The Y Files

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*"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."*

- Arthur Conan Doyle
You hear the cries in the night and want to pull the covers over your bed, realizing too late that whatever is howling is already inside. You try to outrun the agents sent after you, unaware that they already know where you're going. Your thoughts are theirs to read like an open book. Your loved ones are their pawns in an apocalyptic chess match. The world as you thought you knew it is no longer safe.

Then you look out the window and realize that what was howling isn't a Chupacabra, that the agents aren't ACIN, that what's reading your mind isn't a battle psychic and that your loved ones are doing what they want of their own will.

This is more than a rabbit hole. This is the paranormal.

## The Y Files

The most complete dossier on the world's strange happenings resides in Geneva, under lock and key in the deepest archives. Secured by the most technologically advanced security systems combined with human protection, the files kept in this basement represent everything the Allies fear breaking out into the world. Stories of robot armies and alien abductions. Of inquisitions and lost societies. The frightening truth and not even the Allies understand what is going on anymore.

Originally a collection of cases INTERPOL investigators deemed unsolvable, unacceptable, or unbelievable, the Y Files (So named because the X Files were reserved for incidents involving eXperimental technology) are currently headed by former Assistant Director Trapper of the FBI. Currently there are two field teams operating. The first is made up of INTERPOL agents Raynard Muldrake and Diana Lusky, Muldrake considered an expert on unusual psychologies, Lusky for her background as both a medical doctor and PhD in theoretical physics. Unfortunately, Muldrake is a free-wheeling rogue and Lusky is often so set in the rational that she often misses what is right in front of her until it nearly kills her.

The second field team is typically lead by INTERPOL agent Ophelia Cunningham and assisted by the brilliant-yet-unstable Dr. William Cardinal, his criminal son Paul Cardinal, and junior agent Astra Barnsforth. Primarily operating within Allied territory, the second team is forced to often face down the dozens of malfunctioning Allied programs and various other projects that have escaped the boundaries of their owners.

The fact that these are the people Geneva has charged with investigating such matters has turned the Y Files into an international laughing stock in law enforcement. Muldrake's personal failings are constantly the focus of dozens of internal reviews as Lusky desperately tries to rationalize what they've investigated in their reports. Cunningham and Paul Cardinal have consistently failed to recover any piece of technology from their enemies, as Astra barely reigns in William's most unstable tendencies.

Despite their failings, the Y Files have amassed a massive database of the world's most bizarre and unbelievable incidents, subjects, and technologies in their files. Compiled below are choice selections from the database, as extracted by Network private eyes.

### File: Y-GH0STP0NYR1D3R: "The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow"

From Agent Muldrake's personal files:

- *For the past seven months now, our office has been slowly filling with reports from the town of Sleepy Hollow, New York, stating that a figure of folklore has started to appear on the local radar. Officially this is all a prank, a willing hoax perpetrated by persons unknown for an unknown reason. This denies the reality that seven people have died because of it, all decapitated with blows from a heavy blade superheated to several hundreds of degrees, enough to instantly cauterize all wounds. Unless someone took a torch tank and miniaturized it, I find it highly unlikely to be a hoax. Anyone who's actually seen the killer have noted that they dress as though they were coming from a war re-enactment, wearing a blue coat unlike what Americans are used to imagining as worn by any British soldier during the war.*
- *This leads me to believe that there is no doubt to the identity of the figure. Though often considered folklore, the story of a headless rider galloping through the forests of New England has been an old standby for the region. A Hessian who lost his head to cannon fire, he soon sought out his missing head in order to properly rest. Now, it appears that the horseman has decided to strike back at those who he considers the descendants of those who took his head. Even local unionist forces are becoming wary of entering the woods, claiming that they have no need to. Even as they march through people's homes to ensure there is no communist "infiltration".*
- *If this is the actual ghostly headless horseman, there is only one place he might be dealt with; the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow. Stories say this is the one location in the town capable of ensuring the horseman vanishes. Lusky doubts me as usual, but the chances are good that if we can funnel this thing into the graveyard adjacent to the church we can confirm or deny a supernatural presence. What I still can't figure out is the motive the horseman would have for killing so many random citizens who were just hiking in the region.*
### File: Y-T0MMYGVNN3R: "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner"

From the private journal of Paul Cardinal.

- *My father likes to think I've wasted my academic career by not sticking with my MIT education, and he's entitled to his opinions. He's also wrong in thinking that I've squandered any potential fortune by doing so. Seriously, there's always someone willing to pay for the smartest person in the room. Hence my winding up in the Congo in 1967. Crystal Mountain Metals decided they wanted a cost-benefit done on some of their holdings, and that meant trekking through some God forsaken jungle just to survey. It also meant hiring mercenaries to help me get through the leftist-controlled territories safely. My own personal rule, never hire out with Legion or Helios, they don't even try to act concerned about you. Now enforcers, those guys I think I can trust, but to watch your back out there you need lone wolves.*
- *So by our second week at the site, I see the mercs getting antsy around nighttime. So big surprise, when I ask they blow me off by just saying they're worried about ambushes. I tell them that the terrain doesn't do much for anyone ambushing, so I want them to come clean. That's when they tell me that they're worried about a ghost. Now I'm usually a guy willing to believe, but I tell them that ghosts are just too crazy. That's when they say they've seen it first-hand. Whatever, I'll humor them, maybe talking about it will make them finally get some sleep.*
- *Now, what I apparently didn't know was that there were hundreds of independent mercenaries hired by the nationalists to fight for Moïse Tshombe and their allies. More than a few came from Norway, Denmark, etc. So there was one, Roland, best Thompson gunner fighting in the region. According to the mercs the guy was a master with the Thompson, even able to fight at rifle ranges with it. But this made him the wrong friends everywhere he went, especially when fighting forces who were backed by ACIN after two attempts by him and his buddies to mutiny. My guides said that ACIN had his friend Van Owen kill Roland one night, basically hacked off his head with .45 ACP. Well apparently Roland didn't like that state of affairs, because right after he was sighted hunting the bush and fighting anyone in his path sans skull.*
- *Well as soon as my job was up I left, basically put the story out of my head. Then I pick up the paper today, there's a section about a mercenary named Van Owen killed in a bar in Mombasa by a barrage of .45 rounds. Personally I think it's someone using a stage trick to make it look like there's a headless gunner wandering the world, I've even heard stories of Legion operators who won't patrol the bush unless it's in force. What I can't figure out is, why do it?*
### File: Y-W347TH4NDT4ST3: "The Jersey Devil"

Field report, Agent Diana Lusky

- *For centuries, the region colloquially known as the New Jersey Pine Barrens have played host to what has typically been considered the forgotten of society. Forced by social stigma to live in a region where there is little conventional farming due to the sandy acidic soil, the only plants that grow well in the region are orchids, carnivorous plants, and the eponymous pines giving the region their name. At the turn of the 20th century, cranberries and blueberries were the two profitable crops to finally emerge as well, though the region retained the reputation as a foreboding and lifeless sore in the center of New Jersey.*
- *It is from this belief in the reputation of both the land and the people in it, known as "Pineys" (Particularly the now-misrepresented Kallikak Family) that most probably bore the legend of the infamous Jersey Devil. The story, in the most condensed form, is that in the mid-1700s the wife of a local drunk named Leeds bore her thirteenth child with the phrase, "Lord, let this one be a devil." After birth, the story states that the child rapidly mutated into a bestial creature and flew out into the forests. Since then the Jersey Devil has been sighted dozens of times, most notably a week long period in 1909 when the supposed creature was sighted in broad daylight, shot at, and even sprayed with a fire hose.*
- *Scientifically, the most reasonable explanation is that the Jersey Devil is, in fact, a misidentified large bird. The most likely culprit is the sandhill crane, which commonly stops in the waterways of the Pine Barrens to feed. The description of the creature, possessing hooves, a snout, and leathery wings, has no evidence in the fossil record of the region or any environment on Earth. Unionists in the region, however, have patently refused to enter the forest at all. Officially this is due to their belief that the area is a non-issue in their operations. It is the conclusion of this agent, however, that the local Unionists are afraid of the area due to having been told the stories of the creature since childhood. Reports of dead pets and livestock in the region can be counted up to a mixture of local predators and criminal mischief on an unorganized scale.*
### File: Y-W4R0FTH3W0R7DS: "Cattle Mutilation"

From the research notes of Dr. William Cardinal

- *When Jelly and I were researching the effects of mass defoliant on livestock for use in Vietnam, we stumbled across the most fascinating story in the Midwest. Apparently, local ranchers had been suffering a rash of mysterious deaths of bovines from Texas all the way up to North Dakota, right into Canada. Well of course we were immediately intrigued and asked the ranchers for information. They claimed that the cattle all had no physical defects, were perfectly healthy and not due to be sent to market. Poaching and rustling had been ruled out as the cows were always found dead with none of the meat missing. Instead, all blood had been drained from the animals and certain organs removed with surgical precision; typically internal organs, along with the lips, anus, and even sexual organs.*
- *Understandably we wished to see one of the bodies immediately. Thankfully a local case had just occurred not more than a day ago outside Billings, Montana. According to the owner of the cow, the heifer had not come into the barn at night, and an exhaustive search revealed by midnight the creature had been killed and treated in a manner similar to what we had been told. This made little sense, as sunset that day was roughly 8:37 that night, and the details of the work on the corpse would have taken many hours just to take out the stomachs alone. Indeed, there was no evidence of struggle or tearing on the corpse, and even with the finest spectrum beam the incisions on the cow would have been impossible to make. Even with a spectrum beam, the corpse would have shown significant scoring at the edges of the cut.*
- *Jelly of course theorized that the killers were, in fact, local wildlife. The ranchers, however, argued that the lack of bite marks were a clear indicator of something else. Jelly countered by noting that fly larvae and smaller scavengers would typically start feeding on the softer external tissues such as the sexual organs and eyes only to fly off when fully mature. Personally, I feel that there is perhaps another option. Some of the ranchers have noted that in the nights leading up to the discovery of the cattle, strange lights had been sighted in the skies nearby. Personally, I plan on carrying out my own experiments to see what could possibly replicate the end result. Most certainly out of sight of Bean, I feel seeing a distant relative laid out and experimented on would upset her immensely.*
### File: Y-H0VSE4RR38T: "The Winchester Mystery House"

From the personal field report of Ophilia Cunningham.

- *The Winchester Mansion was built by the wife of the infamous firearms magnate William Winchester, Sarah. Apparently after her husband's death, Sarah was told by a Boston medium that her husband wanted her to build a house for herself and "all those who died" at the hands of the repeating rifle. This was apparently enough to set her out west and begin construction of an unfinished farmhouse in San Jose. Apparently locals have been reporting strange disturbances inside, and we managed to make out way to the location without too much trouble from the local Continentals.*
- *It would've been obvious that the house wasn't built by a professional architect, knowing that it was all Sarah's hand guiding the builders in a non-stop construction project simply confirmed what I thought as I left the car. As I went in, I realized the officers with us didn't even step away from their patrol cars. I didn't want a confrontation, so I just led Paul inside.*
- *God, the place is just a maze. Stairways that don't lead anywhere, doors that open into walls, Paul ran into a bathroom door that wouldn't open. Apparently the only one in the house is in Sarah's bedroom, and even that had a window in it so the nurse could check on her during the night. I guess we should be thankful though, before the 1906 earthquake the house was seven stories tall. Even as we were exploring we didn't notice anything except for the bizarre layout of the home, but Paul did notice how easy it was to get disoriented, feel drafts from the odd construction work, even the house settling could make noises that would make anyone presume the place was haunted.*
- *We're gonna head back later tonight with the accompanying officers, prove that there isn't anything to fear in the house. Should finally show the Network that there's no ghosts in this house at least.*
### File: Y-DVTCHM3N: "Ghost Ships"

From the desk of Assistant Director Trapper.

