Rita's Big Bad Black Ops Page

Logan Graves (Fenris@BigKnobiKlub.virtualAve.net)

Welcome to the BKK's Black Operations Page. This ongoing document is about subversive techniques. In it, I will be drawing heavily from the 2057 Neo-Anarchist Cookbook, the legendary George Hayduke's bag of tricks, spy-craft & spy-rings' operating procedures, and from the training & techniques which I learned during my stint at Ares. All of the standard disclaimers apply, including that this document is for purely informational purposes. Consequently, any heat incurred by the reader (or more likely, the practitioner) of anything presented here-in is, therefore, your own problem.
Ricochet Rita (11:25:18/3-10-57)

Table of Contents

This list is off the top of my head. I will add more examples as I think of them. The following methods can be used as diversions or to disrupt the sleeping patterns of your mark (ie. Mr. Suit or a crooked Mr. Johnson). Some of them could result in his being fired <g!> or will at least cause him to 'lose face' with his employers. A number of them work especially well if your mark lives in the suburbs. Modifications to tenement lifestyles are left as a mental exercise to the reader. Feel free to submit any of your own harassing suggestions, above! ;-)
Ricochet Rita, Razorgal

1. If your mark is a wing-nut (either the left- or right- variety) or a noted mobster/gangster, simply send threatening telegrams to any rival politicos or gangs (such as Gov. Marilyn Schultz, the local Yakuza Oyabun, or candidate Dunkelzahn) on behalf of him--make sure that these leave NO trails back to you (mundane or magical). Threaten assassination, murder, kidnapping, etc. This will cause the FBI, CIA, Yakuza, Secret Service, Lone Star, etc to conduct an extensive anal exam on your mark, often resulting in extended 24-hour surveillance, temporary detainment, placement into protective custody, bodily harm, or actual jail time, depending upon the circumstances. At the very least he will end up in their files, along with other nut cases, radicals, enemies, or anit-establishment types.

2. Place classified ads in your local newspaper or datafaxes. This is easy to do. Most papers let you place them over the phone & few verify the ads--just do not make them too outlandish, the more credible sounding, the better. Try these:
   1. Place an ad to "sell" your mark's automobile (or Harley) for ¥500.00 less than market value, instruct readers to call after midnight (due to shift work), explain that quick cash is needed for an emergency.
   2. Place an ad to "sell" your mark's house. Ask potential buyers to call or visit at very inconvenient hours.
   3. Place "personal" ads on behalf of your mark, especially cross-dressing or cross-gender. Use the mark's business phone number AND home phone number, (or whichever would cause the most difficulty).
   4. Have your mark advertise for "young boy and girl models to pose for 'art' pictures"
   5. Place ads in "target" magazines - S/M & bondage are favorites. Study the mags before placing the ad to help with credibility. Try Skrew, Ball, Skinn, etc. Make sure to obtain copies of the mags in which the ads run. Make photo-copies to send to the mark's neighbors, relatives, friends, and business associates. Enclose a note, as a "concerned citizen," asking how they can even admit knowing such a perverted person. Offer to pray for them. Use the name of another friend, neighbor, or business associate as the return addressee.
   6. Help your mark "out of the closet" by running a classified announcement ad in a homosexual publication. Have him grandly & proudly announce that he is gay and has dated/married only for cover. Now he is coming out & telling the world he has taken a lover--and name a friend, neighbor or business associate as that lover. This is libelous. Do not get caught!
   7. Run a classified auction ad: "Job transfer-everything must go-fantastic bargains" Set the time of the auction for 7:00 a.m., so that the mark will just be rolling out of bed, when the three-hundred sales-goers just begin to arrive & trample his lawn. It can take hours to get the 'Star to disperse the crowds.
   8. Research the most graphic and active swingers' magazines, then locate the foulest and most perverted sexual magazines published. And, in each, place the following advertisement:

      F R E E TALK YOUR DIRTIEST FOR ONE MINUTE Call this number and say the dirtiest most per- verted things you can think of...my friend and I will outdo you. Cum again? We hope so. Ring our dingy!!! [mark's name & tel number]

      
      At the very least, they will have to change their number, as every sewer-mouth in the area takes you up on your "free challenge." This is especially effective if your mark is a bible-thumper, is married to a prissy-type wife, or has daughters.
   9. If you tire of newspapers ads, you can use little index cards on public bulletin boards in bars, supermarkets, laundromats, and other public places. People DO see this advertising medium. You can be much more explicit on these than in the papers.
   10. Use desktop publishing software to produce scads of fliers or legitimate-looking, "authentic" news items about your mark, complete with datelines and borders. Photo-copy these a couple of times and post the copies publicly or send them to neighbors, associates, friends, and relatives. Sex offender, child molester, and pornographer are favorites.

