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Debrief with Dave Bartell · May 8, 2026

My Newest Mission has Been Declassified

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Dave Bartell · Debrief with Dave Bartell

Agent,

You’ve been patiently waiting for the news of this declassification. I can finally share my field notes. What began as a single idea inside Signal Code—a discovery that should never have been found—didn’t end with the book.

It moved.

Within the seams of the U.S. Department of Energy exists a unit the public was never meant to know about:

Strategic Protocol for Emergency Anomaly Response

While other agencies chase threats we recognize and understand, SPEAR handles a deadlier category—forbidden science that escaped the lab...or was never fully ours to begin with.

The series follows Zac Johnson, a West Point graduate, former Ranger, and now Senior Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He’s the one called when the data doesn’t make sense. He trusts evidence, not institutions. While others debate, he acts. Because for him, science is a tool meant to protect people, and he believes the right outcome never excuses the wrong method.

SPEAR Ops is built on a simple premise:

Decades of never-explained experiments were hidden, classified, or buried. Some traceable to forgotten WWII black-ops programs. Some recovered from environments we still can’t model. And some of them…not entirely terrestrial.

In the series debut, Threshold State, Zac is pulled into a high-stakes race to recover a stolen Antarctic research drone. As he tracks an impossible signal across the globe, he uncovers a more disturbing truth: a rogue infrastructure magnate is assembling crystalline artifacts that are far from inert—they are interfaces capable of phase-locking the human mind.

If you want early access to classified dossiers, field intel, and advance chapters from Threshold State before its fall release—access the monthly briefings here: https://www.spearops.org/

More intel soon.

Dave

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