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SECRET WHITE TOWER FILES LEFT ON PASSENGER WAGON  

Dateline: 11-6-516

 

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There was a 'clear breach of the rules' when the documents were lost, say the Royal Court

 

An inquiry is under way into a 'serious' security breach after top-secret White Tower documents were left on a passenger wagon in Moonward.

 

An unnamed Royal Clerk apparently breached strict security rules when he left the papers on the seat of a Ragged Rock Wagon Company passenger wagon travelling on the Great North Road. A fellow passenger spotted the envelope containing the files and gave it to the Bereny Bugle, which handed them to the Royal Courts.

 

The Regent and the Knight Commander of the White Tower now faces demands for an official inquiry. Archmage Sylvester, chairman of the influential Council of Guilds, told the Bugle "Such confidential documents should be locked away...they should not be read on wagons. I will be writing to the Regent to establish an inquiry into the affair."

 

The report was an assessment of the White Tower's strength throughout the Kingdom and in the Underworld. According to the Bugle's security correspondent, Frank Gardner, it included a top-secret and in some places "damning" assessment of the WT's capabilities. Just two pages long but classified as "Top Secret", this latest intelligence assessment on the WT is so sensitive that every document is numbered and marked "for Berenian eyes only", according to our correspondent.

 

According to reports, this document may have contained details of names of individuals or locations which might have been useful to Bereny's enemies. However, it appears that in a serious breach of the rules, the papers were taken out of the Royal Court’s Clerical Offices by an unnamed official and left in an orange cardboard envelope on the seat of a Silver Chalice-bound wagon from Ragged Rock.

 

Reports suggest that the official, described as a senior male Royal Clerk, works in the Royal Court's Guild Accreditation unit. His work reportedly involves writing and contributing to intelligence and security assessments, and that he has the authority to take secret documents out of Clerical Offices - so long as strict procedures are observed. He is understood to have already been interviewed, but has not been suspended from duty.

 

Once the documents were reported missing, a full-scale search had been launched by the Royal Army, amid fears that such highly sensitive material could have fallen into the wrong hands. Our correspondent said that across several departments in Crownheart this week there is said to be "horror" that top-secret documents could have been so casually mislaid.

 

One Royal Court source sought to play down the impact of the breach: "The embarrassment of the loss is greater than the embarrassment of the contents of the documents. We don't believe there is a threat to any individuals in what was in these documents if they had got into the wrong hands."

 

A White Tower spokesman told us "There has been a security breach, the White Tower are carrying out an investigation", but declined to discuss the contents of the documents.

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