3. One of the most thoroughly useful, readily available products on the market today is "Super Expanding Insulating Filler Foam." These urethane & resin compounds come in spray cans often with long thin applicator tubes. The stuff is cheap, obtainable from all hardware stores, and hardens in about five minutes. Another version is a two-part liquid that when mixed does even more astounding things. One quart will give you the equal of 150 pounds of plaster. A gallon of super foam will make eight cubic feet of the ultrastrong material, which is water, erosion, and corrosion proof, as well as heat and cold resistant. The mind boggles just thinking of the possibilities!

4. Two very stinky & persitent solutions are ammonium sulfide and butyric acid.
   1. The ammonium sulfide is cheaper to buy than milk, beer, or gasoline, and smells TERRIBLE. It may be vaporized or sprayed. It is used as a base for a variety of stinkums in Kurt Saxon's classic book, "The Poor Man's James Bond." You can still obtain a copy through:
      Atlan Formularies
      P.O. Box 438
      Eureka, Cal Free State 95501
      
   2. The butyric acid also smells really, really bad and can easily be propped near a door to be spilled when your mark exits.

5. Advanced Homewrecking Techniques:
   1. If your mark has a mail-slot (an open window will do, in a pinch), wait until mark has left and locate their garden hose, unscrewing the power nozzle (leaving bare hose). Slip the hose into the slot (you may have to cut off the metal end). Got the picture?
   2. If your mark hates cats, be sure to place dead fish in obscure & unpleasant places around his home. Do this at night. If you want feline accompaniment, tie a large dead fish from a tree limb or pole just outside the reach of the neighborhood cats--the nearer the mark's bedroom window, the better.
   3. Squirt a strong load of superglue, epoxy, or liquid soldier into the mark's door locks. You can keep a mark out of his business, his house, his hotel room, or his car for hours!
      1. For a delayed effect, mix alcohol with the epoxy in a syringe beforehand. This will retard its curing until the air causes the alcohol to evaporate.
      2. If this is not enough, obtain a one-sixteenth inch titanium drill bit. Dip it into any of the above substances, coating most generously. Insert the coated bit into the key channel of the lock and push it steadily home with a pen or nail head. Then snap it off flush with heavy pliers. If it happens to fall into the tumblers, repeat with a second drill-bit.
      3. A variant of this trick is to obtain a key that fits into the lock, coat it with epoxy, etc., then insert & break the key off in the lock. This works really well on cars, since most car keys are standardized--just hit both locks or better yet, hit the trunk, just before your mark is leaving for an important business (or family) trip.
   4. Drop a handful of iron filings into the little grills in the back of your mark's T.V. set. Interesting things will happen the next time the set is turned on. Do not forget the stereos, simsense units, & computers.
   5. If your mark has a radio transmitter (CB base or otherwise), unhook its coax cable and use alligator clips to "attach" it to an outside 110-volt outlet. One clip to the center. One clip to the shielding. When they key-up, instant fireworks!!
   6. If he does not have a CB, you can simply "pin" the TV's cable feed or their computer's Matrix coax. To do this, locate the incoming wire and push a straight pin through the jacketed coating. Slide the pin in off-center, making sure that it comes into contact with both the outer mesh and the copper conductor at the center. Snip the ends of the pin off, to leave no trace. Move down the cable and repeat as often as time permits. If done correctly, this is very difficult to trace & act as if the radio is innoperative. If they use the cheaper, ieee-type, flat cables, a common household stapler will do in a pinch. Similarly, a heavy-duty staple gun can pierce the coating of many corps' shielded cables.
   7. If your mark has a garage or outside freezer, turn it down, unplug it (unless it has a safety signal), or set it to defrost. Alternately, you can add some "gifts" to their freezer--carefully wrap roadkill, rancid meat, rats, cats, small dogs, groundhogs, crows, etc in butcher paper & nestle them in with the mark's real meats.
   8. Do not forget to dump a handful of fiberglass or insulation material into your mark's garage-mounted washing machine for a mysterious itchy surprise. If you want it to last for a long time, mix the fiberglass (or sulfur) into their laundry detergent. People really should learn to lock their garages!
   9. Dump three pounds of sulfur into their furnace. It will take about 48-hours to air their house. For a dose of fireworks, add to the a sulfur a mixture of sugar & potassium permanganate. It will flare and smoke grandly! Large quantities of urine (your own or animal lures), commercial mace or CS gas, rotten eggs, rancid fish, or cheese, or "ripe" roadkills, can be placed into their air ducts, with not quite as spectacular results. External air conditioner's intake units (and cars!) are also fair game.
      1. External "window-mounted" air conditioners can be exploited with nothing more than a wad of gum. Just plug up the condensation drain pipe and with any luck, your mark will not notice the overflow, until his tiles lift off from the flooding moisture.
   10. Here are two more excellently-overpowering home brewed stinks:
       
