SCP-6160 Document, Current Revision (7)

Item#: 6160

Level3

Containment Class:
safe

Secondary Class:
none

Disruption Class:
ekhi

Risk Class:
notice

link to memo

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-6160 is currently stored as a document in a folder secured through the means of a locked file box. The box is located at Aisle ██, Containment Vault █, Site-77. The key's use is granted solely at the Site Director's discretion. In the case of manifestation of SCP-6160-1, MTF Upsilon-4 "Sugar Pill" is to be deployed and the instance of SCP-6160-1 neutralized with countermemetic agents.
Description: SCP-6160 is a series of memetic concepts, which can be transferred through any form of visual media, that will generate an instance of SCP-6160-1 after infecting more than one person. Affected individuals will always attempt to share SCP-6160.
SCP-6160-1 and its effects manifest when more than one person is infected with SCP-6160. SCP-6160-1 is an anomalous form of a socioeconomic egregore1 that attack and transmute other socioeconomic egregores to other instances of SCP-6160-1.
SCP-6160-1 infection rate increases in correlation with affected population size, population density, and the number of SCP-6160-1 instances nearby. The effects of SCP-6160-1 also change with the same factors. The effects of SCP-6160-1 above an affected population size of 500, as well as its behavior in non-capitalist egregore-dominated environments, have never been observed.
The following is the behavior of SCP-6160-1 instances in a capitalist egregore dominated environment:
SCP-6160-1 within small populations ranging from 2-10 affected individuals will take the form of increased cooperative socioeconomic behavior resembling a typical family even when there is no common relation, ideological beliefs expressing support for the Marxist family of ideologies, usually Marxism-Leninism. Affected individuals may exhibit financial tendencies like saving, that may interfere with the operation of markets.
Above this size, the effects of SCP-6160-1 are poorly understood. In population sizes of 10-100, the affected may begin to withdraw from activities directly related to capitalism and may create a co-operative. How successful those activities are unknown, as SCP-6160-1 at this size tends to grow rapidly enough to progress to affected population sizes of 100-500 in a matter of days.
At affected population sizes of 100-500, individuals begin to organize protests and actively engage in anticapitalist activities. At this stage, the egregore becomes self-reliant and can operate independently of other egregores in the area. Currently, the behavior of SCP-6160-1 is unknown in cities and is thought to grow rapidly enough to cover all possible supply chains, replicating the autonomous behavior of SCP-6160-1 in villages. SCP-6160-1 instances at this size may also begin to partake in violent attacks against other socioeconomic egregores.
These anomalous properties are a result of SCP-6160's origin as an engineered memetic project for GRU Division ‘P'. SCP-6160 was never deployed by GRU Division ‘P', rather it was modified and deployed for use by remnants following the collapse of the Soviet Union, as detailed below in Addendum D.
Discovery:
On 18/7/1992, A.I. Agapov2 presented himself at the Foundation's Moscow office, bringing with him knowledge of SCP-6160, and related documents, in exchange for a hundred thousand USD's worth in rubles.

Addendum A

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Addendum A:

Operation and definition of an egregore

Illustration 1 - thermostat control system.
Illustration 2 - capitalist egregore control system.

A socioeconomic egregore is a distinct non-physical and non-anomalous entity that arises from a collective group of people, influencing their socioeconomical behavior. An example would be the capitalist egregores.
The operation of an egregore can be described with the help of control theory. To the right is an illustration carousel showcasing the closed-loop negative feedback control system that a thermostat exhibits, and the closed-loop negative feedback control system that a capitalist egregore exhibits, in the first and second illustration respectively.
In the second illustration - Below the crossed line is the external world; the comparator (compare returns in the illustration) corresponds to the individual capitalist.
Addendum B contains an additional resource recovered in investigations helpful in the description of SCP-6160.

Addendum B

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Addendum B:

Recovered resource from GRU Division Psychotronics for Addendum A
Below is a document recovered from investigations into SCP-6160:

REPORT
TO THE HEAD OF DEPARTMENT IV, DIVISION "P",
comrade SMIRNOV L.V.
on the project "MANIFEST COMMON" at Department IV
You requested as part of your inquiry into the project "MANIFEST COMMON" as the new head of department IV that a report be made to you explaining the goals and operating principles. I am of course, more than happy to do this, and despite the complicated nature of the project, I will do my best to do so.
Introduction:
It all starts with Marx, of course. Marx was one of the first persons to recognize that the human race, and indeed particularly the capitalists, are slaves of a mysterious semi-conscious entity.

The essence of money is … the mediating activity or movement, the human, social act by which man's products mutually complement one another, is estranged from man and becomes the attribute of money, a material thing outside man. Since man alienates this mediating activity itself, he is active here only as a man who has lost himself and is dehumanised; the relation itself between things, man's operation with them, becomes the operation of an entity outside man and above man. Owing to this alien mediator – instead of man himself being the mediator for man – man regards his will, his activity, and his relation to other men as a power independent of him and them. His slavery, therefore, reaches its peak. It is clear that this mediator now becomes a real God, for the mediator is the real power over what it mediates to me. Its cult becomes an end in itself. - Karl Marx, in comments on James Mill, 1844.

