This was prepared as a postmortem on a Call of Cthulhu game that I ran. Justin Roberts played as Tilley, and Rick McGee played as Morris.
Central Intelligence Agency
"Helping Hands"
HH #129
CLASSIFIED
Security Rating J-12
A Security Rating of S5 Is Required Beyond This Point
Executive Report Material
This executive report covers the events of 4/17/92 through 5/4/92, which culminated in the "Raleigh Roads of Death" incident. This report was compiled by the Raleigh station, assisted by Director of Miscellaneous Roy Thompson and staff. These events fall under the domain of Miscellaneous as per Directive # 515 Section C.
The bulk of this material is comprised from interviews with two of the participants, Ron Tilley and Andrew Morris. Both turned themselves in on the morning of 5/4/92, and both have provided collaborative stories in numerous interrogations. The rest of the material is drawn from interviews with the Raleigh Police force, as well as physical investigation at several of the key locations by FBI S.I. teams.
The conclusions section was written by Raleigh Station head Keith Willard and D.I.M. Roy Thompson.
The complete report is appended to this document.
Background
In 1977, Interstate 40 began a sizeable period of expansion. Starting in California, and moving towards Raleigh, a number of projects were undertaken in order to meet increasing traffic demands. These projects were independent in every way. Each state, acting under its own volition, initiated its own highway expansion program. Each state independently funded its expansion, with help from Federal Roads Commission funds. Because road work is a common occurrence on any major highway, no one questioned the timing of the different projects. If they had, it would have been fairly easy to plot a chart of the linked road work projects beginning in California and moving straight across to Raleigh. Although this progression is not an even flow of one link to another, A.S.A.T gives it a 92% probability that the progression was purposeful and directed. Additionally, based on information obtained from Tilley and Morris, it was found that the suicide rate among the construction workers involved in these projects were roughly 850% above the norm for their profession. Checks have also revealed that a large increase in the suicide rate also exists for residents near the projects. The statistical effect varies inversely with distance. Unfortunately, the sampling rate is somewhat small, as the effect dies out very quickly. The current best guess is that it logarithmically decreases every kilometer. The department has sent in Chemical/Biological/Nuclear teams to surreptitiously examine the area for any possible agents that might be responsible for the increased suicide rate. Nothing was found that would account for the effect. Therefore, a positive link between the projects and the effect has not been determined. Nevertheless, the circumstantial evidence remains persuasive.
Because of the likelihood that these two phenomena represent a conspiracy against the United States government, no action has been taken to evacuate the area for fear of alerting the conspiracy. The Bureau deems it critical that the conspiracy be identified and terminated before it a) completes its tasks and b) disbands and disappears. It is believed that an organization of the estimated size and proficiency presents a grave threat to national security, and that its elimination justifies the civilian losses.