       

       Fecal Odor:		Skunk/Body Odor:
       919g. skatol		65% mineral white oil
       20g. n-butyric acid		10% butyric acid
       20g. n-valeric acid		10% mercaptan
       20g. n-caproic acid		15% alpha ionone
       1g. amyl mercaptan

       
       The drekky odor was used by the allied intelligence agents way back during WWII in the European theatre, under the label of "Who Me?" But for the Asian theatre (where they routinely use human wastes in their fields) they used the skunk/body odor. Both compounds are notable as lasting for well over a day, despite frequent washings.
   11. Obtain some formaldehyde, which is sold commercially as embalming fluid. This stuff is bad news! It stinks and can cause skin burns. It will vaporize, when enough gets into the air. If this takes place in a room, it will be cleared of all breathing objects for several hours. But as a liquid it can be deployed from any appropriate applicator. A white lab-coat makes a good cover when you go shopping in a drug store or medical-supply house outside of your neighborhood or town.
   12. Visit your local exterminator and tell him that you need some termite eggs for an experiment. Or get them from a science supply house. It is called, "how fast can the little critters devour your mark's house."
   13. If your mark has a switch-controlled ("half-duplex") electrical outlet, you can cause all kinds of mayhem. First make sure that the switch is off. Next, unplug the targeted device and wrap a paperclip around both of the plug's prongs, sliding the clip all the way up, then replace the plug. Do NOT turn the power back on. With any luck, when your mark flips the switch, the resulting explosion will take the device (such as a stereo or simsense unit) along with the power. This also works well with outside strip-lighting, outside fuse-boxes, air-conditioners, dryer junction-boxes, and porch lights (gum wrappers can be substituted for the paper clips, around light bulbs or as needed). A little strategically-sprinkled gun-powder will add to the pyrotechnics.
   14. Collect all of the empty bottles that you can which bear the labels of DANGEROUS, EXPLOSIVES, DRUGS, and so on. Add to this empty dynamite cartons from a construction site (or get some stencils from an art shop and spray paint your own boxes). Put all these dangerous things in and around your mark's garbage after he has put his own stuff at the curbside. Do this for several weeks. The civic-minded sanitary engineers will probably report your "crackpot" mark to the police. If they have not, as a solid citizen, you should...from a public telecomm or payphone.
   15. If you have access to your mark's main water valve, visit it every couple of days. Shut down the pressure by half to a full turn each time. The mark's entire household will go nuts trying to figure out why the water pressure is steadily dropping all week. Then jack it all the way back up for a day or so. Ok, now cut it way down. Put it up halfway. Cut it to almost a trickle. Go for full power. Then cut it again. By this time the mark will have the water company out. If you have quick enough access to the valve you can restore it to normal before the water company employee gets to the meter. When the employee leaves, start again. Eventually, they will dig up the yard and check the pipes.
   16. Stun guns are fun guns, be it a pocket-sized stunner or a full sized Yamaha Pulsar. They put out about forty thousand volts of hair-frizzing power for the expressed purpose of overriding a target's voluntary nervous system. But what about personal computers, stereos, or simsense units? It takes less than ten seconds of 8000X Max Voltage to utterly destroy any of the above devices. Anything with a microprocessor is a potential victim (just DO NOT try it on a microwave oven), this includes car radios, boom-boxes, & especially, cyberdecks! You can test the effectiveness of your own stunner on a cheap ¥4.00 Valu-Mart calculator.
   17. If your mark has an indoor, preferably male, dog, a balloon filled with urine tossed through an open window (or screen door) will cause the pooch to repeatedly mark his territory (aka. your mark's living room). A medium to large dog will literally soak a room, until it is satisfied that it smells more like him than you. The best part is that the dog will take all of the blame & cover your tracks in the process.