Do not confuse this with the typical religious rhetoric that Marx uses in his writing! Notice that Marx says "real god" and not just "imaginary god". So, as you can see, this is no mere idolatry, but rather actual subordination to this entity. I am thankful that here, in the Soviet Union, we have broken free from the chains of this spirit.
Part I:
We have an abstraction, in capitalist societies - things that we exchange with each other - is stamped with a property called exchange-value. An abstraction ought to have an abstractor. Nobody, not any one of us is this abstractor. Maybe you think it's all of us doing it. This is not the case!
Let us explore this alien mediator further to get to the conclusion.
Now, as you know of course, according to Marx, exchange-value refers to a common property between all commodities — products of labor because to generate the commodities in the first place someone has to sacrifice their labor. This labor is human labor in the abstract.
Exchange abstracts from the individual specifics of different kinds of laboring activities, leaving in common all of them the human labor in the abstract. Commodities, according to Marx have economic value only because human labor in the abstract has been expended to produce and bring them to market. This is obvious.
Therefore, abstract labor is a thing that is more deeper, more general to capitalist societies. Abstract labor has the character of the average labor-power of society, as Marx says. Let us think of abstract labor as meaning the average power of a worker.
"How then, is the magnitude of this value to be measured?", Marx immediately says. By its duration, like labor-time! Right? a good Marxist-Leninist might think. So we will start by measuring labor-time if we are to verify Marx's theory as scientists. No! What was not clearly said here is that Marx did not actually ask for us to measure the labor-time. Something else - the abstractor, measures it.
The abstractor is measuring this labor-time and connecting it to the form of value, which we know is money. So we need a theory of this abstractor, and what it does before we can verify Marx's theory.
Part II:
So who is the abstractor? Sometimes things hide in plain sight. Where has Marx written, about all those concepts - abstract labor and labor-time, specifically? In his greatest work, of course. Capital.
It is a process - an investment - the capital sum, and returns in increments, profit. Capital enlarges itself whenever it can. It is like a spirit, a breathing, living creature. Marx existed before a time where we could adequately describe those systems. And so, he turned to religious rhetoric.
What could we use that can adequately describe those systems? If you remember, Comrade Smirnov, my background is in control theory. And with control theory, we can adequately describe the actions of capital in the world.
Let us invoke the common example of a car for our purposes. Say, you want to reach a speed of 40 kilometers per hour. This is the goal of our control system. Now you press on the accelerator pedal. Your decision-making - you are the comparator here. Now the engine increases the frequency of strokes, and the wheels turn faster and faster. This is the effector. Your speedometer measures an increase in speed. This is the sensor.
Once the speedometer reads 40 kilometers per hour, you stop accelerating. You stop pressing on the pedal.
That is the negative feedback loop. The function of the output is fed back in a manner that reduces the fluctuations of the output - the acceleration, by changes in the input to meet the goal. This kind of control loop exists everywhere, in all of life and the universe.
What does capital want? To maximize returns. What does capital use to decide? The capitalist. What does capital do? More investments, or less. What does capital sense? The profit rates of the portfolio that it has. It is clear - that capitalists do not act independently, for they are possessed by a demon - capital.
Conclusion:
In essence, the goal of our project is to develop a memetic agent that will directly help us in our fight for Communism, by disrupting the operation of, by attacking, and by changing the demonic Capital into a different entity, one that controls the operation of our society here in the Soviet Union.

- Kiril M. Avilov

Addendum C

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Addendum C:

The history of SCP-6160 before the collapse of the Soviet Union:
Below are documents, letters, and logs recovered from GRU Division Psychotronics in the investigation for SCP-6160.

WARNING:
ONE OF THE FILES BELOW CONTAINS A WEAK MEMETIC HAZARD (SCP-6160 VERSION 1978). SCROLLING DOWN TO THE FILE WITHOUT PROPER MEMETIC INOCULATION WILL INFECT YOU WITH SCP-6160 VERSION 1978
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

OSI "MANIFEST COMMON" DIVISION "P" DEPARTMENT IV
APPROVED 09.III.1970 PRINTOUT NR: 1
SIGNED …………………………… S
DEPARTMENT HEAD IV-P-6-GRU D.NR: 09-III-1970
RESPONSIBLE PERSONNEL: Marlen V. Avilov, Anatoly I. Agapov, Mikhail V. Rosenberg
DETAIL: Project No. 35 "MANIFEST COMMON" is the designation of a memetic agent developed to attack and subvert "DEMON", which is detailed on page 2 of this printout. The agent, in theory, will attack and subvert "DEMON" through the comparator of "DEMON".
Additionally "MANIFEST COMMON" will also affect "DEMON" dominated societies from the bottom up, this is also necessary in the first place to spread the "MANIFEST COMMON" memetic agent. The degree to which this should be achieved is disputed by Avilov and Agapov.
Proposal I, by Avilov minimizes the effect, rather instead focusing on the spread of "MANIFEST COMMON" memetic agents as fast as possible, ensuring that the efficacy of the agent is preserved by minimizing complexity and focuses on what is important, the top-down approach - that is attacking through the comparator, in Avilov's words.
Proposal II, by Agapov maximizes the effect. While it may cause adding complexity to the "MANIFEST COMMON" memetic agent, extra features such as proletarian revolution realization are desirable, and Agapov does not believe it will make the top-down approach more inefficient.
- Mikhail V. Rosenberg

LETTER
TO MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE OF PROJECT NO. 35, DIVISION "P",
comrade AGAPOV A.I..
on the project "MANIFEST COMMON" at Department IV D.NR: 12-III-1970
I have no time for such frivolous, extravagant decoration! I do not see how maximizing the spread of the agent for the bottom-up approach should not be the priority. Next, you're gonna tell me that you plan to set a goal for a moonshot for the memetic agent!
It is my recommendation that you immediately rescind your proposal at once.
- Marlen V. Avilov

LETTER
TO MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE OF PROJECT NO. 35, DIVISION "P",
comrade AVILOV M.V..
on the project "MANIFEST COMMON" at Department IV D.NR: 14-III-1970
I am offended that you would call my proposal "extravagant decoration". This is in no way professional behavior, Avilov. I have prepared a presentation for next week's meeting, where you can learn more about the details of my proposal since you seem to have forgotten the earlier one so readily.
- Anatoly I. Agapov

OSI "MANIFEST COMMON" DIVISION "P" DEPARTMENT IV
APPROVED 21.III.1970 PRINTOUT NR: 1
SIGNED …………………………… S
DEPARTMENT HEAD IV-P-6-GRU D.NR: 21-III-1970
RESPONSIBLE PERSONNEL: Marlen V. Avilov, Anatoly I. Agapov, Mikhail V. Rosenberg
PROPOSALS:
       (i) Proposal I - REJECTED - The recent improvements in how we handle our financing have meant that we have sufficient resources to proceed with Proposal II.
       (ii) Proposal II - APPROVED - See above. Proposal II will proceed with limited capacity.