Events of 4/17/92 through 5/4/92
On 4/17/92, a letter was sent from Ben Johnson, an employee of the Raleigh Traffic Commission, concerning the death of Marla Peters. The letter detailed how Miss Peters had been found by constructions workers next to a road project. She had apparently thrown herself off a bridge, committing suicide. The letter goes on to describe how a letter addressed to Ron Tilley had been found on the body, and that the Commission was interested in whether he had knowledge of why she had killed herself at the bridge. Ron Tilley, a New York Times reporter, dropped out of high school to join the Times staff as an office runner, having since worked his way up to his current position on the crime staff. Although he has had no notable front page stories, his work is solid and complete, if somewhat uninspired. Co-workers describe him as "an average Joe" and "fun to be with." When questioned as to his mental stability, one co-worker stated "Tilley’s as solid as they come. Maybe a little too solid for this job. He doesn’t go after the big crazy stories, because he just can’t buy them. But no one ever makes the front page without being a little crazy." Tilley’s bio is contained in Personal Background # 31523646.1, and his deposition is # 31523646.1.1. Tilley and Peters knew each other from a previous romantic relationship, which ended after the abortion of an unwanted pregnancy. Tilley, upon receiving the letter, immediately arranged to leave his home in New York and travel to Raleigh to handle the funeral arrangements. Tilley was motivated by more than respect for his ex-lover. Peters had often written him that she had found what she thought was a conspiracy in the Traffic Commission department. Tilley, accustomed to her patently false paranoid fantasies which had started after their breakup, took no notice of it. The fact that there may have been some truth to her stories and that she may have lived had he believed her has resulted in him feeling responsible for her death. Accompanying Tilley was Andrew J. Morris, a New York dilettante, who accompanied Tilley around New York in hopes of becoming an investigative journalist. Morris, heir to the A.J.M Meat Packing Co., is independently wealthy, and is a Yale graduate in Speech Communications. Morris can appear to be foolish, but our interrogations have revealed a much more intelligent person than is obvious from first glance. Morris appears to lack discipline, which accounts for his low grades in college while still performing consistently high on raw intelligence tests. Without an in-depth psychological profile, it is impossible to determine the origin for his personality weakness, but Dr. Hauptman’s first guess is the parents. His bio is contained in Personal Background # 31523647.2, and his deposition is # 31523647.2.1.
Tilley and Morris left on 4/25. They arrived in Raleigh that night, and took up residence at the Ramada Inn in downtown Raleigh. The next day they called the police department to find out some more information concerning the death of Miss Peters. The police asked them to come down to the station house, which they did. Upon arriving, they were introduced to Captain Marc Hogan. Hogan asked them about their interest in Peters, and then showed them several photos of the condition that Peters was found in. See supporting exhibit A, which contains both the photos and the complete coroner’s report.
Hogan explained that Peters’ body had been found with multiple circular puncture wounds, and that over 85% of her bodily fluids had been removed from the body, probably forcibly drained through the wounds. The method of death is the same as Carla Jenkins and her S.I. team, (see Report # 21438), implying a connection between the two cases. Tilley told Hogan about the letter. When Hogan attempted to contact Ben Johnson, the Commission employee who sent the letter, he found that Johnson had been dead for several weeks, well before the time that the letter was sent. Hogan asked Tilley to show him the letter, and offered to drive Tilley over to the hotel to pick it up. Morris left at this point, intending to reach the hotel first and reproduce the letter. He wanted to keep a copy of the letter so that they could continue their investigations without relying upon the police. Morris’ view of the Raleigh police force was that they were "hicks" and couldn’t be trusted with the investigation. Unfortunately, on the way over to the hotel, he was involved in a serious accident. The police report shows that the school bus driver was suffering from a heart attack, and had swung out of his lane slightly, hitting Morris. Twenty six children and the bus driver were killed, but Morris was able to walk away from the wreck. As later events will show, had Morris not been hit by the school bus, he would probably not be alive today. Hogan and Tilley reached the hotel first, and after picking up a key from the desk clerk, proceeded to the room. Hogan opened the door while Tilley stood to the side.
Hogan’s body was then perforated by what Tilley describes as "black ropes of death." Eight holes in all were found in Hogan’s body. Each hole was approximately four inches across, and extended through the entire body, passing through bone as well as flesh. The "black ropes" then split into two, and exited the body by moving outwards laterally. All of this took place in approximately six seconds. From Tilley’s description of this encounter and others, we present this artist’s rendition:
The creature stands approximately thirteen feet high. It is dendroid, and has several stout, hoof-like legs supporting a thick body marred by gaping maws dripping goo. The body is topped by a maze of variously sized tentacles, including four large tentacles of approximately three feet in diameter. There are several questions that are raised by this physical description. First, if there are four main trunks, with what appear to be small environmental exploratory tentacles, why were there eight smaller tentacles that seem to split in two? One possibility is that there are not, in fact, eight smaller tentacles, and that the exploratory tentacles were used. However, in lieu of the fact that this creature seems similar to the one that killed agent Jenkins, past evidence suggests that the exploratory tentacles do not in fact have the power to accomplish this.
