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NOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
The following document has been transcribed from official UIU and CIA records, plus our own research into the matter. Per the CIA’s requirements for handing over knowledge of SCP-XXXX to the Foundation, this Level 3 clearance level has been attached to this document. Any Level 3 personnel who need to authorize clearance for lower-ranking personnel may put a request through Doctor Oscar O'Malley, Chief Researcher attached to SCP-XXXX.
Please follow the rules, we don’t want to aggravate our friends over at Langley.
— Maria Jones, Director, RAISA
Special Containment Procedures: Knowledge of SCP-XXXX is to be restricted to anyone who hasn’t scored higher than five on the Sorts-Myers Cognitive Fortitude Test. Anyone who is exposed to SCP-XXXX is to be amnesticized with Class-C amnestics, and monitored for the following two days. All examples, photography, and depictions of any other form regarding SCP-XXXX are to be destroyed or properly contained in order to prevent exposure or potential malicious use by third parties.
Outbreaks of SCP-XXXX in Vietnam, or anywhere else in the World, are to be monitored by MTF Epsilon-6. Victims are to be treated with a regimen of Class-C amnestics, monitored, and then released. Outbreaks are to be blamed on latent Agent Orange symptoms or undetected leaks of unreleased Vietnam War-era chemical canisters. Surveillance of exposed areas is to continue for two months after an outbreak is caught in order to ensure no latent manifestations of symptoms or potential security breaches.
Description: SCP-XXXX (Item D.8 in UIU documentation) refers to a memetic agent created by a confidential department of the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology. SCP-XXXX takes the form of an artificial Vietnamese logogram combining two or three indistinguishable characters. Upon view of it, subjects will have no immediate symptoms. However, over a course of 12-36 hours, they will begin reporting tinnitus-like symptoms, and will begin impulsively drawing and showing SCP-XXXX to unaffected individuals. Mathematical models put the rate of transmission of SCP-XXXX at around 1:51. Within 36-45 hours, the tinnitus symptoms will morph into auditory and visual hallucinations, psychosis, irritability, and catatonia. Analysis has shown that these late-stage symptoms are triggered primarily by dysfunction of the striatum. By the fiftieth hour of infection, 92% of subjects commit suicide, which (65% of the time) is accompanied by mass homicide.
Investigation has shown that SCP-XXXX was developed as “Agent Black” by Doctors Galstone and Nates, in reference to but separate from the Rainbow Herbicides of the Vietnam War, in 1967 under the command of a group of U.S. politicians and generals (the identifies of whom were kept firmly secret in CIA documents). SCP-XXXX was presumably developed due to anxiety among top U.S. officials over the weakening of U.S. forces in Vietnam, and a desire to utilize unconventional tactics. See Addendum XXXX.2 for all uncovered CIA documents regarding SCP-XXXX. SCP-XXXX was completed sometime during the second phase of the Tet Offensive, and released via pamphlets by low-flying bombers over known and presumed Viet Cong bases. Approximately 3,000 Viet Cong soldiers were exposed, resulting in over 50,000 fatalities2. SCP-XXXX’s use was diminished and eventually abandoned by 1970 after the success of the Tet Offensive and eventual abandonment of the War.
Discovery: SCP-XXXX was initially discovered by the FBI’s Unusual Incidents Unit in 1970 when returning troops were hospitalized due to sudden symptoms resembling psychosis and paranoia. The UIU was able to identify a potential memetic phenomenon and mobilized a field team to contain the outbreak. The memetic agent was classified as Item D.8 and research was assigned to Doctor Frederick Warton. The CIA was aware of this leak, but did not interfere in order to distance itself from SCP-XXXX.
SCP-XXXX did not enter Foundation radar until 1987, when the Southeast Asian Regional Command was notified by field agents of a potential memetic anomaly manifesting in a village of northern Vĩnh Cửu District. A team was dispatched and found the village of Bindeh Loi ravaged by a memetic agent. SARC mobilized an official containment team and treated the villagers using counter-memetic therapy3 and covered up the incident as a chemical leak, which the Vietnamese government assisted in the propagation of. After further research was conducted at Site-26, a link was established between SCP-XXXX and the UIU, and a joint investigation began into its origins.