- *In several reports filed by Agent Muldrake, several American coastal towns have recently reported a series of sightings of ships that according to maritime records filed by several countries should have been sunk long ago. Ghost ship sightings are nothing unusual, often these are seacraft that have simply broken loose of their moorings before proper salvage operations could be undertaken. The reality of such vessels often give rise to incredibly fanciful stories, from ships sailing themselves to skeletons manning the sails. Muldrake has decided to focus on several vessels in the report coming across my desk.*
- *The* København *was a training vessel for commercial cadets sailing out of Denmark, primarily officers in training. The largest sailing ship of its day, the ship was reported lost 900 miles off the small island of Tristan da Cunha on Dec. 22nd, 1928. Since then sightings of a large schooner with a broken central mast have been reported south of the equator, particularly around Easter Island. Also included were several reports from Allied seamen noting sightings of a "Large, five-masted ship" in the distance during the battles on Easter Island.*
- *The* Governor Parr *was a slightly smaller schooner sailing out of Nova Scotia, abandoned when she lost her captain and sails in a gale during a voyage to Argentina on Oct. 3rd, 1923. Like the* København *she has been seen numerous times across the North Atlantic, as far as the Canary Islands. Even today she is still considered a "hazard of navigation" after various attempts to haul the ship in or salvage her.*
- *SS* Baychimo *was an English vessel lost off the coast of Alaska when she was abandoned in ice. Due to the difficulty in getting to the ship, it remains in the ice packs off Alaska to this day, still sighted by Allied and Imperial vessels.*
- *SS* Ourang Medan *was a Dutch freighter whose last recorded Morse Code message from the straits of Malacca on June 1947 was* "All officers including captain are dead lying in chart room and bridge. Possibly whole crew dead." *followed by simply,* "I die"*. The entire crew of the ship was discovered by* Silver Star *indeed dead, but with their eyes and mouths open as if they saw something unspeakable before their final moments. An attempt to tow her back to port failed, due to the* Ourang Medan *mysteriously exploding with such force that quickly sent it descending to the ocean floor.*
- Teignmouth Electron *was the personal sailing yacht of Donald Crowhurst, a struggling British businessman who entered a circumnavigation of the globe in order to try and save his failing ventures. Instead Crowhurst's logs found on his abandoned ship revealed a mental instability and growing insanity that many believe led to his death.*
- *Finally, Muldrake has reported a rogue submarine sighted of the coast of Spain in the Bay of Biscay, no markings or sign of any crew aboard. Fearful of a Soviet trap, Allied maritime reports claim the vessel was sunk and no bodies were found by divers after. He claims he can find answers to these vessels and more, but he needs access to the ACIN archives. Officially, I will not condone any access to ACIN files by Muldrake without further evidence.*
### File: Y-B177C1PH3R8: "The Beale Ciphers"

- *It's really incredible when you think about the Beale Ciphers, isn't it? I mean, even if we only have the second deciphered we at least have a place to start. Imagine what could be found it we could find the truth behind the other two. Personally my theory is that since the second was revealed by the Declaration of Independence, we could try using other documents from the era to try and crack the others. I mean, if we can find a way to enter these papers as keys with Mr. Hammer's supercomputers, we might be able to break the codes by the end of the year.*
- *Anyway, send my love to Dad and everyone, tell them that things are going great here at Harvard okay?*
- *With love,*
- *Astra*
- *P.S. Ignore the smudges on the letter, Dr. Cardinal was performing an experiment. Ignore the smell too-* **\*Letter scorched at the bottom right edge\***
### File: Y-W4NTT0B3713V3: "Men In Black"

From Agent Muldrake's personal files:

- *For the past two decades, stories have started to circulate that the world is being watched from the ground by individuals with less-than-noble intentions. They appear without warning, act like bizarre facsimiles of human beings, then disappear in massive black sedans. They claim to be government agents, every agency from the FBI to ACIN to INTERPOL. Some claim to be military officials with the credentials to force any common citizen to obey them. These victims (Because there is no other phrase I can imagine that could describe them) typically are those who claim to have seen what makes up the majority of Y File reports; UFOs, self-governing robot armies, government conspiracies.*
- *Astoundingly to everyone in the office, I'm not as inclined to put a paranormal cause to these black-suited individuals. Unless they specifically want to blend in to a specific population group any professional agent would wear business attire on-duty. My confusion stems from their actions. Witnesses have claimed that these individuals claiming to be agents have done everything from ask for water and then pour it on the rug to stare at their own fingernails like they were entirely unfamiliar objects. Why the act? It's blatantly obvious that they're regular human beings, yet they want to go out of their way to act as though they aren't? Is it to make the witnesses feel they can go to no one to tell their stories to?*
- *Lusky agrees that there's something involved with these sightings that probably involves playing a part. We need to try and draw these so-called MIBs out where we can hold one for questioning. Otherwise we may never answer some of our questions.*
### File: Y-GR0VNDC0NTR07: "Lost Cosmonauts"

From the private journal of Paul Cardinal.

- *So no space program will ever have success from the very start. It's just not possible, you're going to need trial and error to make sure that you're sending your ships up with the right weight ratios, fuel stores, the list just goes on. So when Yuri Gagarin made his spaceflight and returned alive, I knew something was up.*
- *So that's when I hear about something on the grapevine from Cape Canaveral: a story about something they tracked in '57. Apparently it launched from the Soviet Union, but broke up with pieces landing in Red Chinese territory. Apparently Mao was pressured by the Soviets into saying nothing in return for* another *load of materiel to keep the war going. Meanwhile, the Soviets kept launching their people as often as they could if the Judica-Cordiglia brothers are telling the truth. Whatever they're recording up there, I think it's safe to say Cherdenko didn't want to risk any experienced pilots up there. No, more cost-effective to use some poor collective farmer who think's he's gonna be a Soviet hero.*
- *I can understand the Soviets wanting to make sure they had a winner before they went bragging to the world, what I don't know is where the evidence is. That should have all been uncovered during the war, but all anyone has been able to find are plans drawn up by Cherdenko's top engineers to make a shot at the moon. I don't know what's more frightening, that the Soviets made it to the moon, or that one day we'll be staring down the barrel of a moon-Stalinist invasion. Sounds like something Serling would love to write about.*
- *I do think I know how to get my hands on some proof, but it won't be easy. Trapper's been on our cases lately about "international law", so my contacts won't work for this one. But I do think I have a way to convince some very "no-name" friends of mine to find out.*
### File: Y-BLU3G07D: "The Water-Powered Car"

Field report, Agent Diana Lusky

- *The generation of power is simply the rapid release of energy from a stored source. Burning coal releases more energy than wood due to the dense carbon patterns of a lump of coal, compared to the relatively spaced patterns found in wood. While fusion energy uses the process to both break bonds and reform them, at present the most effective means of personal national transportation is to use the personal automobile. Gasoline is the single most effective fuel at present for the world as a whole for automobiles and other vehicles, as effective fusion or solar powered cars are still some years away.*
- *In recent years, many have claimed that there is an even more readily abundant fuel source; water. Many have started to claim that water fueled cars not only exist, but that they are being purposefully suppressed by various corporate influences content on extracting as much profit from gasoline as possible before moving to a new fuel source prepared years in advance. The emergence of this story can more than likely be traced to the increasing price of gasoline worldwide due to the GLA's seizure of many oil wells in the Persian Gulf, the curtailing of oil production in Indonesia, and the immensely oil rich Communist bloc being reluctant to sell its black gold to the Allies. Desperate to believe there is another way, many citizens have started to claim that there is fuel everywhere and that the Allies are purposefully suppressing it in the name of "preserving the environment".*
- *What these people have failed to take into account are the laws of thermodynamics. Water cannot be split into energy due to the fact that the energy required to splint the bonds in the first place may at best only equalize the energy produced. Indeed, the stability of the bonds present in water make any attempt to utilize it as a fuel an exercise in futility. Presently, only two men claim to have created an engine functioning off water alone. Charles H. Garrett and Daniel Dingel both claim to have created new, water-powered cars. At present, neither inventor has been able to replicate their initial tests. This has led many to claim that corporate giants are attempting to stifle the independent inventor, who they cannot control or stop using traditional means.*
### File: Y-8T4RJ377Y: "Pwdr Sêr"

From the research notes of Dr. William Cardinal

- *In October, 1950, Jelly and I were called out to Philadelphia to investigate a strange discovery by the Philadelphia Police Department. Apparently, a small, jellied disk near the Philadelphia Gas Works had been found by four patrolmen shortly after Joseph McCarthy had begun his presidential run. They were frightened that the substance was the remnant of a communist plot that would disable, even destroy the gas works. Of course, their own local university staff were woefully incompetent at any kind of physical analysis, so Jelly and I were called to the scene.*
- *Of course, the police in Philadelphia clearly have no knowledge of investigative procedure either, as they tried to collect the disk themselves. At which point the substance dissolved instantly into an odorless, sticky scum of a substance. Collecting as much as we could, Jelly and I brought it back to our lab and immediately set to analyzing it. There was no trace of petrochemicals in the substance, nor was it an early prototype of Desolator defoliant as I later tried to deduce. Jelly suggested we run it through any tests that would reveal organic traces of matter, but those too remained inconclusive. Fearful that we would run out of testable material, we needed to stop the tests after only half of the results we wanted had been finalized.*
- *Jelly claimed that perhaps it was the regurgitated food of a frog or other amphibian, and if not that then a possible slime mold that was on the verge of final gestation. Of course, with the war on our resources were soon re-appropriated to match the demands of Truman's government to prepare the nation for war. Still, I do have some of the substance left before my...absence. Perhaps I can utilize some new techniques to discover exactly what it was that fell in Philadelphia.*
### File: Y-G1V3M3D34TH: "USS *Liberty*"

From the personal field report of Ophilia Cunningham.

- *The USS* Liberty *was a United States naval research vessel primarily utilized for electronic surveillance and intelligence gathering missions. Originally a liberty ship constructed to aid in convoy missions in the Atlantic, she was soon converted into her present model and sent into the Mediterranean Sea in order to monitor rumors of Soviet submarines operating in the area via the Black Sea. Yet her orders were soon modified to move off the coast of Palestine on a classified mission off the coast of the Godly Kingdom.*
- *By 1967, the* Liberty *had been positioned roughly 12 nautical miles off the coast of Palestine and was essentially a monitor ship in the region. This status was essentially a death warrant on the day of June 8th, when Kingdom aircraft and small boats attacked the* Liberty. *According to the official reports, the* Liberty *was fired on in a case of mistaken identity, Kingdom patrol aircraft and torpedo boats realizing too late that the ship was in fact an Allied vessel. By 1968, the Kingdom had immediately paid damages and reparations to all family members who had lost loved ones in the attack.*
- *Unofficially, the* Liberty *was deliberately fired on, but I just can't figure out a reason. The ship was hunting for Soviet subs in the Mediterranean, and Palestine was officially a neutral nation un-involved in the war in the Middle East. Muldrake's convinced it's as a cover up, the Kingdom firing on the* Liberty *to hold on to a secret they've found that would destroy the Allies. More little green men.*
- *Thankfully Peter has a much more convincing theory. He says that he's heard some shady business happens in Palestine, even before the GLA started popping up. Stories involving moving castles, knights in armor and other strange stuff. But it could be that there is something happening in Palestine that's being covered up. The GLA are shouting constantly about the "enslavement of Palestine." They're terrorists, and I don't trust them. But they might know something without realizing how valuable it really is. Which is why I'm leaving, to try and piece together what really happened instead of sitting in the lab waiting for Walter to find a fresh experimental procedure that could turn one of us magnetic or something.*
### File: Y-P4ND3M1C: "Operation: FLU SHOT"

From the desk of Assistant Director Trapper.