Addendum Note: Following this, relations between M.V. Avilov and A.I. Agapov broke down. M.V. Rosenberg took up the role of "mediator" between Avilov and Agapov to ensure that the project went smoothly.

NOTICE OF PROJECT DEFUNDING DIVISION "P" DEPARTMENT IV
D.NR:26.V.1975
SENDER: Colonel-General Leonid H. Anikin
RECIPIENTS: Marlen V. Avilov, Anatoly I. Agapov, Mikhail V. Rosenberg
DETAIL: As a result of the complexities, setbacks, and challenges encountered in the four years since the creation of this project, we are defunding and re-allocating resources from the project. Note that this is not a project cancellation, due to the value of this project. If no improvements are seen within three years, the project will be fully cancelled.

FOR TRAINED EYES ONLY
REPORT
TO THE HEAD OF DEPARTMENT IV, DIVISION "P",
comrade Leonid H. Anikin
on the project "MANIFEST COMMON" at Department IV
D.NR:12.I.1978
I thought you might like what we've been working on. This is the current version of "MANIFEST COMMON" encoded in a painting.

[Irrelevant data omitted for brevity.]
…We have made some breakthroughs with Project "MANIFEST COMMON". Most importantly, the new semantic decoding of the memetic agent in experiments so far has proven successful. This means that the largest roadblock, which is the mechanism for spreading the agent has been solved. Additionally, we also have seen improvements in digestibility and we expect that by some months' time, the problem of information overload should be fully rectified. All that remains is a few problems with the bottom-up approach to work out.
- Mikhail V. Rosenberg

OSI "MANIFEST COMMON" DIVISION "P" DEPARTMENT IV
APPROVED 5.VI.1980 PRINTOUT NR: 1
SIGNED …………………………… S
DEPARTMENT HEAD IV-P-6-GRU D.NR: 5-VI-1980
RESPONSIBLE PERSONNEL: Marlen V. Avilov, Anatoly I. Agapov, Mikhail V. Rosenberg
DETAILS: A location for small-scale testing of "MANIFEST COMMON" has been selected - Khailino, Koryak Autonomous Okrug, RSFSR. The location has been designated a closed city and access restricted. The installation of necessary infrastructure for mass amnesticization has begun.
The nearby locality, Tilichiki has been selected for use as a control, in keeping with scientific principles.
Khailino will be then prepared for necessary societal changes - the population will be made to believe that the USSR has collapsed and that they are now the subjects of a Russian Republic. Afterward, capitalism is to be introduced to the population. Estimates for how long an introduction event will take place are on the order of months. Once capitalism has been introduced and progressed for some time, the "MANIFEST COMMON" agent will be deployed on the population.
The effects of "MANIFEST COMMON" are to be documented in extensive detail. After the introduction of "MANIFEST COMMON" and sufficient time has been given for the agent to take effect, the mass amnesticization system will be activated and Khailino reverted to its original state.
Khailino may also serve as a test-bed for new amnesticization techniques and other memetic agents that we may use, though this idea is strongly recommended against by a few due to the possibility of interference with the main experiment.
- Mikhail V. Rosenberg

LETTER
TO MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE OF PROJECT NO. 35 AND HEAD OF DEPARTMENT IV, DIVISION "P",
comrades AVILOV M.V., AGAPOV A.I., and ANIKIN L.H..
on the project "MANIFEST COMMON" at Department IV D.NR: 27-XII-1980
I have to take two weeks' leave due to health problems. The doctors have found some sort of mass inside of my left lung, perhaps a malignant tumor, and I am coughing every day. I hope that this will resolve quickly, and I can go back to work shortly after. Marlen, Anatoly. Please get along.
- Mikhail V. Rosenberg

M.V. ROSENBERG OBITUARY DIVISION "P" DEPARTMENT IV

Recent photo of M.V. Rosenberg

D.NR:2.I.1981
SENDER: GRU Division "P" Department IV Main Secretary Galina Y. Dudko
RECIPIENTS: Marlen V. Avilov, Anatoly I. Agapov, Leonid H. Anikin, [data omitted for brevity]
DETAIL: One of the great men, Mikhail Vladimirovich Rosenberg, involved in this project has died of a cancer of the lung. He has been with us for eleven years and was excellent at mediating conflicts in the workplace. He supervised many of the things done at Project No. 35. Without him, we would not be where we are now today. Rosenberg left behind his wife and three children.
BIOGRAPHY: M.V. Rosenberg was born on the third of February, 1936, to a Jewish family. He did fairly well in school, and at an age of 18, he was accepted to the Academy of Sciences. There his proficiency for management cybernetics and other disciplines was taken notice of, and in 1959 he became a quiet member of the Council of Cybernetics.
Later, Rosenberg eventually got involved with the anomalous, of course, no one exactly knows how so. But in 1970, he, together with Marlen V. Avilov and Anatoly I. Agapov created Project No. 35.

Addendum Note: Following Rosenberg's death, Agapov and Avilov for the first time in over a decade agreed to talk. An uneasy peace was held. However, after Agapov had cheated on Avilov with his wife a month in, tensions flared and relations completely broke down again. The project ground to a halt soon after.

