Bug CIA Listening Post is a mission from Operation Deus Vult set in Rome.
Summary[]
Infiltrate the CIA listening post in Rome and download their operational intelligence. Try your best not to harm your fellow American agents or set off any alarms.
Available Intel[]
| Intel Type | Source | Price | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| CIA Dossier | Grigori | $5,000 | Dossier information on the CIA. Purchasing this intel will expand your dossier on the United States international intelligence agency. |
| Hacking Data | Anonymous | $2,000 | Reduced infiltration difficulty. An insider will sell you information that will aid you in hacking and sabotaging CIA computers and electronics. |
- Even if you purchase the Hacking Data intel, there will still be a difficult hack and a difficult lock on the 3rd floor. You may consider acquiring and equipping Printed Circuitry and Integrated Circuitry armor mods to make hacking easier.
Objectives and Walkthrough[]
This mission is one of the few that qualifies for the One with the Shadows perk / achievement: complete 3 missions wherein less than 5 enemies were killed and no hostiles became alerted to your presence.
The way you handle CIA agents in this mission can greatly influence your reputation with Mina Tang and, later, Conrad Marburg. Killing agents will earn you disapproval from Mina (-1 per kill) and a loss of positive reputation (+2, once) from Marburg. It also determines which of the 3 perks you earn at the end:
- Under The Radar (Reduced Cooldown: Evasion, Shadow Operative): All agents evaded with no harm done through lethal or non-lethal means. Awarded even if you were detected and triggered an alarm.
- Professional Courtesy (-10% armor costs from Rome vendors): At least one non-lethal neutralization.
- Necessary Roughness (-5% weapon costs from Rome vendors): At least one kill.
Note that getting detected, triggering an alarm or incapacitating CIA agents through non-lethal means will not lead to a loss of reputation or produce any negative post-mission effects.
Cut Video Feed[]
Cut the video feed at the junction box in the basement (optional).
You start in the basement of the CIA listening post. You get two mandatory objectives right away and a third, Cut Video Feed, will be added if you head up the stairs. Open the video feed circuit box in the basement to complete this objective.
- XP: +50
A guard will head down stairs to check on the video after it is cut so be prepared. Even if you have already gone through the level and are on your way out, you can still cut video feed and an agent will appear from nowhere to check it downstairs, as long as you don't kill the first agent.
- Money: $7,500 - Next to the video feed circuit box.
Install Back Door[]
Hack into the CIA's network system to install a security backdoor that will provide future access to their database.
Head up the stairs to exit the basement them take the next flight up to the 2nd floor. The guard only patrols the hallway and avoids the rooms on this floor, so if you are trying for the Under The Radar perk, you may want to let the guard pass and take a right at the top of the stairs heading into the side room. Mina will contact you with the Distract Operatives optional objective which will make sneaking around the 3rd floor easier. It is completed by hacking a computer on this floor.
The are two pickups in the room to the right:
- Halbech Data
- Dossier: Conrad Marburg
- Money: $4,700 - Along with the dossier.
Follow the objective marker to the computer and hack it to complete the objective.
- XP: +300
Distract Operatives[]
Hack into the CIA's security console on the 2nd floor to disable the security camera on the 3rd floor (optional). You can also remote hack the camera, but the reward isn't as good.
- Money: $3,500
- XP: +150
If you are avoiding the guards watch out for the one on the 3rd floor as he can see you sneaking up the stairs.
- Dossier: Mina Tang - In the room to the right on the 3rd floor.
- Money: $6,500 - Along with the dossier.
There is also a hackable computer in the central room, which will give you money and has some entertaining emails.
- Money: $2,000
Before approaching the operations room you may want to head into the room on the far side of the stairs to collect the dossier information and equipment by completing the Acquire Equipment objective.
- Dossier: Jibril Al-Bara - Computer in the room leading to the armory on the 3rd floor.
Acquire Equipment[]
You "borrowed" some equipment from the listening post's armory.
This objective is added and completed once you unlock the door to the armory on the 3rd floor containing a weapon and armor mod.
- XP: +50
- Weapon Mod: Silencer Mk3. It silences the pistol without reducing damage, and is one of the most expensive weapon mods ($40,250 on Hard difficulty). This instance is the only one where it can be acquired outside of the Clearinghouse. Note that already having Silencer Mk3 in your inventory will prevent you from receiving another copy here.
- Armor Mod: An ultra-expensive armor mod worth $70,000-90,000, chosen randomly out of 4 options:
- Improved Digital Camouflage
- Advanced Ceramic Plates
- Adrenaline Optimizer
- Carbide Matrix
- The mod is chosen at the moment you pick it up, so you can try reloading a previous checkpoint if you didn't get the mod you want. Be aware though that reloading respawns already defeated enemies. This is the only place in the game where such an expensive mod can be acquired without paying.
Clear Operation Room[]
Find a way to get the CIA agent out of the operations room in order to access the CIA database.
As you approach the operations room a new mandatory objective Clear Operations Room will be added. Sabotage the air conditioning unit to get the guards to open the room allowing you access to the computer inside.
- XP: +250
Download Intel Database[]
Download the CIA's operational intelligence database from Roman operations.
Once the agents are are out enter the room and hack the computer to complete the objective.
- Money: $5,250 - On the top shelf to your right as you enter the Operation Room from the air conditioning room; the pickup icon is very difficult to see but the prompt to pick up item will appear when you are close enough.
- Dossier: Halbech Corporation - On a table next to the operational database computer.
- Money: $2,800 - Along with the dossier.
- XP: +150
Exit Listening Post[]
Leave the building via the lobby doors.
Head back to the ground floor. One new guard will spawn in the basement doorway just as you come down the last set of stairs.
- XP: +200
- XP: +250 — For optional objective Avoid Evidence Trail that's given for evading all agents and not triggering an alarm. Awarded along with the Under The Radar perk.
As was mentioned, you earn one of the following perks at the end based on your performance in this mission:
- Under The Radar: All agents evaded with no harm done through lethal or non-lethal means.
- Professional Courtesy: At least one non-lethal neutralization.
- Necessary Roughness: At least one kill.
Choices and Consequences[]
Consequences in Following Missions[]
- Killing CIA agents will upset Mina, resulting in a -1 reputation loss with her for each agent killed.
- Avoiding killing any agents here, along with any civilians in two other Rome missions (Intercept NSA Intelligence and Identify Jibril Al-Bara at Chateau), will earn you positive reaction (+2) from Marburg in your conversation with him during Contact Jibril Al-Bara/Halbech Contact.
- There is a dossier on Conrad Marburg here. If you wish to turn Marburg to your side or manipulate him into fighting you and obtain the Agent of Change perk at the end of the game, which requires 83% of his dossier unlocked, you must collect it.
Notes[]
You can find a Silencer Mk3 and a random high-end armor mod inside the armory on the 3rd floor. This is the only instance in the game where can acquire such expensive equipment for free, with almost no effort.