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To: Brevet Maj. Leon Muzetti Major Muzetti, We have a situation in Guatemala that needs immediate attention. five weeks ago, COI sources within the State Department's Inter-American Affairs Committee caught a piece of information that seemed pertinent to D-66 operations. The report indicated that a number of unusual events were occurring around an archaeological dig in the Northern highland jungles. Several of the archaeologists and local guides had gone missing, and rumors of "strange creatures amidst the trees" were spreading. Officials had written these accounts off as exaggerations, but admitted that the "monkey population has been acting unusually aggressive" recently. In cooperation with the IAAC, we sent several D-66 operatives, undercover as investigators from the foundation funding the archaeologists, to determine if there was anything useful behind the stories. The team sent consisted of agents Corliss, Doon-Green, and newly-recruited John Cortez, a Mexican-American with an army background. In addition, they were investigating the situation with 3 agents of the IAAC, familiar with the region. After their initial check-in from Santa Elena, we've heard nothing from them. I need you to lead a team for a recovery operation, to leave as soon as possible. You'll be traveling in the Peten rainforest region, at the start of the wet season, so you'll need to requisition your equipment and personnel accordingly. I recommend Konstantyn Lubelsky and Annie Kieyoomia, a Navaho indian agent we've recruited. Her field experience is limited, but her training has gone well and her capacity for languages may be useful. In addition to your team, you'll be working with a potential new agent, recruited in the field, by the name of "Skip" Bedford-Bradford Mitchell. Mitchell knows nothing so far of D-66, but his expertise with Mayan culture, Archaeology, and the region in general should prove helpful. Consider this his screening test- if all goes well, bring him back to the States for further training. In the meantime, however, maintain your covers and do not disclose classified information to him. I assume I don't have to remind you that this operation, like all other D-66 missions, is top secret. Your objective is to determine the whereabouts of our missing personnel and to conclude their investigation. However, if you determine that whatever you find there is a danger, or if the first team's failure threatens to expose our agency's operations, you are to shut it all down and clean up the mess. Understand me- if word of this operation reaches my office from anywhere but your field report, there will be hell to pay. Good luck, Harvey W. Olsen Bd:tp |