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MISSION OVERVIEW

Operation DOUBLE CROSS is a high-risk extraction and asset-flip mission in the heart of East Berlin, targeting Elena Petrova, a 32-year-old Russian national serving as chief accountant for Václav Kopecký (codename: Prague Broker). Petrova, a former low-level KGB asset embedded in black market operations, was arrested by Stasi officials on February 12, 1984, during a routine audit of Kopecký's Prague-based warehouse front (Kopecký Trading Co.). Interrogation records intercepted via SIGINT indicate Stasi suspicions of embezzlement and unauthorized contacts with Western elements, potentially exposing Kopecký's network.

Thorn Corporation has identified Petrova as a high-value flip target due to her intimate knowledge of Kopecký's financial ledgers, arms deals, and client lists (including Soviet surplus weaponry routed to Middle Eastern and African buyers). Successful recruitment will provide ongoing intelligence on Kopecký's operations, including his upcoming handoff of stolen Project Volkodav materials to the Shadow Wolf. The operation must be executed with utmost discretion to avoid alerting Kopecký or escalating Cold War tensions.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE

Extract Elena Petrova from Stasi custody at the Hohenschönhausen Prison complex in East Berlin. Following extraction, plant fabricated evidence (forged documents and physical traces) implicating a rival West German criminal syndicate (e.g., the Munich-based "Red Dagger" group) to divert suspicion from Kopecký and Thorn Corporation involvement. Recruit Petrova as a double agent by leveraging offers of financial incentives (50,000 USD initial payment), family relocation to the West, and protection from KGB reprisals. She must be convinced to resume her role in Kopecký's organization, providing Thorn with real-time intel drops via dead-letter boxes in Prague.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVE

Re-infiltrate Petrova back across the Berlin Wall into East Germany without detection, allowing her to reestablish contact with Kopecký's network. Gather any incidental physical evidence (e.g., interrogation transcripts or personal effects) that could reveal more about Kopecký's ties to the Shadow Wolf or Project Volkodav.

OPERATION: DOUBLE CROSS
Hohenschönhausen Prison
Genslerstraße, Lichtenberg, Germany
Agent In Charge:
Daniel Kessler
TSG-000
DOUBLE CROSS
CODENAME: Bird in Hand
Wednesday Jul 20th 1983
Genslerstraße, Lichtenberg, Germany
Exfiltration and Extraction
 
Elena Petrova
Finance/Accounting/Logistics
PRIMARY TARGET: Elena Petrova
AKA: The Ledger

Elena Petrova, born in Leningrad in 1952 amid the austere shadows of post-war Soviet reconstruction, grew up in a family of academics where numbers and secrets were the currency of survival—her father a mathematician in the Academy of Sciences, her mother a librarian harboring forbidden Western texts. Excelling in economics at Moscow State University in the early 1970s, she caught the KGB's eye for her analytical prowess and was subtly recruited as a low-level asset, trained in financial espionage and embedded in black market networks to monitor illicit flows. By 1980, Petrova had infiltrated Václav Kopecký's operation as his chief accountant, laundering millions from arms deals involving Czech Semtex and Soviet surplus to buyers in volatile regions like the Middle East and Africa. Her coded ledgers concealed a web of transactions, including payments tied to stolen Project Volkodav materials, while her gambling habit—fueled by the thrill of high-stakes poker in Prague's underground dens—nearly unraveled her cover, leading to her Stasi arrest in 1983. Now a reluctant double agent for Thorn Corporation after her extraction, Petrova balances loyalty to her vulnerable sister in Moscow with the promise of Western asylum, her intellectual sharpness masking a growing paranoia in the treacherous game of Cold War shadows.

LOCATION(S)
Hohenschönhausen Prison
East Berlin, Germany
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