Item #: SCP-2961
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2961 is to be housed within a standard humanoid containment unit at Site-62. When not in use, the structure, furnishings and any personal effects (where possible) are to be checked for anomaly-related changes; any items thus affected are to be replaced as required and forwarded to F-Lab for ongoing analysis.
Until all anomalous behaviour is understood, testing, research and interviews are to be conducted at least twenty meters from its containment and/or prior location.1 Under these conditions, SCP-2961 must be relocated every thirty minutes to a different Class Three research/interview suite. No additional security is required.
Contact with SCP-2961 is limited to no more than thirty minutes in any four hour period, after which assigned personnel must undergo DNA refranking and revised retina/fingerprint ID authorization to ensure continued security access2. This is to be performed within one hour of last contact.
Note that for research purposes, drug dependency can be introduced and/or discontinued as required. In this case, enhanced containment protocols/care standards apply, as agreed by SCP-2961 (see additional documentation). SCP-2961 is considered category NH/FC3 (with zero contraindications) for the purposes of research interaction and breach risk analysis, and as such Quality of Life standard Westerman-A applies.
Description: SCP-2961 is the physically non-anomalous human male Raul Flores.
When SCP-2961 enters a clearly defined, physically bound location, any phenomena that could be classified as forensic evidence (as understood by SCP-2961) will exhibit a progressive degradation and/or transformation, to the point of neutralization. This degradation is relative to physical proximity to SCP-2961. Evidence both anecdotal and empirical indicates that this is an involuntary, permanently ongoing phenomena that does not impact, hinder or otherwise interfere with SCP-2961's standard biological or psychological functioning.
Said forensic degradation will take the form of either 1} a progressive failure of identifiable genetic structure, so that same can be recognized as human blood (for example), but cannot be linked to any individual, or 2} a transformation into a physically and/or thematically similar artifice (for example, white powder recovered from the bathroom of a murdered civil servant together with a mirror and a razor blade was positively identified as talc, although a separate Foundation autopsy suggested same had been inhaled prior to death, and trace quantities of talc were found in the victim's bloodstream congruent with cocaine use).
Discovery: Raul Flores was born in Delicias, Mexico on 23rd January 1968 to Felix Alfonso (deceased 1977-08-13) and Maria Concerta (deceased 1986-12-30). Autopsies and medical records of same, grandparents and great-grandparents on both sides, plus covert DNA analysis of offspring, have revealed zero indications of any physical anomaly.
Flores rose to prominence in the 1990's as an increasingly influential and vociferous critic of both Mexico's drug cartels and the Mexican government, citing the former's practices and methodology, and the latter's apparent inability and/or unwillingness to curb them, as leading factors in Mexico's perceived socio-economic decline.
On the third of April 2004 Raul Flores disappeared. It is believed his disappearance, and the subsequent public outcry, were decisive factors in the election of Felipe Calderon to the Mexican presidency in December 2006 and the catalyst for the crackdown on drug trafficking and the commencement, in the same month, of the so-called Mexican Drug War.
Flores came to the Foundation's indirect attention following the collapse of numerous high-profile criminal prosecutions against members of the Los Ocultos cartel during these actions (all of which failed through lack of, or destruction/misappropriation of, allegedly incriminating forensic evidence), and was positively identified after the capture of several CCTV and cellphone recordings of anomalous activity by cartel-embedded agents. Containment was finally achieved in April 2012 in Chihuahua, Mexico at [REDACTED] Catholic School, the scene of a triple execution carried out by cartel members and local law enforcement officers.

+ Induction Interview 0_0_124

- Induction Interview 0_0_124

Interviewed: SCP-2961, here referred to by name to aid cooperation.
Interviewer: Induction Officer Dr J Pascal
Foreword: Induction Interview 0_0_124 (two hours after extraction)
<Begin Log>
DR J PASCAL: You're happy with the assurances you've been given? Don't nod.DR J PASCAL: Okay, let's begin. I'd like to ask you some questions about the last few years. Specifically 2004 to date.DR J PASCAL: We can stop at any time. There's water in the beaker. Help yourself.DR J PASCAL: I've seen the footage leading up to your rescue - what's still viable, at least. You standing in the middle of a classroom, wearing a pinafore apron with a feather duster, surrounded by gang members taking it in turns to pistol whip you.DR J PASCAL: Three deceased minors on the floor, gunshot wounds to the head. George Marquez, thirteen, Valeria Marquez, eight, Penelope Vegas, three.DR J PASCAL: Over the course of seven minutes their blood either disappears or becomes some other fluid. Ink, or paint, or blood of indistinct DNA lineage. Bullet holes in the floor and walls become larger - not bullet holes any more. What we assume were bullet casings are unidentifiable as such: more like scraps of metal - and you just stand there.DR J PASCAL: Accepted; just so we're straight, you're not being accused of anything. We have no interest in pursuing any kind of punitive action.DR J PASCAL: I'd like to understand the progression from balls to the wall people's hero to pinafore apron-wearing accomplice for Mexico's third largest cartel. Can you tell me how Mexico's foremost campaigner for the Disappeared ended up actively covering up their murders?DR J PASCAL: The beginning would be fine.DR J PASCAL: Can you elaborate on that?DR J PASCAL: Thank you. The rest of your life is well documented, right up to your disappearance. Talk me through it.DR J PASCAL: A deer?DR J PASCAL: Occupants of the white car?DR J PASCAL: Go on.DR J PASCAL: What happened?DR J PASCAL: Talk me through it.DR J PASCAL: How did you evoke it?DR J PASCAL: Heart, not head. Okay - so that's the wife and child. What about the husband?DR J PASCAL: You're doing fine. Please continue.DR J PASCAL: Take your time.DR J PASCAL: So who was he?DR J PASCAL: You had a gun pointing at you. Your options were limited.DR J PASCAL: Who were the victims?DR J PASCAL: So what happened?DR J PASCAL: You disappeared.DR J PASCAL: For…?DR J PASCAL: It's a routine process. Getting back to the drug use at the villa; wouldn't that be counter-productive?DR J PASCAL: That's okay. Look, I know this is a lot to take in; it looks like you need a break. I'll have someone escort you to the restroom; we'll recommence in ten minutes.
[REDACTED]
DR J PASCAL: Orange orange orange. We're back online, Raul. Did you just clean crime scenes?DR J PASCAL: Can you give me an example?DR J PASCAL: Carry on.DR J PASCAL: We'll go through this in more detail in another session if you're agreeable to that. Get some rest. We'll speak again tomorrow.
<End Log>

