MEMO To: Marianne White, General Administrative Director and Chief Operating Officer of "Ultra" Facility & Its Worldwide Distributed Operations From: Thomas Schranger, Chief, Ad Hoc National Security Operations Council I am sorry to be the bringer of bad news. But due to the recent messy, very public debacle in Brussels involving an Ultra operative, along with increased Congressional attention to the Ultra program and multiple Executive Branch demands for classified documents and explanations, the Ultra Facility is to be terminated at once. Please note that in this context "termination" means extremely prejudicial wiping clean of every trace of this program, its Facility and its operatives and agents -- from Instructors and Facilitators down to Students, up to and including Graduates now operative anywhere in the field or implanted as "sleepers" anywhere at all on this entire Earth -- with the natural exclusion of yourself and the three other Chief Officers in custodial charge of Ultra. Note that the agent/operative teams who will carry out the details of this Directive must themselves be retired with extreme prejudice once the task is complete, and naturally the second team must have no knowledge of the doings of the first or the reasons for said mandated and extremely prejudicial retirement actions. I trust you comprehend the seriousness of this Directive (Directive XY 34 89 20). Once this Directive has been fully carried out, the name "Ultra" is to be retired permanently. Rest assured that you and your colleagues will be reassigned at my discretion to equivalent positions yet to be determined. You and your colleagues are hereby directly instructed in writing never to divulge any details of Ultra to any person (up to and including any person representing the Judicial and Executive Branches of this government) anywhere or at any time. Ultra never existed nor will it ever exist. Signed [OFFICIAL SEAL]. Addendum: Once read and fully comprehended, this memo is to be destroyed.