Second, there seems to be a problem in how the hotel structure could have supported the weight of the creature. Harkening back to the artist’s rendition from Report # 21438, we find that the leg/foot structure can expand to adjust for weight. From Tilley’s description, we estimate that this creature weighed approximately three and a half tons. For the hotel room not to have collapsed under the pressure of the creature, the hooves would have had to have expanded to an astonishing eight feet in diameter, thus encompassing nearly all of the floor space of the hotel room.
Third, it did not follow its recorded mode of killing. From Report # 21438, we see that the creature empties the organs and internal fluids from its victim. If this is the same creature, (and the visual accounts collaborate at 93%), then why did it rip Hogan apart instead of feeding on him? So far, there are no answers, but it must be kept in mind that this is only the third time that this creature has been sighted by witnesses who survived the encounter. Finally, and most disturbingly, how did it find Tilley? And under what impulse was it acting? How did it make its way into the hotel room without being seen? So far, these questions remain without answers.
NOTE: For the reader who is not familiar with earlier cases: Although this creature defies any logical placement within our context of reality, there is a high probability that a) this creature does indeed exist and that b) there are other creatures that interact with this one whom we have no recorded accounts of from history. For an analysis of the creature’s possible origin, and its implications for threat assessments, see Report # 21441. Also see Directive # 515 Section C.
Tilley, acting quickly, fled the area. He reports that he could hear pursuit coming down the stairs after him as he made for the lobby and then the outside street. Upon reaching the outside, he went to a nearby gas station, called a cab, and escaped. By the time that Tilley had left the area, Morris had finally arrived, having taken a cab from the scene of his accident. According to the police records of the response time, the gas station clerk’s account, and Tilley’s story, Morris must have arrived at the hotel within two minutes of Tilley’s leaving in the cab. Morris proceeded inward, expecting to find Tilley with Hogan. What he found instead was a lobby filled with blood and body parts. Morris, acting with incredible nerve, decided to check on his friend Tilley instead of fleeing the area. He made his way to the room, and found Hogan’s body. He took Hogan’s gun, and then left after he was unable to find Tilley’s body. Like Tilley, he decided to refrain from contacting the police, and instead checked into a hotel with the intent of finding Tilley the next day. The police arrived, and after thoroughly investigating the area, were unable to find any evidence of the perpetrator, save for the act itself. Unfortunately, they did not know what they were looking for, and perhaps overlooked some evidence. Nevertheless, after examining their reports, the Bureau was unable to come to find any non-circumstantial evidence to collaborate Tilley’s account of the creature.
The body toll of the hotel’s other guests was thirty seven, bringing the possible total of deaths attributable to these creatures to 156.
The next morning, Tilley decided to examine the former residence of Marla Peters. Tilley felt safe in this endeavour because he believed that, whatever the creature was, it would not appear in densely populated areas. This hypothesis proved to be incorrect, and the creature was waiting for him at Peters’ apartment. As Tilley swung the door open, the creature shot out its tentacles again, barely missing Tilley, who ducked away from the open door and along the wall next to it. The creature then attacked through the wall, catching Tilley’s arm and severely lacerating it. Tilley managed to scramble to his car, and made his escape before the creature could catch him.
This encounter raises, again, a number of questions. How did the creature know that Tilley was going to be at Peters’ apartment? Tilley himself had no plans to go until that morning. The only plausible explanation so far is that the creature was staking out the apartment. Obviously, if this is true, the creature’s intelligence estimate will have to be adjusted upwards a great deal. In fact, the creature would have to have a fairly detailed understanding of human society to have appeared in the apartment. Again, there is no known explanation as to how this creature could exist, much less have a detailed understanding of human society. Also, why did the creature not pursue Tilley for any length? A possible explanation could be that the creature does not, in fact, wish to make itself known to humans in general. Despite the public remains of its actions, there are so far few actual sightings of the creature. Tilley made his way to a local hospital, and checked in under his name. Morris, calling the different hospitals in case Tilley had made it in from the night before, found him and met up with him. They then proceeded back to the hotel to discuss strategy. Morris’ apprehensions concerning the Raleigh Police force were echoed by Tilley. They determined that they should avoid the police whenever possible, and attempt to follow up on the killings themselves. Now that the "Scooby Doo" syndrome was upon them, they attempted to obtain a bodyguard.
