It's a pretty rough outline of the first post.  The Agency tracks down some of the most hardcore, badass people around the globe, brings them to their headquarters, and briefs them on the situation.  They then drop them into Brazil and task them with finding the Sectoid.  If they do this successfully the Agency can present an ideal case to the UN, who will then form the Council, and allow XCOM to be operational.

Hopefully people wonder why the photographer was pretty shaken up as well.

[b]EDIT[/b]:  I'm trying to establish a good case for why XCOM is funded.