Comic-Con 2010 memo

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At the 2010 Comic-Con in San Diego, men promoting The Event distributed photocopies of a memo inside envelopes marked as confidential information.

Transcript

A transcript of the printed text of the memo follows. Portions already blacked out upon receipt of the memo are marked here using "XXXXX".

TOP SECR∃T UMBRA

Date: July 21, 2007

To: Agent Simon Lee

From: Blake Sterling, Director
Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Department of State

Subject: Inostranka

The facility at Mount Inostranka remains a top priority to our national security. Recent events surrounding the facility must be remedied immediately.

Handle the first with extreme urgency. A breach of protocol has resulted in the escape of XXXXX. The Agency must seek and extract the escapee to trade for information. The mission allows for acceptable collateral damage.

Ever since 1944, XXXXX them, The Agency has maintained complete secrecy surrounding the detainees and the facility XXXXX survivors that were apprehended, one demonstrated to be their leader and has XXXXX. Sophia Maguire can not be allowed to communicate with anyone from outside the facility and must be monitored at all times. She must be questioned about the disappearance of XXXXX.

Even though we have suspected substantial differences, XXXXX have we been able to pinpoint the source XXXXX leads the Agency to believe the detainees are XXXXX but we need further information. For this cause, XXXXX.

Valid information is still required to confirm XXXXX must not allow any further information to be leaked.

Execute orders immediately. A team led by General Whitman will be joining you in Alaska tomorrow.

No action is to be taken in updating the President. This information is on a need-to-know basis and the President should not be briefed on the existence of the facility. This must remain a matter for the intelligence services, which have been managing this without interference for decades. And as you know, we have our reasons.

These recent developments are all unquestionably related to increased activity among the detainees. The Agency needs you to address this, immediately.

By authority of: Blake Sterling
Signature: B. Sterling

Notes

The upper right portion of the memo contains the seal of the Central Intelligence Agency, with some faded words typed over it. These words are transcribed below, with unclear letters as question marks.

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               SECRETARY OF
WAR DEPARTMENT
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The handwritten question, "What is the Event?", appears in cursive on the left side of the photocopied memo. It is confirmed that the question was already printed as part of the photocopy prior to receipt.