They found one in the form of Greg Howards, formerly known as Nicholas Drum, formerly known as Tom "Two Fisted" O’Brian, an Irish boxer. A small time boxer who never made it big in Ireland, O’Brian immigrated to America where he became a Mafia enforcer, at which point he changed his name. After testifying against Antonio Fellici in the "Ice Pick" hearings, he was relocated in Raleigh under the witness protection plan. He had apparently been hired by a local bodyguard service, where he had the ill fortune to be hired by Morris. For further information on his background, see Personal Background # 25717119.1. For the purposes of this report, we will continue to refer to O’Brian as Howards. After hiring Howards, Tilley and Morris visited a local hypnotist to possibly evoke more memories of Tilley’s encounter with the creature. This resulted in complete failure. Since that time, Dr. Samuels has attempted sessions with Tilley, but no additional information was elicited.
Tilley, Morris, and Howards then proceeded to the Raleigh Office of Traffic Works, where they managed to slip into the records department for a short time. Tilley, upon examining the documents, found that the hazard barrels were being stored in above average quantities in various warehouses.
Finding nothing else, they then split up to do some research. Tilley proceeded to the downtown library, while Morris and Howards visited a road construction site. Morris felt that the road construction may have been a facade for some illegitimate enterprise, based on the high suicide rates and the Traffic Commission’s involvement via the mysterious Ben Johnson. Tilley found more disturbing statistics, which were a subset of those presented at the beginning of this report. Morris and Howard, however, spotted a bizarre incident. A road worker apparently went insane, and began driving his bulldozer into another vehicle. He was quickly overpowered and the bulldozer shut down before any damage resulted. The worker was then quickly placed into a van and driven off. The interesting thing about this incident is that the other workers seemed to immediately go back to their usual work. The fact that they didn’t exhibit normal human emotions in the face of a sudden, dramatic manifestation of mental illness is highly unusual.
The next day, Tilley, Morris, and Howards visited the apartment of Marla Peters. There, they found the physical evidence of Tilley’s account of the attack, as well as a number of books that Miss Peters had accumulated. These books concerned mythology and witchcraft, and were filled with notes of Miss Peters commenting upon the text. As they were leaving the apartment complex, they ran into a small boy named Billy Thompson. Upon questioning him for any odd events he may have noticed, Billy mentioned that "the trees are moving" and that "they took my father."
Billy introduced them to his mother, Patricia Thompson. She informed them that her husband, John, had been missing for the last two weeks, and that he had been doing some secret work for an unnamed intelligence agency. This agency had already picked up all of Thompson’s work, leaving no clue as to his field of expertise. The Bureau has since run a background check on Thompson. It was found that his record was normal, and that he was listed as an employee for the local phone company, Southern Bell. Southern Bell found that they had records of an employee named John Thompson, but that he had never shown up for work and that no one knew who he was. So far, all efforts to uncover the identity of this agency and the work of John Thompson have been futile.
That night, the group visited a power station near one of the major construction sites. They spoke to Phillip Reismann, an old man who was a watchman for the power station. He revealed vaguely disquieting news that a predecessor of his had been missing and presumed dead for some time, but nothing concrete that related to the case. Frustrated at their lack of information, Morris decided it was time for a bold move. Leaving Tilley with the car and instructions to bring it around, Morris and Howards walked across the road to visit the construction site. Morris attempted to bluff his way past the foreman on duty by claiming that he was a local reporter looking for some news. After being asked for his credentials, he claimed that he was a New York Times reporter and was working on the story with Captain Hogan.
