Editing GRU Division P

{{Infobox organisation|class=SECRET//HCS-P//SAR-GREEN DOVE//NOFORN|name=Special Section "P"|abbr=Division P|parent=GRU Main Intelligence Directorate|established=1965|nation=USSR / Russian Federation}}

'''GRU Division P''', codename '''PHAETON''' (Rus. ФАЭТОН), is the Soviet and Russian counterpart to [[Department of Esoteric and Thaumaturgical Research|DETR]] and its principal adversary.

Raised in 1965 by closed commission of the GRU Main Staff, following a series of mass psychoneurological incidents at the Baikonur Cosmodrome and the failure of the VORKUTA programme. The same year the United States raised the [[Special Projects Staff]].

== The name ==

Phaeton was the son of the sun god, who took the chariot of heaven and very nearly burned the Earth.

== Mandate ==

<blockquote>To comprehend and, in due course, subordinate the invisible structure of thought that determines the fabric of reality.</blockquote>

Staffed by philosophers, linguists, cryptographers, physicists, mathematicians and poets, all screened for ideological reliability. The founding commission held that figurative cognition was a required instrument.

== Doctrine ==

Anomalies are not faults in the world. They are symptoms of a system being rewritten. The instrument required to complete the edit is the object, and the West is concealing it.

Where the Department contains, Division P '''cultivates'''. From the 1980s it has nurtured anomalies deliberately, for weaponisation.

== Personnel of record ==

* [[Vera Dragunova]]
* [[Vasili Orlov]]
* [[Alexei Rudin]]


== The Thaumaturgical Gap ==

Departmental strategy is organised around the prevention of a '''Thaumaturgical Gap''': the hypothetical point at which Division P achieves a critical mass of supernatural capability sufficient to bypass conventional [[nuclear deterrence]] entirely.

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