NOTICE OF DEPARTMENT RESTRUCTURING DIVISION "P" DEPARTMENT IV
D.NR:16.III.1981
SENDER: GRU Division "P" Department IV Main Secretary Galina Y. Dudko
RECIPIENTS: Marlen V. Avilov, Anatoly I. Agapov, [data omitted for brevity]
DETAIL: Colonel-General Leonid H. Anikin has retired. We thank him for his many years of service for GRU Division Psychotronics and his management work. A successor has been named: Colonel-General Lev V. Smirnov. He will be the new head of Department IV of GRU Division "P".
[data omitted for brevity]

NOTICE OF PROJECT CANCELLATION DIVISION "P" DEPARTMENT IV
D.NR:7-I-1982
SENDER: Colonel-General Lev V. Smirnov
RECIPIENT: Marlen V. Avilov and Anatoly I. Agapov
DETAIL: Due to little to no progress of Project No. 35, and despite its excellent promise, with the moderately successful experiments in Khailino, we have decided to cancel Project No. 35. Whatever is left of the "MANIFEST COMMON" memetic agent will be placed in storage. Until the order from the Chief of General Staff is given to deploy "MANIFEST COMMON" is given, the personnel of Project No. 35 will remain in retirement unless other circumstances require it.
Thank you for your service to the Soviet Union.
- Lev V. Smirnov

The history of SCP-6160 after the collapse of the Soviet Union and until discovery:
Below is a collection of the first letters that started the project to deploy "MANIFEST COMMON" by the remnants.

26.12.1991
Hey, son. Did you hear about the collapse? What a tragedy. How long has it been? First that shitstorm in August, Ukraine's secession, and now the USSR is gone. Gorbachev and Yeltsin really tore apart the country, didn't they? Everything here's fucked, what with all the restructuring and changes, god forbid if I, in my health, ever suffer something like a heart attack and I have to go to the hospital.
- Marlen V. Avilov

27.12.1991
Hah, I agree. I've been able to endure the situation so far. My children send you their regards.
Hmm, I wonder if we could do something? You know, that project "MANIFEST COMMON"? Maybe it's not too late. I could dig up some old stuff, talk to some old friends. You and I know that you don't just let go of a decade-long project like that.
Who knows, maybe something even better than the USSR might come out of it.
- Kiril M. Avilov

28.12.1991
You are serious? Thinking about it, perhaps it is not too far-fetched. Perhaps I could stay with you and we can talk about what we'll do? I need to get out of this apartment for a bit anyway. I want to see the countryside.
- Marlen V. Avilov

2.1.1992
That homewrecking cockroach Agapov has the painting of "MANIFEST COMMON"! I suppose I can endure him once again if it means resurrecting the Soviet Union. What's his phone number again?
- Marlen V. Avilov

Addendum Note: No letters or known documents after this was found. What is known is from interviews with A.I. Agapov is that they, and a few other former members of Project "MANIFEST COMMON" agreed to meet up and discuss the deployment of the memetic agent.

Addendum D

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Addendum D:

Addendum Note: Agent Michael "Mick" Daniels Kory was selected as the principal investigator for SCP-6160 by the Foundation.

Addendum Note: Following the interview, MTF Upsilon-4 "Sugar Pill" was placed on high alert, and in collaboration with MTF Iota-10 "Damn Feds", a nationwide system of agents for an early warning system for the deployment of SCP-6160 was created.
A new mobile task force was created, MTF Upsilon-6, formed from parts of Upsilon-4, Eta-10, and Eta-11 to eliminate the remnants and capture key individuals associated with SCP-6160.

AUDIO LOG TRANSCRIPT
Date: 09:45, 20/7/1992
Location: [DATA EXPUNGED]
MTFs Involved: Upsilon-6
Subject: SCP-6160 Safehouse Raid

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Hammer Lead: Hammer 1-1
Hammer 1: Hammer 1-1 - lead, Hammer 1-2 - medic, Hammer 1-3 - breacher, Hammer 1-4 - assaulter, Hammer 1-5 - assaulter

Foreword: This operation was conducted by a fireteam from MTF Upsilon-6, under the guise of a SOBR raid. Wearing SOBR uniforms and equipment, the assault force arrived in an unmarked vehicle to an offset 50 meters away and proceeded to the target building on foot.
Due to the time-sensitive nature of this mission, intelligence and containment teams were not available, and Upsilon-6 was forced to assault shorthanded. SCRAMBLE filters were employed to mitigate the memetic hazard threat of SCP-6160 to the team. Body cameras were disabled for the same reason. The following log is audio recorded from Hammer 1's microphone.

<TRANSCRIPT BEGINS>
RADIO: "Hammer 1-1, this is Command. You are Echo3, how copy?"
RADIO: "Command, this is Hammer 1-1. Copy Echo. Out.”
HAMMER 1-1: “Hammer, move to entry. Breacher up. Stack up."
Sound of breaching charges being affixed to door. Hurried footsteps pass behind Hammer 1-5.
HAMMER 1-1: “Hammer, consummate.”
Sound of a large hole being blown into the door from breaching charges. Metal fragments clatter into a corridor.
There is muffled exclamation at the sound of the door being breached and rapid footsteps from the team entering the building.
PERSON 1: "What was that?! I'll go check it out."
HAMMER 1-5: "Corridor. Door left. Taking door left."
HAMMER 1-3: “With you.”
HAMMER 1-4: "Holding corridor."
HAMMER 1-5: "Clear. Coming out.”
HAMMER 1-5: “Leading. T-Junction. Flash out."
Sound of two flashbangs being armed and thrown in quick succession, bouncing off the walls before detonating. Screaming and crying children can be immediately heard after.
PERSON 1: "Please don't hurt us! There are children here!"
PERSON 2: "Oh god, is he okay?!"
HAMMER 1-5: "Hook left, large space."
HAMMER 1-1: "Flow in."
HAMMER 1-5, 1-1, 1-4, 1-3: “Clear.”
HAMMER 1-2: "Clear. Holding corridor."
HAMMER 1-5: “Blyat, boss. Dead baby.”
HAMMER 1-1: "I saw it. Carry on.”
Muffled sounds of activity and zip-ties tightening, interposed with the crying of children and commotion from adults, are heard for 3 minutes and 15 seconds.
HAMMER 1-4: “Adults secured.”
HAMMER 1-1: “Skip the kids, we'll continue clearing.”
HAMMER 1-5: “On point.”
HAMMER 1-1: “Go.”
HAMMER 1-5: “Leading, door left, door right. Taking door left.”
HAMMER 1-3: “With you.”
HAMMER 1-4: “Taking door right.”
HAMMER 1-1: “With you.”
HAMMER 1-2: “Holding rear.”
HAMMER 1-4: “Clear.”
HAMMER 1-1: “Clear.”
HAMMER 1-5: “Coming out.”
HAMMER 1-4: “Coming out.”
HAMMER 1-1: “Collapse on the playpen. Fan out and SSE. Hammer 2, triage the civs.”
HAMMER 1-2: "Shit, we hit a daycare?"
HAMMER 1-1: "Terrorist bastards played us."
Muffled sounds of activity, interposed with the crying of children and commotion from adults, are heard for 8 minutes and 42 seconds. Footsteps are heard approaching.
HAMMER 1-4: "SSE came up dry. No sign of the target, boss. Looks like what it is."
RADIO: "Command, this is Hammer 1-1. Dry-hole. Verify the address. One casualty, small child. Over."
RADIO: "Hammer 1-1, this is Command. Address is [REDACTED]. Over.”
RADIO: "Command, this is Hammer 1-1. Do you have eyes on at this time? Over.”
RADIO: "Hammer 1-1, this is Command. Affirmative, we have eyes on target address. Break. ISR just now coming online at the target address. Over.”
RADIO: "Command, this is Hammer 1-1. Wait one, sending Hammer 1-4 to signal with IZLID4. Over."
HAMMER 1-1: “Hammer 1-4, go signal with IZLID.”
RADIO: “Hammer 1-1, this is Command. Confirmed, we have eyes on Hammer 4's signalling. You're at the right address. Over."
RADIO: “Command, this is Hammer 1-1. The address may be correct but the target isn't here. It looks like it was never here in the first place. Recommend we fall back. Over."
RADIO: "Acknowledged, Hammer 1-1. Rolling medical and clean-up. Move to exfil and standby for follow-on. Over.”
<TRANSCRIPT ENDS>