- *Officially the Allied Nations only involvement in biological warfare is to try and combat it. The only Allied facility capable of undertaking such dangerous work is Ft. Dietrich, MD. There, the Allied Nations Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases works to ensure that the use of microorganisms never extends onto the battlefield. Which makes recent stories about the Combine's work with biological warfare more troubling.*
- *Still, there have been a series of outbreaks of flu through the United States, which has created the fear that an interested party has found a way to effectively distribute a disease into a populated area. Lusky compiled a list of outbreaks she feels might have been caused by interested parties, as yet unidentified.*
- *San Francisco, CA: For a week in October 1951, eleven people were hospitalized in San Francisco with a urinary tract infection. One man, Edward Nevin, died from the disease. The disease is typically non-lethal, but Lusky states that it is possible that the bacteria may have been able to effectively infect those with weaker immune systems.*
- *New York, NY: In 1966, a virus similar to anthrax was detected in New York's subway system. Though there appears to be no reason for the attack, hundreds were infected before anyone realized that there was a virus being spread via train. Had the disease in question actually been anthrax, the results might have been catastrophic.*
- *Washington, DC: A strain of* Bacillus globigii *was unleashed in the Washington, DC airport infecting dozens of passengers who then boarded various flights across and out of the country. The results, if it had been a lethal disease, could have caused a pandemic in hours.*
- *Georgia: In 1955, the state of Georgia reported a massive upswing in mosquito activity in several towns in the center of the state. While once one of the hotbeds of malaria in the American south, pest control programs had supposedly brought numbers down to a minimum. Just as quickly, the mosquitoes vanished, but not before thousands of more bites were no doubt suffered that year than in previous years.*
- *Dr. Cardinal says that he might know how these tests were carried out so effectively, but my concern is who carried them out. Anyone willing to test such methods using innocent civilians is no one I can afford to trust. If I'm lucky, ACIN will be willing to play ball and help me gather the useful information.*
### File: Y-G1BB3R1SH: "The Voynich Manuscript"

- *You've probably never heard of the Voynich Manuscript, it is a little obscure I'll admit. It was found by Polish book dealer Wilfrid Voynich (There's the name) after he purchased it from a sale in 1915. Later dating puts the original date of the text around the 15th Century, during the time of the Renaissance. But before it was "found" by Voynich, it had been in the possession of everyone from alchemists to Jesuits to King Rudolf II of the Holy Roman Empire. If it weren't for the sale that led to Voynich gaining the manuscript, it might have forever been forgotten.*
- *The reason why is obvious when you look at it. The words don't resemble any known language, or even a language with bad handwriting. Whoever wrote the book obviously didn't want anyone else they didn't trust reading it. Various sources even call it a sphinx because it's such a riddle to figure out. This is if you're willing to ignore the bizarre illustrations beside the work; women standing in fountains full of green liquid, plants that match nothing found in nature, star charts without any known stars or constellations, it's just an insane jumble almost.*
- *Agent Lusky believes it's a hoax of a book, made to look like something that would've been published at the time. She even suggested that Voynich himself was behind it all, but that would be a trick considering the dating of everything involved. I've got a few ideas of my own, I think I'll try them out this week.*
- *With love,*
- *Astra*
- *P.S. Dr. Cardinal is standing over my shoulder right now, asking for hair samples. Is Max still shedding?*
### File: Y-L3T1TB3: "Paul is Dead"

From Agent Muldrake's personal files:

- *Of all the rock bands to rise from England in the decade, none have taken the world by storm more incredibly so than the Beatles. Even with the Rolling Stones and the Doors attempting to steal some of their fans, the fact remains that the Beatles have cemented their legacy as the world's greatest rock'n'roll group in history. This was obvious after their landing in JFK, everything else was just more fanfare. This is why the rumors about the death of bassist Paul McCartney are so confounding to piece together.*
- *Apparently, on Oct. 12th of this year, a man called WKNR-FM in Detroit to state to DJ Russ Gibbs that not only had Paul McCartney died three years previously, but that the band had been covering it up and leaving subtle messages in their works. The caller claimed that McCartney had stormed out of the studio after a long, arduous recording session after an argument over the song, "Maxwell's Silver Hammer". On his way home from the studio, McCartney supposedly got into a terrifying car accident and died shortly after. Unwilling to let their fans become crushed by the news, the Beatles quickly found the winner of a lookalike contest and continued on as if nothing had happened.*
- *To support the theory, various clues are offered up as explanation. In the track Revolution 9 from the White Album, played backwards the song appears to say "turn me on dead man". The Abbey Road cover is said to be symbolic of a funeral; John Lennon, in white, is the clergy member or a kind of religious figure. Ringo, entirely in black, is the mourner come to pay respects. Paul McCartney is the deceased, as he walks out of step from the others. George Harrison rounds the "procession", wearing blue jeans and work shirt to represent the grave digger. A final clue can actually (and allegedly) be found in the Life issue attempting to debunk the rumors, where a Lincoln Continental ad placed right behind the cover appears to impale McCartney when held to a good light.*
- *The only way I can find the truth is to get to the Beatles and inside Apple Records itself. I don't want to have to disturb Mr. McCartney's family while they're alive, so I'll reserve my questions for them until later. One curious note however, is that record sales have since shot up exponentially for Capitol Records since the announcement. Even if Paul is dead, he's still raking in the money. Maybe I should try that trick.*
### File: Y-348T3RN71GHTS: "Mekong Lights"

From the private journal of Paul Cardinal.

- *Thailand is a pretty fun place to visit, but most of the time I'm there it's because one of my "friends" has nearly gotten themselves killed and needs some help with whatever project they had going. Which was why Jackie asked me to give her a hand with a project she had going on the Mekong River, in the Phon Phisai district. Apparently she'd been trying to bring the people there fresh and non-toxic water, but the money was getting tight and local hoods were getting interested. Seeing as I wasn't doing anything else, I decided that I might as well stop by and see what I could do.*
- *Well it happened that one night, we were both out on the Mekong sharing a rather intimate dinner when we heard shouting from the other side of the river. Typically, I was ready to yell at the local kids and tell them to leave us alone. That's when I looked over and saw them all staring up at the sky with some scared faces. Which is why it just sucked that I looked up to see that it wasn't an Atomic Kingdom air raid like I thought it was.*
- *I can only guess it was ball lightning, because I saw at least a dozen floating lights up above the river. The three largest couldn't have been smaller than a Vindicator, and the rest had to at least be the size of a Weasel. Jackie didn't know what they were, but she was smart enough to start running, and thank God she dragged me along with her. But apparently we didn't need to worry, seems the lights just vanished when they got high enough into the air.*
- *Jackie mailed me earlier, said that the project's worked, but no one wants to maintain it because the lights are getting more frequent, just rising out of the river every night and vanishing. She asked me to come back and help, sounds like something Muldrake should be interested in. God help us if he finds little green men.*
### File: Y-S4F3H4V3N: "The Lost Villages of Bogdanovka and Fedorovka"

Field report, Agent Diana Lusky

- *Despite the typical nature of the Soviet press to simply bury or redact the truth until it is no longer recognizable, one story has started to emerge and form from the Soviet archives. A story that, if true, has dire implications on the actions of the Soviet Union in their ongoing quest to achieve worldwide dominance.*
- *By 1954, it was clear that the Union would be unable to push back against the Allied tide to victory. Recognizing this, Stalin continued to pour funding and materiel into ever-greater superweapon projects. One of these reportedly involved a weapon of such great destructive power, it could theoretically wipe entire cities from the face of the earth. Knowing this would be a project of the highest importance, Stalin allegedly gave the project to Marshal Georgy Zhukov.*
- *On September 14th, 1954, Zhukov had determined that the weapon should be tested in the Ural Military district. It is a testament to the sheer numbers of Soviet troops available that 45,000 personnel, with all applicable vehicles and equipment, were requisitioned for the project. Allegedly, nearly all personnel involved later died under mysterious circumstances. On that same day, Stalin reportedly said that the Union now had a, "new shield to protect all."*
- *More closely related are the small villages of Bogdanovka and Fedorovka. Located within the district, both villages reportedly went silent shortly after the rumored test. The Union later struck these two villages from all official records and maps, with defectors later reporting that any relatives who asked questions were essentially paid off by the state with additional foods and dry goods.*
- *Presently, the Allied Nations has no information on any weapons test, or on the villages of Bogdanovka and Fedorovka. The Soviet government has not responded to any further requests for information.*
### File: Y-LVCY1DSWD: "Diamond Mines of King Solomon "

From the research notes of Dr. William Cardinal

- *"When I was a boy, I used to love reading about the adventures of Allan Quartermain, especially the first book of his adventures,* King Solomon's Mines. *The idea that out there in the world was a secret and lost trace of history, waiting to be rediscovered, it excited my imagination as I read each page. Even in college, I still would occasionally go back to read the story again, enjoying the story itself even when the plot was already bare to me.*
- *Of course, when the African League rose covered in diamonds and utilizing expensive stones, I wasn't precisely taken aback. Diamonds, despite what Crystal Mountain Metals and others would have us believe, are far more common than their prices would suggest. If anything, the only real differences between some diamonds are their intended uses. The majority are sent to be used in industrial work for cutting, while the few remaining are utilized as jewelery or decoration. Coupled with the rise in reports of conflict or 'blood' diamonds, it's hardly surprising that the world's diamond sales have sharply declined.*
- *It was last week, with great glee and excitement, that I read an article describing a curious geological formation being found in the Congo. A ridge of hills, with only one point of easy access through nestled between to great mountain peaks. Further on, a village, and finally a trio of great mountains. An almost* exact *replica of the map described in the books. If this is indeed true, then the lost diamond mines are possibly well within reach.*
- *Yet this troubles me at the same time. Back in the days of the Victorian great white hunters, it was reasonable to presume that such treasures, once sealed away in deepest Africa, would be impossible to recover. Now, with the ability to fly anywhere in the world in a few hours, or even minutes, the possibility of the wrong people unearthing the treasures of King Solomon has to be addressed. So, tomorrow I'm leaving on a little journey to the Congo, and no one is going to stop me.*
### File: Y-N4T10N4LTR3SVR3: "Lost City of Z"

From the personal field report of Ophilia Cunningham.

- *I found a lost piece of a missing persons file in the archives earlier, something that might hold a key to understanding the Combine's obsession with essentially buying off the local tribes of the rainforests under their control. Hopefully this isn't the actual reason, but if it is, there is a grave threat posed not by the Combine, but what they're seeking.*
- *Allegedly, the Lost City of Z was described first by Portugese slave trader João da Silva Guimarães. Guimarães wrote about the city in what is now known as Manuscript 512, though the city was later lost in the mad shuffle of colonialism and destruction of old empires. As far as historical record is concerned, no civilizations on par with the Incans or Aztecs existed that deeply in the Amazonian rainforest at the time. Though the location was known at one time, 512 made no reference to the location or any waypoints.*
- *What I found was a report on a missing British explorer, Percy Fawcett. Fawcett had tried once to find the city, but the expedition was curtailed by World War I. Eventually, Fawcett managed to mount another expedition with his son and fellow explorer Raleigh Rimmel, in the Mato Grosso region. The expedition was actually quite small by the standards of the day; the three men, two laborers, two horses, eight mules, and two dogs. Eventually, Fawcett continued on with his son and Rimmel alone. His last contact with his wife was a letter sent from what is now known as "Dead Horse Camp", the directions to which are conflicting. Fawcett's letter says it's located 11°43′S 54°35′W, while North American Newspapers Alliance reported the coordinates as 13°43′S 54°35′W. It is possible that Fawcett purposefully misled the directions, hoping to dissuade a rescue party from dying on the search for their lost expedition.*
- *I've recently learned that the Combine have given their blessings to an expedition hoping to find the lost city. What I have begun to fear is that they will stumble upon a lost city that is already under the protection of other interested parties, holding a power that they believe theirs and theirs alone. If the Combine go in as they typically have, they may find a secret that could utterly destroy South America.*
### File: Y-WH1T3KN1GHTS: "The Giants of the Downs"

From the desk of Assistant Director Trapper.

- *There have been an increasing amount of reports from the United Kingdom about a series of strange incidents in the area surrounding a series of ancient pagan art pieces, created in pre-Christian times. Muldrake has compiled a list, which he says must be investigated immediately for the safety of the citizens nearby. At present, however, there is no evidence that these sites are dangerous.*
- *The Marlborough White Horse is actually the most recent creation in England, dating to 1804, an art project by local schoolboys. While this would make it seem to be a harmless local tradition, Muldrake has reported several events where the white horse was surrounded and treated with reverence by unknown figures.*
- *The Cherhill White Horse has documentation back to 1742, though many suspect it too was inspired by England's other white horse hills. The only other distinguishing landmark nearby is a small obelisk, built as a memorial by a local marquess to commemorate his ancestry. Again, various figures in robes have congregated at the site, as well as at the obelisk.*
- *The Westbury White Horse is apparently not the original design that had been on the hill. Restored in 1778, the original white horse was markedly smaller, and faced in the opposite direction compared to the remodeled white horse. Reasons for the remodel were reportedly that the original was falling into disrepair, yet Muldrake has made many notes that this is the only chalk structure without any signs of robed figures in worship nearby.*
- *The Uffington White Horse is the oldest known chalk sculpture on the hills, with particular interest paid to the fact that it stands close to the Uffington Castle, an Iron Age fortification that is still being excavated. The horse itself is apparently paid tribute by more robed figures, yet the castle seems to be purposefully avoided according to the reports.*
- *Cerne Abbas Giant is the name for a stylized sculpture of a man carrying a club with a massive erect phallus. Dating is controversial, as it can be placed anywhere from the early Iron Age image of a fertility god to the 17th century as a strange political satire. Regardless, the design is considered vital to the local area, including the number of neo-pagan worshippers that come to pay it tribute.*
- *The Long Man of Wilmington is the most mysterious figure, as no one can agree whether it was made in the Iron Age as a form of worship and to mark a nearby barrow, by monks in the Middle Ages to represent a traveling pilgrim, or more recently to simply draw in visitors to the nearby villages. What is known is that Muldrake has provided pictures of robed, candle-carrying figures converging on the hill paying it more worship than any of the others, the reasons yet unknown.*
- *Muldrake said this could tie in with other Y Files, though for now I've ordered him to hold off. If this is a large, organized secret society, they could easily destroy the Y Files without trying. What I need now is more information on when they gather. Apparently the summer solstice is a major event, that should be when we move in.*
### File: Y-07DBVTG07D: "Gen. Wang's Gold Bars"

