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Item Number: SCP-1796
Containment Class: Safe (Formerly Thaumiel)
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-1796 is to be held within a standard containment locker, located in the basement floor of Site-188's Safe SCP wing. No personnel who have previously authored containment documentation are to interact with SCP-1796, and anyone without Level 4 clearance or above is forbidden from accessing SCP-1796. All documents produced by SCP-1796 are to be stored in Site-188's anomalous media archive. Testing with SCP-1796 is currently restricted, pending a review of Site-188's archives.
Description: SCP-1796 is a yellow manila envelope. The words "To You" are written on the back of the envelope in blue ink, with the address covered using black ink.
When a piece of paper containing information is inserted into SCP-1796 for more than 15 seconds, its content is modified to reinsert concealed information not already written on the paper. Any expunged data, such as black boxes or expunged segments, can be replaced with the actual suppressed information—repeated insertion of the modified paper into the anomaly results in further alteration and clarification of the initial information. The following describes the expansion of SCP-1796's effect by repeatedly inserting the paper:
- First Insertion: The paper will contain information that was partially known to the reader, but is now clarified to be exact by the anomaly.
- Second Insertion: The paper will contain information that was unknown to the reader, but known to the author of the paper at the time of writing. Such information has not been written down or suppressed from the original writing because the author wished to suppress knowledge of it.
- Third Insertion: The paper will contain information that was unknown to the reader and writer, but was possibly known to other individuals related to the information on paper.
- [DATA EXPUNGED]
Addendum-1: SCP-1796 was used by the Archival Division and Fire Suppression Department for Project WRAPS, an initiative aimed at Foundation files.
The Archival Division used Project WRAPS to uncover information about documented anomalous objects with little to no known history. Project WRAPS was also used by the Fire Suppression Department to gain personal and secretive information from SCP Foundation members. SCP-1796 would obtain this new information by repeatedly inserting an official file from the SCP database and modifying the paper until all the details of its past could be extracted.
The Archival Department used SCP-1796 on more than 7000 SCP files of level 3 security and below. While 60% of these changes were deemed irrelevant because they only provided superfluous details of the anomalies, the rest proved themselves to be extremely useful and solved cases that were deemed impossible to update years prior. The Archival Department had access to the anomaly once every two weeks as per Project WRAPS guidelines.
While the Archival Department wasn't using the anomaly, the Fire Suppression Department used it as a blackmail procedure for any member of the Foundation who misbehaved in the course of their work or threatened to leave the organization. Once enough data is extracted from the targeted member, the existence of SCP-1796's altered document and its most embarrassing information would be made aware to the target and used as a means of coercion to prevent the interdicted act from being committed again.
Project WRAPS was first used on Site-17's staff. In 85% of the cases, the individual would refrain from misbehaving in the long term. After discovering its high efficiency, Project WRAPS was expanded to other American Foundation Sites. In 1991, 70% of Foundation members had their own SCP-1796's altered document ready to be used.
The initial plan was to expand the project to all known Foundation members, including O5 and Fire Suppression, to have their version of SCP-1796's altered document kept in a secure location, only to be used during emergencies concerning the individual.
Project WRAPS was cancelled following complications of Addendum-2. Every document affected by SCP-1796 is to be considered lost.
Addendum-2: [DATA EXPUNGED]
IT HIDES MORE. AGAIN.