Due to the delicate nature of the operating constraints under which we must function here in Antarctica, it is vital that during your transit to and transfer via Amundsen-Scott, and Upon your return to normal duties/contracts, you MUST follow a very strict yet simple security protocol.

Below is set out the international treaty under which we must appear to operate at Base 78, and that we are required to make you aware of. All personnel are under strict instructions under the pain of executive action, not to in any way "formally" break the terms of this treaty, see Article I-2 below, and refer as applicable to your nations disclosure contracts that you will have committed to as a part of your participation in this program.

When not at Base 78, you are as a guide, when asked directly as to the nature of your work, authorised to state that it is either of a "support" or "scientific" nature, and is otherwise "confidencial". Do not use the term "clasified" as this may arouse suspition amongst civilian contractors at Amundsen-Scott. If at all possible keep your personal contact with personnel outside of the program to an absolute minimum. If in ANY doubt whatsoever regarding another persons status, assume that they are outsiders, until independent confirmation resolves the situation. If necessary feign fatique, make your excuses and depart the area. Note however, that you must report any examples of persistent enquiry, giving details of:

(1) when and where the interview took place
(2) the questions asked and the answers given
(3) the ID of the person(s) participating, and if possible that of anyone who may have overheard the said interview.

Failure to comply WILL lead to serious consequences for you and maybe other members of the program.

THE ANTARCTIC TREATY 1959

The Governments of Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Chile, the French Republic, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, the Union of South Africa, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America, Recognizing that it is in the interest of all mankind that Antarctica shall continue forever to be used exclusively for peaceful purposes and shall not become the scene or object of international discord; Acknowledging the substantial contributions to scientific knowledge resulting from international co-operation in scientific investigation in Antarctica; Convinced that the establishment of a firm foundation for the continuation and development of such co-operation on the basis of freedom of scientific investigation in Antarctica as applied during the International Geophysical Year accords with the interests of science and the progress of all mankind; Convinced also that a treaty ensuring the use of Antarctica for peaceful purposes only and the continuance of international harmony in Antarctica will further the purposes and principles embodied in the Charter of the United Nations; Have agreed as follows:

ARTICLE I

1. Antarctica shall be used for peaceful purposes only. There shall be prohibited, inter alia, any measure of a military nature, such as the establishment of military bases and fortifications, the carrying out of military maneuvers, as well as the testing of any types of weapons.

2. The present Treaty shall not prevent the use of military personnel or equipment for scientific research or for any other peaceful purpose.

ARTICLE II

Freedom of scientific investigation in Antarctica and co- operation toward that end, as applied during the International Geophysical Year, shall continue, subject to the provisions of the present Treaty.

ARTICLE III

1. In order to promote international co-operation in scientific investigation in Antarctica, as provided for in ARTICLE II of the present Treaty, the Contracting Parties agree that, to the greatest extent feasible and practicable:

a) information regarding plans for scientific programs in Antarctica shall be exchanged to permit maximum economy and efficiency of operations;

b) scientific personnel shall be exchanged in Antarctica between expeditions and stations;

c) scientific observations and results from Antarctica shall be exchanged and made freely available.

2. In implementing this ARTICLE, every encouragement shall be given to the establishment of co-operative working relations with those Specialized Agencies of the United Nations and other international organizations having a scientific or technical interest in Antarctica.

ARTICLE IV

1. Nothing contained in the present Treaty shall be interpreted as:

a) a renunciation by any Contracting Party of previously asserted rights of or claims to territorial sovereignty in Antarctica;

b) a renunciation or diminution by any Contracting Party of any basis of claim to territorial sovereignty in Antarctica which it may have whether as a result of its activities or those of its nationals in Antarctica, or otherwise;

c) prejudicing the position of any Contracting Party as regards its recognition or non-recognition of any other State's right of or claim or basis of claim to territorial sovereignty in Antarctica.

2. No acts or activities taking place while the present Treaty is in force shall constitute a basis for asserting, supporting or denying a claim to territorial sovereignty in Antarctica or create any rights of sovereignty in Antarctica. No new claim, or enlargement of an existing claim, to territorial sovereignty in Antarctica shall be asserted while the present Treaty is in force.

ARTICLE V

1. Any nuclear explosions in Antarctica and the disposal there of radioactive waste material shall be prohibited.

2. In the event of the conclusion of international agreements concerning the use of nuclear energy, including nuclear explosions and the disposal of radioactive waste material, to which all of the Contracting Parties whose representatives are entitled to participate in the meetings provided for under ARTICLE IX are parties, the rules established under such agreements shall apply in Antarctica.

ARTICLE VI

The provisions of the present Treaty shall apply to the area south of 60 deg South Latitude, including all ice shelves, but nothing in the present Treaty shall prejudice or in any way affect the rights, or the exercise of the rights, of any State under international law with regard to the high seas within that area.