- *China's civil war was definitely nothing to laugh at back in the 30s, but that's probably because of these gold bars. Even today, there's reports of long-lost Red Chinese sleeper agents trying to get their hands on them, and Blue Chinese agents trying to destroy them for an unknown reason.'*
- *The bars were given to a KMT general, known only by the name of Wang, in 1933. Wang made his way to the US to try and use the bars to secure what was later found to be $300,000,000, but Wang died in the process of the transaction. Of course, by that point the world had bigger problems to worry about, so Wang's death fell aside until after WWII, when someone remembered that they had 1.8 kilograms of gold bars with an indecipherable language on them.*
- *Well, I say language, but it's more of a mix of pictograms, script, calligraphy, and only two pictures of two people. One is a KMT general, that's for sure. But the other, it doesn't make much sense to be on a Chinese gold bar. A bald man, with a goatee, clearly white. Why the Chinese thought he was important enough to put on these gold bars, I can only imagine.*
- *I guess with what happened in China, everyone there is anxious to find the bars. I can't tell you where they are in case the letter gets intercepted, but I will say we're close. We found survivors, who say they handled the KMT's finances. If this money could be freed up, maybe it could save some lives instead of take them.*
- *With Love, Astra*
- *P.S. Ophilia wants me to tell you not to worry about last week's white noise "explosion", that was not us.*
### File: Y-VNCH4RT3D: "The Black Isle"

From the personal files of Agent Muldrake:

- *In the earliest era of mankind's expansion of the world, the richest discoveries were made often in the vast expanses of the Pacific Ocean. Thousands of new cultures and species discovered by the circumnavigation of the planet by the privateers and explorers of the age of sail. Yet one story consistently appears in various stories through the records and tales of the explorers;* Isla Negra, *the Black Isle.*
- *The most detailed report comes from Sir Francis Drake during his voyages through the Pacific, mentioning an island that his coordinates suggest was roughly a few hundreds miles southwest of Australia. Drake describes the island as being rocky and forested, with massive hawks plying the skies nearby. He wrote that the island itself was possibly a brilliant outpost for the British, but a priest aboard the ship quickly forbade him from further exploration, claiming that he could feel an evil emanating from the island.*
- *Drake sailed on, but the account led others to try and find the island themselves. One Spanish voyage attempted to land on the rock, but the captain reported that the boats approaching were sunk by unknown means, their hulls,* "breaking upwards like waterspouts, men thrown through the water only to die on the rocks that stood guard on the beaches." *Not willing to risk his ship and remaining crew, the captain fled, but not before giving the island its name.*
- *Since that last voyage, several Imperial, Allied, and Contingent ships have been reported missing in a rough circle around the location Drake points out. All ships reported that had lost position and were trying to reestablish their locations before moving onwards, but their radio beacons were lost soon after. Other ships reported that they had seen an island encircled by fog, where massive birds and strange music filled the air.*
- *There's a freighter leaving from Canberra in five days, and Lusky and I will be aboard. I've convinced the captain to sail by the region, so this should prove whether or not the Black Isle is really a lost relic of Sir Francis Drake.*
### File: Y-SW33TPR1NC3: "Sen. "Kingfish""

From the private journal of Paul Cardinal.

- *I remember my father talking about how he was glad that Huey Long went down when he did, because he didn't want the public to see a man they thought was their own become another political operator in the White House. Of course, no one really thinks Long was done in by a conspiracy, not like Bobby Kennedy. But now, I think there's something rotting in Louisiana, and it's not the fish or French Quarter.*
- *Long was the biggest populist in the South, spearheading dozens of infrastructure projects and hospital improvements to try and garner support for what everyone knew was his ultimate ambition. Of course, these improvements helped the common people most of all, so the fact is that the regular poor farmer or slum dweller in Louisiana saw long's propaganda as a sign he was in it for them. He pioneered new election campaign tactics like radio ads and sound trucks. But despite his image, Long was still a political dealer, and stories abound of him committing bribery, coercion, even outright beatings to get his way.*
- *Unfortunately for Long, this caught up with him. He eventually decided just before his run for the presidency to gerrymander out a political opponent, Judge Benjamin Pavy. This didn't sit well with Pavy's son-in-law, Dr. Carl Weiss. Weiss' wife had already been forced out of LSU by long's politics in the state's education system, and Weiss went to confront Long in the State Capital Building on the day of the vote for the "redistricting". He'd tried twice to talk to Long, but was easily brushed aside by Long's entourage and bodyguards. I guess he was sick of waiting, because the third time Long came by, Weiss pulled out a .32 and fired four times, one of the rounds taking Long down. The bodyguards answered by firing 62 times. Suffice to say, Weiss didn't make it. Long lingered for two days, his last words,* "God, don't let me die. I have so much to do".
- *Of course, there's always been theories. One if that Long's bodyguards killed him, mostly because with that many rounds flying everywhere it's a miracle no one else died. More practically, the round that killed Long was allegedly a .38 or .45, when it's been confirmed Weiss was carrying a .32.*
- *Long had a lot of enemies, but I don't know where to start thanks to a letter I got saying,* "Follow the pipeline." *That could mean anything, especially when the letter comes with a picture of Long's body in the statehouse. There's a few questions, but my biggest is why someone wants to resurrect a case over thirty years old?*
### File: Y-B4SK3RV1773S: "The Bale Hounds of England"

Field report, Agent Diana Lusky

- *One of the most common legends to come from the United Kingdom is that of the bale hounds, massive black dogs that are said to foretell death and ill fortune to those that see them. Commonly the creatures are sighted either in the countryside on the moors, or in areas associated with death such as former gibbets or gallows. Others claim that these spirits were the ghosts of evil men, or the unbaptized spirits of infants. It is this belief that later led Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to write* The Hound of the Baskervilles.
- *Contemporary stories of the dogs have taken a darker tone. Though thought to be simple malevolent spirits, several attacks have been reported in the region of Dartmoor, similar to what was described in the story. Witnesses even remain adamant that what they saw could breathe fire, or had eyes that gave a bright, glaring red light. Understandably, in their terror and panic these people did not remember that no mammal can produce light from its own body, but that eyes can reflect the light they catch.*
- *What is troubling are the five deaths in the region. Each victim reportedly was walking alone in the area, only to be found later brutally mauled by a large and vicious animal. The bite marks do match a large dog, possibly a doberman or German shepherd. More troubling is the proximity of the attacks to a nearby Allied training facility. Assistant Director Trapper has directed Muldrake and I to investigate immediately. Report to be updated on return.*
### File: Y-VNDY1NG: "The Eternal"

From the research notes of Dr. William Cardinal

- *It has finally been established that aging is not simply the breakdown of the body. Rather, to be more precise, it is the breakdown of the genetic code that governs cell division and repair. The digestive tract cannot take in the required nutrients because it is in fact unable to replenish what makes it able to do its job. When a human life starts, these DNA strands are in pristine condition, able to easily repair and recombine without issue. As time continues, these strands break down, unable to reconfigure in the proper alignments. Eventually the organs simply shut down on their own, the body's biochemical charge fades, and the brain itself ceases to govern the body's breathing and metabolism. This is what is commonly known as dying of old age.*
- *However, several cases have been brought to my attention of pictures, seemingly showing individuals in pictures who are later found today, or at least in contemporary times, having seemingly remained the same physical age. One case that continually occurs in the Count of St. Germain, a supposedly immortal nobleman during the Age of Enlightment that Prince Charles of Hesse-Kessel said was,* "the greatest philosopher of our time", *and who Voltaire sarcastically said was,* "the Wonderman". *The Count was allegedly an alchemist, occultist, scientist, and philosopher, as well as a gifted musician. He allegedly used many titles during his travels, which I've learned was a common practice in Europe by nobles at the time. What interests me are claims that he made, stating he was well over 500 years old and that his gifts were learned over his incredibly long life.*
- *Officially, the man known as the Count of St. Germain died in Altona, in what is now the German state of Hamburg. Said to be buried in a private plot, it has been said that he has been met by the occultist Alessandro Cagliostro, composer Jean-Philippe Rameau, and theosophists Helena Blavatsky and Anne Besant. The count has also allegedly had ties to stories of the Wandering Jew and Philosopher's Stone, though both ties rest on shaky support. What is important now is to find the true story of the county. If anywhere, the best place to start is in the place of his alleged death; Altona.*
### File: Y-ST4RG8T3: The Door of Hayu Marka

From the personal field report of Ophilia Cunningham.

- *Peru's Inca Empire was one of the mightiest to exist in the region, capable of constructing an advanced system of roads and civil governance that would astound many even today, and that many have noted bears a striking similarity to how the Federation utilizes their Cyber-syn system. Yet there appears to be a location in Peru that has escaped the ever-growing network of wires and telex machines swallowing the area.*
- *Located roughly 22 miles from the city of Puno, the so-called "Gate of the Gods" is nestled in what is called the Spirit Forest. Describing it here doesn't do justice to the incredible rock formations inside, but what makes this one stand out is that there appears to have been great work put into carving out a flat surface with a noticeable notch in the side. Legends surrounding the site claim it acts as a doorway to the "gods", with the most detailed noting that as the Spanish closed on the region, a priest known as Amaru Meru fled to the site. Presenting to the wardens of the location a gold disc, he reportedly left through a portal in the doorway and was "Never seen again".*
- *Whatever Hayu Marka actually is, the Federation has suddenly decided to take a vested interest in the region. A detachment of the Federation's military has been sent to oversee the location, citing increased rebel activity by the Inkarri Theocracy. If we're going to get to the bottom of what's happening, we need to move now."*
### File: Y-TH0VS4NDW0RDS: "Pictures, If You Will"

From the desk of Assistant Director Trapper.

- *With the advent of the photograph, Muldrake and Dr. Cardinal have claimed to gathered multiple instances of strange and bizarre anomalies in the course of 20th century. They claim that their most compelling cases are listed below.*
- *The Queensland Monster: Taken in 1964 off the coast of Queensland, Australia, the picture appears to show a massive tadpole-like creature just under the surface of the water. While this could normally be chalked up to a lack of scale, the image of an individual nearby in a boat quickly eliminates the possibility of a wrong measurement.*
- *The Solway Firth Spaceman: Taken in the same year in Cumbria, England, the picture allegedly shows an individual standing behind the daughter of the photographer, firefighter Jim Templeton. Thought to be Templeton's wife by skeptics, Templeton insists that the photographs are genuine, and that two photos taken before and after show no evidence of a "spaceman".*
- *SS* Watertown *Faces: Taken in 1924, the SS* Watertown *oil tanker was en route towards the Panama Canal after having lost two crew members to a tragic accident. The crew reported that the two were still with the ship, however, and that they eventually managed to catch a photo of two faces in the waves off the side of the ship, far more detailed that what human beings would usually associate with "seeing faces in the fire", or in this case, water.*
- *The Falling Body: Though the date of the photo is unknown, the styles present in the picture place it roughly between 1935 to 1940. Allegedly the Cooper family had just moved into a new home, and wanted to celebrate with a picture. The Coopers apparently stated that they never saw any body, and that the image only appeared in the picture. There is no face on the body, and it appears to be actively in the process of falling from the ceiling as the family smiles at the camera.*
- *McMinnville UFO: A picture of what appears to be a saucer-shaped flying object in McMinnville, Oregon, the picture was taken in the 1950s, and just after the start of World War II. To this date, no one has been able to debunk what the shape in the sky is.*
- *Spectre of Newby Church: In 1963, Rev. K.F. Lorde in North Yorkshire, England, decided to photograph the interior of his church. On development of the picture, Lorde was shocked to discover what appeared to be a robed figure standing off to the side of the altar. Lorde consistently reports no one was in the church, and while at first appearing to be similar to a "plague doctor", the figure's face appears to be simply blank.*
- *The Madonna with Saint Giovannino: Made in the 15th Century by Domenico Ghirlandaio, the photo at first appears typical of the Renaissance style of religious portraits. However, in the top right of the photo there appears to be a rounded, radiating object in the sky flying overhead. While this could be ignored at a type of symbolism in the painting for what could be the sun or Holy Spirit, there is also a shepherd and his dog looking up at the object in what looks like confusion.*
- *That's just the first box too, there's piles and piles of these that I don't have the time to look over. Whatever these all are, Muldrake and Dr. Cardinal better have something valuable in here before I send them both photographs of their last paychecks.*
### File: Y-CR055H41R: "Letter from the Zodiac"

