To: gen_bbuckman
From: col_wstryker
Subject: White Mountain Incident
Sir,
Regarding what we spoke of the other day. I regret to inform you the White Mountains Project has resulted in failure. So far as best we can establish there was a breach in containment and both subjects fled the laboratory after murdering all its onsite personnel. I also regret to notify you that the corpse of General Herbert Adams was found at the facility. I know he was a personal friend of yours and I have had my staff run over with the particulars for you to deal with the cause of death and cover-story.
For my own part Sir, the only reason I am able write this to you is the happenstance of being ordered away from the site moments prior to the break in containment. I know the business we are in and understand the suspicion this throws on me so I have taken the liberty of contacting General Price who can corroborate the orders. Beyond Adams, the only other casualties of note were Generals Fisher and Williams and their personal staff. I have had my office handle their causes of death and cover-story. As Fisher and Williams were long time friends I think a simple lost in the wilderness while hunting will suffice.
Regarding the facility, I have ordered a full documentation recovery and photographs for the files. But all physical evidence has been destroyed. I can say with all certainty that the only things left in that tomb are the bloodstains. We recovered all movable lab equipment and personal work terminals, all other equipment was destroyed. The on-site server was too large to move so we melted it down with thermite. All corpses of personnel were recovered. We were only able to bring back a limited number of the victims to US soil. We cherry picked those with more public profiles such as noted doctors or such. All others were taken to be destroyed via the usual means.
As of now our two subjects remain at large. We are working with Langley in finding the two, but so far we have found no reports of either of them returning to the grid. All tasked satellites have provided no intel. I must stress that going forward, these subjects are nothing more than mere animals, and will behave as such. I think simply putting out a flag for persons in the vicinity being wounded or killed by deep lacerations. I have instructed my office to be on the lookout for animal attack in the area also as local authorities may confuse the savagery of our subjects for that of a bear or mountain lion. It is my belief that our two subjects will not remain together. They are lone hunters and don't operate on pack-mentality.
Now as to the matter of reassignment, Sir I must stress that I disagree with the decision. I am fully prepared to find our escaped subjects. We have sunk a large amount of time and money into them and I believe 'leaving them as a problem for the Canadians' is foolish. We could still capture and use one or both of them. I understand the containment failure at the facility has made me unpopular on the hill, but do not let this sway your judgement. Sending me to deal with paltry political matters in the Middle East is a waste of my abilities. I request permission to continue the search for our missing subjects. I feel certain we were on the cusp of having a powerful asset at our disposal.
Regards,
Colonel William Stryker M.D.
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Attached Files: white_mountain_program_main / cleanup_photo1 / cleanup_photo2 / cleanup_photo3 / lab_roster / cover_list / subject_wolverine / subject_rogue / lab2_photo / corridor1_photo / corridor2_photo / office1_photo / office2_photo / entryway1_photo / cost_analysis_doc / white_mountain_personal_logs / non_disclosure_agreements / press_release_pack
AN: I want it on record that the email addresses were actually Pentagon email domains before FF (seriously I can't even put FF dot net?) cut them off. Also all of the attachments had file extensions and looked way better the way I had it. So try to imagine the photos had dot jpg afterwards, and all the rest were assorted docs, pdf, xml and txt files. All I have else to say is: eh, I'll keep going, I'm havin' fun.