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Sullivan later joined the [[UNSC Navy]]. He rose through the ranks, eventually working for ONI in public relations and becoming ONI's Senior Communications Director. In [[2558]], he contacted [[Benjamin Giraud]]—a roving civilian reporter and occasional ONI contractor—with a proposition: Giraud would be paid handsomely for conducting a series of interviews about the Master Chief, who had saved Sullivan's life decades prior.<ref name="HTT"/> After discovering a document from [[Elysium City]] that stated John had died at six, Giraud contacted Sullivan for help. In actuality, the document was referring to the death of John's [[flash cloning|flash clone]]. ONI was attempting to cover the use of flash clones in the [[SPARTAN-II program]] and was instead planting Giraud with sources that claimed John had enlisted in the UNSC and became a Spartan without controversy for propaganda purposes. When Sullivan heard of Giraud's dilemma, he blamed the [[Outer Colonies]] lack of record keeping, especially on [[Eridanus II|a world]] that had been glassed. Giraud believed Sullivan's assertion that documents on a glassed colony would not be properly maintained.<ref>'''Hunt the Truth''', ''Episode 2''</ref> | Sullivan later joined the [[UNSC Navy]]. He rose through the ranks, eventually working for ONI in public relations and becoming ONI's Senior Communications Director. In [[2558]], he contacted [[Benjamin Giraud]]—a roving civilian reporter and occasional ONI contractor—with a proposition: Giraud would be paid handsomely for conducting a series of interviews about the Master Chief, who had saved Sullivan's life decades prior.<ref name="HTT"/> After discovering a document from [[Elysium City]] that stated John had died at six, Giraud contacted Sullivan for help. In actuality, the document was referring to the death of John's [[flash cloning|flash clone]]. ONI was attempting to cover the use of flash clones in the [[SPARTAN-II program]] and was instead planting Giraud with sources that claimed John had enlisted in the UNSC and became a Spartan without controversy for propaganda purposes. When Sullivan heard of Giraud's dilemma, he blamed the [[Outer Colonies]] lack of record keeping, especially on [[Eridanus II|a world]] that had been glassed. Giraud believed Sullivan's assertion that documents on a glassed colony would not be properly maintained.<ref>'''Hunt the Truth''', ''Episode 2''</ref> | ||
After [[Ray Kurzig|a friend]] of Giraud's proved that John's parents were alive past [[2524]], once again contradicting ONI's sources, he contacted Sullivan again. After Sullivan continued to insist that "''Glassed planets have bad records''", he asked if Giraud still wanted to keep the job. Giraud agreed to continue the job, and Sullivan set up an interview between Giraud and [[ | After [[Ray Kurzig|a friend]] of Giraud's proved that John's parents were alive past [[2524]], once again contradicting ONI's sources, he contacted Sullivan again. After Sullivan continued to insist that "''Glassed planets have bad records''", he asked if Giraud still wanted to keep the job. Giraud agreed to continue the job, and Sullivan set up an interview between Giraud and [[Jakob Walker]]; the latter claimed to be a retired Navy veteran who served with John, but he was actually an actor hired by ONI. Later, Giraud confronted [[Thomas Wu]]—one of ONI's fabricated interviewees—and had him implicitly reveal he had been lying. However, the conversation had taken place over [[Waypoint]] and Giraud believed it was likely that it was flagged by ONI.<ref>'''Hunt the Truth''', ''Episode 3''</ref> Shortly after, Giraud was called down to ONI's [[Boston]] headquarters by Sullivan for a mandatory meeting.<ref>'''Hunt the Truth''', ''Episode 4''</ref> Sullivan initially gave no indication of being aware of Giraud's Waypoint conversation with Wu. To Giraud's surprise, Sullivan had scheduled an exclusive interview with SCPO [[Franklin Mendez]]. After the session, however, Sullivan gave him a strict deadline of 24 hours to deliver the raw files of his story to ONI. This gave Giraud no time to pursue his unsanctioned investigation further, leading him to suspect that his conversation had indeed been flagged. On the flight, Giraud was sedated by an [[Inner Territories Transportation Administration|ITTA]] stewardess after he ignored her requests to take his seat; he had seen Walker on the same flight away from his [[Castellaneta|alleged permanent residence]] and acting "out of character", leading Giraud to suspect that he had been hired by ONI. Upon his return home, Giraud discovered that his [[COM pad]] had recorded a conversation—while he was sedated—between ONI agents that had been shadowing him. Furious about ONI's lack of respect for him, Giraud did not send the files to Sullivan and instead uploaded them online.<ref name="htt5">'''Hunt the Truth''', ''Episode 5''</ref> Sullivan later left Giraud a message, noting that he missed the deadline. Although Sullivan informed him that he managed to convince his superiors to extend the deadline, Giraud continued to avoid his calls.<ref>'''Hunt the Truth''', ''Episode 6''</ref> | ||
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