To: j_cunningham (dg_operations_rcmp)
From: t_henry (director_calgary_rcmp)
Subject: We got issues

Jeff,

I know you are in a bit of a bind right now with the cabinet breathing down your neck, so I hate to give bad news. The last few days we monitored the warehouse where supposedly William Stryker is holding up. Our watchers managed to get good footage of him coming and going, along with a small team of what our analysts think are mercenaries or just paid thugs. So as per the directive, this morning we sent in an assault team to capture or kill Stryker, all other persons in the building were to be treated as hostile-combatants. We gave our assault team weapons free. At a little after six they kicked the door in and engaged in a shootout with the mercenaries.

We had no casualties from our boys, but our team took out twelve hostiles. Our cover story is a training exercise for hostage situations. Eventually we got back the photography and sadly Stryker wasn't among the dead. It would seem he slipped out of a tunnel joined to an adjacent building. We did however spot Stryker leaving the area at high speed in a black SUV. We put out a bulletin and scanned CCTV. But unfortunately as Ed constantly reminds us Alberta's live CCTV net is sparse. Well, I won't beat around the bush; Stryker crossed the border into Montana a short while ago before our bulletin updated on the border crossing checkpoints (we really have to lobby more to get our system updated).

At the warehouse our assault team found a similar setup to the one found at the experimentation facility with similar lab equipment and tools. Our team found one person chained up in a backroom. The person, female, mid twenties has no record we can find, and thus far we haven't been able to determine if she is a mutant or not. She appears ethnically Asian and we have forwarded her photograph to our brothers in CSIS whose Asian contacts may help identify the girl. Reports indicated the girl is traumatised and is not speaking and I have arranged for her to be kept at a local mental health facility for her care. The director of the facility is a registered asset and he understands the need to keep the woman off book. In the meantime she will receive any assistance the doctors deem necessary to get her functional.

In regards to Stryker, I don't know there is much we can do but put up a passive alert for him crossing the border and scoop him up if he comes back over. It is up to you if you want to alert the CSIS boys, they may have assets and be feeling vindictive enough to take out Stryker for us. That clown in US State Department finally called me back and read me the party line on Generals Adams and Price, but the way he said it just reeks of another half baked cover up. I know this whole thing is a mess Jeff and I'm not happy about any of this.

My advice is put up the passive alerts, inform CSIS to try to keep tabs on Stryker and if the American's ask play ignorant. We've done a pretty thorough damage control on our end so don't expect any blow-back from this, but having Stryker on the loose could be an issue in the future.

Sincerely,
Director T.K. Henry


AN: Holy hell, that looks like plot. OK so CSIS the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, and they are analogous to the CIA (USA), MI6 (UK), ASIS (Australia). The instruction weapons-free means permission to fire on targets as necessary. Security agencies regularly employ civilian assets on their books such as doctors or hotel managers to use on an as-needed basis. I have no idea if Canadian's use British English or American English, so I went with British.