DEPARTMENT: FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Not all battles are won with weapons. The Foreign Affairs Department manages the complex and dangerous relationships with world governments and other Groups of Interest (GOIs). Their arena is diplomacy, espionage, and negotiation, where a wrong word can be deadlier than a bullet.
Primary Function: Close protection of diplomatic personnel and VIPs.
Operational Specifics: An elite team of bodyguards, trained to operate in plain clothes and handle threats in public and high-risk environments.
Primary Function: Creation and dissemination of narratives to manipulate public opinion.
Operational Specifics: A team of media experts, psychologists, and social media agents who orchestrate media campaigns to create cover stories or discredit opponents.
Primary Function: Identification and neutralization of hostile agents surveilling the Foundation.
Operational Specifics: A team of spy hunters, experts in counter-surveillance and traps for rival G.d.I. agents.
Primary Function: Negotiation with governments and international organizations (e.g. UN).
Operational Specifics: A professional negotiator, expert in international law and diplomatic protocols, the official representative of the Foundation in formal interactions.
Primary Function: Provide in-depth analysis on geopolitical scenarios and world leaders.
Operational Specifics: An intelligence expert who monitors global political stability, providing crucial briefings for planning external operations.
Primary Function: Maintain updated profiles on all rival or allied organizations.
Operational Specifics: An expert who studies the structure, motivations, and capabilities of known anomalous groups (GOC, Chaos Insurgency, Serpent's Hand, etc.).
Primary Function: To exert pressure on governments or corporations through financial means.
Operational Specifics: An economist who, in concert with the Acquisitions Department, can orchestrate sanctions, hostile acquisitions, or market manipulations.
Primary Function: Management of standoffs, kidnappings, or hostage crises.
Operational Specifics: An expert in negotiation trained to interface with hostile agents (both anomalous and human) to achieve a non-violent resolution.
Primary Function: Resolution of disputes and conflicts of jurisdiction between departments.
Operational Specifics: A negotiator who applies their diplomatic skills within the Site to facilitate cooperation and resolve conflicts between Directors.
Primary Function: Creating counterfeit documents, identities, and credentials.
Operational Specifics: An expert artisan in the creation of passports, visas, and other fictitious documents of indistinguishable quality to support undercover operations.
Primary Function: Neutralize or recruit key witnesses without the use of amnestics.
Operational Specifics: An agent specializing in psychology, intimidation, and persuasion. They are the expert to call when a witness is immune to amnestics or when their knowledge is too valuable to be erased. They can discredit, isolate, blackmail, or recruit an individual, transforming a problem into an asset.
Primary Function: Access to influential individuals within world governments.
Operational Specifics: A network of politicians, military, and bureaucrats 'friends' of the Foundation, who can provide information, access, or political influence.
Primary Function: Intelligence gathering from within rival organizations.
Operational Specifics: Double agents or paid informants infiltrated into other Interest Groups.
Primary Function: Controlled dissemination of information or cover stories.
Operational Specifics: A network of journalists, editors, and news agency executives who, voluntarily or not, can be used to shape the media narrative.
Primary Function: Access to undercover experts and university resources.
Operational Specifics: A network of academics who collaborate with the Foundation, providing specialized consultations or access to university laboratories.
Primary Function: Collection of information (including compromising ones) on global leaders.
Operational Specifics: An ultra-high security database containing psychological profiles, vulnerabilities, and "skeletons in the closet" of every relevant political figure.
Primary Function: Register of all formal and informal agreements with non-human entities or G.d.I.
Operational Specifics: A collection of all historical treaties, which define the rules of engagement and truces with other powers of the anomalous world.
Primary Function: Secure transport of sensitive data and materials.
Operational Specifics: A briefcase that looks normal but is reinforced, tamper-proof, and equipped with an encrypted SSD unit and a self-destruct mechanism.
Primary Function: Provide credible legal cover for agents abroad.
Operational Specifics: The ability to generate near-perfect diplomatic credentials, recognized by most governments, for personnel on mission.
Primary Function: Initiate a hostile economic action against a target.
Operational Specifics: The power to authorize the use of Foundation funds to destabilize a corporation or a small government that opposes our interests.
Primary Function: Temporarily block an operation of another department.
Operational Specifics: The ability to veto an operation that could have serious diplomatic repercussions, forcing a review by the Site Director.
Primary Function: Procedures for approaching a newly discovered Interest Group.
Operational Specifics: A series of guidelines on how to establish first contact with a new group, assessing its threat and potential for cooperation.
Primary Function: Managing formal negotiations with external powers.
Operational Specifics: The operating manual for conducting negotiations, which includes opening strategies, concession tactics, and signing protocols.
Primary Function: Manipulation of news cycles to create a desired narrative.
Operational Specifics: A strategy that involves "planting" a story on minor media outlets and using a network of bots and social agents to amplify it until it is picked up by the mainstream media.
Primary Function: Recovery of compromised personnel from hostile territory.
Operational Specifics: A plan of action combining political pressure, deception, and covert operations to securely extract a captured agent.
Primary Function: To discredit and isolate an individual internationally.
Operational Specifics: A coordinated campaign to ensure that an individual (e.g., a leader of an international body) is declared "persona non grata" by multiple governments, limiting their movements and influence.
Primary Function: Standard procedures for joint operations with the Global Occult Coalition.
Operational Specifics: A set of rules of engagement and specific communication channels to interact with the GOC, our greatest rival and, occasionally, ally.
Primary Function: Interfacing with recognized anomalous enclaves (e.g., Three Portlands).
Operational Specifics: The procedures for interacting with the few anomalous communities with which the Foundation maintains formal diplomatic relations.
Primary Function: Management of secure communications with agents and external contacts.
Operational Specifics: The department's communications nerve center, equipped with quantum encryption systems for very high-risk contacts.
Primary Function: A secure operational base in a foreign capital.
Operational Specifics: An apartment or an office owned by a shell company, technically considered Foundation ground and protected by surveillance.