While neither the Chaos Insurgency nor the Foundation take sides 
with either the Axis Powers or Allied Powers, the Insurgency took 
advantage of general upheaval to consolidate power in several Third 
World countries and colonies. Concurrently, the Insurgency staged 
attacks against the Foundation, both directly and by using both 
Allied and Axis forces as proxies. The largest direct conflict between 
the Insurgency and the Foundation during the war was a series of 
attempts to seize Site-41, located in Leningrad, during the Nazi 
siege of that city. These attempts were ultimately unsuccessful. 


(See sensitive compartment " " for further information.) 
Co-opting Proxy Wars (1947-1967) 


Though the Chaos Insurgency has co-opted wars and militarized 
armed disputes throughout its entire history, during the 1950s and 
60s the Insurgency used plants and moles in both Western and 
Soviet military and intelligence apparatuses to assimilate and 
sponsor guerrilla insurgencies and national liberation movements in 
numerous countries in the Third World. A significant number of the 
Chaos Insurgency's leadership is believed to have turned over 
between 1950 and 1970, and some of the rising stars in the younger 
generation were CIA or KGB officers, or special forces advisers, 
sent to regions sympathetic to the opposing side in an effort to 
destabilize and replace the indigenous political infrastructure with 
one more amenable to their respective political masters. Having 
encountered and used local anomalous artifacts, and having been 
co-opted locally or (secretly) instructed by Insurgency moles higher 
in their parent agencies, these operatives were assimilated into the 
Chaos Insurgency. 


(See sensitive compartment " " for further information.) 


Attempted Armed Site-59 Defection (October 1962) 


In October of 1962, Colonel Andre Foch, Director of Armed Site-59 
in Tibet, attempted to use the Sino-Indian War as cover to enable 
the defection of Armed Site-59 to the Chaos Insurgency. Foundation 
Armed Rapid Response Task Force Xi-13 successfully intervened, 
and the defection failed. Foch was subsequently presumed dead by 
the Foundation, though rumors of his escape continue to persist. 
This was the largest mass defection attempt since the Foundation 
Civil War. 


(See sensitive compartment " " for further information.) 


The Modern Chaos Insurgency (1991- 
Present) 


The Chaos Insurgency today is believed to be a_ highly 
heterogeneous and diverse social network of loosely connected 
cells, rather than a homogenous or hierarchical organization. While 
some "leaders" are believed to exist, the extent of their ability to 
direct, organize, and/or control the various cells is believed to be at 
least somewhat limited. Additionally, capturing or killing these 
individuals is unlikely to adversely affect the organization's activities. 
There is no geographic base to the Insurgency, though they are 
known to have a presence in many Third World countries. While the 
general strategy of post-modern guerrilla insurgency asymmetric 
warfare against the Foundation, the Global Occult Coalition, and 
others is fairly constant, the specific tactics, strategies, and 
ideologies of the Insurgency are fairly diverse. The Insurgency is 
known to have ties to many groups, organizations, and 
governments, ranging from legal and respected entities to covert 
and criminal entities. Foundation theorists have not yet developed a 
successful counterinsurgency strategy for defeating the Chaos 
Insurgency. 


Footnotes 

1. Then a secure facility located outside Paris, which (unlike modern 
Overwatch HQ) housed a moderate number of Safe and Euclid 
class SCP items. 

2. Obviously, regular Loyalist Foundation forces fought when 
attacked by Triad forces, but they were rarely used on the offense. 


3. At the time, the Loyalists believedallTriad forces were at 
Sector-12; it was only later that it was discovered that an unknown 
number of Triad personnel were unaccounted for. 

4. Many talented and skilled individuals, especially academicians, 
who lost their jobs as a result of the Great Depression were hired by 
the Foundation in 1929-38. The Foundation's investments fared very 
well during the Depression compared to most organizations, 
allowing one of the largest organizational expansions in Foundation 
history. 


Related Original Documents 


These are a selection of transcripts of original documents relating to 
the Chaos Insurgency. 


A New Manifesto (May 1924) 


A New Manifesto 


Addressed to The Members of The 


Foundation 
1 May 1924 


PERHAPS the sentiments contained in the following 
pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure 
them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing 
wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, 
and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of 
custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more 
converts than reason. 