6. Become a neighborhood blockbuster. Find a real estate agency that deals mostly with metahumans (or native Americans). Posing as the mark, call the agency and invite a salesperson out to talk about the sale of the mark's NEIGHBOR's house. Do not hoke up your role with a lot of brotherhood stuff--play it straight. Now, if the mark is a good, solid white citizen living in a neighborhood of like-minded bigots, you have a wonderful deal going for you. The kicker is, you give the salesperson your mark's name and the neighbor's address. Pick the most rednecked, bigoted neighbor to be the fall guy for the Meta- or Amerind salesperson. By the time the "mistake" gets straightened out who is going to believe the mark?

7. Remember Richard M. Nixon always. Or at least remember his System ID Number: "567-68-0515" Use it often, whenever asked for yours, especially while up to no good or when giving a false one will not harm you.

8. Obtain some really sleazy skin magazines--one featuring kiddie porn, animals, etc. Use a word processor and some pressure-sensitive mailing labels to prepare phony labels in your mark's name. Place them on the porno mags. You can start by leaving a few magazines in doctors' or dentists' waiting rooms, Sunday-school reading rooms, and the periodical shelves of your local library. The public will think your mark is passing along his used literature.
   1. Another twist is to carefully collect some actual mailing labels off of your mark's trade magazines. Check his trash or his mail box. Re-glue these labels onto any of the above magazines. Then leave these "mark-adressed" copies in your mark's inter-office mail box, or the box of a co-worker, or his boss' box. Or forward the mags to his home for his wife to discover or to his parent's home. Do not forget to send copies to his CEO or his CEO's wife!

9. Invest some nuyen in Norwegian rats--the big, dirty, mean ones. They are fairly in-expensive. The idea is to get males and females. Put them together in WELL-SCREENED rabbit hutches. Feed them on garbage and swamp weeds. These rodents are cheap to keep, they multiply quickly, and they make people really unhappy! (Resist the temptation to try any of this with Devil Rats!)
   1. If you can not get the Norwegian kind, big brown 'tame' ones will do, but mostly for shock value. Can YOU tell the difference?
   2. If you live by the sea, investing in some "live traps" to catch your own warf rats will pay you back in spades.
   3. Or you can offer the local urchins a quarter per rat caught (even dead rats are useful). This relives you of the burdens & dangers associated with catching them.

10. As a "concerned citizen," call OSHA, the state health authorities, or the local fire inspector about the "horrendous conditions" of your mark's business. Even if you have never set foot in it, it is a 50/50 chance that the place is clean, but the bureaucratic harassment will not be appreciated in the least. The paperwork involved even for the innocent is staggering and expensive. If you strike it lucky, there will be an investigation and hearing.

11. For about ¥3 or ¥4 you can obtain 2 to 3 pounds of live bees from an apiary supply house or a farm supply store. They come in little boxes with plugs. Just place (or toss) the boxes, sans plugs, into your mark's car, opened house windows, or leave them in his business (especially if it is a restaurant or grocery store). With the plugs removed, the bees will slowly emerge into their new environment to set up housekeeping and begin dive-bombing any people within. There are more than enough bees in just ONE pound to terrorize the hell out of most people. (Plus, if you tossed the box in through a window, they will "bee mad as hornets!"
    1. Two more, highly annoying insects are cockroaches and field crickets. Either of these little pests can be readily obtained in quantity (usually by the dozen) from any pet store. And if you are lucky your dirty dozen will contain at least one pregnant female. Now go to your mark's [house, business, even his car] and dump your purchase in through any convenient opening--windows, holes in the foundation, etc. (remember the mail-slot from the water hose episode...). For a mark's business you can deliver them in person in a paper-sack. Just leave the bugs in some dark corner, under a back table or in a closet and they will chew their own way to freedom and set up housekeeping (-wrecking). Roaches can also be "mailed" to your mark (gift wrapping is optional). The possibilities are endless!