ARTICLE VII

1. In order to promote the objectives and ensure the observance of the provisions of the present Treaty, each Contracting Party whose representatives are entitled to participate in the meetings referred to in ARTICLE IX of the Treaty shall have the right to designate observers to carry out any inspection provided for by the present ARTICLE. Observers shall be nationals of the Contracting Parties which designate them. The names of observers shall be communicated to every other Contracting Party having the right to designate observers, and like notice shall be given of the termination of their appointment.

2. Each observer designated in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 1 of this ARTICLE shall have complete freedom of access at any time to any or all areas of Antarctica.

3. All areas of Antarctica, including all stations, installations and equipment within those areas, and all ships and aircraft at points of discharging or embarking cargoes or personnel in Antarctica, shall be open at all times to inspection by any observers designated in accordance with paragraph 1 of this ARTICLE.

4. Aerial observation may be carried out at any time over any or all areas of Antarctica by any of the Contracting Parties having the right to designate observers.

5. Each Contracting Party shall, at the time when the present Treaty enters into force for it, inform the other Contracting Parties, and thereafter shall give them notice in advance, of

a) all expeditions to and within Antarctica, on the part of its ships or nationals, and all expeditions to Antarctica organized in or proceeding from its territory;

b) all stations in Antarctica occupied by its nationals; and

c) any military personnel or equipment intended to be introduced by it into Antarctica subject to the conditions prescribed in paragraph 2 of ARTICLE I of the present Treaty.

ARTICLE VIII

1. In order to facilitate the exercise of their functions under the present Treaty, and without prejudice to the respective positions of the Contracting Parties relating to jurisdiction over all other persons in Antarctica, observers designated under paragraph 1 of ARTICLE VII and scientific personnel exchanged under subparagraph 1(b) of ARTICLE III of the Treaty, and members of the staffs accompanying any such persons, shall be subject only to the jurisdiction of the Contracting Party of which they are nationals in respect of all acts or omissions occurring while they are in Antarctica for the purpose of exercising their functions.

2. Without prejudice to the provisions of paragraph 1 of this ARTICLE, and pending the adoption of measures in pursuance of subparagraph 1(e) of ARTICLE IX, the Contracting Parties concerned in any case of dispute with regard to the exercise of jurisdiction in Antarctica shall immediately consult together with a view to reaching a mutually acceptable solution.

ARTICLE IX

1. Representatives of the Contracting Parties named in the preamble to the present Treaty shall meet at the City of Canberra within two months after the date of entry into force of the Treaty, and thereafter at suitable intervals and places, for the purpose of exchanging information, consulting together on matters of common interest pertaining to Antarctica, and formulating and considering, and recommending to their Governments, measures in furtherance of the principles and objectives of the Treaty, including measures regarding:

a) use of Antarctica for peaceful purposes only;

b) facilitation of scientific research in Antarctica;

c) facilitation of international scientific cooperation in Antarctica;

d) facilitation of the exercise of the rights of inspection provided for in ARTICLE VII of the Treaty;

e) questions relating to the exercise of jurisdiction in Antarctica;

f) preservation and conservation of living resources in Antarctica.

2. Each Contracting Party which has become a party to the present Treaty by accession under ARTICLE XIII shall be entitled to appoint representatives to participate in the meetings referred to in paragraph 1 of the present ARTICLE, during such times as that Contracting Party demonstrates its interest in Antarctica by conducting substantial research activity there, such as the establishment of a scientific station or the despatch of a scientific expedition.

3. Reports from the observers referred to in ARTICLE VII of the present Treaty shall be transmitted to the representatives of the Contracting Parties participating in the meetings referred to in paragraph 1 of the present ARTICLE.

4. The measures referred to in paragraph 1 of this ARTICLE shall become effective when approved by all the Contracting Parties whose representatives were entitled to participate in the meetings held to consider those measures.

5. Any or all of the rights established in the present Treaty may be exercised as from the date of entry into force of the Treaty whether or not any measures facilitating the exercise of such rights have been proposed, considered or approved as provided in this ARTICLE.

ARTICLE X

Each of the Contracting Parties undertakes to exert appropriate efforts, consistent with the Charter of the United Nations, to the end that no one engages in any activity in Antarctica contrary to the principles or purposes of the present Treaty.

ARTICLE XI

1. If any dispute arises between two or more of the Contracting Parties concerning the interpretation or application of the present Treaty, those Contracting Parties shall consult among themselves with a view to having the dispute resolved by negotiation, inquiry, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, judicial settlement or other peaceful means of their own choice.

2. Any dispute of this character not so resolved shall, with the consent, in each case, of all parties to the dispute, be referred to the International Court of Justice for settlement; but failure to reach agreement on reference to the International Court shall not absolve parties to the dispute from the responsibility of continuing to seek to resolve it by any of the various peaceful means referred to in paragraph 1 of this ARTICLE.

