OTA: Difference between revisions

SECRET//HCS-P//SAR-GREY DOVE//NOFORN
Office for Theological Affairs
RECORD ID:	DETR-OTA-1983-001
SOURCE:	TS//DIRCOM
ABBREVIATION:	OTA
PARENT BODY:	DETR
COMMAND:	DIRCOM
MARKING:	SECRET//HCS-P//SAR-GREY DOVE//NOFORN
CLEARANCE:	Class-C
SECRET//HCS-P//SAR-GREY DOVE//NOFORN

Latest revision as of 20:12, 14 August 2026

The Office for Theological Affairs (OTA) is a joint body of DETR and the Holy See, sitting under Directorate Command.

Basis[edit]

OTA is not a Departmental directorate in the ordinary sense. It is a standing collaboration, staffed jointly by Departmental analysts and by clergy seconded from the Holy See, operating under the SAR-GREY DOVE compartment.

The arrangement exists because a substantial proportion of recovered material is religious in character and the Department has no independent competence to read it. The Holy See has archives, languages and centuries of case history. The Department has the material.

Function[edit]

Reads, translates and models recovered material of religious character. Maintains the liaison channel through which requests pass in both directions.

The Office holds no anomalies and commands no personnel. It advises Directorate Command.

Standing[edit]

Staffed at Class-C. Seconded clergy hold Departmental clearance for the duration of their posting and no longer.

People[edit]

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-{{Infobox organisation|class=SECRET//HCS-P//SAR-PINK FINCH//NOFORN|name=Office for Theological Affairs|abbr=OTA|parent=[[Department of Esoteric and Thaumaturgical Research|DETR]]|command=DIRCOM|marking=SECRET // SAR-PINK FINCH|clearance=Class-C}}
+{{Infobox organisation|class=SECRET//HCS-P//SAR-GREY DOVE//NOFORN|name=Office for Theological Affairs|record=DETR-OTA-1983-001|source=TS//DIRCOM|abbr=OTA|parent=[[Department of Esoteric and Thaumaturgical Research|DETR]]|command=DIRCOM|marking=SECRET//HCS-P//SAR-GREY DOVE//NOFORN|clearance=Class-C}}
-The '''Office for Theological Affairs''' ('''OTA''') is a directorate of [[Department of Esoteric and Thaumaturgical Research|DETR]] under [[Directorate Command]].
+The '''Office for Theological Affairs''' ('''OTA''') is a joint body of [[Department of Esoteric and Thaumaturgical Research|DETR]] and the Holy See, sitting under [[Directorate Command]].
-The smallest body on the chart and the only one whose remit is a question rather than a function.
+== Basis ==
-Every phenomenon the Department has contained arrives dressed in the vocabulary of one religion or another. Reliefs at Mount Qasioun in which Gnostic Christianity and Zoroastrian cosmology converge in a manner that is historically impossible. An officer who loses control of her speech centre and recites Revelation. Seven pulses beneath Antarctica arriving in the correct number.
+OTA is not a Departmental directorate in the ordinary sense. It is a standing collaboration, staffed jointly by Departmental analysts and by clergy seconded from the Holy See, operating under the <code>SAR-GREY DOVE</code> compartment.
-OTA exists because a body had to be made responsible for the possibility that the vocabulary is not a coincidence, and because no other directorate would accept the remit.
+The arrangement exists because a substantial proportion of recovered material is religious in character and the Department has no independent competence to read it. The Holy See has archives, languages and centuries of case history. The Department has the material.
 == Function ==
-Reads, translates and models recovered material of religious character. Maintains liaison with the Holy See under <code>SAR-GREY DOVE</code>, an arrangement recorded as intelligence sharing and conducted as two organisations watching each other read.
+Reads, translates and models recovered material of religious character. Maintains the liaison channel through which requests pass in both directions.
-The Office holds no anomalies, commands no personnel and cannot order anything. It advises the [[Security Council]], which is free to disregard it.
+The Office holds no anomalies and commands no personnel. It advises [[Directorate Command]].
 == Standing ==
-Staffed at Class-C, which places the theological competence of the United States government two rungs below the personnel who determine the disposition of [[The Apple]]. This was not an oversight.
+Staffed at Class-C. Seconded clergy hold Departmental clearance for the duration of their posting and no longer.
-== Standing assessment ==
+== People ==
-OTA has filed the same finding every year since 1983 and it has never been actioned. The object is not an anomaly, a weapon or a resource. It is an offer. It has been made once before and the outcome of that occasion is a matter of public record in every bookshop in the country.
+* [[Girolamo Anselmi]]
+* [[Mateo Sirk]]
-The Office recommends that no one accept it, and notes that its recommendation is not what it has been asked for.
 [[Category:DETR]] [[Category:Directorates]]