Operation Swamp

Operation Swamp was a Ordrish clandestine military operation undertaken between 18 April 1973 and sometime in 1975 by the Gendarmerie-Poblacht, the military police of the former Second Republic of Ordrey. The primary objective of the operation was to bring the Great Strike of 1972 to an end through a campaign of surveillance, intimidation, infiltration, and assassinations targeting labor organizers, community leaders, and supporters of the ongoing strike, including the leadership of the Workers' Party and other major opposition groups in the government. The Forbes Dossiers were leaked throughout the summer of 1975 by unknown figures within the Gendarmerie, exposing Operation Swamp to the public, though its conclusion cannot be adequately determined owing to both the assassination of Albes d'Manchec in November of 1975 and its proximity to the start of the Ordrish Revolution, which would break out soon after.

Methods utilized during Operation Swamp generally fall into the category of ; (including blackmail, extortion, and smear campaigns) and  being the preferred means at which GP assets engaged their targets. Chief Inspector [NAME], who oversaw the execution of the operation, ordered gendarmes to "disrupt, discredit, dissuade, or otherwise eliminate" the activities, groups, and people engaged in opposition to the Omnes government. The Forbes Dossiers indicated that initially, the program sought to be as precise and limited in scope as possible, though over the course of its lifetime, restrictions on programs within Operation Swamp broadened dramatically.

In 1974, the GP armed, financed, and controlled a radical traditionalist paramilitary organization known as the Kingsguard, which was directed to engage in much of the intimidation and violence targeting groups and persons supporting the strike in the nation's rural areas. The Kingsguard would be disavowed for their role in the Hot Summer of 1975, in which members engaged in widespread and open confrontation with armed groups including the Noyonist Mutual Defense League and Young Fends. The Kingsguard would continue to operate throughout the 1970s and early 1980s in Ordrey proper, and are remain intact in the Myrish-occupied region of North Mogone.

The Forbes Dossiers indicated that the program was not authorized directly by then-President Gueric-Jacoub Omnes, but correspondence within the GP included in the Dossiers indicated a concern among lower-ranking officers over the heightening degree at which the Gendarmerie were being politicized.