Posted by screwedmorethenonce on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/UFO-Episode-Discussions-THE-RESPONSIBILITY-SEAT-tp1499810p1500174.html


If they don't have "Front IDs", do they put SHADO under the name of their employer, when they fill out W-2s? Or would you think that they would be carried by the studio or one of its "Sub"-contractors (Pun intended)?
Somehow, I can't see all of them being "Military" since someone might start asking questions if this was a regular military "Black Budget" outfit. I would be willing to bet that they are "Carried" on the lists of a whole bunch of Black projects, all over the British and US Commands. That way no one could come up with a complete SHADO roster by violating one sections security. Not that SHADO hasn't managed to advertise itself from time to time.
Hmm, three shifts of, say forty people, in the HQ section, plus at least one Quick Reaction team standing by at an airfield with Mobiles (Another twenty?) and various and sundry other installations spread across the world...SHADO must have one hell of a payroll.
I wonder what their retirement options are? A shot of Amnesia drug and a gold watch from a cover organization?
James Gibbon <[hidden email]> wrote:Robert Thomas wrote:

> SHADOW must have some REALLY DEDICATED troops if they are willing
> to "Go underground" for such long peroids. Personally, I don't see
> it.

Why not? Nuclear submarine crews remain submerged in much more
claustrophobic conditions for weeks or months at a time.
Besides, Moonbase personnel must spend weeks away from home, too.

> Several of the shows showed that even the Techs had a social life
> outside of SHADO. You would have to tell an afwul lot of wives
> about what was going on, not to mention parents, land lords
> (Rentals) and god knows who else if you did this.

I'm under the impression that most of the SHADO personnel -
interceptor astronauts, SkyDiver crew, Moonbase personnel and so on
- do not have 'front' professional identities like Straker does,
rather their families and friends know that they work for a secret
part of the military without knowing anything about SHADO. So for
SHADO HQ personnel, spending weeks away from home might not be any
more suspicious than for SkyDiver crews.

James





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