Talk:Down to the Wire/@comment-112.198.243.60-20161103101628/@comment-24032096-20161103161413

Near 1980, when SOMBRA was still a poor philosophy club, oil was found on the fictional country of Grenadia (located on the current Colombian Amazon). As the US wanted the oil, the CIA made Ripley fund SOMBRA so the organization could attack Grenadia. With the excuse of saving Grenadia, the US would get in the conflict to seize the oil fields and then eliminate SOMBRA, as they believed them an easy enemy. They sent many assassins on Castillo, Montoya and many others.

However, SOMBRA was not taken down. They continued operating from the shadows and eventually started grewing up, without the CIA's knowledge. When SOMBRA was re-brought to Ripley's mind, she created the Bureau with a specific objective: defeating SOMBRA.