Spy Ski School

## Operation Snow Bunny

**Agent:** Ben Ripley

**Mission:** Thwart international crime boss Leo Shang's illegal activity in the Colorado Rockies on your first official CIA assignment.

**Objectives:**

1. Enroll in ski school and get close to Shang's daughter- but not too close. Save your smooth moves for the slopes.
2. Be wary of unexpected guests who might drop in and threaten to blow your cover.
3. Figure out Shang's nefarious plans and do whatever it takes.
4. Try not to wipe out too badly in front of any spies you might have a crush on - and, as always, do your best to not get killed.

## Activated Agents

* Cyrus Hale (operation manager)

* Benjamin Ripley (primary agent)
* Erica Hale (handler)
* Alexander Hale (emergency helper)
* Zoe Zibbell (assistant agent)
* Warren Reeves (assistant agent)
* Chip Schacter (assistant agent)
* Jawaharlal O'Shea (assistant agent)
* Woodchuck (chaperone agent)
* Hank Schacter (chaperone agent)

## Synopsis

*Thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley is not exactly the best student spy school has ever seen—he keeps flunking Advanced Self Preservation. But outside of class, Ben is pretty great at staying alive. His enemies have kidnapped him, shot at him, locked him in a room with a ticking time bomb, and even tried to blow him up with missiles. And he’s survived every time.

After all that unexpected success, the CIA has decided to activate Ben for real. The Mission: Become friends with Jessica Shang, the daughter of a suspected Chinese crime boss, and find out all of her father’s secrets. Jessica wants to go to ski school in the Rocky Mountains, so a select few spy school students are going skiing too—undercover, of course.

Ben might not be able to handle a weapon (or a pair of skis), but he can make friends easy peasy. That is, until his best friend from home drops in on the trip and jeopardizes the entire mission…*

## Letters

* Briefing
* Debriefing

December 4

To: █████████████████

Given the evidence you have provided, the review committee has sanctioned Operation Snow Bunny for immediate deployment. Academy of Espionage students ███████ and ██████████ have both been approved for this operation, with the option to activate additional operatives if needed.

However, the committee would also like to make clear that it has serious reservations about using such young agents on a mission of this caliber. It is only the aboslute necessity of █████████████████████ - and the unfortunate failure of our previous operations to do so - that has led us to sanction this.

Should these young agents not be up to the task - should they fail due to their inexperience - the burden of this failure will be placed squarely on your shoulders. The CIA will disavow any knowledge that ██████████████, or that ███████████████████████████████████████ in orde to maintain the secrecy of █████████████████████.

Enclosed in the attached dossier, you will find plane tickets, ski passes, and forms for reimbursement of expenses.

Good luck on your mission, and God bless America.

███████████

CIA Director of Operations

PS: There's a restaurant in █████ called Hansel und Gretel that has excellent fondue. Check it out while you're there.

Destroy this document immediately after reading.

January 1

To: █████████████████
 CIA Director of Operations

Re: Operation ████████

As I'm sure oyu're aware by now, despite oyur concerns, our junior agents performed exceptionalyl well on their recent mission. Not only did they uncover ███████ but they also were of invaluable assistance in ████████████████████████████████. Due to their efforts, Leo Shang has been captured, along with several associates (Altohugh once again, that rapscallion Murray Hill appears to have escaped).

Therefore, I recommend commendations - as well as high grades in Undercover Work and Bomb Defusion - for agents ████████ and ████████████ on this endeavor. I also recommend passing grades for young agents ████████████████████████ and █████████████. As for agent █████████████ the less said about his performance, the better. We might consider holding him back a year.

One final note. An issue I have expressed concern about before came back to haunt all of us on this mission: ████████. However, while young ████████ appearance at first threatened to derail ████████████████ he ultimately proved himself surprisingly capable and resilient in the face of danger. To that end, please disregard my previous recommendation that we deal with Mr. ████████ by termination. Instead, I believe we should recruit him to the ████████████████. He would make a welcome addition to our ranks, and given his performance, possibly even rival ████████ as a young agent someday.

Sincerely,
Cyrus Hale.

PS: My sources indicate that ████████ may not only be still in existence, but fully recovered from ████████████████ and plotting ██████████████████. In the very near future, we may have to activate agents ████████ and █████ for Operation Muskrat.

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