diff --git a/src/games/mastervega/VegaGnnScreen.js b/src/games/mastervega/VegaGnnScreen.js
index f1124a7..347a6f6 100644
--- a/src/games/mastervega/VegaGnnScreen.js
+++ b/src/games/mastervega/VegaGnnScreen.js
@@ -583,11 +583,20 @@ export function openGnnScreen(scene, rules, state, art, opts = {}) {
   const storyEvents = usingHistory ? (state.gnn?.history ?? []) : pending;
 
   const storyPages = storyEvents.map((ev) => ({ kind: 'story', desc: Gnn.describeGnnStory(rules, state, ev) }));
-  const rankingPages = Gnn.RANKING_METRICS.map((metric) => ({ kind: 'ranking', metric }));
-  // Always-accessible: present every time GNN opens, independent of
-  // whether there's a pending story — same footing as the ranking pages.
-  const relationsPage = { kind: 'relations' };
-  const pages = [...storyPages, ...rankingPages, relationsPage];
+  // A spying/sabotage notification is a targeted alert, not a newscast —
+  // skip the ranking/relations pages so it reads as "here's what just
+  // happened," not "here's what just happened, now flip through five
+  // unrelated charts" (Brian's ask). Only suppresses on a FRESH pending
+  // notification; reopening GNN on demand with nothing pending
+  // (usingHistory) always gets the full experience back — that reopen IS
+  // the escape hatch for a player who does want the charts.
+  const isEspionageAlert = !usingHistory
+    && storyPages.some((p) => p.desc.kind === 'espionage' || p.desc.kind === 'espionageResult');
+  const rankingPages = isEspionageAlert ? [] : Gnn.RANKING_METRICS.map((metric) => ({ kind: 'ranking', metric }));
+  // Always-accessible otherwise: present every time GNN opens, independent
+  // of whether there's a pending story — same footing as the ranking pages.
+  const relationsPage = isEspionageAlert ? null : { kind: 'relations' };
+  const pages = [...storyPages, ...rankingPages, ...(relationsPage ? [relationsPage] : [])];
 
   const root = scene.add.container(0, 0).setDepth(D.gnn);
   root.add(scene.add.rectangle(0, 0, GAME_WIDTH, GAME_HEIGHT, 0x030509, 0.99)