12. John Hansen of Niwot, FRFZ (outside of Boulder) has a passive way to bug your mark. His business, Consumer Comments, produces permastick slogans that you can affix to your mark's business or car's bumper, such as:
    • HORRIBLE FOOD
    • LOUSY SERVICE
    • FILTHY RESTROOMS
    • PRICE GOUGER
    • INEPT NERD
    • WAY TO PARK--ACE
    • RIPOFF
    • MY TAXES PAID FOR THIS?
    • YES I MIND--DON'T SMOKE
    • RUDE DRIVER
    • GAS HOG.
    He also has an entire selection of hilarious, R-rated, nasty stickers, things like:
    • LEGALIZE {drug} NOW!
    • HONK IF YOU LIKE {bizarre sex act}
    • KILL ROCK 'N ROLL
    • I'M NO VIRGIN--ASK YOUR MOTHER
    • SATAN IS MY GOD
    • I (heart symbol) LITTLE BOYS
    • I EAT {color or metatype} CHICKS (or boys)
    • EAT DREK--TROLL SCUM
    • DIAL A DREKHEAD--{mark's telcomm}.
      
    With any luck your mark will not even realize he (or his limo) has been "stuck," until your message has been observed by the multitudes. For ¥1 you can get a sampler kit:
    Consumer Comments
    Box 175
    Niwot, FRFZ 80544
    (that's: Front Range Free Zone, formerly Colorado)

13. Use the courts to your advantage, for a change:
    1. Posing as your mark, appear before the Clerk of Courts at you local courthouse and file divorce papers on "your" wife. This will cost ¥10 to ¥15. If the papers are properly completed and you look the part, the officials rarely ask for ID. Request that a sheriff's deputy (or Lone Star agent) serve the papers. This will probably cost another ¥15 to ¥20, but it is well worth it. Time this action to coincide with some family event in the mark's life (anniversary, reunion, etc.)
    2. Play "Subpoena the Witness." First check the court docket with the court administrator's office and locate a fun-sounding civil case. Learn who the attorney is for one of the parties. Now, go to the Clerk of Courts office and identify yourself as that attorney's assistant. Inform the clerk that your boss needs to have a witness subpoena served on the mark's name. Because this paper is a court order, the mark will HAVE TO show up. At the very least, your mark will have to hassle a lot of telephone calls to find out what is happening. But if you are really lucky, the poor slot will actually GO to court and sit for several hours, just waiting.

14. If you mark has an older (not new & shiny) car which he parks in the street, sneak up one night and remove the license plates. Then call the police as a "concerned citizen" and report the mark's "abandoned car." Say that it has been there all week (which it has). The police will show up and with no tags to check, they will assume the car is in fact abandoned & tow it away to their impoundment yard. Now the next morning, your mark will go through a coronary-inducing panic routine thinking his auto has been stolen. It will probably take him a couple of days to locate his car, plus a hefty fee for getting it back & re-licensed. He might even opt to sue the police, which is both costly and a double payback.

15. Paintball guns are wonderful substance delivery systems. They come in pistol, rifle, automatic & even hand-grenade models. They are readily available, silent, and have great ranges. (You can also get them by mail-order thru Solo of Fortune-type survival mags.) But, you do not have to use the safe water-soluble paints that come with the guns, you can get real paint too. Or suck the safe paint out of the little balls with a hypo syringe and replace it with ANY of the following: real paint, urine, thinned-out vomit, Hershey squirts, odor of skunk, deer musk, chicken liquid, etc.

16. Any security conscious person needs a diverse supply of chains, locks, cables, and glues. Sometimes you need to protect your mark:
    1. That might mean chaining his car in a parting lot, on the street, or to some inanimate object, such as a lamp post, a public charging hydrant, or better still, the bumper of another car at a party. A good padlock completes the picture, and by the time they get some security expert to release things, everyone is unhappy. If your mark is the obvious victim, then all the other victims are unhappy with him, too.
    2. Do not forget that hefty pair of bolt cutters, either. With them, you can remove your mark's cheap padlock & replace it with a much better one of your choosing.
    3. Just a bit of imagination & a pocket welding torch can provide your mark with hours of unmatched 'pent-up' frustration.
    4. Locks, chains, hasps, and cables are great for closing lanes and driveways, thereby sealing vehicles in or out. They can keep people in offices, homes, apartments, or even buildings.
    ---> They can fasten objects to other objects! <---