- *I'm so glad I can talk to you about this now that it's out in the open. The California DoJ are anxious, they're terrified that there's a serial killer in their state. They've sent us every letter he might have written so far. I can't blame them.*
- *Dad will probably ask; serial killers are determined by a series of two or more murders, committed as separate events, usually, but not always, by one offender acting alone. They're mostly male, and they commit the murders because it gives them a satisfaction that they can't find anywhere else. I know, it's so disgusting to think about. But Olivia keeps trying to hammer it into my head that these people are sick, and if they got help they might have a chance. Personally, I'd rather just stay as far away as possible.*
- *What's really scary is that serial killers are usually very intelligent and very good at acting like normal people. It's what let this one slip through so far. He's smart, and he knows he's smart. He's sent the police a coded letter, it's in a strange cipher that I've never seen before. It's 340 letters and symbols, and I'm trying so hard to crack it. What makes it worse is that he likes to taunt the police, he talked about shooting up a school bus full of kids with a sniper rifle.*
- *Even if this doesn't give us all the answers, we can at least find out* something *that the killer might have let slip. He already claims to have killed five people, and his first code says he's trying to find slaves for the afterlife. Whoever this guy is, he's dangerous. I'm honestly scared that I can't break this code, but if I don't try, who will?*
- *Give my love to everyone, and I'll promise to be home this year for Christmas.*
- *Love, Astra*
- *P.S. Agent Muldrake said that he wants to come with me for Christmas. Please give me a reason not to come, I don't want any one of you to suffer through a meal with him.*
### File: Y-C4NTG0H0M3: "The Man from Taured"

From Agent Muldrake's personal files:

- *Out of all the visitors to that country, one of them still puzzles the Paranormal Defense Bureau up to this day. A seemingly average European business traveler who visited Japan a few times for business trips, this particularly person arrived one day at Haneda Airport in July 1954. When asked by customs officials on his origin, he casually stated in fluent Japanese that he was from "Taured" - a country alleged to be bordering France and Spain. Not believing him, the officials retorted that Taured never existed. The man tried to prove the existence of his country by showing them his passport and personal documents - all apparently signed by the government of "Taured".*
- *Thinking that the man is perhaps mistaken, the officials handed him a map and ordered him to point his country there. Pointing his finger to the principality of Andorra, he quickly became irate, stating that Andorra does not exist, and it is right where his home country, which he said is over a millennium old, should be. Believing him to be pulling a practical joke of some sort, the officials quickly detained him at a nearby hotel for further questioning. The following day, however, the guards at this door said that the man vanished - along with his personal belongings and documents. Kazuka of the PDB did add that there was no possible way for the man to escape; his room was several floors above and it has no balcony.*
- *As this happened more than ten years ago and Japan was still heavily isolated in that time, I had considerable difficulty in investigating what actually happened in that airport. Not to mention that account of one of the witnesses in that airport was anecdotal at best. I know that Lusky and the others would quickly dismiss this as a hoax due to a lack of evidence. But as I was looking up the significant events of that decade, there was this date that caught my eye: June 28, 1954. The day where an Allied chronosphere had its controls sabotaged by Soviet agents. This leads to unsettling implications about the Allies and their chrono-tech, especially that this would explain the man's confusion about Andorra being located where his homeland should be, not to mention his disappearance. This is something I need to investigate more if we want to know more about this supposed traveller, even if this would make me the subject of another internal review again.*
### File: Y-F4C3S0FD34TH: "Snuffed"

From the private journal of Paul Cardinal.

- *This just tears it, if this is real then mankind* deserves *to be wiped out by the inevitable Fourth World War. I don't care what ACIN agent winds up reading that sentence, it's true if this is a fact and not the sick urban legend I'm desperately hoping it is right now.*
- *A buddy of mine came in a few days ago, looking really strung out and twitchy. He just left this film can in the lab and said he needed to go into hiding, that the can was probably better with me than him. I seriously doubt that, since they found his body hanging from a rope off a bridge. Well stupid me, I decided that I needed to watch the film to understand what was going on.*
- *At first, it looked like some cheap adult stuff, the kind of thing that some couples probably use privately. Only things got dark fast. First, the woman puts on heels, and then in comes a box of baby rabbits. Already, that's freaking disturbing and horrible, and I don't even want to go near reminding myself about it. That's when they brought in those kids...*
- *It finally ended after a tortuous hour when the woman in heels put a gun under her smiling chin and blew the top of her head off as the two children kept crying in the background. I had to physically force myself not to smash that film to shreds and burn it to try and cleanse myself. It was just so wrong, so warped, the worst part was that the children couldn't have been older than four or five.*
- *I went to every source I could, but when I mentioned my friend and the film, everyone shut up. No one,* no one *wants to talk, they're all afraid. All anyone would say is that I was better off not asking questions. Well to hell with them, I'm asking all the questions I can to keep this from happening ever again.*
### File: Y-T1M3W4RP: "The Strange Case of Rudolph Fentz"

Field report, Agent Diana Lusky

- *The current understanding of time for the majority of mankind is that it flows in a linear direction. That there is a clear beginning and ending point for all events,and that it cannot be stopped. Even with the chronosphere utilizing a manipulation of space-time to essentially warp space and time to transport physical matter, individuals transported with the Chronosphere only experience a "lateral motion", rather than any kind of time travel as one would see in popular fiction.*
- *Unfortunately, this modern understanding has failed to make much impact on the majority of the American population. One particular story appears to be continually making the general population fearful of the possibility of random temporal displacements. Unfortunately, there sadly appears to be evidence for this case. How is an entirely different question.*
- *The story allegedly states that at 11:15 PM, in mid-June 1950, a man appeared in Time Square in New York City, allegedly wearing clothing looking like it belonged in the 19th century. He appeared confused, and before anyone could speak with him he wandered out into an intersection and was hit by a speeding taxi. No one had seen him walking by earlier before the accident, and was unable to account for himself before he died minutes later. Autopsy reports showed nothing out of place about his body, but what was of more importance were the objects on his person. Inside his clothing were personal affects such as a five-cent token for a local saloon that no residents of the nearby area could identify, a receipt for the care of a horse in a livery stable that was no longer in the neighborhood, and a letter postmarked 1876 from Philadelphia, and most importantly business cards for the deceased. None of the objects showed any significant aging or wear, all appearing in relatively good condition.*
- *Capt. Hubert Rihm of the New York Police Department had investigated the Fentz case during the Second World War, believing Fentz may have been a victim of some kind of communist plot to distract the police in New York from any investigation into communist cells. There were no leads either at the addresses on Fentz's business cards or letter, nor were there any leads in local phone books or police records. The break in the case came when a local resident remembered a man named Fentz living in the area for some time. Investigating, Rihm found that Fentz, later revealed to be Rudolph Fentz Jr, had retired to and died in Florida. Fentz's widow revealed that his father had disappeared one night in 1876, without ever being found.*
- *Capt. Rihm, now retired, withheld the evidence for fear of his personal reputation and sanity. On learning of our investigation, he willingly turned over the evidence he had compiled during the case. The most troubling factor in the situation is that there appeared to be no reason for Fentz to suddenly jump from 1876 to 1950, especially without the typical signs of a chronosphere activation. Possible temporal tears in the fabric of space are a possibility, and are being investigated.*
### File: Y-G01D3NUND3RGRND: "Yamashita's Gold"

From the research notes of Dr. William Cardinal

- *It saddens me to think about what the Empire did to the Pacific during the war, primarily their subjugation of the Philippines and their so-called "colonies". Colonies, more like slave-filled islands as far as they were concerned. The biggest shame is that they essentially squandered decades of research into psionic abilities because of an alleged "divine destiny".*
- *Recent stories in the news have actually managed to pique my interest though, seeing as this story isn't about some foolish celebrity hoo-ha. Apparently, during the lead up to the war the Japanese government was slowly amassing all the wealth from their captured territories. Yet they decided that to ship it all directly to the home islands was too much of a risk, should the transports and holding areas become targets for the enemy. Instead, they seemingly decided that the still-rebellious Philippines were a more secure location. Though many have called this a logical fallacy by the proponents of this idea, it does make some sense. The Philippine garrison forces were experienced against thefts and assaults on secondary-positions, and so the gold was said to have been spirited away under the control of the garrison commander, Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita. Most disturbingly, the men charged with securing and covering up the gold later willingly killed themselves to preserve the secret. Ironically, Yamashita didn't manage to live much longer than his men, and was captured and hanged by Filipino insurgents after a show trial for the actions of the occupying forces. With his death, the location of the gold was supposed to be lost forever.*
- *Luckily, I think we'll have a chance to find it. A gentleman named Roxas has covertly put out a call for assistance in finding the horde. He says the location was revealed by the son of a former Japanese soldier involved with hiding the gold, and Yamashita's driver and translator. This could be a lucky break, since they mentioned everything from a three-foot tall gold buddha to entire troves of gold and silver, perfect for my continued experiments in trying to replicate certain Legion technologies. Peter already bought the tickets, I'll update this as soon as I return.*
### Files: Y-SCR4CTHMYBCK: "Collusion"

From the personal field report of Ophilia Cunningham.

- *Belfast, really all of Northern Ireland just keeps blowing up. A bombing in Londonderry and a small riot in Crossmaglen just happened before I started writing this today, and I can't even begin to keep track of all the random shootings and assaults on Allied personnel and Straylight offices. It all just feels too coordinated though, and there's information I keep getting that doesn't add up.*
- *The Front still manage to get weapons and materials into Northern Ireland despite being one of the more important groups to be kept track of today. ACIN should easily be able to intersect their weapons shipments to and from Ireland, yet somehow equipment from the Soviets, Continentals, and African League member nations continues to flow in. Meanwhile, the Front is somehow able to move weapons they receive around the world to any number of terrorist organizations and pocketing the profits.*
- *There's only one solution, and that's the thought that someone is shielding them from prosecution and arrest. I just need to figure out who would actually have something to gain from that though. It wouldn't make sense for the Legion, not unless getting their best operators killed suddenly falls under a sound business decision. The KGB would make sense, if it weren't for the fact that any kind of infiltration into Allied territory would immediately earn them a visit from the PKs. I can only think it's ACIN then, but why? What would be the point of protecting terrorists from arrest when they're only creating more trouble that INTERPOL and the Peacekeepers have to deal with?*
### File: Y-H07YM4CK3R37: "Secret Societies"

From the desk of Assistant Director Trapper.