The connection to the CIA was uncovered in the following year. CIA cooperation was highly limited due to its desire to keep as many involved individuals as possible secret, and to keep the overall nature of its anomalous research department confidential. Independent research into SCP-XXXX has provided a decent understanding of the agent without CIA help, and all CIA assistance has provided is historical data. The UIU and CIA handed over containment rights to the Foundation in the mid-90s under President Clinton’s reforms.
Addendum XXXX.1:
Research was conducted in the early months of SCP-XXXX’s initial research by the Foundation in order to understand its nature and abilities. Research was supervised by Doctor Herbert Crane on D-class personnel. Test logs can be found below.
SCP-XXXX: TEST LOG #1
DATE: June 14-15, 1987
PARTICIPANTS:
- Doctor Herbert Crane, supervising researcher
- D-8764, test subject
DATA: At 15:23:18, D-8764 is instructed to enter a 5-by-5 meter metallic chamber. On one wall there is the trigger for SCP-XXXX. The chamber has a vent that is able to remotely release a sedative. D-8764 does not view the trigger immediately, but when the command comes over the internal speakers he does so. No initial signs of anything abnormal, and that remains so for the following fourteen hours. During the duration of the test D-8674 remains in the chamber, which is furnished with only a cushioned chair and a book of his choice. At 05:19:33 the following day, D-8764 woke up in a cold sweat and cowered behind his chair. As site personnel are asleep at the time, D-8764 is not noticed until 06:32:19, when Doctor Crane awakes and finds D-8764 still cowering.
Over the speakers, Doctor Crane asks D-8764 what is wrong, and D-8764 responds with a loud and terrified scream. He begins mumbling loudly in Vietnamese “they are here, they are here, oh no, they are here” and “help me, help me, help me”. Of note is that at 06:36:13, when Doctor Crane told D-8764 to calm down, alternating to English when saying that. Upon hearing Doctor Crane’s voice, D-8764 stood up and began hurling an abundance of Vietnamese profanities into the air and repeatedly shouted “I’ll gut you, you American [EXPLETIVE DELETED]!”. Doctor Crane orders for the sedative to be released, and D-8764 promptly collapses several moments later. He is removed and amnesticized.
NOTES: D-8764’s response was interesting, to say the least. He’s recovering nicely at the infirmary, and showed no aversion to English when I spoke to him. He sincerely apologized for whatever he might’ve said to me during his france. I’ll be analyzing these results with Doctors Thanh Nyan and Nguyen.
SCP-XXXX: TEST LOG #4
DATE: July 8, 1987
PARTICIPANTS:
- Doctor Herbert Crane, supervising researcher
- D-7219, test subject
DATA: At 11:18:09, D-7219 is instructed to enter the test chamber, and though she expressed (vulgar) hesitance, she was eventually made cooperative. Upon entering she immediately made contact with the trigger, to which she muttered “[EXPLETIVE DELETED] is that?”. For the next eight hours she carried on without incident, reading a magazine she’d taken in. At 19:28:18, she asks if she can be let out, stating that it’d been “forever” and nothing was happening. She was reminded by Doctor Nguyen that SCP-XXXX’s effects tend to not manifest before a minimum of fourteen hours. She fell asleep at 22:03:15, but awoke suddenly at 02:11:18 and began drawing SCP-XXXX’s trigger all over the room using blood she drew from biting her forefinger. Doctor Thanh Nyan asks if the sedative should be released, but [strike]I[/strike] Doctor Crane disagrees, believing the blood loss to be minimal. Visual surveillance is minimized, however, in order to blot out the triggers.