To: Security Director Linda Roux
From: Agent Michael Kory
Subject: I can't figure it out.
Timestamp: 20:19 27/7/1992

Been looking at the documents that Agapov gave us for what seemed like hours. I can't figure it out. That Agapov guy was probably telling us bogus lies after all. Especially with how we ended up busting into a daycare. That was just wrong.
Two days I thought the world was going to get fucked over. We'd brought out our last resorts for memetic weapons like this, you know. Now I'm just sitting here and I can't even figure out this.
It seems like there's a pattern here, with the weird wording thrown here and there.

To: Security Director Linda Roux
From: Agent Michael Kory
Subject: Re:I can't figure it out.
Timestamp: 20:31 27/7/1992

I FIGURED IT OUT! Just after this email, I gave this one document in English one last look. There's an acrostic code. I fed the letters into our cipher database and turns out it's just a Vigenère cipher. The random filler words were there to line up the letters into the correct position for the acrostic code.
All the documents have the same encrypted message semantic-wise, the words vary sometimes but basically whoever made those used it as a way to encode whether the document was fake or not. I am going to ask Agapov about this.

INTERROGATION TRANSCRIPT
28/7/1992, 08:38
INTERVIEWER: Agent Michael D. Kory
SUBJECT: Anatoly I. Agapov
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KORY: You can take the bag off his head now.
The bag on AGAPOV's head is taken off by security personnel, and they leave the room. AGAPOV squints as his eyes have not been adjusted to the light of the room and groans a little bit.
KORY: Did you feed us bullshit, Agapov? That safehouse location you gave us - bogus. For fuck's sake, we broke into a daycare. A baby died, Agapov. And those documents? Fake. We figured out the cipher.
AGAPOV: What is the meaning of this?! I have no recollection of a safehouse ever being near a daycare! And what cipher?!
KORY: The acrostic code. The Vigenère cipher. How did you get those documents?
AGAPOV: I stole the documents from my colleagues and ran to the Moscow office. That's how. I have never seen a cipher like that.
KORY: Did you look at the documents?
KORY shows AGAPOV one of the documents, in Russian.
AGAPOV: splutters No, I have never seen a strange document like that before.
KORY: How do we know you're not just feeding us more bullshit again?
AGAPOV: You don't, you have to trust me. I think Avilov was testing me. And I failed that test. I know where I stole those documents from, but they likely removed any evidence of their presence or what they were doing.
KORY: Right, so that leaves us with a paper trail that went nowhere and nothing else.
KORY: Wait, if they were testing you then how would they know if you passed or not?
AGAPOV: pauses for a few seconds before starting I don't know. Surveillance, maybe?
KORY: That's it! I think I know how I can find them. Thank you for your cooperation, this interrogation is over.
<TRANSCRIPT ENDS>

MTF AFTER ACTION REPORT 6160-B-5
Date: 29/7/1992
Location: [DATA EXPUNGED]
MTFs involved: Upsilon-6, Iota-10
Subject: SCP-6160 Safehouse 2 Raid

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Hammer Lead: Hammer 0-1
Hammer 1: Hammer 1-1 - lead, Hammer 1-2 - medic, Hammer 1-3 - breacher, Hammer 1-4 - assaulter, Hammer 1-5 - assaulter
Hammer 2: Hammer 2-1, - lead, Hammer 2-2 - medic, Hammer 2-3 - assaulter, Hammer 2-4 - assaulter, Hammer 2-5 - assaulter, Hammer 2-6, assaulter
Stake Lead: Stake 0-1
Stake 1: Stake 1-1 - lead, Stake 1-2 - sniper, Stake 1-3 - medic, Stake 1-4 - operative, Stake 1-5 - operative, Stake 1-6 - sniper, Stake 1-7 - operative, Stake 1-8, operative
Stake 2: Stake 2-1 - lead, Stake 2-2 - operative, Stake 2-3 - operative, Stake 2-4 operative

Foreword: The cameras at the location of the daycare was found to have been hacked into. The hack was eventually traced back to an office in Moscow, where an operation occurred. This operation was conducted by the same fireteam from MTF Upsilon-6 and with the same guise from the previous operation.