Closing Statement: Interview suspended, to be recommenced next day.

+ Induction Interview 0_1_053

- Induction Interview 0_1_053

Interviewed: SCP-2961, referred to by name to aid cooperation

Interviewer: Induction Officer Dr J Pascal
Foreword: Continuation of previous induction interview
<Begin Log>
DR J PASCAL: Did you get any sleep?DR J PASCAL: How were you treated by the cartel?DR J PASCAL: Regardless of how they treated you, you were invaluable to the cartel.DR J PASCAL: Why?DR J PASCAL: What happened?DR J PASCAL: Carry on.DR J PASCAL: How, then?
DR J PASCAL: And you agreed?DR J PASCAL: Can you clarify that?DR J PASCAL: Everything else? Such as?DR J PASCAL: You believe the villa itself was anomalous?DR J PASCAL: Do you feel sick again, Raul? You look -
«Silence for eight seconds»DR J PASCAL: What do you mean?
«Silence for twenty-one seconds»
DR J PASCAL: Raul, what do you mean?DR J PASCAL: Raul, you need to tell me -DR J PASCAL: You want to destroy them? Don't shake your head.
DR J PASCAL: Raul, what exactly are these “abominations”?DR J PASCAL: The cartel's? Don't shake your head.«silence for eleven seconds»
DR J PASCAL: Okay, understood; standard CA/C prep. I'll advise him now… Raul, the following is non-negotiable. You will remain on-site for the duration of any action howsoever, wheresoever and whensoever it is pursued and resolved. Your presence, in so far as it is required, will be limited to locating and identifying additional anomalous phenomena and your observations, communications and engagement will be conducted entirely via remote means. For the purposes of said action, you have zero authority and your role is advisory in nature only. Notwithstanding that, prior to, during and after said action, your involvement may be augmented, diminished, terminated or increased without notice. Notwithstanding that, your involvement is entirely voluntary and you waive all rights, howsoever they exist and however granted, for the duration of said action. You accept full responsibility for any injury, harm or negative association to yourself resulting from said action howsoever, wheresoever and whensoever it is sustained. You accept that the Ganymede Group, insofar as it is or is not a bona fide legal entity, cannot be held responsible for any trauma of a physical, mental, spiritual, chronological, dimensional, identity or personality-related nature or for any other causation, howsoever, wheresoever or whensoever it occurs.
«silence for seven seconds»DR J PASCAL: We know the location of the villa. You can guide a team to this thing within it? Don't nod.DR J PASCAL: Okay. It's happening now. We need to move you to somewhere more appropriate. Interview terminated.
<End Log>
Closing Statement: SCP-2961 moved to Secure Unit 284 and debriefed on the physical layout of Miguel Rodriguez' villa, its defences and estimated threat count prior to an imminent containment/retrieval action.

On [REDACTED], MTF Zeta-17 ("Los Ciervos") were involved in a CA/C4 action at the villa of Los Ocultos head Miguel Rodriguez. Five members of the MTF team were injured in action, with zero fatalities. Eighty nine hostile parties were neutralised in the action, seventeen permanently.
As a result of the action, one anomalous object with at least 250+ unique recorded sub-designations and one anomalous location were contained; these are currently awaiting classification and permanent containment, documentation pending.
SCP-2961 is currently cooperating with this ongoing process. Information that could positively identify any unique sub-designations as D-Class resource, or Subset 2961-CFM individuals5 is to be held separately and is not to be made available to SCP-2961.

Footnotes
1. Interviews with an anticipated maximum length of less than ten minutes may also be held in the dedicated containment unit.
2. This applies equally to any other current/future scanning technologies where identification is keyed to unique biological features (whether DNA based or otherwise)
3. Non-Hostile/Fully Compliant
4. Covert Acquisition/Containment
5. Alejandra Flores, Rafael Flores, Francisca Flores, Adriana Flores

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