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Revision as of 02:57, 23 October 2017
Oakley Street was a secret agency of the Brytish government that operated largely in opposition to the Church.[1]
History
Originally known as the Office for Special Inquiry, Oakley Street was established in 1933, for the purpose of defending Brytish democracy, then evolved into protecting freedom of thought and expression after the Swiss War.
Brytish Parliament knew very little of the organisation, as it was funded through the general defense fund to conceal it from public knowledge, as many in public office, who suspect of its existence, would prefer its destruction. The Brytish monarchy was largely in support of its activities, as the head of the agency was always a Privy Counselor of the Privy Council, whose members were appointed by sitting monarchs.
Oakley Street was considered to be fighting a secret war against the Consistorial Court of Discipline and the Magisterium as a whole.
In the flood of 1986, Oakley Street made recovering a missing Lyra Silvertongue before the CCD its top priority.
Operations
Oakley Street made use of various methods of tradecraft, such as the employment of dead drops, cut-outs, cryptography, and disinformation techniques referred to as green paper in reference to the agency's early days methods of planning. They also use blackmail to flip agents of opposing organizations.
Oakley Street employed the use of several alethiometrists, including readers of the instrument in Uppsala, Bologna, and Oxford. Hannah Relf worked under their instruction for two years in secret during her time with the Bodleian alethiometer in Oxford before resigning from her official work and relying solely on the instrument from Bologna, after its reader was murdered and the alethiometer almost stolen, before being intercepted by an Oakley agent and brought to Brytain.
Members
Thomas Nugent was the director of Oakley Street in the year of the great flood, and Adnan Al-Kaisy was his deputy director.
- Thomas Nugent
- Adnan Al-Kaisy
- Yasmin Al-Kaisy
- George Papadimitriou
- Hannah Relf
- Bud Schlesinger
- Harry Dibdin
- Robert Luckhurst