You figure, to gain a slot as a budget item, sometimes there has to be a deliverable, and when the deliverable is unspeakable, you get something like this.
It's probably better than the alternative for spilled milk. Good, bad or indifferent, a creative writing exercise fills out a gap in unaccounted time and resources better than a mysterious blank spot that no one will talk about.
Something like this probably fills in for things you couldn't even save with redactions.
But then again, maybe it's cover for things that turned out to be uninteresting and wasteful, bad situations that resolved themselves on their own, people running off with stolen money, or perhaps those times when your entire spy ring is discovered and executed, and there's an unwillingness at the highest levels to document the botch in any detail, so make up whatever you want but make it N number of pages.
It's probably better than the alternative for spilled milk. Good, bad or indifferent, a creative writing exercise fills out a gap in unaccounted time and resources better than a mysterious blank spot that no one will talk about.
Something like this probably fills in for things you couldn't even save with redactions.
But then again, maybe it's cover for things that turned out to be uninteresting and wasteful, bad situations that resolved themselves on their own, people running off with stolen money, or perhaps those times when your entire spy ring is discovered and executed, and there's an unwillingness at the highest levels to document the botch in any detail, so make up whatever you want but make it N number of pages.