Introduction
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Introduction
In the spirit of the 5E mentioned above, being invisible made me think of spies. Spies are specialists at being invisible…until something goes wrong. As a bonus, I’d never written about a spy before.
Though the story was written in 2016, its origins stem from two real-life events in 2014.
In 2014, a White House press officer accidentally released the name of the US’s top spy in Afghanistan in an email that went to 6,000 journalists. The US press assisted in suppressing the release, but it was a major miscarriage of protocol for the intelligence services—endangering the agent, as well as his wife and family.
Also in 2014, the Russians annexed the Crimea. Some of this was due to a percentage of the population being Russian, but most of it was due to a massive infiltration of Russian troops. They wore no troop insignia, wearing unmarked, nondescript military uniforms. They became known as “the little green men” for that reason. They were easily identified by their weapons, tactics, and lethality as Spetsnaz—the Russian Special Operations equivalent of Delta Force and 75th Rangers.
Most of the Ukrainian military was fully replaced, but a few who’d helped topple their own government were retained.
And there I found my story.
The female spy, the man sent in to extract her, and the corrupt ex-Ukrainian military of the Crimea after Russian annexation.
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