Overview
This dossier contains confidential records for Hamid Farouq.
Material is provisional, cross-referenced from recovered files, protected records, and field notes.
COT / MI5 Case File
Restricted
Eyes Only
Maritime Evidence Dossier
Hamid Farouq
Subject: Hamid Farouq
COMPARTMENTED SECURITY INTERVIEW
SUBJECT: Hamid Farouq
CLASSIFICATION: SECRET // UK EYES ONLY
REFERENCE: CONTROLLED COPY // COT/SECURITY/2035/CTC086
Document control
CASE REFERENCE: COT/SECURITY/2035/CTC086
SUBJECT: Hamid Farouq
CENTRAL RECORD: COT01489C1B5AD29
RANK / APPOINTMENT: Rail systems contractor
ORGANISATION: Northern rail infrastructure / recruited decoy operative
DATE OF BIRTH: 2007-05-05
PLACE / NATIONALITY: Manchester, Greater Manchester, British-born
INTERVIEW STATUS: Subject of investigation
LOCATION: Secure interview suite — location withheld
DATE: 26 September 2035
LEAD AUTHORITY: Security Service — Directorate of Internal Security
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.
Reason for interview or reconstruction
This record concerns the subject's knowledge of Hexline, North Sea; 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 asked that every pause, qualification and refusal be retained in the written transcript. No request was made to remove material already placed on the record.
Recorded interview transcript
REVIEW OFFICER: State your full name for the record.
HAMID FAROUQ: Hamid Farouq
REVIEW OFFICER: Do you understand the status of this interview and the limits placed on distribution?
HAMID FAROUQ: Yes. Record that I have asked for the original media and audit trail to be preserved.
REVIEW OFFICER: Have you been offered the representation, legal advice or staff support applicable to this procedure?
HAMID FAROUQ: I have, and I reserve the right to stop if the questioning moves outside them.
DOCUMENTARY EXHIBIT D-01 Retained extract: A personnel record appeared.
REVIEW OFFICER: Do you accept that this extract accurately records an event in which you were involved?
HAMID FAROUQ: I can answer the event or expose the source. I will not do both in an unrestricted recording. I will not improve my memory to make the chronology easier.
REVIEW OFFICER: What did you understand at that moment, before later analysis supplied a larger explanation?
HAMID FAROUQ: I made the judgement with the compartment I held. The people outside it did not have the same picture. The missing interval matters more than the wording placed around it afterwards.
DOCUMENTARY EXHIBIT D-02 Retained extract: Crowley searched across the protected index and shook his head. “Not under Farouq. Associated persons: Martin Crowley Relevant systems or locations: Hexline
REVIEW OFFICER: Do you accept that this extract accurately records an event in which you were involved?
HAMID FAROUQ: I made the judgement with the compartment I held. The people outside it did not have the same picture. My answer is limited to what I personally saw, heard or ordered.
REVIEW OFFICER: Who else was physically present and capable of confirming your account without relying on the same electronic record?
HAMID FAROUQ: I made the judgement with the compartment I held. The people outside it did not have the same picture. The missing interval matters more than the wording placed around it afterwards.
REVIEW OFFICER: Are you saying the official record is wrong?
HAMID FAROUQ: I am saying you should preserve the contradiction instead of choosing the tidier version.
DOCUMENTARY EXHIBIT D-03 Retained extract: Manchester Piccadilly, Northern Freight Zone - 08:10 GMT Hamid Farouq had not been recruited in a prayer room. Relevant systems or locations: North Sea
REVIEW OFFICER: Do you accept that this extract accurately records an event in which you were involved?
HAMID FAROUQ: I made the judgement with the compartment I held. The people outside it did not have the same picture. I will not improve my memory to make the chronology easier.
REVIEW OFFICER: Why was the matter not escalated through the ordinary reporting route?
HAMID FAROUQ: I can answer the event or expose the source. I will not do both in an unrestricted recording. The missing interval matters more than the wording placed around it afterwards.
[Exhibit S-01 introduced. Subject permitted to inspect the displayed copy without handling the source medium.]