- *There are such things as secret societies. Some are apparently just more secretive than others. Muldrake compiled this list, but Lusky stated that he wasn't quite as unreasonable as with other cases. This is definitely troubling, since it means Muldrake essentially believes that this might be a reality. The societies listed below are apparently incomplete, Lusky says her partner is still trying to compile a complete list, frightening as that sounds.*
- *The Freemasons are at present a fraternal order dedicated to charity and good works wherever they establish themselves. The earliest documented evidence of freemasonry as a modern organization comes from 18th century England, where the first "grand lodge" was formed in London in 1717. Allegedly they're the result of the mass trials and executions of the Knights Templar, formed by underground knights to form a new society that would preserve and protect any secrets they had found during the crusades, and continue to hold power via political families and dynasties to this day. Presently, the order is split into many independent grand lodges across Europe and North America, which includes the Shriners who are more well-known for their small cars than any involvement with secrets of Palestinian history. Interestingly, according to Catholic doctrine, no Catholics can join the Masons under threat of excommunication due to the Shriners' views on how anyone of any faith can find salvation.*
- *Adam Weishaupt formed the Bavarian Illuminati on May 1st, 1776, in an effort to put the new discoveries of the Age of Reason into practice in Europe's intellectually-hostile climate of monarchies. Written out in their statutes was the phrase, "The order of the day is to put an end to the machinations of the purveyors of injustice, to control them without dominating them." To many this implied that this called for taking power over the ruling leaders, and again with the encouragement of the Catholic Church the Illuminati were purged from Bavaria multiple times. Despite being often literally dragged into the world, the Illuminati were in fact charged with the French Revolution and various civil unrests through history, even including the Great Fire of London despite not even being formed at the time. Like the Masons, the Illuminati allegedly hold power to this day over the world's politicians, apparently through a combination of Satanic ritual and outright blackmail and intimidation.*
- *The Thuggee acted as a roving band of killers claiming that they fell in worship of the Hindu goddess Kali. In reality they covered their highway robberies in the cloak of religious worship, and killed first by gaining their victim's trust, then strangling them in the night. Allegedly wiped out during the colonial era of Indian history, many local villages on India's northern border report that there are killers roaming the mountains wearing the same yellow sashes that the thuggee would use to kill their victims. Commonwealth and Allied patrols have reported nothing, nor has there been any noticeable uptake in unsolved strangulation killings in the region.*
- *Created by the former soldier Ignatius of Loyola, the Society of Jesus has become a staple in anti-Catholic conspiracy theories alleging that the society has had a hand in every major Catholic action since their founding. Everything from the American to French revolutions to the suppression of the Illuminati to the urging of Catholic immigrants to move to the United States during the 1800s. More recently, the Jesuits were famous for creating an underground Catholic community in Japan that has survived allegedly to the present day, though at present this cannot be confirmed. Most interestingly, the Jesuits are allegedly behind the election of President Kennedy during the 1960 election, presumably due to the Catholicism of the Kennedy family. The issue is that this does not reconcile with Kennedy's refusal to show utter deference to the Pope during their first meeting.*
- *The Thule Society was a well-known mystic organization during the post-WWI period in the Weimar Republic before the government reorganized into the second Empire of Germany. The Society believed that there was once an island known as Thule that was the home of a precursor race of beings that were the original creators of what we know as civilization. Unfortunately the Society was also racially charged, and was quickly dismantled once the German government organized and began to clamp down on anti-governmental activities, with the reinstated Kaiser Wilhelm II personally overseeing "the dismantling of renegade elements in our Reich who would besmirch the honor of the Fatherland". Since the Thule was closely associated with the paramilitary National Socialist German Workers' Party, it was dismantled simultaneously with the force. Still, rumors persist that the Society has managed to survive among the remaining disaffected veterans.*
- *Only recently turned into an underground secret society, the Ku Klux Klan was originally formed as a terrorist group against newly-freed slaves of the post-bellum American South. Declining due to the advent of Jim Crow Laws meaning that there was no need for such a society, the Klan's first revival arrived in the 1920s on anti-Catholic sentiments along with a racially-motivated platform, though it simultaneously declined when it was revealed that Klan leadership was siphoning dues and donations into their own accounts. A later attempting was made in North Carolina was made to try and revive the Klan by Robert Jones, though Jones was later found dead in a car accident before an FBI investigation could find the evidence needed to undermine and dismantle the clan. Without their leader and still under Federal and then Allied scrutiny, the Klan once more appears to have slunk back into the shadows.*
- *Muldrake seems adamant that we make investigating these societies a top priority, though I personally remain unconvinced at this time that any of these groups are actually as active as Muldrake's report makes mention of. For now, I'll forward these files to the appropriate agencies to investigate and gather any actionable information on.*
### File: Y-3NDT0477TH1NG5: "Taman Shud"

- *Sometimes I feel like the cases with the longer codes and ciphers are easier to solve, there's just more to work with. Like this case, there's barely anything to work on except for a scrap of paper and an ancient epic poem. Yeah, some days I feel like I should've just taken that office job too.*
- *In 1948, a man was found dead on a beach in Adelaide, Australia. The going theory is that he was poisoned while he was sleeping and left to be discovered. Before the body was found dead, the man had been seen moving and breathing, but was still sitting against the sea wall where he'd been found. According to his autopsy, the man was apparently in excellent health and there was nothing physically wrong that would indicate a violent death. The first clues something was wrong were the lack of labels on his clothes and that the man had no hat, which dad keeps saying is still weird for today. A suitcase was later found with the name "Keane" on it along with other strange and mismatched objects, but nothing conclusive. The only strange thing was a spleen three times larger than anything else, which Dr. Cardinal keeps saying might be a sign of a mutation.*
- *The hard part for me, and for a lot of other code breakers, is the scrap of paper the man had on him. Inside of a sewn up portion of the man's pants were a scrap of paper and a torn section from* The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, *an ancient Persian epic poem. Since the poem focuses on the idea that life should be lived without any regrets, initially it was believed that the victim committed suicide. Muldrake says that's ridiculous because of the other scrap of paper. The part of the poem was later matched with a stolen and rare copy of the poem, which had inside a faint impression of lettering in the back. Written in the back was what looks like a code.*
- WRGOABABD
- MLIAOI
- WTBIMPANETP
- MLIABOAIAQC
- ITTMTSAMSTGAB
- *All language is based on repetition, and there is definitely repetition in those words. But the problem is that I can't match anything up. If* taman shud *is the key to the code, it's a lock that this man took with him. Now I apparently have to work on it, so we can keep the Contingent from completely breaking away apparently. Do me a favor, send me a care package? Not for the code, Dr. Cardinal is trying to convince me that I can help him find out about the psionic potential of the human body, and he wants to use something he keeps calling "LSD".*
- With love,
- Astra
### File: Y-DL0STW0R7D: "Agartha"

From Agent Muldrake's personal files:

- *Mankind has always associated being underground with feelings of death, of the lack of vitality given by the light of the sun and the sights of the living soil. Nearly every culture associates death or the fading of life with the associations of being beneath the Earth, of the ground reclaiming that which it rightfully gave life to. Yet there are many other stories of how the underground world is in fact filled with life, that under our feet is another civilization. A utopia where those underground branched off from their surface dwelling brethren.*
- *The stories claim that there are two entrances to this world at the North and South poles. The route is hazardous to navigate, and many explorers have in fact died attempting to reach this inner world. What's more important is that this idea has been taken seriously by many figures, including Edmund Halley. Halley's theories about the Earth's magnetic fields originated from various concentric rings inside the planet, and that the innermost ring was able to support life thanks to "luminous light". Later theories either built off this idea, adding more and more layers to the Earth, or simply caving it out like a melon and setting a sun where most scientists state the core should roughly be. Many claim that the discovery of a woolly mammoth in Siberia, frozen so fast that it didn't even have to to digest it's food, is possible evidence that while the interior of the hollow earth is hospitable, wildlife wandering to the outer crust have no means to survive, giving rise to theories within the hollow earth theory that many extinct species may still be wandering underneath us today.*
- *Two things have given me hope that this could be more than just a theory however. First, the US government was willing to fund an expedition under president Van Buren, only for Andrew Jackson to focus on the more "dangerous" threat of the Cherokee tribe than to search for the lost places of the world. The second, however, piques my interests even more. In 1959, an American research submarine managed to not only move under the North Pole, but surface under the ice. Since then, several Allied research stations have been put up atop the polar ice. While Lusky and Trapper keep saying these are only in place for climate study, I'm trying to find a way to slip in with the next supply shipments and into what they might have found on the North Pole.*
### File: Y-W4LK1NGD34D: "The Case of Clairvius Narcisse"

From the private journal of Paul Cardinal.

- *Mathieu was right, Haiti's indeed better off allied with the League. They've done a good job in thinning the armed gangs from Cité Soleil, and promoting Haitian customs all in their own brand of 'pan-Africanism'. But the last time I've talked with him, he's been doubting whether they should still preserve the custom of raising up the dead through Vodou. I know Allied educators have done a great job of debunking many of these superstitions, but the Haitians aren't having any of that; they think those are just attempts at cultural cleansing against them. Either way, there's been news that's caused quite a stir in the country: a man named Clairvius Narcisse is reported to have died, but resurrected through Vodou sorcery. The Caribbean press is going crazy over that news, while Mathieu and I had to go visit our optometrists two times after reading this article.*
- *But before anybody here accuses me of plagiarizing from George Romero, Mathieu stated some differences between his idea of zombies and the Haitians'. While his non-sapient, carnivorous and infectious variants act like those rumored under Combine control, Haitian zombies are instead raised from corpses by* bokors *- Vodou sorcerers who then enslave them with dark magic for their purposes. But those ones still retain their self-awareness, knowing that their will is being controlled by their masters. He knows this because he had the misfortune of encountering him first. Dying at a hospital due to being poisoned by his brother on 1962, Narcisse was buried in an unremarkable grave like any other dead body, and that's where his story* should've *ended.*
- *According to Narcisse, he was in fact aware of his surroundings; he could hear his own funeral procession, his sister crying for him, the whole nine yards. And that was when a* bokor *came to his gravesite, exhumed him and led him to his own plantation to be one of his slaves. Narcisse remembers him giving the him and the other slaves some kind of liquid, which from what I've heard, makes them more suggestible to control. Two years later, he said that the slaves got their free will back, killed their slaver and escaped. Keeping a low profile as a beggar, his family eventually recognized him as Narcisse after five years. As Allied doctors are called in to investigate, they've uncovered a few possible chemicals responsible for his condition.*
-*First is TTX, or tetrodotoxin. I don't know how exactly a bunch of witch doctors stumble upon Japanese puffer fish venom, and I might not want to know more. Second was*  datura stramonium *or jimsonweed as it's more known, reputed to cause hallucinations on the victims and can even erode their free will. Third is bufotoxin (toad venom), normally having anesthetic properties. Lately, I'm puzzled on how Vodun sorcerers even got those kinds of chemicals, and I don't think Mathieu will be of much help here. Last thing I've heard of him, he's barricading his home from those who want him at the microphone or their fields, whether alive, dead... or both.*
### File: Y-FL4SH1NTH3N1GHT: "The Black Flash of Provincetown"

Field report, Agent Diana Lusky

- *The small town of Provincetown in Massachussetts has been known as a colony of tourists, beachgoers, artists and writers since the 1920s. Worth nothing is that this town is also in fact a haven for those with unconventional lifestyles, having the highest rate of same-sex couples in the country. But in spite of this town's colorful exterior, this particular case highlights a dark part of their history.*
- *Provincetown in the late '30s found itself under attack, although not by thieves, but by a purported supernatural threat that tormented its inhabitants for eight years. While differing in some accounts, the being was consistently described as a thin man over eight feet tall with red eyes and pointed ears, dressed in an all-black suit with a bat-like cap as his accessory. Named "the Black Flash" due to its superhuman speed where it can leap over 10 foot fences when pursued (it should be taken to account that a sighting would come in from the West End, only to be sighted on the East End as well a minute later), the being seemed to take pleasure from scaring innocent passers-by, jumping from dark alleyways, its appearance always accompanied by malevolent laughing and insect-like noises according to citizens.*
- *Also, the Black Flash's thin frame concealed its superhuman strength quite well - easily overpowering two grown men and severly injuring the hand of another in self-defense. It is said to be immortal as well, taking a shotgun round from another villager, just laughing it off before leaping over a high fence. Fortunately, after 7 years of sowing fear in Provincetown, the Black Flash's reign of terror was brought to an end when the eldest child in a group of siblings poured a bucket of water to the monster, letting out a howl before retreating rapidly, never to appear in the town again.*
- *Rationally, the entire fiasco can be chalked up to a town-wide case of cabin fever - as Provincetown is sparsely populated at that time. Police Chief Francis Marshall states the Black Flash itself is nothing but a role played by an unknown number of athletic men at different times, which can explained how the being can travel through backyards in light-speed. Its apparent inability to be harmed can be explained by the four wearing bulletproof vests of the period, easily absorbing a shot from a shotgun with less impact. It can be concluded, however, that for eight years, Provincetown has been under the complete mercy of a group of devious individuals whose motive so far is to simply terrorize the town.*
### File: Y-L4STR1D3: "The Black Volga"

From the personal field report of Ophilia Cunningham.

- *Just now, Radio Free Europe reported that parents in Warsaw, Minsk, Moscow, Kiev and other cities in the USSR have warned their children not to go outside once the 'czarna wołga' is found in their neighborhoods. I still don't know if that is to shield them from the horror stories I've heard in Soviet factories, or the Red Army crackdowns on insurgent movements, but it works just as good.*
- *Sightings of the 'haunted' vehicle have been almost consistent at best; a black Volga limousine with white wheel rims, white curtains or other white elements in it (although some report it as red). What makes this particular Volga unnerving is that not one single eyewitness was able to see the driver, leading to theories of it being driven either by nuns, priests, gypsies, vampires, Satanists, or even Satan himself, which might account for the car's side mirrors usually appearing as horns.*
- *Not helped by their prejudices against certain groups, the black Volga somehow is deemed responsible for the abduction of children who saw it and the death of those who challenged the car within 24 hours. The children are said to have their blood used as cure for rich businessmen suffering from leukemia, or have their organs sold to the black market, although back then, the victims were said to be kidnapped for the sexual pleasure of the highest-ranking Soviet officials.*
- *Separating fact from fiction is very hard to do here, but the truth is buried somewhere in the heaps of anti-Soviet propaganda no doubt propagated by ACIN. As Volgas are typically owned by the most lavish and luxurious officials of the Communist party, propagandists been quick to connect theim to the child abductees due to sharing the same automobiles of choice. Coupled with the unsavory things I've heard about those officials, this question has been occupying my mind: who exactly are they collaborating with? And why them?*
### File: Y-TV4T4D3D4N44N: "The Fair Folk"

From the research notes of Dr. William Cardinal

### File Y-M4DW0R7D: "Mass Hysteria"

From the desk of Assistant Director Trapper.