On 0612 hours local time, Hammer arrived in unmarked vehicles to an offset 46 meters away and proceeded to the target building on foot, while Stake established a cordon around the office and Check locked down the streets around the office.
Hammer entered the building through a window on the second floor where the targets were believed to be. Upon entry, the targets exchanged gunfire with the entry team, Hammer 2, and fled. Shortly after they were no longer in sight, Hammer cleared the corridor connecting the space and four other rooms; the corridor had two doors from the space.
Hammer 1 breached a room first from the southern door to the corridor, causing a target in the room to fire at the room doorway. Hammer 1-5 fired back at the target, stopping the gunfight and killing the target.
Hammer 2 split up into two elements; element 1 quickly discovered the door to the first room from the northern door was locked. They cleared the room opposite this locked room. Element 2 cleared the last room connected to the corridor without incident. Hammer 0-1 rallied the rest of the squad at the southern portion of the corridor and decided to breach and clear the locked room.
Breaching was done with a shotgun and the team quickly discovered several targets that began to fire at them. Several assaulters were injured and the targets also stalled their advance with a frag. Hammer however was able to dispatch the targets, in the end using frags and flashbangs. Hammer cleared the room and discovered a hole leading to a tunnel with twists and turns. Medics tended to the injured assaulters.
Hammer 0-1 made the call to clear the tunnel and pursue the targets further and proceeded to do so without approval from Command. Hammer 0-1 also requested that Stake establish a new cordon around the tunnel entrance inside of the building.
Hammer 2 was selected as the entry team. Hammer 2 made a flash & frag entry and led the assault force in clearing the tunnel. Flashbangs were utilized at corners to precede the assault force throughout the tunnel.
Clearing the tunnel took 7 minutes and 37 seconds due to several traps and proceeded without incident. At the end of the tunnel, Hammer 2-6 sighted a ladder going upwards, presumably connecting to a building. Hammer 2 searched the top of the ladder before clearing the first room in the building - a parking garage bathroom, without incident. The terrorists were not seen anywhere in the parking garage.
Hammer 0-1 made the recommendation for ISR to look at footage leading up to their entry. After coordinating with Command and using IZLID, the address of the house was pinpointed and ISR could now look there. Command ordered Hammer to proceed back aboveground on foot and finish SSE while standing by for exfil. After going back on foot and finishing SSE Hammer, Stake, and Check moved to exfil.

Addendum Note: After the raid Hammer 0-1 was reprimanded for acting without approval in clearing the tunnel and pursuing the targets further.

Below is a recovered letter from the safehouse raid:

21.7.1992
Agapov failed the test? Not surprising. Are you sure that the fake documents you planted will run circles around "SACK" for that long enough until deployment?
- Irina Izmaylova

Addendum Note: Following the raid, the remnants began to deploy SCP-6160 earlier than expected as a panic reaction to the raid.

The following incidents were handled through means as described by Special Containment Procedures, Revision 4 below:

SCP-6160 Document, Revision 4

Item #: SCP-6160
Level 3/6160

Object Class: Keter
Secret

Special Containment Procedures: MTF Upsilon-4 "Sugar Pill" is on high alert status. Extra priority will be given to Upsilon-4 for rapid deployment and the containment of SCP-6160, and neutralization of SCP-6160-1. MTF Iota-10 "Damn Feds" will assist Upsilon-4 in the early detection of SCP-6160-1 instances. 1,100 cells of MTF Iota-10 are currently active in all cities and towns in the Russian Federation for this purpose. Foundation network monitors are to remove any instances of SCP-6160 off all web servers on the Internet.
MTF Alpha-4 "Pony Express" and Foundation agents will track border activity in the Russian Federation and thoroughly inspect cargo passing through the Federation's borders. Should SCP-6160 or SCP-6160-1 instances be detected outside of the Russian Federation, SCP-6160 will be declared uncontainable due to insufficient resources at the Foundation's disposal, and preparations as well contingency measures for an AK-class socioeconomic restructuring scenario.
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SCP-6160 incident 31/7/1992:
MTF Alpha-7 "Pony Express" team intercepted cargo containing instances of SCP-6160 in textual form. The instances were confiscated and placed into containment.

SCP-6160-1 incident 2/8/1992:
Instance of SCP-6160-1 detected in Il'inskoe selo, Moscow Oblast, nearby the town of Volokolamsk. The instance has been contained and neutralized.

SCP-6160-1 incident 4/8/1992:
Instance of SCP-6160-1 detected in Karmanovo selo, Smolensk Oblast, nearby the town of Gagarin. The instance had generated a second instance of SCP-6160-1 in the neighboring selo Chuykovo. The instance has been contained and neutralized, though with several casualties.

SCP-6160 incident 6/8/1992:
Attempt to upload altered instances of SCP-6160 in image file form to the Helsinki Technical University webserver was detected by a Foundation network monitor without proper memetic inoculation. The monitor approved the upload, however, the upload was stopped in time by his supervisor.

TERMINAL LOG

TIMESTAMP: 22:35 26/10/1992 -

[BEGIN LOG]
22:35 FLAGGED EVENT:
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unknown IP address: ███.██.███.███ attempted to upload 10 files to Helsinki Technical University webserver
Пролетарии5.png
[Image file of SCP-6160 omitted]
всех6.png
[Image file of SCP-6160 omitted]
стран7.png
[Image file of SCP-6160 omitted]
соединяйтесь8.png
[Image file of SCP-6160 omitted]
The image files have been marked as possibly cognitohazardous
Upload files? Y/N

????@HTUwbs: Y
Uploading 1 of 10 files
Elapsed time: 00:00:12
????@HTUwbs: kill 22
Process PID: 22 Name: UploadService terminated
Upload failed. Retry? Y/N
????@HTUwbs: N
[END LOG]

To: Security Director Linda Roux | RAISA Director Maria Jones
From: Supervisor Jen Long
Subject: SCP-6160 nearly got out of hand
Timestamp: 23:54 26/10/1992

Yep, you read the SUBJECT right. God, that was fucking close! So I was havin' my cigarette break. Thought I might smoke for another minute or so, but I decided against it. What do you know, Morris was going and going on about a commie revolution. Realized SCP-6160 somehow infected him. Saw on the terminal some file was about to be uploaded. I hauled ass and knocked Morris off the seat, and stopped the upload. Sweet Haploid fucking Christ.

