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Markman took a seat in his cubicle and logged into his workstation. Standing out in his list of emails was one with a shouted subject line:
HEADGAME
Messages with that as their subject were from a special information feed. A by-product of IC programs involving psychiatrists and psychoanalysts was that many of them had been recruited with the sole mission of reporting interesting or unusual patients and cases. From mundane reports concerning persons of interest to accounts of high strangeness, the HEADGAME feed provided a variety of tips that were often missed by conventional intelligence collection methods.
Markman clicked on the message, and began reading.
Holy Cr**, he thought after reading the first paragraphs; This is no coincidence .... A certain Charles Roberts had a run-in with the unknown and was so disturbed by it, he called on a psychiatrist. The details related by Roberts dovetailed very well with the OOPART report he had seen the other day at NARA. No, thought Markman, that wasn't God, Mister Roberts. Far from it.
Picking up the handset of a yellowish-gold telephone, he dialed a four-digit number. His supervisor, as usual, did not pick up, so Markman summarized his finding to her voicemail. His final statement underlined a concern all of the people in his work group felt: "They're getting bolder." And how, he thought.
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Markman took a seat in his cubicle and logged into his workstation. Standing out in his list of emails was one with a shouted subject line:
HEADGAME
Messages with that as their subject were from a special information feed. A by-product of IC programs involving psychiatrists and psychoanalysts was that many of them had been recruited with the sole mission of reporting interesting or unusual patients and cases. From mundane reports concerning persons of interest to accounts of high strangeness, the HEADGAME feed provided a variety of tips that were often missed by conventional intelligence collection methods.
Markman clicked on the message, and began reading.
Holy Cr**, he thought after reading the first paragraphs; This is no coincidence .... A certain Charles Roberts had a run-in with the unknown and was so disturbed by it, he called on a psychiatrist. The details related by Roberts dovetailed very well with the OOPART report he had seen the other day at NARA. No, thought Markman, that wasn't God, Mister Roberts. Far from it.
Picking up the handset of a yellowish-gold telephone, he dialed a four-digit number. His supervisor, as usual, did not pick up, so Markman summarized his finding to her voicemail. His final statement underlined a concern all of the people in his work group felt: "They're getting bolder." And how, he thought.
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Fire In The Hole