Finns

Finns maintain awareness of a U.S. UAV mission monitoring coastal erosion in the Baltic Sea. President Bartlet invokes their knowledge during an Oval Office call with President Chigorin to frame the drone as environmental surveillance, not reconnaissance. This reference casts the Finns as cooperative allies who validate the cover story and enable a special operations team to recover the crashed UAV ten kilometers west of Borsakova in Russian-held Kaliningrad.