- *In sociological and psychological terms, a 'mass hysteria' is used to describe a condition affecting a group of persons, characterized by excitement or anxiety, irrational behavior or beliefs, or inexplicable symptoms of illness. True to the name, mass hysterias typically occur when imagined or assumed threats cause a large group of people to apparently develop symptoms and signals coinciding with the threat itself. While the exact causes are still not yet known, Lusky and I have been compiling a list of incidents detailing this quirk of human interaction.*
- *One of the first recorded mass hysteria incidents that shed light to the phenomenon itself, the case of the "meowing nuns" still baffles the minds of historians today. Originally happening in an unknown convent in France during the Middle Ages, the incident took place when a nun started to meow like a cat. The rest of the convent followed suit, meowing together for many hours at specific points during the day. The meowing finally stopped when the neighbors were beginning to be annoyed of the cacophony, leading to soldiers forcing the group back to the convent by threats of bodily harm.*
- *The Dancing Plague of 1518 that happened in Strasbourg, France (then of the Holy Roman Empire). Based on the documentations of the Strasbourg city council, the outbreak transpired on July of the year when a woman named Frau Troffea began to dance fervently in a street. Lasting between four to six days, the number of the dancers increased to 34 the following week, 400 the following month. Eventually, most of those who joined succumbed to strokes, heart attacks and extreme fatigue.*
- *The most notorious case of mass hysteria yet might be the witch panic that happened in the Puritan village of Salem which led to the heinous trials and executions of individuals wrongfully accused of dabbling with dark forces. The primary vector of the mania occurred when Martha Goodwin and her siblings began to exhibit strange behavior after an argument with laundress Goody Glover, who was eventually sentenced to death for witchcraft. Three years later, the daughter and the niece of the local reverend start to exhibit the same eccentric behavior Goodwin had, which spread to other girls in the village. The local doctor eventually concluded that the village was under attack by the Devil's influence, which was not helped by the fact that other villagers began to accuse each other of witchcraft due to 'spectral evidence' - evidence revealed by dreams and visions. At the climax of the panic, more than twenty people were unjustly executed by hanging (with the exception of Giles Corey, who famously asked for 'more weight' when he was crushed to death).*
- *In March 1937, former Indonesian Prime Minister Soetan Sjahrir was living in a village in the Moluccan island of Banda when a rumor of wandering head-hunters drove its citizens into a panic. The ensuing hysterical episodes were about how the* tjoelik *(government-paid head-hunters) were operating on the area, searching for a head to be placed near a jetty under repairs. Sjahrir recounted how the streets were nearly deserted after 7:00 pm, and how reports of strange sounds and sightings skyrocketed at the time. To quote:* "Every morning there are new stories, generally about footsteps or voices, or a house that was bombarded with stones, or an attack on somebody by a tjoelik with a noose, or a cowboy lasso. Naturally, the person who was attacked got away from the tjoelik in a nick of time!"
- *The residents of Mattoon, Illinois were reportedly in an uproar when the 'Mad Gasser of Mattoon' or the 'Phantom Anesthetist' reported launched chemical attacks against the town's citizens on 1944. Apparently identical to the gas attacks reported in Botetourt County, Virginia during 1933, it started when a local started to feel nauseous. Neighbors started to exhibit the typical symptoms of vomiting, headaches, facial swelling and in two cases, paralysis and difficulty of breathing. In both towns, however, the locals started to have sightings of the potential suspect for the attack; a tall, thin man dressed in dark clothing and wearing a tight-fitting cap. Some even sighted him holding a flit gun, that allows him to expel the gas responsible for the attack. While the man was never captured, psychologists are currently attributing the panic to mass anxiety; panicking when confronted by strange odors when it actuality are just mere winds with chemicals carried from nearby industrial facilities.*
- *There were also two separate events in two wildly different countries and years about the same hysteria: the fear of a psychopath randomly going around, slashing people indiscriminately. Both in Halifax, England on 1938 and in Taipei, Taiwan on 1956, their residents lived in fear of a 'slasher' for a week (two weeks for Taipei) - whose victims are commonly women. Their 'victims' were reported to gain their wounds inadvertently in their everyday lives, one man even claiming he was attacked due to 'all the talk going around'. Outside factors did little to help, as vigilante groups roamed Halifax in hopes of a bounty and the Taiwanese media sensationalizing the issue to worsen the paranoia of the Taipei residents. Oddly enough, detectives quickly disproved the existence of the slashers in both countries, attributing the victims' slash marks to self-infliction or mundane scratches.*
- *The Tanganyika Laughing Epidemic occurred at a girls-only boarding school at Kashasha, a village in Tanganyika in January 1962 where three girls suddenly began to laugh uncontrollably. Lasting between a few hours to 16 days, this contagious laughing episode was even transmitted to 95 of the 159 students, forcing the faculty to close down the school two months later. This did not appear to quell the epidemic, as it only spread to Nshamba, a nearby village on April of the year as 217 of its residents (mostly children) have been afflicted by the laughing episodes. The outbreak even infected nearby towns and schools, leading to the shutdown of 14 schools and the infection of 1,000 people before the cases inexplicably stopped eighteen months later.*
- *At the risk of sounding juvenile, a so-called 'penis panic' has gripped the males of Singapore in October 1967. According to a newspaper report, it was claimed that eating pork inoculated against swine fever can lead to* koro*, an Asian and African culture-specific syndrome in which where the penis can retract and disappear, leading to death. At the height of the hysteria, 97 men went to the emergency unit of the Singapore General Hospital in one day. Injuries were also common at the time, where men resorted to using apparatuses that might potentially wound their penis, such as needles and hooks. It took a massive health campaign by the Singaporean government to finally stop the outbreak where medical officials reminded their citizens the anatomical impossibility of such a disease.*
- *Lusky has told me that she's fascinated by how masses of people can quickly lose their sense of reason in the face of assumed dangers, and now that she's reading up on psychological mechanisms responsible for such events. For me, though, I'm going to go through potential legal issues from the recent panics in hopes that we can stop them easier and prevent new ones from occurring. I personally do not want a witch hunt to happen again, as it did two times before.*
### File: Y-D34THN0T3: "Tomino's Hell"

- *This is my first time not writing about a specific code, but this entry has made even the toughest Imperial soldier shake in his boots, or at least that's according to my overseas friend Yosuke. So, I hope this can count.*
- *You can't blame him,* Tomino's Hell *has inspired dread among almost every citizen of the Empire. Macabre artwork aside, Saijō Yaso's poem of the eponymous young boy's damnation into Hell for parricide was beautifully disturbing on its execution. Intended to be symbolic of the author's distress upon the death of a parental figure, I personally think this poem is on par with the works of Edgar Allan Poe. But I'm writing about this not because it has some cipher to be solved. It's because of the so-called* curse *associated with it.*
- *It is now an unwritten rule in the Empire that this poem is strictly to be read in thought only, for saying it aloud can bring bad luck and illness, and worse death. Yosuke remembers one of his classmates having read it in class in their literature subject, only to fall sick halfway through the poem and had to be dismissed. The next day, he was hospitalized after coughing up blood. Unforunately, he was not the only one who was afflicted by its curse.*
- *According to Imperial media, an academic just lost his job as a college professor and had his home burned down after reading it as prescribed by his curriculum. One of Kamina's aides who were murdered along with the Emperor's fiancée is said to have a copy of this poem in his home. To make things worse, a high-ranking politician in the Diet was reading this story to schoolchildren in a sort of way to keep them from dishonoring their parents. Note that one of Tatsu's children were there in the same school.*
- *I don't want to risk myself, or anyone else contracting a dangerous curse, so I'm gonna send a copy of the poem to be analyzed by some linguists. The ERSDF's been scared stiff already, going as far as to burn every single copy of* Tomino's Hell *they see to stop spreading the hex. I might have to write to you again next week if Yosuke gives me an update on the situation here.*
- *With love,*
- *Astra*
- *P.S. One of Yosuke's friends, Naoto, is still trying to investigate another set of murders involving this so-called "midnight channel" in Japan, so he might not be able to write more about this. Sorry.*
### File: Y-R3V3NG34NC3: "The Vengeful Greek Soldier"

From Agent Muldrake's personal files:

- *World War II has not been kind to Greece; their cities in disrepair, their ancient relics destroyed forever, and their economy in immense debt. Not helping is how the Syndicate extended their devil's deal onto the Greeks to rebuild their infrastructure at the cost of surrendering economic control to them. With their women now under attack for the third time, I guess the Greeks couldn't just catch a break.*
- *I haven't been to Athens post-war, but some agents from there were willing to help out on this. Back in their home country, one of the soldiers came home from WWII to marry his fiancée, only to find himself captured by local communist partisans fighting in the Greek Civil War at that time. The soldier was then brutally tortured for five weeks before being killed, the reason being apparently having fought for the Allies the previous war. Whatever form of torture was used on him, it certainly made him forget he had a fiancée to come back to.*
- *In the early parts of this decade - mainly in North and Central Greece - there has been a sudden surge of pregnancy among women, allegedly all traced to one man. Rumors tell of an attractive man in uniform targeting beautiful virgin women, seducing them with the sole purpose of impregnating them, before appearing and disappearing overnight. Five weeks later after the birth of the babies, he would leave a note on the women's tables detailing his true intention for the trysts: his offspring being the divine channels of his vengeance against those who murdered him from beyond the grave. I wish that if I ever discover him, he'll be glad to share his tips on how to attract women.*
- *Rumor has it that the same soldier is still active in Greece, extending his operations even to the Acropolis Sprawl in Athens, maybe because of his sudden change in taste. Also, his children are quickly spirited away to orphanages far from the Sprawl, where they get quickly adopted by unnamed individuals. Combined with his intentions, this essentially means that the man is amassing an army of child soldiers, although how he thinks they can take on gang members and Soviet tanks is beyond my comprehension. It must be the result of the trauma he received from the torture, but Allied child services are already getting worried that his kids might be utilized for something worse. I might not take Lusky with me, though, lest she fall for the charms of this deranged casanova.*
### File Y-D1DNTC4R3: "Kitty Genovese"

From the private journal of Paul Cardinal.

- *Trick question: why the* hell *does humanity keep crossing lines I thought they wouldn't? It's as if no matter how low it is, they do it anyway. Honestly, I'd rather believe that some mind-controlling object must be responsible for this case, but that's me being* too *optimistic about the human condition. With this case on the bag, I'm actually starting to look forward to WWIV.*
- *Just five years ago this March 13, a woman named Kitty Genovese just got stabbed and raped by some nutjob named Winston Moseley in the front of her own apartment in Kew Gardens, Queens. But that's not the person I'm gonna rail about today; I've personally dealt with many other nutjobs who did the same thing to women. But the elephant in the room? How* thirty-eight *people witnessed the goddamn murder, and did absolutely* **nothing** *about it.*
- *That's right, folks;* **nothing.**
- *I've talked with Chief Inspector Lussen, and he said that Moseley had* three *chances to kill her in a span of 35 minutes. Since he had to go back twice to complete the job, that means that those 'witnesses' had* three *chances to call the cops. Had they called when Moseley stabbed her, she might have lived. Meaning that Genovese was completely under the mercy of her eventual killer for* six *hours, yet* nobody *helped, even when she was screaming for help. Pardon my French, but it wasn't even until she* fucking *died that her neighbors finally came outside as her body is carried to the ambulance. They shouldn't use ignorance as an excuse; they knew exactly what's going on, they've saw Moseley shank Genovese in front of them, yet not one of them even thought to call the* fucking *cops.*
- *How in the world did these neighbors get so apathetic enough to completely ignore the murder taking place? If anything, if I was in law enforcement, I'd have arrested these thirty-seven 'witnesses' (more like* witlesses*) except for that saint who at least shouted at Moseley to back off. Accomplices to the murder, all of those bastards, doing their role in letting a psycho kill an innocent woman by just standing there all because 'they don't want to get involved'. Well, bad news, you've* already *involved yourself in Genovese's death, idiot. I only hope that if the afterlife was real, Genovese would* forever *haunt them for the rest of their lives, with the fact that they've been complicit in a crime that could've been prevented only if one of them went to the phone and dialed the police. As for the rest, this case, along with snuff films, are good arguments for our needed extinction by the hands of Atomic China.*
### File Y-N4K3DTRVTH: "The Red Film"

