A potential ally

At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not committed to destroying evil in all of its forms, but more especially in ruining the Parent Corporation and its sinister subsidiaries, which is why we are always looking to enlist more people in our cause. With the recent success of "Viktor's" still-mostly-secret mission, we appear to have gained an important and influential ally, which, while we are working out the pros and cons of revealing specific information on this case, we will refer to as the Allies.

It seems that some 37 years ago in Chile a small group of intellectuals that included "Viktor's" father, Wolfgang Gottlieb met together to discuss the rising threat to civilization posed by the increasing use of the brad. This group met secretly for many months and organized a substantial anti-brad movement. (Incidentally, this knowledge is rewriting our understanding of the previously-unexplained dip in popularity of the brad from 1973 to 1978. We now believe that without this secret organization the brad would have overrun society before those of us currently leading the efforts to eradicate them would have had a chance)

This anti-brad movement was secretive and decentralized enough that it used no names or codenames and few knew of its existence, let alone knew anyone who was a member. Unfortunately for Wolfgang and his fellow intellectuals, the Parent Corporation learned the identity of one of the members and blackmailed him into revealing who the founding members were and that they lived in Tocopilla, Chile. Within weeks a coup had been organized and in September of 1973 Augusto Pinochet took power. While many of the disappearances were politically-motivated, the Parent Corporation took advantage of the chaos caused by the coup to seek out and destroy the secret society. Fortunately, however, the society's chief operative (Wolfgang himself) found out about the plan to have them disappeared and used the Parent Corporation's plan and implemented his own plan, which was to have the members of the society "disappeared" before the Parent Corporation could get to them. Even with his plan, however, three members of the society were lost.

Details of what the secret society (who we will now refer to as the Allies) has been doing since then are not entirely clear to us yet, but if we can believe the tidbits of information we have pieced together they have laid low and exerted their influence only when necessary (so as to maintain a low profile) but have been planning a major operation, which all came to a head last week. We know the blow to the Parent Corporation has been a sharp one as we have seen their reaction to it, but we are still waiting for "Viktor" and the Allies to let us in on the details. We hope to know more soon!