Vera Dragunova: Difference between revisions

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Vera Dragunova
RECORD ID:	DETR-PER-1959-201
SOURCE:	Intercept
RANK:	Colonel, later general officer
SERVICE:	GRU Division P
NATION:	USSR / Russian Federation
ON RECORD:	1959–2000s
STATUS:	Retired
SECRET//HCS-P//SAR-GREEN DOVE//NOFORN

Latest revision as of 20:13, 14 August 2026

Vera Dragunova was the senior military observer present at the 1959 breach of Ark Chasm, and subsequently the most consequential researcher GRU Division P fielded.

At the breach she lost volitional control of her own speech centre and recited Revelation aloud under the influence of the anomaly, from a text she had encountered in a sleep-state hallucination forty-eight hours earlier. She regained consciousness outside the perimeter by a means of extraction she was never able to account for. The Key was gone.

The 1965 annex[edit]

Her closed annex to the Phaeton founding file is the first document on either side to identify the recurring figure as an archetype rather than as a series of sightings.

I cannot say with certainty that it is the same phenomenon, but the coincidences trouble me. I will continue to analyse the patterns. They are not random.

She was correct, and she said so first.

Retirement[edit]

Dragunova retired at the end of a full career and went home. She is not believed to have worked on the subject again.

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+{{Infobox personnel|class=SECRET//HCS-P//SAR-GREEN DOVE//NOFORN|name=Vera Dragunova|record=DETR-PER-1959-201|source=Intercept|rank=Colonel, later general officer|service=[[GRU Division P]]|nation=USSR / Russian Federation|active=1959–2000s|status=Retired}}
 '''Vera Dragunova''' was the senior military observer present at the 1959 breach of [[Ark Chasm]], and subsequently the most consequential researcher [[GRU Division P]] fielded.
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 == The 1965 annex ==
-Her closed annex to the Phaeton founding file is the first document on either side of the war to identify the recurring figure as an '''archetype''' rather than as a series of sightings.
+Her closed annex to the Phaeton founding file is the first document on either side to identify the recurring figure as an '''archetype''' rather than as a series of sightings.
 <blockquote>''I cannot say with certainty that it is the same phenomenon, but the coincidences trouble me. I will continue to analyse the patterns. They are not random.''</blockquote>
-She was correct, she said so first, and she spent a career being the only person in either service who had understood the problem in 1965.
+She was correct, and she said so first.
 == Retirement ==
-Dragunova retired and did not go home. She took a posting at a Russian Antarctic station and remained there.
+Dragunova retired at the end of a full career and went home. She is not believed to have worked on the subject again.
-She is the only person on record to have left this work voluntarily, and the only one who could not make herself leave the continent it happened on.
 [[Category:Personnel]] [[Category:GRU Division P]]