The Homeland Special Program, or HSP, is a secretive part of Egypt’s larger Homeland Security services that acts as part of the Second Inquisition.
Operations[]
The first Africa-based org to join the Coalition (Not including La Calcédoine's operations in the West African francosphere), the HSP is the newest known member of the conspiracy, having joined some time between 2018 and 2022.[1]
HSP infiltrates blankbody cults and support networks in North Africa and Europe to gather much needed human intelligence. As vampires have become more adept at avoiding signals intelligence collection over the past two decades, the need for human intelligence gathering has increased dramatically. Rather than sending in a trained operator undercover into these networks, HSP usually employs blackmail and threats to turn a vampire’s human allies into assets. Financial debts, sexual orientation and imprisoned family members all become levers that the HSP uses to twist an otherwise loyal blankbody cultist into a spy.
While the HSP leaves the actual capture and rendition of suspected blankbodies to the IAO or FIRSTLIGHT, the HSP maintains a network of black sites where an unknown number of vampires from all over the world are kept for interrogation and study. These black sites are undisclosed locations not marked on any official map, but freely open to intelligence partners involved in the Coalition. While Egyptian security services have a long history of using torture on prisoners, the Coalition doesn’t permit HSP to directly question foreign blankbodies kept at their black sites. Instead contractors or operatives from other member nations are brought in to conduct interviews and in some cases torture the vampires kept there. Ironically HSP has limited operations in the rest of the Middle East outside of Egypt and occupied Gaza. In Gaza they use the same blackmail tactics in coordination with Israeli authorities to suppress Palestinian national aspirations.
Reference[]
- VTM: Second Inquisition, p. 137-138
Witch-hunter orgs | ||
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Coalition orgs | USA: FIRSTLIGHT/SAD/IAO · Brazil: BOES/PMEX · Russia: GRU-N58/Akritai/Unit 242 · UK: Newburgh Group/JTRG/SO13 · Vatican: La Entità/Society of St. Leopold · Bureau IX · Calcédoine · G-Kontoret · HSP · TID · Unit 8211 | |
Academic orgs | Arcanum | |
Corporate orgs | Chopra-wafadar · Fada · Monster-X · Neo Albion · Orpheus Group · Re:Venge · Strike Force Zero | |
Government orgs | DAAE · Division Six · GSG 10 · Manila DoJ-SRP · Project Twilight | |
Religious orgs | Ikhwan al-Safa · The Judges · Nails of Christ · Order of the Rose · Society of St. George | |
Vigilante orgs | Cog Conspiracy · D-Club · Duffy Family · ECLIPSE · Mortician's Army · Toussaint Brigade
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