Counterintelligence (mu/delta)

Under Precentor Parrdeau's reorganization of ROM, Counter-intelligence has expanded to match the huge Information and Analysis Department, and and receives an equivalent budget, which it is using to upgrade its entire operation. Currently under the command of Demi-Precentor Damien Constantine, Counter-intelligence locates and eliminates infiltrators from the Word of Blake, the Successor States, and the Clans. The agents of this branch operate from the myriad HPG facilities maintained by ComStar across the Inner Sphere. At least one CI operative is posted each A station, and presides over as large a counter-intelligence force as is practical.

In the style of the pre-reformation ROM, Counter-intelligence often employs brutal methods to unmask and eliminate enemy agents. The Precentor ROM justifies the continued use of such tactics as necessary to ensure ComStar's safety, which she considers paramount. Counter-intelligence agents must take care to keep their strong-arm tactics secret in order not to fuel the Inner Sphere's lingering mistrust of the order. Significant public awareness of ROM brutality, even that recognized as necessary to combat the Word of Blake, would only reinforce public suspicions that ComStar has not really changed.

The Precentor ROM also uses the Counter-intelligence division as a dumping ground for ROM's more volatile elements; restricting them to one division makes them easier to control. Though the worst of the old ROM's sadists and butchers defected to the Word of Blake, other unstable ROM agents accepted that the new ComStar had discovered the true gospel of Jerome Blake, and believed it their duty to support the reforms just as fanatically. Their psychological profile closely matches their opponents', a distinct advantage in counter-intelligence work. This often gives them an edge in hunting down Word of Blake infiltrators and agents.

Counter-intelligence has recently stepped up its activities in the Capellan Confederation, determined to destroy as many Word of Blake operatives assigned there as possible before the alliance between House Marik and House Liao solidifies. Aware that the alliance could bring the Capellan Confederation under the influence of the Word of Blake, ComStar ROM intends to shatter any budding Word of Blake power base within that state. In addition, Primus Mori and the Precentor ROM hope to install a secure intelligence network throughout the Confederation in order to keep tabs on Sun-Tzu Liao when ComStar can no longer operate openly within the Capellan Confederation.

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Will Day < willday@rom.oit.gatech.edu >
Apr. 20, 1996