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Subject: Diana Carter

Overview

This dossier contains confidential records for Diana Carter.

Material is provisional, cross-referenced from recovered files, protected records, and field notes.

CLOSED EVIDENCE SESSION

SUBJECT: Diana Carter

CLASSIFICATION: SECRET // CABINET OFFICE

REFERENCE: CONTROLLED COPY // COT/CABINET/2035/CTC063

Document control

CASE REFERENCE: COT/CABINET/2035/CTC063

SUBJECT: Diana Carter

CENTRAL RECORD: COT283931E4CC7D5

RANK / APPOINTMENT: Investigative journalist

ORGANISATION: The Sentinel

DATE OF BIRTH: 1996-10-05

PLACE / NATIONALITY: Unknown, Unknown, Not established

INTERVIEW STATUS: Witness / account holder

LOCATION: Secure interview suite — location withheld

DATE: 19 September 2035

LEAD AUTHORITY: Cabinet Office Security Secretariat

RECORDING MEDIA: Two sealed digital masters and one independent evidential hash

DISTRIBUTION: Named recipients only. No automated onward distribution.

NOTE: Handling notice. This document contains operational, personal and evidential material. It may be read only by a person with both the required clearance and a recorded need to know. Extraction of images, transcript segments or metadata creates a new controlled copy.

Identity and visual evidence control

VISUAL ASSET STATUS: Passport image: attached; dossier image frames available: 2; surveillance frames available: 0; identity match: matched by subject/asset map.

Passport-style identity photograph for Diana Carter — IDENTITY EXHIBIT P-01 Controlled identity photograph retained for internal case comparison. Not for release outside this compartment; confirm against the subject record and custody ledger.

Reason for interview or reconstruction

This record concerns the subject's knowledge of black box, MCA; and associated decisions, communications and evidence handling. The scope of this record is confined to the matters set out above and to evidence formally introduced during the session.

Preliminary investigator note

The subject arrived before the scheduled time, requested confirmation that the recording route was isolated, and inspected the exhibit seals before answering substantive questions.

Recorded interview transcript

COMMISSION COUNSEL: State your full name for the record.

DIANA CARTER: Diana Carter

COMMISSION COUNSEL: Do you understand the status of this interview and the limits placed on distribution?

DIANA CARTER: Yes. Record that I have asked for the original media and audit trail to be preserved.

COMMISSION COUNSEL: Have you been offered the representation, legal advice or staff support applicable to this procedure?

DIANA CARTER: Yes. I am proceeding under the conditions already stated.

DOCUMENTARY EXHIBIT D-01 Retained extract: The Leak For a moment, Brooks stared at the phone, the weight of the decision pressing against her ribs. Associated persons: Fiona Ward, Natalie Brooks, Elaine Morris, Damon Carter Relevant systems or locations: black box, MCA

COMMISSION COUNSEL: Do you accept that this extract accurately records an event in which you were involved?

DIANA CARTER: The decision was to contain operational risk, not to conceal a concluded fact. If the original is no longer available, that absence should remain part of your finding.

COMMISSION COUNSEL: What did you understand at that moment, before later analysis supplied a larger explanation?

DIANA CARTER: The paper records the authority. It does not record every warning given outside the room. Check black box against the unprocessed record before you accept the later label.

DOCUMENTARY EXHIBIT D-02 Retained extract: Investigators retained a record concerning the retained record concerning Diana Carter.

COMMISSION COUNSEL: Do you accept that this extract accurately records an event in which you were involved?

DIANA CARTER: I acted on the advice formally available at that time and recorded the limits of that advice. Check the physical record against the unprocessed record before you accept the later label.

COMMISSION COUNSEL: Who else was physically present and capable of confirming your account without relying on the same electronic record?

DIANA CARTER: The decision was to contain operational risk, not to conceal a concluded fact. The missing interval matters more than the wording placed around it afterwards.

COMMISSION COUNSEL: Are you saying the official record is wrong?

DIANA CARTER: I am saying the record should remain evidence, not become an alibi for the system that produced it.

DOCUMENTARY EXHIBIT D-03 Retained extract: Investigators retained a record concerning the retained record concerning Diana Carter.

COMMISSION COUNSEL: Do you accept that this extract accurately records an event in which you were involved?

DIANA CARTER: I acted on the advice formally available at that time and recorded the limits of that advice. If the original is no longer available, that absence should remain part of your finding.

COMMISSION COUNSEL: Why was the matter not escalated through the ordinary reporting route?

DIANA CARTER: The decision was to contain operational risk, not to conceal a concluded fact. the person who held the contemporaneous log can confirm the sequence, but not necessarily the interpretation.

COMMISSION COUNSEL: Is there any material fact you have withheld because you consider this recording or its distribution unsafe?

DIANA CARTER: No fact material to immediate safety. Other matters require a narrower compartment.

COMMISSION COUNSEL: What is the single next action this investigation should take?

DIANA CARTER: Speak to the people who were physically present before asking another database to explain them.

COMMISSION COUNSEL: Do you wish to add or correct anything before the recording is suspended?

DIANA CARTER: Preserve the questions I declined. They may matter more than the answers you expected.

[Recording suspended. Source media sealed. Any resumed session requires a new opening declaration and exhibit schedule.]

Supplemental visual evidence exhibits

Dossier visual exhibit C-01 concerning Diana Carter — DOSSIER IMAGE EXHIBIT C-01 Internal restricted case image retained in the subject folder. Use only within this compartment; verify context against the interview record, source ledger and custody notes.

Dossier visual exhibit C-02 concerning Diana Carter — DOSSIER IMAGE EXHIBIT C-02 Internal restricted case image retained in the subject folder. Use only within this compartment; verify context against the interview record, source ledger and custody notes.

Confidential investigator assessment

The subject's account conflicts with at least one administrative record but not necessarily with the underlying physical evidence. The conflict is an investigative lead, not a concluded finding.

Actions and inconsistencies outstanding

Obtain or compare the independent account of Fiona Ward; do not disclose this transcript before their unaided account is fixed.
Obtain or compare the independent account of Natalie Brooks; do not disclose this transcript before their unaided account is fixed.
Obtain or compare the independent account of Elaine Morris; do not disclose this transcript before their unaided account is fixed.
Preserve and independently verify the original record associated with black box, including audit history and physical custody.
Preserve and independently verify the original record associated with MCA, including audit history and physical custody.
Recover acquisition authority, original-resolution files and adjacent frames for every surveillance exhibit.

NOTE: Finding limit. Nothing in this record establishes guilt, operational direction or final causation unless expressly stated as a supported finding. A valid credential, image or system entry proves only what that item can independently support.

COMMISSION COUNSEL — sealed electronic signature held separately

Evidence custodian — receipt and hash recorded

END OF CONTROLLED RECORD — CTC-063