The foreman, presumably suspicious by this time, made a call to a superior to confirm the story. After being informed that Hogan was dead, the foreman confronted Morris with the news. Morris asked to use the phone, and secretly used the redial button to call whomever the foreman had been speaking to. He reached an unknown party, who then asked for his identity. He identified himself as Tilley, which did not correspond to the identification he had given the foreman.
The foreman then gathered a group of workers together, and attacked Morris and Howard. At this point, Tilley appeared with the car. Firing at the crowd, Morris and Howard ran towards the car. In their haste to escape, Morris apparently fell out of the car as Tilley pulled away. Tilley went back for him, and Howards pulled him into the car as they made their escape. In the confusion, Morris’ arm was broken.
Interestingly, as Morris and Howards backed away from the crowd, Morris saw something large moving behind the workers. Although a positive identification is impossible, Morris believes that whatever it was, it was much larger than a man. Morris and Tilley drew two conclusions from the attack. The first is that the entire crew was in on the conspiracy, because the entire crew obeyed the order to attack. As has been shown in history many times, the accomplices of a conspiracy are rarely cognizant of the conspiracy’s true nature. It is possible that these men were mislead by the foreman. The second conclusion that they drew was that no one in a local governmental position could be trusted. This reinforced their desire to remain free of the local police, and they felt that they would not be able to justify their claims if they turned to federal agencies. This left them again in the untenable position of having to rely solely on their own resources, which were proving to be inadequate in the face of the conspiracy.
Having made their escape, they obtained a new hotel room and made their plans. Morris’ arm was set by Howards, although it was deemed unwise to risk exposure by taking Morris to a hospital. Instead, they slept through the night, trusting in their random selection of the hotel to keep them temporarily safe from attack. By the next morning, they were ready to investigate their last lead.
Jacob Kransley was the name given by the Raleigh Office of Traffic Works files as head of the project. Therefore, Tilley and Morris decided upon a direct confrontation with Kransley in order to force the truth out of him. They arrived at his residence April 4 at eleven a.m. Introducing themselves as reporters, they asked for an interview with Kransley concerning the Beltline project. Kransley was hospitable, and asked them in. Kransley appeared to be around seventy years of age. His personal file, if it ever existed, is now missing, so it is impossible to determine his exact age.
Under the pretense of using the bathroom, Tilley was able to gain temporary unobserved access to Kransley’s computer system. In the limited time that he was there, the only information he was able to find was a high level of turnover among the construction crew workers. Armed with this information, he then confronted Kransley, who, while admitting that the pattern existed, was unable to offer any definitive explanation for the pattern. At this point, Morris and Howards excused themselves, saying that they had to obtain some items from the car. While Morris proceeded out to the car, Howards, hidden from Kransley’s view, proceeded upstairs in order to explore.
Morris proceeded to the car. He went to the trunk, and opened it. As soon as the trunk lid went up, he felt a tremendous shock wave pass through the ground underneath him. The ground then opened up, swallowing both Morris and the car, burying them in the ground. Morris was able to avoid being dragged down as far as the car, but was still too deep to climb his way out. He was effectively mobilized, with only minutes left before his limited amount of oxygen was exhausted.
Inside, Tilley heard the rumble. His nerves at a shattering point, he immediately pulled his hand gun, aimed it at Kransley’s head, and demanded that Kransley tell him what was going on.
Kransley, apparently terrified, begged for his life. Tilley forced Kransley to the front steps, and saw that the car and Morris had vanished. Kransley offered no explanation, and continued to weep for his life. As Tilley stood there, considering his options, Howards smashed through a window on the second floor of the mansion, landing at the edge of the roof. He stood up, and pronounced, "I’ve seen it. God help me, I’ve seen it!!" and threw himself head first off the roof. His neck was broken upon impact.
