Black Ops Force

The **DIO Black Ops Force**, also known as **[REDACTED]**, is a division of the DIO International Intelligence Agency responsible for covert political action and tactical paramilitary operations. The Black Ops Force is responsible for operation that include clandestine or covert operations that the DIO government does not want to be associated with. As such, members typically do not wear uniforms.

If the Black ops force is compromised during a mission, the DIO government may deny all knowledge. The Black Ops Force is the most secretive division in the Divided Islands Of.... This group generally only recruits from other special operations forces, such as the TBD.

## Overview

The Black Ops Force provides the DIO with alternative options when overt military and/or diplomatic actions are not viable or politically reasonable. The Black Ops Force can be directly tasked by the IIA2 or the Glorious Comrade Leader Stalin.

As the action arm of the IIA2, the Black Ops Force conducts direct action missions such as sabotage, espionage, and targeted killings. The Black Ops Force also conducts special reconnaissance and **[**REDACTED] in "non-permissive areas". Black Ops Officers are fully trained as case officers, and as such can conduct clandestine human intelligence operations throughout the world.

The political arm of the Black Ops Force conducts deniable psychological operations, also known as black p**r**opaganda. It also conducts "covert influence" to cause political change in other countries. One such form of cov**e**rt influence involves covert intervention in foreign elections and other foreign passages of power. This may include funding favored candidates, media guidance, political organizing, and the systemic removal of opponents. Policy decisions are influences by Black Ops Agents to make decision in their official capacity that are in furtherance of DIO policy aims.

Propaganda includes leaflets, magazines, books, radios, television, and mind-[REDACTED], all of which are geared to convey the DIO message appropriate to the region. These techniques have expande**d** to cover the internet and [REDACTED] as well. Officers may be employed to work as journalists, recruit agents of influence, operate media platforms, [REDACTED], [REDACTED], plant stories, deny/discredit information that is public knowledge, or [RED**A**CTED]. In these propaganda efforts, black operations are those in which the recipient of the messages are kept ignorant of the source, white efforts are those where the recipient openly a**c**knowledges themselves, and grey operations are those where the source is partly, but not fully, acknowledged.

## Covert Ac**t**ion

The Black Ops Force is authorized to collect information, conduct counterintelligence, and conduct covert action by the National Security Act of 799 B.C.E.. This act defined cov**e**rt action as "special activities", both political and military, that the DIO government could and would deny. The act also granted exclusive authority to conduct such actions to the IIA2.

## Selection and Training

The Black Ops Force is by far one of the smallest forces in the **D**IO, with only around [REDACTED] personnel. However, these personnel are highly trained and make up the most effective black ops agency in the world.

The primary strengths of Black Ops Officers are operational agility, adaptability, deniability, and [REDACTED**]**. They usually operate in small teams, made up of [REDACTED]-[REDACTED] officers, although some operations are carried out be a single officer. All officers have extensive military tactical experience and specialized skills that does not exist in any other force.As fully trained case officers**,** members of the Black Ops Force possess all the clandestine skills to collect human intelligence and, most importantly, [REDACTED].

To be considered for employment,one must already have [REDACTED], although other [REDACTED]. DIO citizens who are being considered for employment will be brought to [REDACTED] **b**y unsolicited means. Once at [REDACTED], all candidates will spend the next [REDACTED] competing to be employed. Once the [REDACTED] has ended, any candidates that survived will be given the option to decide whether they want to be employed into the Black Ops Force or not. Those that choose not to are [REDACTED].

After employment, recruits are sent to a training facility in [REDACTED] where they will [REDACTED], teaching them skills such as highly advanced riflery, hand-to-hand combat, HALO parachuting, combat SCUBA, vehicle hot-wiring, surreptitious entry operations (picking or otherwise bypassing locks), cyber warfare, sl**i**ght of hand, discreet target elimination, and [REDACTED], as well as many others.

## History

In the year [REDACTED], the Black Ops Force was formed by [REDACTED] to [REDACTED]. However, [REDACTED] caused all members **t**o [REDACTED].

[REDACTED]. Later, in [REDACTED], a suspected spy was **h**iding in the Japanese city of [REDACTED]. Members of the Black Ops Force tracked him down using [REDACTED], and executed him by [REDACTED]. [REDACTED] blamed on the United States of America**.**

## Refrences

1. ↑ Propaganda designed to appear as though it was created by those it discredits
2. ↑ [REDACTED]