Page 52 of Jep

“All of that stuff put together made it look like they knew how we operate.”

“That’s exactly what I was thinking. But we did find intel a few times.”

“Yeah, that’s what I mean. If they knew what we were going to do before we did it, why wouldn’t they have removed sensitive information?”

“But what about that time our team did get in? There were no survivors on their side to remove anything.”

“That was a weird one.”

“Yeah?”

“I was hoping for more on that specifically because I remembered the autopsies being off, but when I went back, the details I thought I’d remembered weren’t what I remembered.”

“Could the reports have been tampered with?”

“It’s unlikely, but anything’s possible at this point.”

“Who would have access to do that?”

“Who knows? It may not even be sinister if itdidhappen. Sometimes stuff goes missing because someone’s taken it out and hasn’t put it back yet. Or it could have gotten left in another file.”

“But you said the details were different from what you remembered.”

“I could have gotten it wrong. I’m not infallible. And if I got a sense of something, that could also have skewed my memory.”

“What was off about them?”

“The dead bodies. The ones who were dead before our team got there.”

“Yeah. I read about that.”

“They identified some of them, but not all.”

“I read that as well.”

“I looked into a few and came up with some interesting information. Details about them coming into the US and theirmovements, but it didn’t really trigger anything until the pieces started coming together.”

“You did some digging? I asked Pearce about that, why they weren’t looked into. He said there was nothing to find.”

“Yeah. They didn’t think it was worth investigating too thoroughly. I only did it because…well, I don’t know, I guess because it was strange. The majority of bodies we recovered had been dead for days.”

“Why do you think that was? Why would they do that?”

“All I can come up with is they wanted us to think we had a big win so we believed what we found was valuable. When I went back through the autopsy reports, I couldn’t find the same information.”

“That’s significant enough to suggest someone’s changed details.”

“It’s impossible to prove when it can be explained away.”

“How?”

“I could have looked up the wrong person. Or if the spelling of the name was wrong at the beginning but was updated. There are so many holes that you can poke through my concerns, it’s impossible to get anywhere with it.”

“Has an inside man even been considered?”

“It was suggested.”

“Was it pursued?”

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