Transparency
Though it could transform her career, Emma, a journalist, is deeply confused as to why her PM should suddenly offer her open access to previously protected state secrets.
Emma Burnleigh, a journalist and author, is invited to meet the Prime Minister. She tells her that that the new government has decided to de-classify the records on Operation Buffalo, a top secret security operation from the past that has long been regarded by conspiracy researchers as the holy grail of covert state activity.
In the interests of 鈥渢ransparency鈥�, Emma will be given all access - 鈥渁part from a small amount of redacted information鈥� - and participants will be freed from the official secrets act to speak to her.
Though it could transform her career and give her a bestseller, Emma is increasingly psychologically and emotionally affected by exploring something the state once wanted no-one to know about but now wishes everyone to share.
Why are they doing this? Some of the sources she is put in contact with seem surprisingly willing to break their lifelong habits of secrecy while others still refuse to engage. And what is in the 鈥渟mall amount鈥� of redacted information? She even comes to wonder if Operation Buffalo ever existed or has been invented purely for the purposes of revelation now. But, if so, why?
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