>>7512859 First thing I thought of when I saw Perkins involvement was that 'someone' was using Pokemon for comms. - perhaps within the strategyguide. Amazingly, Pokemon shows up in the DoS FOIA reading room as a Mockingbird covered news item in a July 2016 issue of "News Clips" (the DoS version of Notables) during Lurch's reign.
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