Tilley then forced Kransley to take him to the Kransley’s car. Kransley obliged, presumably terrified and willing to do anything in order to save his life. Upon reaching the car, Tilley found that while it was unlocked, the key was missing. Tilley demanded the location of the keys. Kransley replied that they were up in the second story bedroom. Tilley then locked Kransley in the trunk of the car, and went to retrieve the keys.
Morris, who by now was beginning to succumb to oxygen deprivation, felt a massive upheaval of the ground near him, as though something huge and fast were moving past him. It apparently shifted him upwards nearer looser dirt, and in a frenzy of kicking and clawing, he was able to reach the surface. He pulled himself completely out, regained his breath, and began to walk towards the house.
Tilley had reached the upstairs, and found that the first room from the stairs was the master bedroom. He quickly found the keys, and rather than explore the upper half of the mansion, fled back to the car in order to make his escape.
Upon reaching the car, he checked in the trunk to make sure that Kransley was still there. He found nothing. Kransley had apparently escaped. Tilley entered the car, started it up, and began to ease it down the driveway.
Strangely, though, Tilley found himself unable to control the car. When his actions weren’t directed towards control of the car, he had full control of his motions. When he attempted to steer, or push down on the gas, he found that he had to concentrate intensely to overcome a strange resistance from his limbs to move. This inexplicable loss of control resulted in him crashing into a tree on the other side of the road. This phenomena has never been encountered before.
Morris, who had been moving towards the house, saw Tilley coming down the driveway with the car. Morris yelled for him to stop, and followed Tilley down the driveway. After watching Tilley crash into the tree, he ran to the car, pushed Tilley into the passenger’s seat, took over the wheel and sped down the highway towards civilization. After a number of seconds, he caught sight of a terrifying visage behind him. The road along which he was driving was blowing up behind him, being forced upwards from the center by some powerful moving force, almost as a wave is generated when a submarine speeds just beneath the surface of the sea.
Tilley continued to drive, hoping that the following force would be deterred by a large number of witnesses. His hopes were dashed when they turned at a shopping mall towards the center of Raleigh, and saw the wave still following them as they moved through heavy traffic. The wave was still just behind them when they reached the beltline, and followed them onto it moving south.
Once on the beltline, however, Tilley was able to drive faster, maintaining an average speed of seventy miles an hour. This was apparently faster than the wave could travel, and it began to fall behind them. They thought they were safe until they saw another wave heading straight towards them on the beltline. Rather than turn and go back, Tilley continued driving towards the wave, and at the last minute was able to avoid it by swerving. He retained control of the car, and exited from the beltline to I-40 West. They drove until they reached Knoxville, Tennessee, where they obtained a room for the night.
This chase eventually became known as the "Roads of Death." Eighty six people were killed in this chase. Thirty alone came from a school activities bus that was carrying a high school soccer team to a game. Two hundred and sixty cars, buses, and trucks were damaged in this chase, a hundred and thirty of these totaled. The cost in road work is estimated in the millions. After the federal government declared Raleigh a disaster area, Federal assistance was allocated to begin the reconstruction work. There are still a large number of pending lawsuits against the city. Whatever the final outcome, the cost in both material property and lives is staggering.
Although the cover story of gas mains explosions is disputed daily by the newspapers, there is no other obvious explanation available. Therefore, public awareness of the true nature of this event is unlikely.
Tilley and Morris, exhausted both mentally and physically, went to sleep with the belief that nothing could have followed them all the way to Knoxville. At approximately 2:30 in the morning of the fifth, they were proven wrong.
Morris was awakened by the sound of laughter. In the darkness, he could only make out a dim shadow by the door. The shadow said, "Hello, Morris." At that moment, Morris fired two shots into the figure’s chest. Morris reports that the figure’s speech then became "somewhat slurred, as if he were drinking water while he spoke." Tilley, awakened by the shots, immediately turned on the nightstand light. Standing in the doorway was Kransley, with two bullet holes in his chest.
