Science & Research: 4 Criminal: 1
Civilian: 3
Restricted Resouces (Intelligence): 3 Restricted Resouces (Criminal): 3
CONTACTS
Intelligence: 2 (Major)
Science & Research: 3 (Deep Infiltration) Law: 1 (Minor)
Criminal: 1 (Minor) Civilian: 2 (Major)
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DIRECTORATE X
Directorate X is slowly resurfacing as a major power after its forced removal from “official” existence at the height of its power. Operating as an elite enforcement arm of Project Rasputin, it was suddenly and violently stripped of the very rea- son for its existence when a nonaggression pact was signed with the Greys. Most Directorate X members took advantage of their considerable resources at that point and swiftly moved underground, cutting all ties to protect their continued exis- tence. Following the fall of the Soviet Union, its members were free to move about the world and to recruit additional mem- bers and allies.
HISTORY
In 1978, the autopsy of a Russian postal official revealed the presence of mechanical implants of an extraterrestrial origin. While a number of subprojects of Rasputin were investigating the possibility of alien life, this evidence confirmed it once and for all. Within a month of this finding, all psi research was pushed even further underground and Andropov declared a new focus for Rasputin. A systematic examination of all high- level researchers and officials was instituted to determine who else had been implanted. Orders were issued to remote viewer teams and telepaths to uncover everything that they could about these aliens. The KGB employed any and every means to secure this information.
The next year, Directorate X, or the Tenth Directorate, was formed and recruited top scientists and crack special-forces troops. Its mission was to develop methods of finding UFOs. Although initially the goal had been to open communications with the aliens, intervening incidents (still classified) changed this focus. The Directorate was soon tasked with destroying any UFOs discovered.
From the very beginning, Directorate X was supplied with the best scientists, the best troops, and all the money it needed. Directorate X first set up bases in remote regions to research evidence of the aliens, but soon realized that it could be easily located that way. It began working from planes, staying only for brief periods at existing air force bases. In this manner, Directorate X became the first mobile organization with no fixed address. Its psychics worked hard first to become invisible to the Greys and then to develop methods of hurting them.
Directorate X put all its power to bear in learning ways to have an impact on the Greys sufficient to deter their activities and to remove them from Earth. Purely by accident, it stumbled across an insidious form of beamed telepathic torture (later dubbed the Raukov Protocol) that resulted in the complete destruction of a Grey base located in the Ukraine. This event, in August 1988, demonstrated clearly to the Greys that Directorate X had discovered a way to annihilate them. Working quickly, the Greys manipulated the leaders of Project Rasputin, completely bypassing Directorate X, and coordinated a joint meeting at the Soviet Air Defense Command Center as an agreed-upon neutral meeting site. There, Soviet officials signed a nonaggression pact that stipulated the cessation of abduction of Soviet citizens, the removal of all Grey bases from Soviet territory by 1990, and the agreement that the Raukov Protocol would never be used again. Both sides also agreed to maintain complete secrecy about the meeting and the treaty. Members of Directorate X were informed about the treaty only after it had been signed and were ordered to comply or suffer the consequences. Steps were taken to dissolve the Tenth Directorate and to reintegrate former members into other divisions of Project Rasputin. Bitter and betrayed, more than 90% of Directorate X members disap- peared from view in less than a week. Within another week, of the 10% who remained, only a handful survived following a rash of deaths attributed to natural causes.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, members of Directorate X were unsure just how the Greys would react. Instead of sticking around to find out, the majority of Directorate X went underground and kept tabs on events from remote bases. They were able to pull strings from contacts in the military and the KGB, and together they formed a loose alliance to trade equipment and vehicles for assistance in smug- gling important agents to safer areas of the countryside. Directorate X agents were able to assume some of these indi- viduals’ identities for short periods of time to garner further assistance without compromising their own security. After the immediate crisis, Directorate X members once again blended into the woodwork to keep an eye on unfolding events. To this day, Directorate X remains in existence, although its guise these days is more often that of various Russian organized crime syn- dicates. Officially, there are no Directorate X members; they have all scattered to the winds, using a kind of “psychic Internet” to keep in touch and get back together for operations. Even with this kind of communication, members are very secre- tive and usually only work with individuals they either know first-hand or who have a common connection to a colleague.
Directorate X members know of Aegis and NDD, but they are hesitant to make contact with either. Project Rasputin’s betrayal of Directorate X leads them to believe that Aegis is not to be trusted, since their former comrades seem to have been wel- comed with open arms by Aegis and may have already tried to sell Directorate X out. They know that NDD appears to have some kind of treaty with the Greys and that joint Grey-NDD operations are relatively common. Aegis seems to be more inde-
pendent and secure, but Directorate X members value their own mobility and secrecy above all else. At the heart of the matter is a bitter tenacity to be independent and free from “outside forces.” They have been betrayed too many times already. At this point, Directorate X has worked to build its power base and isn’t about to share it with anyone without some kind of return. In recent years, Directorate X has learned something about Saurians and Atlanteans through its own operations and through infiltration of Aegis and the Black Book. These aliens appear to be Voids, so Directorate X has been hindered in gathering intelligence on them, although they consider the Saurians and Atlanteans to be minor threats compared to the Grey menace. However, it may have grossly underestimated the alien races.