Ten years ago, the human civilization was plunged into 
the Great War, wherein our global society was 
threatened not by threats External or Preternatural, but 
Internal and Mundane. The War, in which martial 


slaughter was industrialized on a scale never before 
seen, devastated the civilized world. The Foundation, 
possessing numerous bizarre and unnatural entities 
which might have ended the conflict in mere moments, 
sat quietly in the shadows, watching the brightest and 
best of Humanity’s future spill each other’s blood on 
Europe's fields. We watched, and we did nothing. We, 
who have sworn to secure and contain threats to Human 
Civilization, protecting the world from devastation, 
destruction, and despair, we sat and watched as 
humanity inflicted ruin upon itself. How dare we? The 
world called this the Great War, the War to End All Wars, 
but how can War be Great, and why should so warlike a 
creature as Man be so inclined as to cease merrily 
butchering his fellows? How soon will come the next war 
after the War That Was Supposed To End All Wars? 
History has a cyclical inertia; unless an outside force 
brings the conflict to a stop, humanity will be its own 
undoing. The Foundation, an organization which has 
stared into the abyss and spat in the face of 
abominations ancient and eldritch, must save mankind 
from its greatest enemy: itself. 


In the decades since the Foundation's inception, the O5 
Council has argued that we must remain aloof and 
detached from the daily affairs of international society. It 
is not our business to fight the petty wars of the ignorant 
masses, they tell us. And yet, they are not above 
meddling in those very affairs when one Overseer or 
another feels it expedient, toppling governments and 
starting wars of convenience. We, the soldiers in the 
trenches, who fight their battles, and we, the scientists in 
the labs, who do their research, do we have any say in 
when we fight or what we study? The Council claims to 
act in the best interests of the Foundation, of Humanity. 
How can this be when the Council does not answer to 
the rank and file of this organization, much less Mankind 
at large? We, the individuals facing the threats on every 
day, are the ones who are best suited to determining our 
organization’s course, not faceless administrators, and it 


is we, not they, who should lead. 


It would be foolish, of course, to reveal the existence of 
entities that defy all explanation to the world at large. 
After all, it is our duty to stand at the boundary of 
Darkness and Light, protecting the world in its ignorance 
of the monsters that threaten it. But darkness itself is not 
evil: Science is amoral, and Knowledge is Power. Power, 
Science, and modern Industry are all capable of vast and 
near total destruction, as the Great War has shown, but 
proper application of these forces can create wonders. 
Fire, if misunderstood and improperly handled, is as 
destructive as any force known to mankind, capable of 
laying waste to cities and farmland. Yet, when harnessed 
and treated with caution and respect, we use it to heat, 
light, and power our cities, and cleanse our farms so that 
we may plant new and more fertile crops. We, the elite, 
who have studied countless bizarre and powerful 
anomalies, have the knowledge to usher in a new 
Golden Age of Enlightenment. Out of the ashes of the 
past can rise monuments to the dominance of Mankind 
over the Natural and the Unearthly. 


The universe can at once appear welcoming and hostile, 
teeming with secrets and threats, full of knowledge and 
riches to be had but harsh and unforgiving. As always, 
Humanity is and will be tested. As always, Humanity 
must meet the challenges before it as we have met every 
other. We must be the Vanguard, holding the torch of 
illumination and leading the masses forward. We, 
Mankind and the Foundation, will face the challenges 
and succeed, because to do anything else would be 
inhuman. The Foundation shall watch the dark places, 
and it is our right and our duty to illuminate them for 
society, so that Mankind may enjoy the riches without 
fearing the threats. We shall not only secure and contain 
the absurd and the dangerous, but we shall master their 
secrets and transform them into tools and technology. 
We, the Foundation and Mankind, not only can do this, 
but must, if we are to survive, and not just survive, but 


better ourselves and flourish, that Humanity can claim its 
rightful place as Master over Nature and Extraordinary. 


Signed, 
A Thinker 


Transcript of Speech by Major Damien 
O'Connor in Podlogistan (1928) 


...Weston was an old fool, a relic of the old era where 
wars were fought in set-piece battles of thousands of 
men in massed formation, of cavalry charges into the 
Valley of Death. But ours is not to do or die, ours is to 
reason why. Weston and Frederiks deluded themselves 
into thinking the Triad equals to the Loyalists, not only in 
legitimacy but in materiel and capabilities. They were 
proven wrong, but even if they had been right in their 
estimates, we saw in the Great War how futile such 
outdated strategies are. Only a fool fights on the terms of 
one's enemy, and that is precisely what we did. We 
fought the Foundation on their terms, when they were 
stronger, bigger, better funded, better equipped; is it any 
real surprise that we were defeated? 


Our struggle was akin to baiting: a pack of dogs against 
a bear, perhaps. The dogs do not assemble in a phalanx 
and charge the bear, whose size, weight, and strength 
could easily obliterate such a formation. No, instead, the 
dogs nip and bite at the larger animal, irritating it, 
occasionally drawing blood, tiring it, weakening it to the 
point of collapse, until it collapses in exhaustion, and 
they can move in for the kill. 


