Cover-acquirement phase

Length of phase: 1 month to 3 months

Goal: to avoid suspicion (or to create a reasonable doubt) by creating credible covers

Create and establish credible and smart covers which will result in you avoiding suspicion from relatives, neighbours and friends. This phase also includes deliberate and gradual “de-socialisation” which means you will gradually isolate yourself from your traditional social networks if you haven’t already done this.

See “Planning the operation” for more information.

Operational and preparation phases

A. Physical training and various operational simulations

See 3.32 for more information. This is not an isolated phase but can be combined with other phases.

Preparation period to 3b.

· Buy 2-4 x Kingston DT Mini Slim USB pins

· Buy a GPS receiver

· Buy 2-3 water/moist proof storage containers, one for weapons and one for armour (brand: Pelican)

· Buy 3-5 hard drives (IDE or SATA depending on your PC)

· All data on explosives, weapons and armour (transfer to new PC as you will use it in research phase, discard everything else).

· Destroy hard drives and discard all other sensitive data

· Install new hard drive with programs

3b. Research phase (research weapons, armour, explosives)

Use Tor network (while following all Tor guidelines) or use an equivalent service which will mask your PC/IP identity when browsing the net. Alternatively, you can use an anonymous PC from a LAN network provided by Mc Donald’s or any available commercial services as long as they do not require you do ID yourself. The research phase may last anywhere from 2 weeks to 2 months.

When done, save all explosives/trigger related data and weapon/armour related data on separate USB pins (Kingston DT Mini Slim USB pins are excellent for storage) and store the two USB pins at safe locations (not in your home). As you are about to initiate your weapon/armour acquisition phase you will have to print out essential information (which is too hard to memorize) on a sheet of paper. Print out the data using letter size 4 (as small as practically possible) and try to compress all data on one single sheet. You may have to eat the sheet if anything happens so ensure that you have the info sheet close to you at all times. Store the following USB pins at safe locations:

· 1 explosives/trigger USB pin x 1

· 1 weapons/armour USB pin x 1

Now, as you are done with your research phase you must destroy your hard drive and replace it with a new one. To simply delete data from your disk is not sufficient due to advanced recovery technology).