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by iamcreasy 4180 days ago
As far as I understand, this messages was used in conjunction with Operation Chameleon. On it's own this message wasn't supposed to do anything, but it had to be discrete because this operation was clandestine.

The goal was to give them hope. That's the point. To let them know that there is help on the way, but there in't no accurate account by how far.

The `action` here is the Operation Chameleon, which is a secret.