The post read: “I’ve been sworn to secrecy to never reveal anything about the organization I work for and could end up in serious trouble for writing this. Though I’ve been tempted to at times, I haven’t said a word about it to anyone, not even my family, for over ten years. Due to some recent events that I won’t go into too much here, I’ve decided to break my silence. The reason I’m posting here on some anonymous BBS, and not spreading it to the newspapers is to protect my own safety. This is not my main account, I created it for making this post and will not use it again after this. That way I can minimize the risk of them tracking me down.
I work for an organization simply known as The Agency. I am a field agent, more on that later. The first thing you need to know about The Agency is that it is a global organization, with a presence in every country on earth. This is vital for our ability to complete our mission. The second thing you need to know is that The Agency is supra-legal; this means that it stands above all national laws. There is a special set of global rules that govern The Agency. Note that the supra-legal status applies to the organization itself, not the individual agents acting on its behalf. Under the governing rules, the organization can however extend immunity from prosecution to any of its agents when deemed necessary for the mission. Basically we can do whatever we want. The third thing you need to know is that the existence and purpose of The Agency is kept secret from everyone including most government officials and even some heads of state. The organization is controlled much in the same way as a big corporation with an executive officer simply known as The Director and a governing body called The Council. So far, everything I’ve been talking about is known by everyone in the entire organization, down to cleaning staff. The details of how the organization is run however, is on a need-to-know basis, and most people, even internally, don’t need to know much more than the day to day of their own department. For example the names of the director and council members are officially not known by lower ranking personnel. I can add that the generic sounding names, “The Agency”, “The Director” and so on have been chosen deliberately to aid in keeping the whole thing secret.
The Agency’s mission is to “find and neutralize any and all anomalies in the fabric of reality”. Well technically speaking The Agency only deals with those anomalies that have a measurable effect. Some of the minor ones will self heal if left alone. In my opinion, a more accurate description of The Agency’s missions would be that the organization is tasked with protecting humanity against itself…at least when it comes to tampering with reality, all other things that could wipe out civilization are left in the hands of national governments. Anyway, the reason I say this is because more than 90 percent of the work consists of making sure that humans don’t come into contact with dangerous anomalies. Simply put, nearly the whole organization is dedicated to keeping anomalies hidden so that people don’t mess with them. This is where field agents like me come in.
The main approach we use is to search out rumors of some kind of anomaly – stories of ‘strange happenings’ and so on – and verifying the truth in them. If it actually is an anomaly we try to figure out exactly what it is and if it is possible to neutralize it somehow. When possible anomalies will be neutralized but we field agents are rarely involved in that work and contact with other departments is limited so I can’t tell you much about it. When we can’t neutralize an anomaly we contain it in whatever way possible, making sure that people can’t access it.
Our secondary approach is to track down people who have acquired what we like to call ‘forbidden knowledge’ that is, definite knowledge that a particular anomaly exists. We then hinder that person from spreading that knowledge further using any means necessary. This mostly takes the form of discrediting them, destroying evidence and so on. However, as field agents we are aware that if the situation calls for it, we are expected to eliminate (as it is called) people spreading forbidden knowledge, but only as a last resort. None of us want to do it, but all of us would because we know there’s more at stake than individual lives.
I can’t go into too much detail of what these anomalies actually are, where they come from or why they appear. Doing that would risk exposing the people who read this to forbidden knowledge. All I can say is that people who find an anomaly tend to use terms like “the laws of physics have been suspended” or “it’s almost like reality itself is broken” when they try to describe what they experienced. That’s more or less accurate, although things are more complicated than that, but like I said I can’t go into any of the details. I can however tell you what they are not. Many people seem to think that these are some kind of paranormal or supernatural phenomena. That is not the case. Ghosts, vampires, the Loch Ness Monster or whatever other paranormal thing you can think of does not exist as far as we are concerned. Or rather, if they do exist it’s not in any way relevant to us. For all I know, there could be other organizations similar to ours that deal with that kind of stuff. I can add one more thing, most anomalies are centered around a certain location but in some cases you will get objects, so called artifacts, that can trigger anomalous effects in their surroundings.
I mentioned that if in an anomaly can’t be neutralized we contain it. Artifacts can simply be moved to one of our containment facilities where it can be put in safe storage. Places are more difficult. First we have to deny humans access in some way. We have learned through experience that a fence or a locked door isn’t enough. There needs to be a strong enclosure of some kind, for example a security door, but it also has to be inconspicuous, otherwise people might think there’s something valuable behind it and try to break in. Second, we have to make sure the anomalous effects don’t extend past whatever containment barriers we put up. This can get really tricky when an anomaly affects everything around it. Thankfully it’s often just a matter of putting up the barriers at a sufficient distance. In many cases we first contain it, so that people don’t mess around with it and we can study it in peace. We then neutralize it once we figure out how. I realize there might be people reading this who think it would be exciting to try to find an anomaly and mess with it but I assure you that’s a bad idea; there’s more than just your own life at stake.
So why post all this? A short while back I was involved in an incident, like I said I won’t go into any details about it, but it made me realize something about my employer. I believe that The Agency itself is a kind of anomaly. Not to say that The Agency is bending the laws of physics or anything like that. It’s just that an organization like this should not be able to exist in our modern society, at the most it should be some kind of conspiracy theory, and yet it is 100% real. I doubt it’s much of a big problem, all the secrecy means The Agency is kind of self contained, but I’m getting the information out there, just in case. It’s also a huge load off my chest. Anyway, that’s all I can tell you without endangering myself or anyone who reads this. If you believe any of this is up to you.”
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