Office of National Assessments

The Office of National Assessments is presented as a national-security agency with close links to the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation. In Ormund Smitt’s account, the Office connects Jake Scully’s family background to the information that shaped Jake’s warnings about an approaching societal collapse.

Identity and Institutional Context

Ormund identifies Jake’s father as the Assistant Deputy Director of Operations for the Office of National Assessments and says the Office works closely with the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation. The exchange supplies no further description of the Office’s structure, operations, or powers; its defined place in the story is the senior position held by Jake’s father and its association with Australia’s security apparatus.

Connection to Jake Scully

Ormund claims that Jake’s father discovered that things were coming to an end and tried to bring Jake into the business. In this explanation, Jake learned what his father had found out and wanted to warn everyone. The Office therefore enters the narrative not through a scene of institutional action, but through a chain of reported knowledge: a father’s senior post, his attempt to involve his son, and Jake’s resulting message to the public.

Narrative Significance

The Office gives Ormund’s account an institutional frame, linking Jake’s warnings to his father’s national-security work rather than presenting them as detached from family history. This remains Ormund’s explanation during a conversation about Jake’s signals and the end of society; the available account establishes what Ormund says about the Office and its role in Jake’s story, not independent confirmation of the alleged discovery.