In reality, the O5 Council had created the Insurgency to complete missions with ethically questionable methods and politically unsavory results-while keeping the Foundation's public reputation clean.

with several researchers and anomalous objects. To the majority of the Foundation and the anomalous world, the Insurgency was a splinter group that went A.W.O.L. ' In 1924, the SCP Foundation formed a covert special task force, known only to the O5 Council, codenamed the 'Insurgency.' The leadership of the Insurgency was comprised of members of MTF Alpha-1, the Red Right Hand, famed for their loyalty to the O5 Council and the total secrecy of their origins, identities, and operations.