DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY COMMAND
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TO: 506th Infantry Regiment Command, Fort Campbell
FROM: INSCOM Headquarters, Fort Belvoir, Virginia
RE: Ship damaged off coast of Malden, prisoners from 01-18 TFA interrogated
The following intelligence report is classified and should only be distributed to authorized personnel.
USS Freedom (LCS-1) Heavily Damaged by Los Cazadores Special ForcesUSS Freedom (LCS-1) was heavily damaged by a special forces unit from Malden that is known as "Los Cazadores" (Spanish for Hunters). The ship's hull and engine compartments were badly damaged and the ship took on water to its starboard side. As of now the ship is en route back to the Norfolk Naval Shipyard aboard the heavy lift ship MV Black Marlin. Two US Navy sailors were killed and twenty were injured.
The US Navy had deployed the ship to an outlying island to the North of Malden under the use of SOCOM to provide COR with weapons and ammunition via a flotilla of small boats in shallow waters. The mission was apparently compromised by ROMN informants within COR, as ROMN's elite special operations detachment had prepared for this mission and was already in place awaiting the rendezvous. ROMN claims indicate that two SDV's (Swimmer Delivery Vehicles) personally led by Cazadores Commanding Officer Colonel Axel Rodriguez made approach during the delivery of weapons from the USS Freedom to the COR boats, using the cover of the other boats to mask their activities from USS Freedom's sonar.
Powerful magnetic explosive charges were placed in the engine intakes of the ship and near the waterline of the starboard and port bow. The explosions tore three large holes into the ship's hull, killing two members of the ship's crew and injuring twenty. Analysis so far indicates that as much as 150 pounds of high explosives were planted on USS Freedom. Her engines were completely destroyed, and her keel was snapped in three places and she lost all power. Fortunately USS Leyte Gulf (CG-55) was nearby, and was able to render assistance. COR boats scrambled to return to Malden and rendered no aid to the crew of USS Freedom.
The Cazadores divers managed to evacuate without being seen by the crew of the ship or by the COR boats. Such underwater demolitions were unexpected and unprepared-for by USFLTFORCOM and all USN ships are now being sent far offshore away from Malden and will no longer drop anchor in the military exclusion zone. This especially applies to US ships delivering armored vehicles along with equipment and supplies to United Assistance Task Force.
More information to follow as we gather it regarding this Special Forces unit.
Prisoner interrogation transcripts (From TFA 01-18)
Helmet cam image of prisoners being captured by TFATranscript of Prisoner #1 (w/COR-provided interpreter)[Notes: Prisoner was captured by TF Alpha and is a member of LOTN. Prisoner is believed to be seventeen years old and only a recent recruit.]
Prisoner #1: So what is it you want from me?
Interrogator: To tell us who your leader is, do you wish to confess?
Prisoner #1: I confess to fighting for my country against you, traitor!
(Prisoner #1 spat at the COR interpreter, and the interpreter proceeded to attack him. US Army MPs stopped him and escorted him out for a moment)
Prisoner #1: You won’t learn anything, nothing!
Interrogator: We are ready to offer you protection in exchange for information.
Prisoner #1: And betray all that the spirits have given me and my people? You are a fool.
Interrogator: What were you trained to do, when you were captured?
Prisoner #1: Kill Americans and traitors.
Interrogator: You didn’t do that very well did you? You surrendered.
(The prisoner refused to talk for a moment.)
Interrogator: Who trained you?
Prisoner #1: The Army, they sent some of their own to train us. We had only just started when you came.
Interrogator: We didn’t see very many soldiers in your base. Where were they?
Prisoner #1: We were sleeping, we didn’t think you could come during that storm. They didn’t like the old underground bunkers we slept in, so they always came and went from the airfield.
Interrogator: And you were trained to do what exactly?
Prisoner #1: We only did some shooting, we used photos of American soldiers for practice.
Interrogator: It didn’t help, we have seized the airfield and the northern towns. What do you have to say to that?
Prisoner #1: You lie! You barely beat us and you had every advantage. Our might will crush you! Soon the Cazadores will free me and kill you all.
Interrogator: The Cazadores? Who are they?
Prisoner #1: You will only know when they slit your throats. Soon you Americans will be dead, and I will be free to act out the will of the spirits.
Interrogator: You believe the spirits protect you? The Loa?
Prisoner #1: Protect me? No, they only act their will through me. And their will be done. That is all I have to say.
Takeaways:
The prisoner was hostile and but cooperative enough to yield some personal information. Questioning proved difficult, but nothing of strategic importance was to be gained according to the interrogators. He was a low-level soldier, believed to only be a recent recruit into LOTN. He appears only seventeen years old. PSYOPS are not believed to be of any use against LOTN if the majority of soldiers are like him.
Transcript Prisoner #2 (w/different American interpreter)[Notes: Prisoner was captured by TF Alpha. Prisoner is older male believed to be forty to fifty years old. He has many tattoos covering his neck and arms showing Santeria imagery. He has proven to be aggressively hostile against US personnel and COR interpreters. He is believed to be a low-level LOTN leader. He showed withdrawal symptoms from cocaine or other similar stimulants during his confinement.]
Prisoner #2: You will burn in the fires of hell, the Loa decreed it to me.
Interrogator: What is your duty within LOTN?
Prisoner #2: I am a servant of the Loa, they act out their will through me and I have been honored.
Interrogator: Okay. So what is your duty in LOTN?
(Note: Prisoner laughed)
Prisoner #2: I killed one of your spies and his family. They squealed for mercy. The Loa showed none.
Interrogator: Where and when did this happen?
Prisoner #2: A week ago, in the capital, the night of our glorious revolution.
Interrogator: How many members in his family?
Prisoner #2: Five, we held them for judgement before the Loa, and the Loa punished them.
Interrogator: The family only had four members. I believe you are lying.
(Note: Prisoner was silent, the interrogator had bluffed)
Interrogator: You are a leader in LOTN, what is your duty?
Prisoner #2: I led a group of my cousins. My grandfather entrusted them to me. They were murdered by you pigs the night we destroyed your so-called embassy.
Interrogator: You were involved in the attack?
[Note: The prisoner was very proud of this admission]
Prisoner #2: Yes, we destroyed them, the people rose and destroyed your embassy. Now my cousins are heroes.
Interrogator: Did you have help?
Prisoner #2: You know very well. Our great leader aided the people’s will, and his soldiers protected the people, and destroyed your helicopter.
Interrogator: Why did you attack the embassy?
Prisoner #2: Because you aid terrorists, you defile our soil, you are scum to be wiped from this world!
(At this point the prisoner became actively belligerent, and MP’s had to taser him and return him to his holding cell)
Takeaways:
This low-level leader for LOTN was head of a familial-based unit, composed of his “cousins”. He believes that the United States is an affront to his culture and has no intentions of civil coexistence with the United States. His claim to having killed American civilians (including women and children) is worrying for the fact he lied to tell American servicemen, while a prisoner, that he killed an American family. LOTN is proving to be a very hostile group that shows no intentions of negotiating or surrendering, and in fact so hostile that they even boast of fake claims.
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