Prague (Earth-7253)

Prague (Czech: Praha) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic. In 1996, the city was the site of a covert operation carried out by Third Echelon operatives, which ended in a massacre.

History
In 1996, with the compromising of senior agent Jim Phelps, he plotted to sell a classified list of non-official cover (NOC) agents and Splinter Cell files to the arms dealer known as Max for a large sum of money and fame. To accomplish this, Jim assembled his Third Echelon team and dispatched them to Prague on May 22, 1996, where they were to seemingly discover a criminal who stole the list of NOC agents in the city's American embassy. The operation consisted of team member and newly recruited Splinter Cell Jason Bourne infiltrating the embassy in disguise, accompanied by Sarah Davies, who carried out the physical mechanics of the mission while the rest of the team provided reconnaissance and support, including Jim, who remotely oversaw it from the team's safe house. Unknown to the rest of the team, Phelps hired the former Splinter Cell Franz Krieger to murder them all, except for himself and his wife, Claire. With Krieger's support, Jim and Claire killed Jack Harmon, Davies, and Hannah Williams. Jim would fake his own death, calling an abort order and telling surviving agents Bourne and Luther Stickell to fall back. Jim resorted to communicate with Bourne using his OPSAT, and to fake his own death to Jason, he simulated being shot and falling into the river in Prague, which Bourne saw in the OPSAT's link.