Operation Lumiere

Operation Lumiere (French: Lumière) was a joint covert series of deception and infiltration operations began in 1938 by the nascent French Bureau for the Suppression of Counter-Revolution and Sabotage and the British Revolutionary Exportation Division under T.E Lawrence. It was the strongest weapon in the arsenal of war of the new government of France, knowing full well their military could not be ready to face the onslaught of the mobilised German military at its full strenght, needs to buy as much time and disorganisation at possible at the beginning of the war to create an opening for the French and British to form a front and gains as much as possible foothold. Under the direction of the General Charles Tillon. Its unsure when did the program actually ended considering the classified nature of most of Bureau documents however, its believed that either Lumiere ended around the time of the German counter-attack of 1940 or at the beginning of the French partisan war. Operation Lotus and Operation Helvetica was its two most famous successes.

## Operation Lotus

In preparation for the French war efforts in the Low Countries, nationalist and communist cells were organised underground with hidden caches of weapon forming across the countryside and in safehouses under control of sympathetic underground workers councils. A front organisation was formed attracting many nationalists and even monarchists to its rank in united opposition against the Hozehellen puppet monarchy, the National Council of Belgium was eventually steered into the control of the communist underground. These efforts bore fruits in the Belgian Campaign of 1939, with its military and government paralysed and collapsed into civil war as French forces quickly made easy works of the massive but mostly undergarrisioned border fortresses. Despite the German victorious counter-offensive later that year undo most of this work, it was still fundamental in helping France breach the formidable Belgian fortress line with ease.

## Operation Heveltica

Two events were the result of this operation, the Central Germany Strike and the Ruhr Uprising. Counter-intelligent against Germany was one of the most important aspects of French military and political strategy, which since 1925 it have established the German Affairs Bureau as part of the Committee of Infomation, its operations are heavily linked to the underground FAUD and KPD and since 1937, the German Affairs Bureau was incorporated into the structure of The Bureau. In the aftermath of the Berlin Market crash, its activities were highly effective in Germany due to the worsening social conditions, despite the Bureau playing a lesser role than domestic actors, its presence in Germany were most effective in disrupting German economy, worsening poliitical crisis and further prior to the War in 1939.

## Other operations

### Operation Jackal

In coordination with the British's Economic Warfare Department, numerous ghost companies were established in multiple countries for the purposes of espionages, assessing economic strength of the enemies, industrial sabotages and most importantly the procurement of rare material and products for the war efforts, with hard currency obtained via a series of link with state governments controlled by sympathetic Socialist Party in America as well as trade relationship with other neutral countries like Mexico or Brazil obtained the cash reserve for these functions. Its most famous achievement is obtaining a moderate amount of uranium from Austro-Hungarian Bohemia, mostly under the guise of export for US glass productions. These were the uranium which made possible the completion of Project Damocles and the detonation of the MARPAC's only nuclear device, Terror I in 1946.

### Operation Bordeux

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British agents were deployed inside the puppet states in Italy, this network later refocused into the Balkan population, as the war of Italian Unification draws to a close, expoiting dissident circles and front organisations, as well as the political liberal atmosphere in Austria, the Bureau and RED were able to repliate the sytem employed in Belgium, despite much smaller scale, the situation in the Balkan yielded much greater success exponentially.