Morris and Tilley’s accounts are both in agreement on both the areas of the wounds and their size. From their description, Kransely actually had bullet holes in his chest, and yet apparently was completely unimpaired by the wounds. There is no documented account of anyone who could withstand direct .357 caliber wounds and continue to function. At this time, there is still no explanation as to the nature of this phenomena.
Kransely grabbed Tilley as Morris fled through the window. Upon landing on the outer balcony, Morris then left the motel, phoned the police, and turned himself in. Morris believed that he was out of options, and therefore had nothing to lose via government involvement. Morris was transferred from the local police station to the Bureau, and was then taken back to D.C., where he began debriefing.
Tilley, still being clutched by Kransely, managed to twist out of his grasp and escape through the door. He immediately went to the lobby and phoned the police, who took him into custody within ten minutes of his call. He was also picked up by the Bureau, and taken to D.C., where he was debriefed separately from Morris.
Kransely was never found. A physical investigation of the room found confirmation of Kransely’s ability to withstand traumatic wounds. Two bullet holes were found in the hotel door, and human blood was found splattered on the doorway, as if somebody had been shot in front of the door. The blood was common type O, and provided no clue as to Kransely’s nature.
In addition to the bullet holes, a large quantity of dust was found in the room. Around six pounds of it were collected, and it is currently under analysis by Dr. Richard Hayden, S-12. Preliminary analysis of the dust indicates that it may be crystallized blood, but it should be left to the final report to make a determination. This section of the report will be updated as soon as the analysis is available.
There were no witnesses to the encounter between Tilley, Morris, and Kransely. In fact, there are no witnesses placing Kransely at the scene besides Tilley and Morris. Eyewitnesses placed both Tilley and Morris at the scene, although there is some discrepancy concerning time. Morris reported that he immediately phoned the police after exiting the hotel room. The police records show that he phoned at 2:38 a.m. Tilley reports that within moments he was able to wrest himself free of Kransely, and then fled to the lobby, where he phoned the police. However, the police records his call as being made at 2:50 a.m., a full 12 minutes after Morris’ call. Neither Tilley or Morris can account for this discrepancy. Both Tilley and Morris are currently recovering from physical and mental stress under supervised care.
Conclusions
Even without Tilley and Morris’ accounts, the "Road of Death" is reason enough to undertake a major investigation. Combined with their testimony, it seems clear that there is a covert organization that has established contact with creatures of great power of whose nature practically nothing is known. Additionally, it is highly probable that this organization has operatives who are not human in the normal sense of the word. Speculation about the nature of this organization is not profitable, as aliens seem as equally probable as demons. The threat that this organization could pose to the United States is of the gravest nature.
The most disturbing aspect of this whole affair, however, is that the overall purpose of the conspiracy has not yet been revealed. Given the nature and power of the organization(s?) behind it, it seems likely that this could be the most dangerous threat to United States security since the Atlantis episode.
Recommendations
- An Alpha level investigation be initiated. Due to the pervasive nature of this conspiracy, it is recommended that the agents selected be drawn from the Internal Review branch.
- Tilley and Morris accompany the investigation under close supervision. They may have useful information locked away in their memories that may be jarred loose by their participation. Additionally, their continual contact with the conspiracy indicates that they are of some importance, and could therefore be used as bait by the Bureau. If Tilley and Morris are not allowed to participate in the investigation, they should be placed on the witness protection program and kept under surveillance for the first year. Given that it is not understood how the creatures were able to track them to various locations, the possibility that they might still be tracked and attacked cannot be ruled out.
- Covertly stop the flow of money to the linked road constructions. This should be accomplished with all possible speed using all the discretionary powers of the bureau. It is imperative that this project not be finished before its nature is revealed.
- Restore Project "Last Resort" to full operational capacity. Although this measure may seem extreme, nothing can be ruled out until the full nature of the conspiracy is determined.