Alcock (オルコック大使 Orukokku taishi) is an American diplomat serving as the current U.S. ambassador to Peru. When President Duarte became uncooperative with the United States, he requested the CIA's help to internally fund the country's opposition coalition and aid them in removing Duarte from power.
Appearance[]
Alcock is an older Caucasian man with pale skin and receding white hair. He wears glasses, a dark-colored suit, a light-colored dress shirt, and a patterned necktie.
Personality[]
According to Eda, he is an old-fashioned person who becomes restless if he does not take the initiative on situations.[1]
Eda Initial Stage history[]
Little King of The South[]
In Peru, President Duarte became uncooperative with the U.S. government as well as becoming more unpopular among the country's populace due to high unemployment and political repression. Enrique Gasol, who had arrived in the country and previously did informant work for the CIA in Central America, learned from left-wing guerrillas about the country's parliamentary opposition being connected to the CIA. Accordingly, he decided that he would be a point of contact between the guerrillas and the opposition while the CIA would help him in exchange for helping topple the uncooperative government.[2]
Alcock requested the CIA's assistance for providing internal support to the opposition. At the American embassy in Peru, Eda and her new partner Jaden listened to the elderly ambassador inform them of the situation and how Duarte needed to be replaced with someone easier to handle. Although acknowledging that the parliamentary opposition movement was strong, he pointed out that their claims and objectives were scattered, summarizing the situation as one without a strong leader to unify the various anti-government factions. Standing up, Eda sternly told Alcock that he had a very passive policy for someone who had been urging them to increase their staff. Before leaving the building, she asserted that she would get the job done.
As the two CIA agents departed by car, the ambassador observed them from his window. He recalled that after repeated requests for additional staff, they finally but only got the help of the "little girl" Eda, lamenting the fact that they did not get a more senior case officer. In the room with him, his secretary mentioned that after the dissolution of the USSR, the CIA retired a lot of senior officers. Hearing that, Alcock joked that only boy scouts and cheerleaders seemed to be the ones sent to them in recent times. Smiling, the secretary asked if they should have expected anything more from the CIA, to which he sighed and agreed.
Later after the agents met with Farias Cordero, the ambassador listened to Eda and Jaden discuss Enrique's reliability, with the female agent recalling that he was used by Ruggles, who was killed in the line of duty in Central America. Jaden asked if Enrique was even involved in that since he looked like a child. Eda advised him and Alcock not to take him lightly since he was more than meets the eye. Brushing off the warning, Alcock stressed that he was the connection to the guerrillas. In complete disbelief, Jaden warned them that the president was not stupid, opining that he could not imagine the left-wing guerrillas successfully pulling off the assassination. In response, the ambassador retorted that it did not mean they were to do nothing. Finally, he commanded the two agents to negotiate and cooperate with the guerrillas, all the while doing it discreetly and confidently. Prepared to fulfill her mission, Eda agreed to see what she could do.[1]
The next day when the president carried out a self-coup using the military to repress civilians and the opposition coalition, foreign diplomats were ordered to return to their embassies allegedly for their own safety due to martial law. Jaden frantically called the American embassy in Peru, demanding Ambassador Alcock to tell him what was happening. The ambassador asked if he and Eda were all right, and upon learning of their well-being, he relayed to them the news of President Duarte's military-backed coup d'état. Alcock added that unlike in Iran, the concurrent action was state-sponsored. He believed the military would not go as far as raiding a foreign embassy but admitted that he was uncertain what would happen to Jaden if he was detained outside the embassy. Jaden asked what they needed to do, to which Alcock advised him to wait at the emergency safehouse until an envoy who would be sent traveled there and guided them on further instructions. Before he ended the call, Alcock asked him to take Enrique with him so that they would have a witness and bargaining chip against the government.[3]
Some day later after the end of President Duarte's self-coup, at the presidential hall, Alcock had Eda and Jaden come with him to negotiate with President Duarte about his future. Having them do the talking, the ambassador remained silent as Eda relayed to the president that he needed to withdraw all of his troops from the city and end any further repression of the opposition coalition. Furthermore, she threatened to expose the military's slaughter of civilians in the name of counterterrorism if he refused to accept the terms of being the U.S.'s puppet, specifying that the U.S. had witnesses ready to testify against him if he was willing to create a scandal. Though General Tovar adamantly disagreed, Duarte accepted the terms of continuing his presidency. According to Amber Whinberry, Alcock was pleased that the CIA could observe the rift in the relationship between the president and the military, making it easier to exploit the Peruvian government for their own ends.[4]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Eda Initial Stage Chapter 21: Little King of The South Part 1
- ↑ Eda Initial Stage Chapter 22: Little King of The South Part 2
- ↑ Eda Initial Stage Chapter 24: Little King of The South Part 4
- ↑ Eda Initial Stage Chapter 29: Little King of The South Part 9