Field report, Agent Diana Lusky

- *Truly, photography has completely reinvented the human perception of art. Since the time when Joseph Niépce took the first photograph on 1827, millions more have looked to it as the best way to capture images, a feat the human eye cannot do. But like almost every other invention that humanity has created, it can also be used for naught.*
- *Photography is no exception; especially when one takes notice of whatever sick mind is capable of inventing this special kind of camera. On 1964, there have been rumors circulating about a 'magic camera' under the possession of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner that can take pictures of other humans, and print them out sans clothing at the same time. When interviewed by Y Files personnel, Hefner claimed that the 'Krasnyy Kino' or 'Red Film' was delivered to his doorstep from the Echidna Exquisites branch of Las Vegas, which in turn was bought from an underground Russian adult store, which in turn was smuggled to Murmansk by unknown Yakuza members present in Siberia during the Imperial occupation. The camera then was retrieved from him, to be replaced by another of identical make as the Red Film, only lacking its... exquisite properties.*
- *Even today, the photo analysts at the lab are still confused how this device exactly works; whether this is the result of genuine confusion or fascination with its output images are still unknown. Paul says that only the Empire has the technology to process images, and that is only because of his experiences with some folk in the Japanese sex industry. And as their men would hunt Paul down when he breaks his word of honor, it is doubtable that he'd be giving information about this soon.*
- *While the analysts are still processing the output images, I deem it more necessary to keep the Red Film in my possession for the time being. Many of those in the lab cannot be trusted when it comes to sensitive matters, and it is possible that they could attract the more unsavory elements of the adult industry for a chance to gain more profits.*
From Agent Muldrake's personal files

- *Agent Lusky's been a bit hesitant to hand the Red Film to us lately for more research, and she's been also giving me strange smiles since we got that camera. Does anyone have any idea what this means? It's been eerie for me.*
### File: Y-M0NK3YBV55N35: "The Grand Delhi Monkey Man"

From the research notes of Dr. William Cardinal

### File: Y-S4CR3-B00: "Les catacombes de Paris"

From the personal field report of Ophilia Cunningham.

### File: Y-L1GHTS1NDSKY: "Foo-Fighters"

From the desk of Assistant Director Trapper.

- *It is now an accepted fact among astronomers that human life might not be the only form of life in our Universe. But this has also been tied in with many unconfirmed sightings of undefined fantastic objects that imply extraterrestrial contact with Earth, sightings that started to increase in number since World War II. Muldrake, an enthusiast for UFOs, has made this list of possible sightings, which would inevitably expand if reports in Antarctica are to be believed.*
- *In an incident that brought UFO sightings to public consciousness, Kenneth Arnold's account might be the first modern sighting recorded. A private pilot flying to Yakima, WA to originally retrieve a crashed plane for a $5,000 reward, Arnold has gave up the search and started to fly east when he saw a bright flashing light, which led to a series of flashes near Mt. Rainier later. Ruling out other aircraft, reflected sunlight, and geese flocks as they approached Rainier grouped together in front, Arnold has likened their movements to saucers, popularizing the term 'flying saucer' as a nickname for UFOs. With many people in North America corroborating his story, Arnold's story has opened the gates for more reported sightings to come.*
- *The 'Lubbock Lights' were an unusual formation of 20-30 lights that flew in a V-pattern over Lubbock, TX on 1951. Originally spotted by three professors from Texas Technological College who were in the backyard of one of them's houses, the rest of Lubbock began to see sightings of the Lights when the incident was publicized. It was not until Carl Hart, Jr.'s photograph of the UFOs that the US Air Force investigated the phenomenon, originally attributing the lights to overhead flying plovers before game wardens have disproved the claim due to size differences.*
- *The Trindade Island's UFO was sighted by the crew of the Brazilian training ship* Almirante Saldanha *on January 16, 1958. After the International Geophysical Year, the ship was preparing to sail away from Ilha de Trindade when the crew noticed a flying object which had a "ring" around it, that flew from the island to the east. Photographer Almiro Baraúna's shot of the object might have been 'debunked' by Donald Menzel in 1959, strengthened by the fact that Project Blue Book has identified Baraúna as a well-known UFO hoaxer, in contrast to its confirmations by Brazilian military personnel, including then-President Juscelino Kubitschek.*
- *On December 9, 1965, a large fireball streaked over the Detroit-Windsor area, sighted by thousands at six U.S. states and Ontario, Canada, jamming phone lines and causing sonic booms in Pittsburgh, PA. Allegedly crashing in the woods by witnesses in the small village of Kecksburg, the downed UFO according to them released blue smoke that dissipated quickly. Described as bat-shaped, as big as a Volkswagen Beetle, and had strings of numbers inscribed in a band around its base, the same object was secured by the significant U.S. military presence in Kecksburg that night and was never seen again.*
- *More than 200 students and teachers of Westall High School in Melbourne, Australia witnessed a UFO that allegedly descended into a nearby paddock adjacent to The Grange on April 6, 1966. Reported to have descended in the paddock in front of Westall State School, it then ascended towards the north-west, which then was now being pursued by five unidentified aircraft. Speculated to be Imperial plane mecha, the Japanese refugees based in Australia were unwilling to speak about this incident, citing code of honor. Chinese ones, however, describe the UFO as a bit similar to the ones the Atomic Chinese have been using today. The Network branch, however, state that they possess images of the craft, with potential similarities to the ones they have spotted in Antarctica.*
- *Just six months ago, former Georgian senator Jimmy Carter vanished on a night in January 1969 after a speech he gave at a Lions Club meeting at Leary, GA. One of his guests recounted that when he was preparing for that speech when he saw a strange, white object 30 degrees above the horizon to the west of where he was standing. Hours after that speech, he suddenly disappeared from his home in a sudden, blinding flash according to eyewitnesses. Recovered Network records indicate that they saw a faint image of a fat, crescent-shaped object above Carter's house, rumored to be responsible for his vanishing.*
- *Muldrake told me that some of our moles inside the Truth Seekers reported* incredible *numbers of documentation about UFO sightings, and retrieving them will allow us to isolate common patterns from each report easier. As it is noteworthy that many WWII and WWIII pilots have experiences about these strange lights, schedules for interview with them might have to be written up.*

### File Y-G0N3W1THTH3W1ND, "Without a Trace"

From the desk of Assistant Director Trapper.

- *For centuries, there have been cases of people suddenly vanishing from public view, with little to no clues on their current whereabouts, and status if either alive or dead. Detectives are still puzzled about the exact series of events that lead to their disappearance and loved ones are still worried that they might either be gone, or there is something worse being done to them. For future breakthroughs in any of those cases, my contacts on the FBI have put together a list of the more noteworthy individuals whose statuses are still unknown.*
- *The subject of possibly the most high-profile disappearance of the 1960's, the ultimate fate of former Prime Minister Harold Holt of Australia has yet to be identified. Reputed to be a fan of water sports such as swimming and spearfishing, Holt and his two friends went to Cheviot Beach, his favorite swimming spot near Portsea, Victoria on December 17, 1967. Not heeding his friends' warnings about the current turbulent conditions of the beach, Holt went in, and disappeared among the waves. Despite the largest search operation that followed in Contingent history, his body was not found, eventually leading to being declared dead five days later. Up to this day, rumors still circulate about the nature of his death, whether it is suicide, exacerbated by his declining health or staged to escape with his mistress. Darker theories, however, paint Chinese submariners, Imperial assassins, and even the Victorian Freemasons as culprits.*
- *Jean Spangler, an American model, dancer, and actress known best for her small part at* Young Man With a Horn*, had a two-year-long custody battle with her ex-husband Dexter Benner for the custody of their daughter, Christine (who was five years old at the time). After being awarded with the custody of Christine, Spangler reportedly left her daughter in the care of her sister-in-law to talk to Benner about late child support payment on October 17, 1949. It was not until two days later when her purse was discovered with an unfinished note that was addressed to "Kirk" that read* "Can’t wait any longer, Going to see Dr. Scott. It will work best this way while mother is away." *With actor Kirk Douglas denying any connection to the disappearance, the identity of "Dr. Scott" not yet verified by LA police, a rumor of Spangler wanting an abortion and unconfirmed sightings of her in different places, this cold case will not be truly solved until these links can be joined together.*
- *In November 17, 1961, photographer and art collector Michael Rockefeller got lost in southwestern Netherlands New Guinea. The youngest son of former New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, Michael was travelling to an Asmat-dominant region at that time along with Dutch anthropologist René Wassing to collect local primitive art. When their jury-rigged catamaran overturned in a swamp, their two local guides swam for shore when Wassing and Rockefeller stayed with the boat as it drifted out into the Arafura Sea. After drifting for two days, Rockefeller famously told Wassing that* "I think I can make it" *and swam an estimated 12 miles to the nearby shore. When Wassing was rescued the next day, a lengthy search effort to find Rockefeller failed to find him, leading to theories of his death via exhaustion, drowning or crocodile attack. This year, however, journalist Mitt Machlin has dismissed theories of the heir integrating with the Asmat and has put forth the disturbing theory that Rockefeller was killed and eaten by local cannibals after swimming to shore.*
- *Dubbed the "Hero of Yaguajay" after a successful attack against the pro-Batista Yaguajay garrison, Camilo Cienfuegos was a legendary figure in the Cuban Revolution, fighting along with former President Fidel Castro to depose Fulgencio Batista, the ruling dictator of Cuba at that time. A skilled fighter in his own right, he was said to kill the enemy and catch his rifle before it had time to hit the ground. Cienfuegos was known to be utterly loyal to the Castro regime, even going as far to arrest Commander Huber Matos for criticizing the Castros for flirting with communism. But in October 28, 1959, his personal Cessna 310 plane disappeared during a night flight from Camagüey to Havana. This has made him a martyr for the Cuban Revolution, with civilians going as far as to toss flowers to the exact area in which he vanished. Rumors persist of his death being masterminded by Castro himself due to Cienfuegos' strong anarchic leanings, a political view not boding well for Cuba as the Soviet Union has pulled the island nation closer to them.*
- *Another one of Australia's most infamous cold cases involve the disappearance of Jane, Arnna, and Grant Beaumont in January 26, 1966. That day, the Beaumont children took a five-minute bus journey to Glenelg Beach, a local beachside resort near Adelaide, South Australia, where the family regularly visits. As Jane, the eldest child, is considered responsible enough to take care of her two younger siblings, their parents let them go out without much concern. When they were expected to come back at 2pm, but did not, they immediately called the police at 7:30pm. Interviewed witnesses reveal that the children were last seen in the beach, playing with a tall, blond, athletically built man, who the Beaumonts even bought some food for with a £1 note (their mother only gave them coins that morning). The mysterious man is theorized to be the most likely suspect behind their disappearance, bolstered by the fact that they have only been in contact with the man since that morning.*
- *One of the most powerful capos of the New York Genovese crime family, Anthony "Tony Bender" Strollo had a history of switching sides, from Masseria to Genovese. Forging a reputation as a formidable bootlegger and hitman during the Prohibition, he worked Guiseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria in the early-to-mid 1920's before his assassination on the Castellammarese war. In 1957, the two took part in a conspiracy that planned to kill current Genovese boss Frank Costello which led to the latter's retirement made Vito the acting boss of the family. Things were going smoothly for the two until Strollo's set-up of Genovese on a drug trafficking conviction, a decision that may have led to the former's disappearance. This was not helped by the fact that Strollo may have cheated Vito out of some of the profits gained from a drug operation. Strollo then vanished on the morning in April 8, 1962, just after leaving his residence in Fort Lee, NJ. Unfounded rumors, however, say of Strollo faking his death.*
- *Finally, the disappearance of Moroccan politician Mehdi Ben Barka in October 29, 1965. The head of the left-leaning party National Union of Popular Forces, he was exiled from Morocco after being accused of plotting against King Hassan II in 1963. Meeting with Che Guevara, Amílcar Cabral, and Malcolm Little in Algiers, Barka travelled the world to inspire revolutionary movements to pursue anti-colonial action. He was preparing for the Tricontinental Conference to be held in Havana when he was 'abducted' by French policemen in Paris. All I can say is that I thought ACIN agents would be above kidnapping a politician who merely wanted to stabilize the African situation, just for the sole reason of being associated with some communists.*