JTF Scarab

Scarab was initially thought to be a secret unit of private military contractors. However, this changed in early 2020, when the full name of the organization was revealed: Joint Task Force Scarab or JTF Scarab, an elite multinational covert-operations joint task force created by the United States government as a means of augmenting the United States special operations forces. 
However, the unit went rogue and became a private intelligence organization. 
== History ==
=== Creation and dissolution ===
The organization began as a joint task force and a joint national intelligence project between the United Kingdom and the United States of America during the Cold War, intended to recruit former covert operatives of other countries, provide them with new identities and have them perform field missions without oversight. 
The goal was to commit acts of sabotage against the Soviet Union and cause it to collapse from within. 
The organization was a powerful force throughout the Cold War, but was disbanded once John F. Kennedy became President. The reasoning behind this was that Kennedy found the organization to be a huge "slap in the face" to the values of the Founding Fathers as laid out in the US Constitution, and expressed concerns that further use of the joint task force would transform the country into a "vigilante state."
=== Reemergence ===
Although John F. Kennedy shut the project down, it was secretly reactivated by Rupert Matthews, who was director of the CIA at the time. In accordance to the original modus operandi, Scarab recruited covert operatives who abnegated their countries, faked their deaths and became assassins and agents for them. However, this time the organization transformed from a national intelligence organization to a private one, in addition to a terrorist organization: in the name of "preserving America's status as the global superpower of the world", they committed and enabled terrorist attacks in countries friendly to US interests, and successfully pinned the blame on the Soviets.
However, once the Soviet Union fell, JTF Scarab found itself without an enemy. It soon found one in Osama bin Laden and his organization Al-Qaeda years later.
=== 9/11 ===
In a stunning act of treason, JTF Scarab leader Daniel Winthrop launched Operation Yellow Swallow, a massive disinformation campaign intended to mislead both the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation regarding intel on Osama bin Laden throughout the 1990s, which inadvertently aided the Al-Qaeda leader in executing the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks years later. 
=== Exposure to the world ===
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== Known operatives ==
=== Cold War ===
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=== 21st Century ===
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== Weapons and equipment ==
=== Small arms ===
* AK-47
* G36C
* SCAR-L
* ACR 6.8
* TAR-21
* FAMAS
* F2000
* SCAR-H
* M4A1
* Honey Badger
* Remington R5
* SA-805
* SC-2010
* FAD
* MSBS
* APS Underwater Rifle
* Vector CRB
* Bizon
* P90
* AKS-74u
* PM-9
* MP5
* UMP45
* Mini-Uzi
* MP5K
* Vector
* K7
* M27-IAR
* MK46
* L86 LSW
* M249 SAW
* M60E4
* M240B
* RPD
* L115
* Lynx
* FP6
* MTS-255
* P226
* MP-443 Grach
* M9A1
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