Delta Green-Lost in the Dark Operation Railway Car

Date: 29.10.1998

Agents and Friedlies:

• Julius Estéban (Agent Robert)
• Anthony Norland
• Theodore Weeden

Case Details

Who?

Missing:

• Robert Carlyle
  • An agent of DG
  • Ex military officer
  • Retired for health reasons

Contacts of Carlyle

• Jack Sparrow
• Douglas Hart
• Edward Voight

When?

29-31.10.1998

Where?

• Washington DC
• Salt Lake City
• Montana

Operation Log

• Missing person case
• Carlyle had left his apartment in a hurry
  • Miami Herald with one missing page
  • Forgotten psych medication
    • According to the medication the suspects mental state would indicate that he would not stay coherent for long
• Phone calls on previous days
  • Jack Sparrow
  • Douglas Hart
• Suspect had flown to Las Vegas one day before going missing
• The missing tabloid page had an article on a female serial killer on death row who claimed to have worked for the CIA
• Phone calls to contacts revealed that Carlyle was thinking that his life was in danger
• He had abandoned his cell phone in Salt Lake City
  • Edward Voight was a resident
• Military transfer flight to Salt Lake City on the 31st
• Voight was living in small house in a town near SLC
  • The house seemed empty
  • Suspicious noises were heard from inside by agent Robert
  • He left a note with a phone number in the letter box
• The house was kept under surveillance for the day
• After dark Norland went in for reconnaissance
  • He found Voight bound in the house
  • Voight told that he had been subdued by Carlyle, who seemed unstable
  • Carlyle had taken Voight's car and rifle along with camping gear
• It was possible that Carlyle had gone to a hunting lodge in the mountains to the East of the city
• After a phone call to San Francisco to Sparrow, both he and Voight agreed to join in finding Carlyle in the mountains
• Agent Robert destroyed the letter with the phone number before leaving the house
• Carlyle had picked up the keys to the lodge
• The lodge's smokestack had smoke coming out of it, so it was expected that Carlyle is in
• The lodge was surrounded
• Sparrow used a megaphone to talk with Carlyle and let himself and agent Robert (as a doctor) in
• He was successfully sedated by agent Robert and handcuffed
• Sparrow was of the opinion that Carlyle's paranoia was not unfounded and the Bronsons may be after him
• A and the psychiatrist in charge of Carlyle were contacted
• Carlyle was released to the medical personnel in charge

Debriefing

Result of operation:

Causes for success/failure:

Lessons learned:

Improvements (processes, intelligence, resources):

Leads and loose ends:

Attachments

Delta Green-Lost in the Dark Operation Railway Car Report by Agent Robert

Delta Green-Lost in the Dark Operation Railway Car Report by Friendly Weeden