ARTICLE XII

1. a) The present Treaty may be modified or amended at any time by unanimous agreement of the Contracting Parties whose representatives are entitled to participate in the meetings provided for under ARTICLE IX. Any such modification or amendment shall enter into force when the depositary Government has received notice from all such Contracting Parties that they have ratified it.

b) Such modification or amendment shall thereafter enter into force as to any other Contracting Party when notice of ratification by it has been received by the depositary Government. Any such Contracting Party from which no notice of ratification is received within a period of two years from the date of entry into force of the modification or amendment in accordance with the provisions of subparagraph 1(a) of this ARTICLE shall be deemed to have withdrawn from the present Treaty on the date of the expiration of such period.

2. a) If after the expiration of thirty years from the date of entry into force of the present Treaty, any of the Contracting Parties whose representatives are entitled to participate in the meetings provided for under ARTICLE IX so requests by a communication addressed to the depositary Government, a Conference of all the Contracting Parties shall be held as soon as practicable to review the operation of the Treaty.

b) Any modification or amendment to the present Treaty which is approved at such a Conference by a majority of the Contracting Parties there represented, including a majority of those whose representatives are entitled to participate in the meetings provided for under ARTICLE IX, shall be communicated by the depositary Government to all Contracting Parties immediately after the termination of the Conference and shall enter into force in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 1 of the present ARTICLE.

c) If any such modification or amendment has not entered into force in accordance with the provisions of subparagraph 1(a) of this ARTICLE within a period of two years after the date of its communication to all the Contracting Parties, any Contracting Party may at any time after the expiration of that period give notice to the depositary Government of its withdrawal from the present Treaty, and such withdrawal shall take effect two years after the receipt of the notice by the depositary Government.

ARTICLE XIII

1. The present Treaty shall be subject to ratification by the signatory States. It shall be open for accession by any State which is a Member of the United Nations, or by any other State which may be invited to accede to the Treaty with the consent of all the Contracting Parties whose representatives are entitled to participate in the meetings provided for under ARTICLE IX of the Treaty.

2. Ratification of or accession to the present Treaty shall be effected by each State in accordance with its constitutional processes.

3. Instruments of ratification and instruments of accession shall be deposited with the Government of the United States of America, hereby designated as the depositary Government.

4. The depositary Government shall inform all signatory and acceding States of the date of each deposit of an instrument of ratification or accession, and the date of entry into force of the Treaty and of any modification or amendment thereto.

5. Upon the deposit of instruments of ratification by all the signatory States, the present Treaty shall enter into force for these States and for States which have deposited instruments of accession. Thereafter the Treaty shall enter into force for any acceding State upon the deposit of its instruments of accession.

6. The present Treaty shall be registered by the depositary Government pursuant to ARTICLE 102 of the Charter of the United Nations.

ARTICLE XIV

The present Treaty, done in the English, French, Russian and Spanish languages, each version being equally authentic, shall be deposited in the archives of the Government of the United States of America, which shall transmit duly certified copies thereof to the Governments of the signatory and acceding States. In Witness Whereof, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries, duly authorized, have signed the present Treaty.

Done at Washington this first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine.

All personnel cleared for participation in Stargate operations, have been duelly contracted by their respective governments to serve as a resorce for those corporations sub-contracted to conduct exploration and colonisation. Many personnel operate as "free-lance" operatives, taking short term mission contracts for different intrest groups as circumstance demand. You will be expected to work with, corporate, government and free lance agencies as your mission profiles demand.

For reasons of security, like you ALL personel accessing the colonies via Base 78, have been uniformly processed through Groomlake, Navada. It is however to be considered as part of Star Gate STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES that NO unauthorised trust be placed in ANYONE. You are directly responsible to your employer, thus when operating beyond the Gates, you are considered as being upon your OWN recognisence. You may take any actions that you deem fit, subject to the terms and conditions of your employment. Please note that any persons failing to report any relevant "encounters", or failing to recover any Earth origin biological material, will suffer termination of contract.

Please be aware that the Cavern is under military durasdiction and is manned 24 hours a day, and that casual curiosity will be firmly discouraged.

Please treat ALL personel at Base 78 with the utmost discretion, tact and courtasy, disiplin and harmony are vital to the smooth operations of this base. For reasons of security all personnel are on first name/number terms ONLY. You will initially find this imformallity confusing, but it is essential to your safety.

Finally we would like to welcome you to Stargate operations, and trust that you will find this tour of duty both exciting and rewarding.

This document is NOT to be removed beyond Base 78 on this side of the Stargates. Failure to comply will be met with termination of contract, without appeal.

Authorised by the Secretary of Defense, Department of Defense, USMC/attached CMC.

END.

NB; The Nakamura Corporation, currently holding the management contract for the operation of Base 78, can in no way be held responsible for the actions of any employer employing any employee as a participant in Stargate operations who maybe serving under duress. All complaints should be chanelled via the contractees contractor. The Nakamura Corporation would like to thank you for your co-operation.