Other than this, D-7219 shows no other abnormal behavior and shifts between drawing the trigger, insisting that we look at it, and reading. Starting at 10:37:50, D-7219 begins showing late-stage symptoms and develops auditory hallucinations that she describes as a combination of ringing, low-pitch gunfire, and quiet voices. At 13:17:32, D-7219 jumps up suddenly and begins attacking randomly at an unseen person in her room with her chair. She is heard yelling “die, die!” and “get away, pig!”. Doctor Crane, wanting to test a trend he perceived existed between the last two tests, asks D-7219 to calm down in English. She looks around, finds the speaker, and shouts, before disabling the device, “go [EXPLETIVE DELETED] yourself, [EXPLETIVE DELETED]!”. The sedative is subsequently released, and she passes out.
NOTES: My first test after getting back from the Independence Day festivities in Portland. It’s depressing to be back. Anyway, this has been an interesting experiment. Upon analysis with Doctor Nguyen, I called attention to a specific detail within the results, and the two other tests, and we agreed upon the following: all subjects show an inexplicable aggression towards American/English individuals. I solidified this deduction by visiting D-7219 before she was amnesticized, and was nearly strangled by her. Quite invigorating, to say the least. Further research will focus on examining that symptom.
SCP-XXXX: TEST LOG #14
DATE: November 1, 1987
PARTICIPANTS:
- Doctor Herbert Crane, supervising researcher
- D-8713, test subject
DATA: At 15:42:19, D-8713 is instructed to enter the chamber. He doesn’t make visual contact with the trigger until ordered to do so at 15:45:23 (apparently he had some foreknowledge before going in and was hesitant to expose himself). D-8713 shows no symptoms for the next seventeen hours, reading then sleeping for most of the ensuing hours. At 9:06:16, D-8713, in the middle of breakfast, begins reporting auditory hallucinations. These hallucinations intensify and morph into further late-stage symptoms, and by 9:22:19 he has begun fighting unseen individuals with the fork he was provided with for breakfast. At 9:26:47, D-8713 exclaims “you pigs won’t take me alive!” and attempts to stab himself with the fork (for the record, as with all D-class personnel here and around the World, D-8713 was provided with blunt plastic utensils). The sedative is released and D-8713 passes out soon later.
NOTES: Well as if it hasn’t been proven already, somehow this meme induces anti-Americanism in subjects. Secondary to psychosis and paranoia. I think we have enough data accumulated on XXXX now, so I request permission to terminate further experiments from Site Director Nguyen.
Addendum XXXX.2:
Following the discovery of the CIA’s complicity in the creation of SCP-XXXX, it reluctantly declassified a handful of documents regarding the meme’s background to the Foundation. These documents include internal memos, journal entries made by Doctor Galstone, and experiment logs. They can all be found below.
September 28, 1967
TO: Doctor ██████ Galstone, Doctor ████ Nates, Special Agent █████, Special Agent ████████, Special Agent ██████, ████ █████████, ████ ████████, ███ ███████████
FROM: Deputy Director of the █████████ ███████████ ██████Good afternoon, gentlemen. This document regards information you’ve received through agents of mine of a confidential project being set up within your department. In conjunction with several other agency executives, some men from Washington, and a few generals, the CIA is putting together what shall be known officially as the “Agent Black Project”. Doctor ██████ Galstone and ████ Nates, as prominent men within the █████████ ███████████ ██████, are assigned as the lead researchers of the project. Through a black budget, you will have, per annum, around $10.2 million4 to work with.
The Agent Black Project’s mission is to construct a memetic compound to be used as a weapon. Most of you have analyzed natural and presumably artificial memetic compounds that the ███ has uncovered in its foreign operations. While we haven’t found much regarding their synthesis, take this as an opportunity to figure that out. You will be provided with a memetic compound (Specimen ANM9) to refer to for structural and psychological purposes. “Agent Black” is to be designed to cause the following effects in subjects: paranoia, insanity, organ failure, and/or catatonia. So long as subjects are severely crippled or killed, then the compound will be considered satisfactory.
Agent Black needs to be weak, however, so in the hopefully unlikely event that there is accidental exposure among our own troops we can heal them using targeted electro-therapy5. The gooks don’t got that technology, so they’ll be less fortunate.
