  To tell you the truth, I don’t believe so.  If you’re hinting at this man having ties to a cult, then he may be using cipher and a mix of language and slang.

M:  The Crips around here don’t speak English anymore.  They don’t even speak Ebonics.  It’s more like pig latin.

D:  Kammog, kammog!  Eeya cutooloo! [sounds continue behind conversation]

S:   It’s creepy.  I wish he’d stop that bullshit.

M:  The evidence I just gave you, I took a look at it at the scene.  Pretty much indecipherable, in code like you said.  But what was just scrawled like graffiti in the margins was enough.  They hint like they’re plotting something.  I notified FBI antiterrorist,  but we don’t really have anything to give them, tell you the truth.  We’re missing the connections.

B:  You won’t find them, either.  They don’t exist, at least, outside of their own minds.  Conspiracy nuts, usually.

M:  You don’t have to give us the party line.  Harrison let on there was more to it.

S:  He cleared us most of the way.

B: [laughs]

D:  Rely eh!  Eeya eeya, cutooloo fuhtogun!  Eey—

[gunshot, followed by approximately two minutes of silence]

M:  He instructed me to do that once you were done with John Doe.  He arranged for clean-up.  I wish I could find these bastards where they wait and do them all like this.

B:  Agreed.  Then you didn’t really need me here for consulting at all.

S:   Nope.  He said we had to get you here to see this under any pretense.

B:  Well, gentlemen, it’s fun, but I have to get something accomplished.

END TRANSCRIPT
 

Message 232
Sent:  drpaularquette@ruealsa.eurasia.net
From: jbenson@businessplans.com
/Paul:
/
/Are you still interested?  I’ve got a permanent position coming open.  One of our
/medical examiners is taking leave, and with my group’s budget increases, we can
/afford a high-priced sawbones like yourself.  I mailed a package with info, but it’s
/in code.  Yes, in code.  Remember the letter I gave you last time I stopped by La Rue Alsa?
/Open it now… it’s got the code.  Don’t mind the secret spy antics, you’ll have your fill soon
/enough.  We’ll arrange to meet as soon as you’re done with the package.
/
/Jim

MEMORANDUM TO ADAM
RE: DISCIPLINARY MEASURES, AGENT RECRUITMENT

Commissioner:

After repeated evidence of mental disturbance and incompetence for service in Delta Green, Agent Bruce has been placed under house arrest.  I believe that I have found a use for Agent Bruce, in reference to the project I have outlined for you in REPORT #DXI-888-217-34F, in conjunction with Agent Billete, who is the perfect choice for such operations.  As justification for his high rate of pay, let me relate a piece of conversation.  When I detailed the projects we had in mind for a neurosurgeon of his caliber, he responded with a pay demand.  I stated that his price was almost ludicrous.  He maintained that other top neurosurgeons make much less, and when I responded that other top neurosurgeons would not even do the projects, he simply said:  "My point exactly." Agent Billete is not only a brilliant surgeon, but is perhaps craftier than any of us.  He will go far.  A full proposal For Your Eyes Only will be in your office at the end of the week, with complete details of the project.

AIC Benson
CO CELL B

THE RICHMOND TIMES DISPATCH
Section A, Page 12

In what is suspected to be an instance of foul play,  Everett Bruce, a medical examiner with Henrico County Coroner’s office, was declared missing.  After not meeting appointments for a week, Bruce’s home was found to be ransacked and uninhabited.  The case is open, as no ransom note has been found, and Henrico County Sheriff’s Department continues to dredge the James in search of a body.
 

AP WIRE REPORT, FORWARDED TO ADAM
[scribbled note in margin reads : "Here are results for the fellows who do the budgets-  Benson."

London-  The popular Thoth Club, a nightclub in SoHo, was destroyed in an explosion this morning at 5:03, say the police.  The Thoth Club was infamous for number of arrests, and was believed by the authorities to be a major clearinghouse for drug and sex trafficking, as well as the headquarters of Satanic cult activities.  The explosion occurred when the Thoth Club was reserved to unknown private parties.  Neighbors state that this time of night is when alleged cult activities occur.  Forensic results have not come in, but authorities on the scene believe the explosion to be C4 or another similar high explosive, set by  a rival gang or cult.
 

AP WIRE REPORT, FORWARDED TO ADAM
[note in margin reads : "This’ll show them.- Benson"]

Brighton-  Another explosion has rocked the British Isles, this time one week later.  The explosion in question destroyed a former Anglican church now being leased to a private fraternal order, the Illumined Knights of Dagon.  This group, considered a splinter of the Freemasons, was convening a meeting when the explosion occurred.  Casualties are estimated at 42, including John Herriot, Head Clerk of Brighton Civil Service.  Police are still pursuing leads.

Message 306 (FILE ATTACHED)
Sent:  drpaularquette@ruealsa.eurasia.net
From: jbenson@businessplans.com
/Paul- I mean, Agent Billete, I need you to perform the cortical surgery and /implantation on me.  It’s direct orders from Adam that I’m to be the first /AIC with the capability.  Let’s schedule ASAP.  I’ve sent you a file that /you should read and consider, authored by Agent Bruce.  I believe it is /important to our jobs… and it makes sense now.
/
/Jim
 

FLASH
FLASH
FLASH

FROM:  CELL A
TO:  ALL CELLS FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION

PRIORITY ALPHA ONE

GENERAL ALERT

AIC Benson of Cell B, recently missing, is to be considered compromised, and dangerous.  AIC Benson has been rigged with an explosive device, and should not be approached or apprehended.  Members of Cell B have been quarantined for questioning.  EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION, AND REPORT SIGHTINGS OF AIC BENSON.

EXCERPT FROM TRANSCRIBED STATEMENT OF AGENT BILLETTE
(TRANSCRIBED BY DON ARTLINGER, SPECIAL ASSISTANT)

… and he had documentation for everything.  It looked authentic.  These documents you’ve showed me, as his progress reports, I’ve never seen them.  He said we had the go ahead, with full discretion.  I didn’t question.  He was my friend, and leader, and I wasn’t sure how to buck the chain of command.  It bothered me, sure, and I thought he just had too much stress.  It was a day or two after the operation that he called me and demanded if I had read Agent Bruce’s report yet.  I told him I had, and didn’t believe it.  He went into a rage.  It was like he was another person altogether.  He made references I had never heard of, all sorts of crazy occult terminology that no one but cultists use.  I got scared then, but that was the last I heard from him.  I don’t think we’ll see Jim Benson again.  If you want my opinion, you’ll be getting a forwarded press wire saying that one of those singers on the list got blown straight to Hell.  That is, if no one does anything.

END TRANSCRIPT
 

OFFICIAL NOTICE

Effective now, leadership of Cell B has been assumed by AIC Beard, formerly a special consultant for the NSA.  Project 503B-999K will commence under his direction.
 
 

AP WIRE, FORWARDED TO ADAM
[note written in margin reads:  "I was right.  Agent Billete."]

Los Angeles-  British superstar David Bowie narrowly escaped death this evening, when the new art gallery Angels Height, which he was dedicating, was destroyed in a freak explosion moments before he entered.  Bowie’s survival was due to his late arrival, as he had been accosted in front of the gallery by an unidentified French autograph seeker, currently in police custody.  Casualties have not been estimated yet, but are believed to be in excess of 200 people.  Bowie did not release a statement.