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It is safe to say that the viral marketing campaign for "The Dark Knight Rises" is in full swing. After two confidential CIA files appeared online, a new document and a countdown page may be the latest additions to the campaign.

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A picture sent out from the Twitter handle @thefirerises, the profile used to reveal the first picture of Tom Hardy as Bane, was another censored document. It continues the narrative from the previous two docs, but references "Operation Early Bird," the proposed black op to retrieve the missing nuclear physicist that's set to take place on December 9 at 10 am PST.

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The viral marketing campaign for “The Dark Knight” was fantastic -- pixel-by-pixel revelation of the Joker’s face, a Comic-Con scavenger hunt, websites supporting Harvey Dent’s run for district attorney, and more. Taking place over a year and a half leading up to the film’s 2008 release, the "Dark Knight" viral component helped build an unstoppable head of steam, no doubt part of why the movie grossed as much money as it did.

"The Dark Knight Rises" doesn’t really need that much work -- everyone is pretty much permanently stoked, and will remain so until next summer. (That could change if we find out Bruce really went crazy when his parents died, and everything we’ve seen has been an insane asylum fever dream. Let’s hope not!) But there’s a neat little marketing campaign going on for this one too, sparked today by a mysterious CIA Bulletin posted by Wired.

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