Operation Blackbriar
The CIA's next project after Treadstone.
Operation Blackbriar is mentioned in the 2002 film The Bourne Identity as a new project discussed after the shutdown of Operation Treadstone.
Quick Facts
- Affiliation
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
- Predecessor
- Operation Treadstone
Lore & Background
In The Bourne Identity, Operation Blackbriar is introduced only in the final scene. After Jason Bourne resigns from Treadstone and Conklin is killed by Manheim under Abbott's orders, Abbott and Danny Zorn appear before an oversight committee. Abbott describes Treadstone as a "decommissioned" former program that only conducted theoretical game-scenario exercises. In The Bourne Ultimatum, Blackbriar is the program that succeeded Treadstone, directed by Deputy Director Noah Vosen from a deep-cover CIA bureau in New York City.
Reader's Guide
Operation Blackbriar is a project mentioned at the end of The Bourne Identity. It is presented to an oversight committee as a new program after Treadstone is shut down; Bourne later takes classified documents proving that Blackbriar targeted U.S. citizens, and the program is publicly exposed.
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