So I am fiddling with an adventure heavily inspired by the Bourne trilogy and similar stories - secret organization/government agency conducts experiments on next-generation agents, something goes wrong, and the whole project is wrapped up to avoid a publicity scandal. Of course, some hero (or several heroes) escapes his planned death and adventure ensues.
So far I have a rough structural framework of the adventure, and the core idea of the experiment itself - lycanthropy. Or rather, trying to minimize the disadvantages of contracted lycanthropy to use it as a combat enhancement on field agents. There will also be experimental control devices with varying degrees of success (potions, amulets, rings, ...), and of course at least one player will contract lycanthropy and be in dire need of these things.
What I would like to know from you Golarion experts is which existing organizations or governments would fit this description? I only know the broad strokes of Golarion as a Campaign Setting, and although I have been digging though wikis and such, I haven't yet found something that instantly clicked with me. Any suggestions?
This could be a really cool tie in to the Harbingers of Fate. They are a group that possesses a book of prophecies. The prophecies were correct up to the point Aroden died, since then they are off kilter. So, the Harbingers have been trying to manipulate events so that one of the prophecies will come true, thereby restoring all of the prophecies' accuracy.
EDIT: The mind control aspect, of course, is to get people to undertake the actions required of them by the prophecies.
I'm thinking this idea from Skyrim could be reskinned to work with werebears in the Land of the Linnorm Kings.