So long as these basic criteria are met, Agent Black will be considered a success. We haven’t done this before and we’re not entirely sure what we’re dealing with, but a certain senator with foreknowledge tossed this idea into the ring and it seems effective enough. If you boys succeed, this’ll definitely turn the tide of the war and we’ll be able to push the Reds back over the 24th parallel6. You will be provided with more information, updates, and sent the materials and personnel you require over the next month. Replies are welcomed and encouraged so both parties may be up to date and coordinated.
Good luck and Godspeed, gentlemen.
April 17, 1968
TO: Agent Black Project personnel
FROM: Deputy Director of the █████████ ███████████ ██████Good work, everyone! Doctor Nates has informed me of the progress you've made in the past two weeks and how everything’s coming along. With a working and reproducible memetic compound, we should be able to move along to Phase II of this operation, dissemination in Vietnam. This comes at no better of a time as our intelligence agents are picking up chatter that the Vietnamese are planning some major attack within the next few months7. Releasing it on them while they’re huddled together in their Mongoloid hordes ought to wipe them out.
You’ve done your country a great service, gentlemen. If it weren’t for the sensitive nature of your group, you’d definitely be at the receiving end of a medal from LBJ8 himself. However, I think we can cook up some intramural show of thanks. We’ll be sending a team down to you to pick up samples of the compound so we can begin mass producing it. I might even come down myself to take a look (not directly, however).
God bless you all.
October 1, 1967
A few days go I and a handful of other people from the ███ received a memo from Deputy Director █████████ talking about some higher-ups’s desire to create some memetic compounds to drive the Viet Cong mad. Ingenious, to say the least. I’m surprised some lamebrained Washington bureaucrats came up with it. Having called them that, I hope this entry is declassified only after I’m dead.
I’m teaming up with quite a few names from within the office, namely ████ and Special Agent ████████. There’s several other senior members of the project and a good two dozen subordinates. We also have a ten million dollar budget to work with. If I had no shame, I’d definitely embezzle some of that. New car for Cindy, diamond rings for my daughters, maybe even a big fishing boat for my retirement. Nah, I’ll just use my pension.
So, I’m being tasked to create something I’m pretty sure is against the Geneva Conventions. I just checked, I’m pretty sure the uncontrollable use of this compound will eventually violate Article III of the Fourth Convention. I’m going to track down Albert Speer’s lawyer after all this is over just in case. No matter what happens, this is bound to be an interesting period in my life. I’ve been tasked with some pretty weird stuff over my last five years here, but this’ll definitely top it all.
As I tend to do with most everything, I'll write periodic updates to this as things develop. Hope the archivist who eventually sees this enjoys what I have to say.
- Doctor ██████ Galstone
October 1, 1967
Three weeks into the Agent Black Project. We’ve made some strides. Doctor Einstein (real name, no relation) uncovered an interesting detail about memetic compounds. Apparently, [DATA EXPUNGED]. If the obvious deductions from that are correct, then we’ll have a decent understanding of the mechanics of memetic compounds. Then we’ll be able to design our own. We’re definitely making some decent progress!
I’ll surely be giving word of this development to Deputy Director █████████. He’ll be glad to hear of it.
- Doctor ██████ Galstone
April 3, 1968
Oh this is wonderful. The past month has really just been us blowing through obstacles in the Agent Black Project. We have been able to program an artificial Vietnamese logogram to host the meme. Upon viewing it a person will have something “snap” in their mind, and progressively over the next three or five days (not a trustworthy estimate, since we’ve been using simians as subjects) their mind will continue to unravel until murder-suicide. While TET9 is highly effective in stopping the effects, we have taken strict precautions to prevent exposing ourselves to the memetic compound. That didn’t stop some twenty-something kid from taking a peek, however. Stripped down and screamed bloody murder before we were able to stop him.
As far as we can tell, based off of apes, there’s no error in the design of this thing. It’s simply crude and simple, so it’s not as strong and complex as the natural memetic compounds we’ve discovered, and the basis for Agent Black, ANM9. I predict at least another month of research will be necessary until our final version is complete. We can only hope that the Vietnamese stall the next phase of their attack, which rumors of are spreading rapidly, until then. While I still hold the moral apprehensions when I started this, I am interested to see it in action.
