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BRITISH EXPERIMENTAL ROCKET GROUP,

SECTION IV

To: Sqdrn. Ldr. Tutbury, V N

From: Maskelyne, A J

Vernon,

What in the name of blue blazes in going on with you people over there? The Prof

is about to blow a gasket over the latest stuff up in Berlin!

Please tell me that this isn’t going to be like the incident back in ‘48. We all

remember too well the results of that little escapade. I for one have no inten-

tion of trying to diplomatically weasel you out of some Godawful GRU prison!

So, the next report had better be a damn sight more detailed than the last and

we’d better start getting some reasonable intelligence out of this situation.

You know better than anyone that we’ve been bleeding men to the other side at a

ridiculous rate, even worse than the Yanks or the French. The rumours back here

are saying that it’s an inside job, that some high ups in Whitehall have been

compromised. Makes me shudder to think.

Furthermore, the boffins back here aren’t at all sure that this crypto-linguis-

tics things of yours has legs. Nothing is coming out it, a dead end, if you’ll

pardon the inappropriate pun. I do realise that the affair with Blume et al may

have given creedence to your theory, but the big brains say its simply not worth

the time and effort to investigate.

Finally, do be careful out there. Losing one am to the Luftwaffe was bad enough,

please don’t go risking the other one on wild goose chases! Madeline sends her

love, by the way. And young Henry made it into the First XI with a ripping good

display on Sunday.

Yours,

Bert

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CONTENTS

Slantwise 05

Chapter One: Game Advice 07

Authority: Who Says What And When

Collaborative Game Creation

Bringing Hidden Agendas Into Play

Chapter Two: Optional Mechanics

The Draw Scene

Using Negative Traits

Chapter Three: Covert Agencies in Berlin 27

BERG (UK)

CIA (USA)

GK-11 (USSR)

GRU (USSR)

MGB (USSR)

SDECE Departement ‘B’ (France)

SIS (UK)

USAF 515th Intelligence Wing (USA)

Chapter Four: Locations Beyond Berlin 35

Krasnoyarsk-14 (USSR)

Montauk/Camp Hero (USA)

Natzweiler-Struthof (France)

Ohrdruf (Germany)

Ploesti (Romania)

Porton Down (UK)

Chapter Five: Appendices 43

A Select Bibliography

Designers Notes

Closed & Open Games

SLANTWISE

July, 1946

It turns out that we were wrong. So very wrong.

Sources indicate that our Soviet counterpart, Project 303, was far more success-

ful than Operation Strangle. This is a great cause for concern. Although we have

‘the bomb’, the Soviets must have access to some technologies that we have yet to

encounter. Our intelligence on this matter is sketchy at best. The first line of

infiltration would appear to be this new ‘Reserve Police Agency’ being set up in

Berlin. In a spirit of allied co-operation, it appears we must team up with our

Russian friends to hunt down the very things we wish to keep from them.

I do not like the way this is heading.

September, 1947

The Reserve Police Agency is proving to be remarkably effective in the execu-

tion of its duties. However, there are deep concerns regarding the avenues it

provides for intelligence gathering and infiltration. We would have been foolish

to think that our comrades in Soviet intelligence would not be thinking along the

same lines as us. The British have already had to eliminate six double agents,

all of them turned during their time in the RPA. The 515th have been assiduous

in eliminating infiltrators into our network. Only four at the last count, but I

suspect we are being overly optimistic. The French are, as usual, being somewhat

recalcitrant in providing us with information.

Needless to say, our efforts at turning Soviet personnel have not met with great

success. Of the three we managed to get on side, one was ‘killed in the line of

duty’ and the other two have been ‘recalled to Moscow’, a common metaphor for sum-

mary execution. What intelligence we have managed to obtain is truly terrifying.

We are not simply dealing with the usual MGB or GRU thugs, but a wholly new or-

ganisation. Whoever they are, they appear to have complete authority over the use

and application of esoteric technologies. I grow more fearful as the days pass.

March, 1948

They are called GK-11. ‘State Committee-11’, a typically innocuous and banal

Soviet thing to name them. We know they have a direct line to Stalin, possibly

even bypassing Beria. One of our sources revealed that something huge is happening

near the Pripyat River in the Ukraine. We know for a fact that there was a German

‘facility’ there during the drang nach osten. Its purpose is unknown. However, if

the Soviets are taking such an interest in it, it must have great significance.

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