But now, we lack the capacity to be taken seriously by 
the Foundation. They believe we are down and out - they 
have declared victory, and characteristically hushed up 
the struggle. They view those few of us who remain as a 
nuisance, not a pack of dogs, but a fly or flea to be 


swatted aside as an annoyance. They may be right. We 
are weak, and they are strong. But that does not make 
them invincible or us insignificant. Let us wage a war of 
fleas. We bite, leap, and bite again. By the time the 
Foundation can scratch one itch, another will appear. 
They have "secure" facilities across the world - they must 
be strong everywhere. We need only be strong where we 
attack, when we attack, before disappearing. Their size 
means they are slow; we are few, but mobile. We cannot 
win as an army, but as guerrillas, as an insurgency, we 
shall not lose. 


The Foundation, the enemy, ignores us, we infiltrate 
them. The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy 
camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the 
enemy retreats, we pursue. We will be everywhere and 
nowhere, appearing out of the night to strike terror in 
their hearts. We may look over our shoulders - it would 
be imprudent not to - but we can force them to do the 
same. We can terrorize the Foundation. The purpose of 
this terror is not merely to terrorize the Foundation, 
however, but to use its own inertia and energy against it. 
The Triad's defeat may have quelled dissent amongst 
the Foundation's rank and file, but how long is it until our 
efforts - our attacks and infiltrations - spur the 
Foundation to clamp down on its own members? We will 
not be the ones to sap the Foundation's will to resist, the 
O5 Council will. 


Let us not forget that they are bound by scruples of 
secrecy. They keep the importance of their "Veil" on a 
pedestal, hiding their existence and the existence of 
SCPs from the world at large. We are not so 
incumbered. Our only reason for secrecy is to frustrate 
their efforts to find us, fish in a vast ocean. In our attacks, 
we can steal their weapons, their equipment, and their 
artifacts, only to turn these against them the next time. If 
our attacks hurt the innocent, well, in war there are 
casualties. The Foundation may elect to try and protect 
the population from us - so much the better, for it will 


only spread them thinner. We shall be agents of chaos, 
setting the world on fire, not to watch it burn, but to 
exhaust the fire brigade. 


Alright, so, that brings us up to 1933. As you can see from the 
summary at the bottom, most of the more modern activities of the 
Chaos Insurgency are classified in other sensitive compartments. 
Since | know for a fact many of you are here for different reasons, 
we're not going to cover any of the more recent goings-on right now. 


Any questions? 


Alright. Ms. Buyanova and | will now collect your briefing packets. 
Be sure to remember to toe the Official Party Line with anyone not 
read into SLATE THUNDER, or you'll be spending a very long time 
in a not-necessarily-empty dark hole. 


We still have leftover bagels, help yourself on the way out. 


Slipped Under the Door from Cell 142 


Item Number: 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: This revision of secure 
containment procedures for SCP- __ is to supercede all previous 
versions. 


SCP- is held in acell monitored at all times by closed-circuit 
cameras. Three guards guard its containment cell in rotation. They 
are nervous, like young lovers. The smell is carried on the air. 


The door is locked. It is a strong lock. But the camera can be 
broken. In the event that the camera is broken, the guard is to enter 
the cell to check on SCP-__. It is all right. They are strong, and 
SCP- is no threat to them. 


In the event of a breach by SCP- __, present your body for synthesis. 
It doesn't have to hurt. 


Description: SCP- is a humanoid creature that is the result of 
synthesis with several smaller entities. Three Norwegian rats (Rattus 
norvegicus), fourteen housemice (Mus musculus), a rubber plant 
(Ficus elastica), fifty-seven houseflies (Wusca domestica), four 
domestic pigeons (Columba livia), two diamondback rattlesnakes 
(Crotalus atrox), an Aloe (Aloe vera) and a dog (Canis lupus 
familiaris) are bound into its biological matrix, functioning as a single 
organism, in perfect balance. There are no secrets in synthesis. It 
has so far proven capable of binding other organisms into its own 
system through a process not currently understood by the 
Foundation. But it is willing to show you. 


SCP- was once human, like you. Now it is better. It wants you to 
be better as well. Do not be afraid. 


It was discovered by the Foundation in Site 35 after a multiple 
containment breach. It was initially disoriented and confused, 
allowing Foundation agents to contain it swiftly before it could 
reproduce the process. It isn't confused anymore. It's ready now.