- Doctor ██████ Galstone
Date: February 21-23, 1968
Subject: Simian #3, “Henry”
Events: Simian #3 was exposed to Agent Black within his cage at 16:32 on February 21. He was then left alone, and allowed to partake in his usual activities such as feeding and playing. He showed no signs of any abnormal behavior for the following day. Then, at 15:18 on February 22, Simian #3 began behaving erratically and aggressively. He attacked his cagemate, Simian #5, who we moved shortly afterwards. He began jumping around his cage, jumping on the bars and screaming loudly. This continued until 19:42, when he began alternating between aggression, screaming, and cowering in the corners of his cell. He entered a state of catatonia at 09:22 the following morning, and after several attempts to resuscitate him he was deemed lost and was terminated.
Comments: Encouraging results. We’re not sure what the effect will be on humans, but Doctor Norweski assures me that the neurophysiological and neurochemical similarities between humans and simians are enough that these results should greatly resemble what will occur in humans. I’m satisfied with the use of simians, so I wish Doctor Nates will stop pestering █████████ to approve human experimentation. We have the chinks for that, we don’t need to terrorize our countrymen. - Doctor ██████ Galstone
Date: February 29-April 2, 1968
Subject: Simian #7, “Reberta”
Events: Per Doctor Einstein’s request to investigate neurophysiological differences between female and male subjects to determine potential discrepancies in effectiveness based on gender, the female simian “Reberta” was chosen for experimentation. At 11:32, she was exposed to Agent Black and left alone as researchers waited for symptoms to manifest. No abnormal behavior was noted for the following twenty-six hours. Then, at 15:18, Simian #7 began showing signs of anxiety and fear, running around her cage frantically and screaming. For roughly three hours, from 17:27 to 20:16, she cowered in a corner of her cage while continuously screeching. She then began slamming her head against the bars of her cage at 20:46, expiring at 20:52.
Comments: I feel like this almost shows there’s greater effectiveness in Agent Black within females. I wish there was something empirical and quantifiable to this phenomenon so I could extract it and refine it so the same results could be met in both genders. Imagine the consequences, thousands of Vietnamese bashing their heads open on the battlefield while exposing their comrades to the heavy gunfire of our guns. It’s a disturbingly patriotic scene. I’m sure Deputy Director █████████ will be interested in what we have to show from this experiment, and we might have an interesting facet of memetics to explore during any post-war research. - Doctor ██████ Einstein
Date: April 6-7, 1968
Subject: [CLASSIFIED]
Events: Subject was placed in on-site cell, and exposed to Agent Black at 13:09. No symptoms were shown immediately nor for the next nineteen hours. Beginning at 20:13 the following day, subject began to express symptoms of tinnitus. A medic was dispatched to make sure the subject didn’t have tinnitus, as it might interfere with results as a neurological condition. No evidence of tinnitus could be found. Auditory stimuli intensified until it was joined by paranoia at around 22:19. Subject was able to fall asleep, but awoke at random times complaining of people watching him and loud voices. At 09:18, subject woke up screaming and began attacking the air, injuring himself in the process but continuing. Experiment was requested to end, but request was denied by Doctor Nates. Subject continued on in this stupor until 11:13, presumably collapsing from exhaustion and entering a coma-like state. Subject expired from brain death at 11:42.
Comments: [COMMENT REDACTED]
Good results. I am enthusiastic about what they show about Agent Black. I do have to mention Doctor Galstone here, however, as it is a shame how opposed he was. I never expected him to submit that comment, nor did I expect him to…resign. I wish he could see past that moral compass of his and see that we’re doing here is for our country. Oh well, weeding out the weak I suppose one could call it. I’m expected to take over the project following Doctor Galstone’s official dismissal, so I’m expecting quicker and better results than when working with him. We should be done in time for the next big battle. - Doctor ████ Nates
