Please state your name, position, agency number, and branch of service for the record.
"Faye Adelman, Special Operations Agent 423-12-6743, US SHIELD."
Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you are about to give to this special debriefing session is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
"Yes."
Thank you. Present in tonight's hearing is John Ross and Sharon Carter, US SHIELD, with John Yarber and Robert Gains from the US CIA.
"Debriefings aren't usually like this. I don't normally give out 'testimonies,' especially to high brass like yourselves, no offense."
Well Agent Adelman, the special circumstances that have occurred during your assignment calls for a special debriefing. Actually, though this is officially a debriefing, this is also a specially assembled hearing as well.
"Am I being tried?"
No Agent Adelman, you are not.
"Were my actions wrong?"
That's what we're here to determine.
"Then wouldn't this count as a trial?"
No. This is a debriefing. You aren't facing punishment.
"Hmph."
Agent Adelman, we understand the trying circumstances that you have experienced and the fact that you haven't rested since the assignment was over. However, we do ask that you try to cooperate with us as much as possible so that this meeting will be over sooner.
"Yes, sir. I apologize."
Thank you. Let's get started. Now, the assignment that you were given approximately two days ago - Please describe the assignment details as you received and understood them.
"It was a covert intelligence gathering operation, sir. I was assigned to a four-man infiltration team as a data-tech specialist. The two main objectives of the mission were to secure a key turncoat for a research facility in Northern Canada - "
Who owned the facility?
"Umbrella Bio-Medical Inc, International."
Please continue.
"The objectives were to rendezvous with and pick up a research scientist, Dr. John Burnside, for the Umbrella research facility, who had turned corporate spy. The second objective, with the assistance of Dr. Burnside, was to retrieve any and all information that linked Umbrella International to anything that may have occurred in the events that took place in the Raccoon City Disaster, which occurred over US soil. This particular objective was my specialty purpose - I was to hack into the facility network and find anything that met this objective, which included correspondence, research material, personal notes, and hard evidence."
Did you understand the nature of this assignment, particularly in how it was supposed to be carried out?
"Yes, sir. This assignment was to be highly covert, highly secretive. This was due to the fact that even with CIA collaboration and special NATO jurisdictional powers, the assignment skirted the edge of SHIELD jurisdiction, producing a highly politically and legally volatile situation. Needless to say, it was understood that Umbrella catching us looking underneath their skirts would be very, very bad."
Go ahead and continue. Please describe how the assignment was to be carried out.
"The assignment was to begin at 2000 hours, where our team was to board the C-130 and go airborne. At 2145 hours, we were to infiltrate the Umbrella facility by high-altitude drop, landing on the outskirts of the facility in the cover of dark and fog as the facility would systemically put their security network on maintenance, enough for our team to land and clean up our chutes undetected. From there, our team was to rendezvous with Dr. Burnside right outside the specified storage hangar at 2230 hours. He was then supposed to walk me through everything I needed to know to infiltrate Laboratory 1, breach Burnside's work computer, hack into the Umbrella system, and gather the information I needed. After that, take Burnside with us to the extraction point which was on the edge of the facility, wait for pick-up by land-vehicle by 0100 hours, and it was to be Sayonnara, ops complete.
"Our rules of engagement were simple - do not shoot unless under lethal fire. We were to avoid casualties as much as possible."
So you felt that you understood the assignment details, then?
"That is correct, ma'am, I did."
All right. Now, please tell us what happened since the operation began.
"In general? Heh, well, to be short - things were ALREADY wrong even before I boarded the plane."
"Faye Adelman, Special Operations Agent 423-12-6743, US SHIELD."
Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you are about to give to this special debriefing session is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
"Yes."
Thank you. Present in tonight's hearing is John Ross and Sharon Carter, US SHIELD, with John Yarber and Robert Gains from the US CIA.
"Debriefings aren't usually like this. I don't normally give out 'testimonies,' especially to high brass like yourselves, no offense."
Well Agent Adelman, the special circumstances that have occurred during your assignment calls for a special debriefing. Actually, though this is officially a debriefing, this is also a specially assembled hearing as well.
"Am I being tried?"
No Agent Adelman, you are not.
"Were my actions wrong?"
That's what we're here to determine.
"Then wouldn't this count as a trial?"
No. This is a debriefing. You aren't facing punishment.
"Hmph."
Agent Adelman, we understand the trying circumstances that you have experienced and the fact that you haven't rested since the assignment was over. However, we do ask that you try to cooperate with us as much as possible so that this meeting will be over sooner.
"Yes, sir. I apologize."
Thank you. Let's get started. Now, the assignment that you were given approximately two days ago - Please describe the assignment details as you received and understood them.
"It was a covert intelligence gathering operation, sir. I was assigned to a four-man infiltration team as a data-tech specialist. The two main objectives of the mission were to secure a key turncoat for a research facility in Northern Canada - "
Who owned the facility?
"Umbrella Bio-Medical Inc, International."
Please continue.
"The objectives were to rendezvous with and pick up a research scientist, Dr. John Burnside, for the Umbrella research facility, who had turned corporate spy. The second objective, with the assistance of Dr. Burnside, was to retrieve any and all information that linked Umbrella International to anything that may have occurred in the events that took place in the Raccoon City Disaster, which occurred over US soil. This particular objective was my specialty purpose - I was to hack into the facility network and find anything that met this objective, which included correspondence, research material, personal notes, and hard evidence."
Did you understand the nature of this assignment, particularly in how it was supposed to be carried out?
"Yes, sir. This assignment was to be highly covert, highly secretive. This was due to the fact that even with CIA collaboration and special NATO jurisdictional powers, the assignment skirted the edge of SHIELD jurisdiction, producing a highly politically and legally volatile situation. Needless to say, it was understood that Umbrella catching us looking underneath their skirts would be very, very bad."
Go ahead and continue. Please describe how the assignment was to be carried out.
"The assignment was to begin at 2000 hours, where our team was to board the C-130 and go airborne. At 2145 hours, we were to infiltrate the Umbrella facility by high-altitude drop, landing on the outskirts of the facility in the cover of dark and fog as the facility would systemically put their security network on maintenance, enough for our team to land and clean up our chutes undetected. From there, our team was to rendezvous with Dr. Burnside right outside the specified storage hangar at 2230 hours. He was then supposed to walk me through everything I needed to know to infiltrate Laboratory 1, breach Burnside's work computer, hack into the Umbrella system, and gather the information I needed. After that, take Burnside with us to the extraction point which was on the edge of the facility, wait for pick-up by land-vehicle by 0100 hours, and it was to be Sayonnara, ops complete.
"Our rules of engagement were simple - do not shoot unless under lethal fire. We were to avoid casualties as much as possible."
So you felt that you understood the assignment details, then?
"That is correct, ma'am, I did."
All right. Now, please tell us what happened since the operation began.
"In general? Heh, well, to be short - things were ALREADY wrong even before I boarded the plane."