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The Prague Antiquities Operation

In the back room of an old tailor's shop in the Czech Republic City of Prague, Agent Destiny Robbins sat at a video monitor for 12 hours a day. It had been her first foreign assignment and was meant to be more of a training experience than anything else. She had become familiar with art and antiques because of her interest in history.   She was selected for this specific job because of her knowledge of antique furniture. It seemed a strange job, but she was working for the Domestic Protection Group and could not have asked for more at that point in her career. The video monitor was a live feed of a pawn shop called “DarĨek.” There was a high-end operation of thieves stealing furniture and reselling it to fund terrorism. While she was operating outside of the United States, the case was immediately related to domestic security because there was a large level of intelligence that suggested the funds were supporting terror cells within the U.S.   They would remove the p...