SCP-6160-1 incident 10/8/1992:
Instance of SCP-6160-1 detected near Dneprovskoye, Smolensk Oblast. Improvements to the containment procedures led to the instance being quickly contained. Lockdown was declared at the town, limiting the location of the remnants to Dneprovskoye, and until the arrest of the remnants, new instances were being generated there. The lockdown was announced as a counterterrorism measure.

Below is a video log detailing the apprehension of the remnants at Dneprovskoye.

VIDEO LOG TRANSCRIPT
Date: 19:34, 29/7/1992
Location: [DATA EXPUNGED]
MTFs Involved: Upsilon-6, Iota-10
Subject: SCP-6160 Safehouse 3 Raid

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Hammer Lead: Hammer 0-1
Hammer 1: Hammer 1-1 - lead, Hammer 1-2 - medic, Hammer 1-3 - breacher, Hammer 1-4 - assaulter, Hammer 1-5 - shieldman
Hammer 2: Hammer 2-1, - lead, Hammer 2-2 - medic, Hammer 2-3 - assaulter, Hammer 2-4 - assaulter, Hammer 2-5 - assaulter, Hammer 2-6, shieldman
Anvil Lead: Anvil 0-1
Anvil 1: Anvil 1-1 - lead, Anvil 1-2 - medic, Anvil 1-3 - breacher, Anvil 1-4 - assaulter, Anvil 1-5 - assaulter, Anvil 1-6 - shieldman
Anvil 2: Anvil 2-1 - lead, Anvil 2-2 - medic, Anvil 2-3 - breacher, Anvil 2-4 - assaulter, Anvil 2-5 - assaulter, Anvil 2-6 - shieldman
Stake Lead: Stake 0-1
Stake 1: Stake 1-1 - lead, Stake 1-2 - sniper, Stake 1-3 - medic, Stake 1-4 - operative, Stake 1-5 - operative, Stake 1-6 - sniper, Stake 1-7 - operative, Stake 1-8, operative
Stake 2: Stake 2-1 - lead, Stake 2-2 - sniper, Stake 2-3 - operative, Stake 2-4 operative, Stake 2-5 - operative, Stake 2-6 - sniper, Stake 2-7 - operative, Stake 2-8 - operative.
Check Lead: Check 0-1
Check 1: Check 1-1 - lead, Check 1-2 - operative, Check 1-3 - medic, Check 1-4 - MG crew, Check 1-5 - MG crew, Check 1-6 - operative, Check 1-7 - operative, Check 1-8 - grenadier
Check 2: Check 2-1 - lead, Check 2-2 - operative, Check 2-3 - medic, Check 2-4 MG crew, Check 2-5 - MG crew, Check 2-6 - operative, Check 2-7 - operative, Check 2-8 - grenadier.

Foreword: After extorting information from local civilians, the location of the remnants was pinpointed. MTF Iota-10 masquerading as Russian internal troops cleared the area of any civilians. Platoons Charlie and Golf of MTF Upsilon-6 proceeded on to the safehouse and began the operation there. The following video log is recorded from Hammer 1-1's body camera and microphone.

