OSINT-6 CHANGELOG 260822

Equipment presents a tempting shortcut in an agency reference. Readers expect a list of standard weapons, vehicles, computers, radios, armor, and surveillance devices. The CIA doesn’t publish a current model-level inventory for those categories, and the public record reviewed for the OSINT-6 CIA Fact Sheet didn’t support one.

We declined to turn expectation into fact. Current assignment packages use generic profiles from the OSINT-6 Core Rulebook: Laptop Computer, Secure Phone, Handheld Field Radio, Covert Camera, Concealable Ballistic Vest, Service Pistol, Passenger Sedan, and other functional entries. The sponsoring office issues only what the mission, authority, and qualifications support.

Generic profiles keep the game usable without claiming that every analyst receives one laptop model or every protective officer carries one pistol. A fictional campaign can name a manufacturer and model when that detail matters. The controlling game statistics still come from the applicable profile unless the equipment requires a documented difference.

Historical artifacts receive different treatment because the CIA Museum supplies identifiable objects and contexts. The TAR-224 radio, PRC-112B1 survival radio, Thuraya satellite phone, Minox B camera, cigarette-pack camera, dual-use subminiature camera, and escape-and-evasion kit can be mapped to existing profiles with dated limitations.

Those limitations preserve the period. Film cameras lose remote transmission and digital review. Exposures are finite, and film requires processing. A survival radio can transmit coordinates only when its link and receiving equipment support that function. The kit’s components use their individual tool rules rather than granting one undefined package bonus.

This treatment separates documented history from fictional procurement. The book provides enough equipment to run a mission while remaining honest about what the sources establish. Absence of a public inventory is a research result, not an empty space that needs confident invention.