ARGUS, the private intelligence agency that's a subsidiary of MET 2000 - apparently it was covered in both State of the Art: 2064 and Deutschland in den Schatten II. Now I've read the SotA bit, but could any of our German speaking board members that have both say if there's anything extra or covered more in-depth by DidS? Thanks.

Try PMing Grinder. I know he lives in Germany, and since this thread isn't getting a lot of traffic, he'll probably notice a PM faster than this thread.

Not a bad idea.

DIDS 2 is relevant here, DIDS was much earlier.

I don´t know what info is new, so I´ll just list the few but interesting tidbits:

- 15.000 agents
- working mostly for all corps and nations who own part of MET
- Allied German States seem to hide their budget under "marketing expenditures", wich are four times larger than actual marketing expenditures. Reading those government financial records can yield interesting information now.

Ryu sums it up good. I'll check the books later tonight and see what I can add.

Thank you both.

You're welcome.

Do you need any specific details?

Just looking around for the general details. I'm trying to drag myself back to updating the wiki and one of the things I keep meaning to add are what bits we know about the different national and corporate intelligence agencies. ARGUS, since its mostly covered in a German language sourcebook, is the main stumbling block.

Knowing what you want, I still think I got the important parts. I´ll just add that the last info is shadowtalk and therefore open to interpretation.

Cool. Just for completeness could one of you post what page the ARGUS stuff is on so I can whack a page number in the references section. Cheers.

Sure. Pg. 293-294, section "Governmental and private security institutions", subheading "ARGUS".

I checked Brennpunkt ADL (Target: AGS) , but it had no new information about ARGUS.