Adolf to Azov

American was learning that working with partisan groups in Ukraine were more difficult than they originally realize. They learned that to pull off such an operation would require a great deal of counterintelligence work, which would require a lot of resources which America wasn’t willing to use. They also did not understand how much the Soviets learned about this operation from the time that they were dealing with a double agent. There could have been more that America didn’t know about.

America didn’t want to try and contact another partisan group in Ukraine only for it to be foiled by the Soviets. They understood that they would not be able to verify how reliable a source was, without thoroughly investing them. Doing so through the Iron Curtain was something that America could not perform with accuracy and at the volume needed. Some of these groups had ideological issues which cause internal fights; while others seemed to be very opportunistic, which made the idea of them working with the Soviets all the more likely.

With much advice from Aradia, America didn’t give up. They did cut one of the operations, known as Operation Lynx, since searching for new groups to work with only led to America finding lower quality groups. The American took those resources and focused them on Operation Trident in an effort to more thoroughly vent the groups that they were already dealing with.