Chapter 4: Operation Northstar

Chapter 4: Operation Northstar is the fourth chapter in Phantom Doctrine. This chapter involves the Cabal in attempting to stop the Beholder Initiative from manipulating the Soviet Union into shooting down a commercial airliner.

Events

 * Vancouver cell raid
 * Union leader assassination
 * Infiltration into the Soviet comms array
 * Destruction of Korean Airlines Flight 007

Updates

 * Not without trouble, but we managed to recover Beholder cargo from a location we got from Tai-Pan. The cargo were communication devices of some sort. Our men are working on determining what they do exactly. If all goes well, maybe we’ll be able to use them against Beholder. Else, at least we have new leads to follow.
 * The Beholder device installed in our hideout is producing the first results - we intercepted talk about an operation dubbed “Northstar”. According to a dossier sent by Tai-Pan, the plan involves shooting down a commercial airliner to give Beholder some leverage, but we don’t know for what yet.
 * The file from Tai-Pan doesn’t have enough information to pinpoint the exact plane they want to shoot down, but we know that it is to deviate into Soviet airspace and be destroyed by local interceptors on orders from a Beholder mole in the air command. Still, the number of possible flights is impossible to process. I decided to try contacting Cardinal again.
 * Cardinal proposed a deal - precise intel about Northstar in exchange for saving a Polish opposition leader from assassins. For lack of any more solid leads on the attack, we took the deal.
 * Cardinal used us. We did get the intel we needed, but there is too little time to stop the plot - the airliner is already on its way. We go with plan B - disable Soviet communications in Sakhalin, in order to stop the Beholder mole from relaying the shoot down order. Without explicit command, the interceptors will not fire. Or so I hope.