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RADIO: "Hammer 0-1, Anvil 0-1, this is Command. You are Echo, how copy?"
RADIO: "Command, this is Hammer 0-1. Copy Echo. Out.”
RADIO: "Command, this is Anvil 0-1. Copy Echo. Out.”
HAMMER 0-1: “Hammer, move to entry. Stack up."
The squad quickly moves into their positions against a wall of glass; the room inside is visible, a typical corporate workspace with six wooden desks and computers. On the right wall, there is a large storage cabinet and at the end of the room is a door.
HAMMER 0-1: “Hammer, consummate.”
The rifle stocks of Hammer smack against the wall, shattering it. Hammer and Anvil quickly move into the room and clear it.
HAMMER 1-5, 1-4, 1-3, 1-2, 1-1: “Clear.”
HAMMER 1-5: “Door up front, taking the door.”
HAMMER 1-4, 1-3, 2-6, 2-5, 2-4: “With you.”
HAMMER 1-5: “Flash out.”
Hammer 1-5 primes a flashbang, opens the door and tosses it. He closes the door quickly after.
Sound of flashbang bouncing and detonating.
Hammer 1-5 opens the door with Hammer 1-4 behind him. They move left, with Hammer 2-6 and Hammer 2-5 moving right.
Remnants from the two doors on the left end of the corridor begin firing at Hammer 1-5. The bullets are stopped by his ballistic shield.
Hammer 1-4 provides cover fire. Hammer 1-3 fires a burst of rounds towards the remnant at the left door, injuring him.
The remnant on the right door fires at them, but injures nobody. They close the door, and window glass can be heard breaking.
The rest of Hammer and Anvil move into the corridor.
HAMMER 1-5: “Taking first door from entry.”
HAMMER 1-1: “Hammer 1 with you.”
Hammer 1 moves into position around the door. Hammer 1-5 opens the door with a creak, and they quickly move in. The room inside appears to have a canvas stand, paints, and censored instances of SCP-6160 on the walls.
HAMMER 1-5, 1-4, 1-3, 1-2, 1-1: “Clear.”
[AUDITORY COGNITOHAZARD REDACTED]
Hammer 1-4 and Hammer 1-2 take off their SCRAMBLE headgear. Sporadic gunfire is heard from outside the room.
RADIO: "Hammer 1-1, this is Command. Be warned, auditory cognitohazard present. We're working on getting a filter up. Over.”
Hammer 1-2 stares at the instances of SCP-6160 on the walls, while Hammer 1-4 glances at the instances before turning and raising his firearm towards the rest of Hammer. An explosion from outside the room is heard, momentarily interrupting Hammer 1-4.
Hammer 1-1 raises his firearm and shoots Hammer 1-4 and Hammer 1-2 in the head. They drop to the ground, dead.
RADIO: “Command, this is Hammer 1-1. Copy, eliminated Hammer 1-4 and Hammer 1-2 as they were compromised. Over.”
HAMMER 1-1: “Carry on.”
The auditory cognitohazard ceases to be heard due to the new filter.
Hammer 1 moves out of the room, rejoining the others in the corridor. Smoke is seen exiting from the left doorway on the left end of the corridor due to the earlier explosion.
HAMMER 1-1: “Hammer 1 standing watch.”
Soon after, the rest of Anvil and Hammer finish clearing, and the force proceeds towards the leftward end, where there is a turn to another corridor.
As the force approaches the corridor, a remnant in the window separating the rightward room and the next corridor is seen. The remnant begins to fire at the force through the window and the right doorway.
Anvil 1-3 and 1-4 are injured from the gunfire and fall back. Hammer and Anvil are unable to dispatch the remnant with gunfire.
ANVIL 2-5: “Frag out.”
ANVIL 2-5 primes a frag and she throws it into the next corridor in quick succession. The frag detonates and the remnant drops to the ground dead.
ANVIL 1-6: “On point.”
ANVIL 2-6: “On point.”
Anvil 1-5 and 2-6 turn the corner.
ANVIL 2-6: “Junction, windows on left and right.”
The rest of the force turn the corridor and follow Anvil 1-5 and 2-6, revealing a corridor with two windows on both opposite walls leading to a four-way intersection, peppered in holes from the frag and the corpse of a remnant with a pool of blood around it.
The left and right corridors connecting to the junction are empty, while there is a short corridor connecting to a large space upfront. There is a door on the right wall of the corridor. The left wall is part of a glass wall separating the corridor, space, and conference room.
Anvil 1-5 slowly enters the space.
ANVIL 1-5: “Machinegun nest!”
Anvil 1-5 quickly retreats from the space back into the corridor.
Anvil 1 begins to exchange gunfire and grenades with the nest sporadically. Anvil 2 enters the left corridor connected to the junction.
HAMMER 1-5: “Taking corridor right.”
HAMMER 0-1: “Hammer with you.”
HAMMER 2-6: “On point.”
Hammer follows 1-5 and 2-6 into the corridor. The right corridor is a slope downwards, connecting to a large space, assumed to be the reception of the building in the floor plan.
The left wall of the corridor ends halfway through, and there is a ramp overlooking the reception. Hammer 1-5 peeks out the wall, seeing a group of roughly ten remnants running towards a large doorway in the middle of the front wall of the reception.
Hammer moves quickly downwards, firing at the remnants. Several of them drop to the floor either injured or dead; Kiril Avilov is seen among them. The rest of them put their hands up in the air, including a Marlen Avilov.
Once at the floor, Hammer moves to restrain the remnants that surrendered. Hammer 2 stands watch with Hammer 0-1. On the opposite end of the reception, there is a ramp leading to another corridor, presumed to lead to the machinegun nest.
Hammer 1 moves quickly towards the ramp.
HAMMER 1-5: “Flash out.”
Hammer 1-5 primes a flashbang before tossing it up into the corridor, and it detonates. Swiftly, the team makes their way up to the corridor and fire upon those that are manning the machinegun nest, disabling it.
Hammer 1 enters the space beyond the nest and begins clearing; the space is a large workspace with eight desks, computers, and multiple rooms adjacent.
HAMMER 1-5, 1-3, 1-1: “Clear.”
HAMMER 1-5: “Taking door opposite nest.”
ANVIL 1-6: “Coming out.”
Anvil 1 and 2 enter the workspace after clearing other rooms.
HAMMER 1-3: “With you.”
HAMMER 1-1: “With you.”
The door appears to have a paper sign taped on to it, saying: “BATHROOM OUT OF ORDER.” in Russian. They move into position around the door and Hammer 1-5 slowly opens the door.
Upon opening the door, water leaks out of the bathroom and stains the carpeted floor. Hammer 1-5 and 1-3 cough from the stench emanating from the bathroom, which has the floor covered in a thin layer of water.
In the bathroom there appears to be a hole on the toilet flange, covered in dried and wet feces.
HAMMER 1-5: weakly “Clear. Looks like the drainpipe burst.”
Hammer 1-5 closes the door, and Hammer proceeds down to the reception with Anvil. At the reception, they see Hammer 2-6 firing through the windowed doors into a lobby, where there appears to be a machinegun nest. The force has positioned itself out of the line of sight of the nest.
HAMMER 2-6: “Thermobaric out!”
Hammer 2-6 primes and tosses a thermobaric grenade into the lobby, and runs to cover. The grenade detonates with a loud blast and a visible fireball. All windows near the lobby break, and thick smoke emanates out of the lobby after the detonation.
Hammer and Anvil regroup in the reception, awaiting further orders.
HAMMER 0-1: “Let's finish SSE before moving to exfil.”
<TRANSCRIPT ENDS>

Addendum Note: Hammer 1-1, 1-3 and 1-5 were unaffected by the auditory cognitohazard due to their CRV9 being high enough that the cognitohazard had no effect.

Addendum Note: Following the raid, the instances of SCP-6160-1 at Dneprovskoye were neutralized, and any additional instances of SCP-6160 were destroyed. SCP-6160 was placed into containment at Site 77, where it is now. The rest of the documentation relating to SCP-6160 was recovered from this raid, and with the remnants apprehended, effective inoculation could now be used against SCP-6160. The investigation concluded after, and the SCP was reclassified as Safe.

Footnotes
1. Read Addenda A and B for an explanation of this concept.
2. Read Addendum C for further information.
3. Operational go-word.
4. Infrared Zoom Laser Illuminator Designator
5. Workers
6. of
7. the world,
8. unite!
9. Cognitive Resistance Value

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