Decrypted message from the Joint Intelligence Committee of the United Kingdom to xxxx (classified).
An intelligence assessment prepared by the head of the Secret Intelligence Service working with the Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom and the UK Joint Intelligence Organisation.
Currently GCHQ in partnership with the US National Security Agency (NSA) is conducting an intelligence gathering operation from Buenos Aires, Argentina. The local arrangement was facilitated by the UK Ambassador to Argentina, and authorised by Argentine President Javier Milei.
The focus of USA/UK intelligence relates to the People’s Republic of China’s Space Station situated in 200 hectares at Bajada del Agrio, Neuquén Province. Despite assurances by Chinese Foreign Affairs Commission to US National Security Advisor, the facility is suspected to be operated by the Chinese Ministry of State Security 国家安全部 (MSS) to effect active measures on cyber espionage.
SIS agent 003 Xiomara Smith-Cumming and her technical lead 007 James Bond have been deployed to Buenos Aires to support an intelligence operation for the China Office.
A current threat from the National Directorate of Intelligence (Peru) has been identified. A classified operator has located Peruvian operator Dr Richard Alvarez. Special authorisation is sought for the deployment of Argentine national Giannina Valdivieso as an aide to UK Security in handling this issue.
Security file is hereto attached.
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A week has elapsed since Xiomara persuaded our Argentine waitress to collaborate with MI6. We await authorisation from Whitehall. Back in the day, agents like me had free reign with operations. Now the Director General must personally authorise all special operations, taking into account legal parameters and ethical justification.
We are in the middle of an asado breakfast on the terrace of Palacio Haedo. Xiomara has just slipped a sausage to Ghost which he devours in one gulp. The lift clanks and the garden door opens to reveal Raul holding a letter.
It may seem strange to those that do not know the way of the Ministry of Defence. You would expect them to send an encrypted email or the like. But no, it is a typed letter in a manila envelope franked ‘MOD’. This way, only the recipient gets to read the content, and destroyed, the communication ceases to exist.
I reach out my hand. ‘Miss Xio, its for you,’ Raul says as he hands the envelope to her. Xiomara inspects the front and back before opening. Taking out one sheet of paper she glances at the content; and with that she holds it to the hot edge of the parrilla and it is consumed in flames.
‘We can go ahead, Giannina,’ she says, ‘welcome to our little band of soldiers.’
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