REVIEW OFFICER: Do you identify the person shown as yourself?
HAMID FAROUQ: I identify myself in the frame. I cannot authenticate the date from the crop alone.
REVIEW OFFICER: Can you establish the location or date from anything visible in the frame?
HAMID FAROUQ: The location is supportable from the surroundings. The purpose you are implying is not.
REVIEW OFFICER: Were you aware that the image was being made?
HAMID FAROUQ: I was not aware of the camera at the time shown.
REVIEW OFFICER: Who had advance knowledge of your presence at that location?
HAMID FAROUQ: That depends on whether the source is an official system, a copied feed or a separate observer.
REVIEW OFFICER: What does this image prove, and what does it not prove?
HAMID FAROUQ: Preserve the frames before and after it. A single image is a fact about light, not a complete account of conduct.
[Exhibit S-02 introduced. Subject permitted to inspect the displayed copy without handling the source medium.]
REVIEW OFFICER: Do you identify the person shown as yourself?
HAMID FAROUQ: I identify myself in the frame. I cannot authenticate the date from the crop alone.
REVIEW OFFICER: Can you establish the location or date from anything visible in the frame?
HAMID FAROUQ: The location is supportable from the surroundings. The purpose you are implying is not.
REVIEW OFFICER: Were you aware that the image was being made?
HAMID FAROUQ: I was not aware of the camera at the time shown.
REVIEW OFFICER: Who had advance knowledge of your presence at that location?
HAMID FAROUQ: That depends on whether the source is an official system, a copied feed or a separate observer.
REVIEW OFFICER: What does this image prove, and what does it not prove?
HAMID FAROUQ: Preserve the frames before and after it. A single image is a fact about light, not a complete account of conduct.
SURVEILLANCE EXHIBIT S-03 // NOT ATTACHED. The corrected WebP asset bundle does not contain a matching image for this original exhibit slot.
[Exhibit S-03 introduced. Subject permitted to inspect the displayed copy without handling the source medium.]
REVIEW OFFICER: Do you identify the person shown as yourself?
HAMID FAROUQ: I identify myself in the frame. I cannot authenticate the date from the crop alone.
REVIEW OFFICER: Can you establish the location or date from anything visible in the frame?
HAMID FAROUQ: The location is supportable from the surroundings. The purpose you are implying is not.
REVIEW OFFICER: Were you aware that the image was being made?
HAMID FAROUQ: I was not aware of the camera at the time shown.
REVIEW OFFICER: Who had advance knowledge of your presence at that location?
HAMID FAROUQ: That depends on whether the source is an official system, a copied feed or a separate observer.
REVIEW OFFICER: What does this image prove, and what does it not prove?
HAMID FAROUQ: Preserve the frames before and after it. A single image is a fact about light, not a complete account of conduct.
REVIEW OFFICER: Is there any material fact you have withheld because you consider this recording or its distribution unsafe?
HAMID FAROUQ: I have limited answers where disclosure would identify a living source or an untested route.
REVIEW OFFICER: What is the single next action this investigation should take?
HAMID FAROUQ: Compare the surveillance timeline with access, maintenance and movement records before drawing a conclusion.
REVIEW OFFICER: Do you wish to add or correct anything before the recording is suspended?
HAMID FAROUQ: No correction. Only this: an accepted record is not necessarily a true one.
[Recording suspended. Source media sealed. Any resumed session requires a new opening declaration and exhibit schedule.]
Confidential investigator assessment
The subject repeatedly separated instrument output from physical observation. That distinction is supported by known discrepancies in the retained material and should be preserved in any summary.
Actions and inconsistencies outstanding
- Obtain or compare the independent account of Martin Crowley; do not disclose this transcript before their unaided account is fixed.
- Preserve and independently verify the original record associated with Hexline, including audit history and physical custody.
- Preserve and independently verify the original record associated with North Sea, 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.
REVIEW OFFICER — sealed electronic signature held separately
Evidence custodian — receipt and hash recorded
END OF CONTROLLED RECORD — CTC-086