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Subject: Tanner — Argus engineer

Overview

This dossier contains confidential records for Tanner — Argus engineer.

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

FORMAL WITNESS INTERVIEW

SUBJECT: Tanner — Argus engineer

CLASSIFICATION: OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE // INVESTIGATION

REFERENCE: CONTROLLED COPY // COT/JOINT/2035/CTC046

Document control

CASE REFERENCE: COT/JOINT/2035/CTC046

SUBJECT: Tanner — Argus engineer

CENTRAL RECORD: COT893097A78ACB3

RANK / APPOINTMENT: Engineer

ORGANISATION: MV Argus engineering crew

VESSEL / POSTING: MV Argus

DATE OF BIRTH: 2005-12-28

PLACE / NATIONALITY: Unknown, Unknown, Not established

INTERVIEW STATUS: Witness / account holder

LOCATION: Secure interview suite — location withheld

DATE: 19 September 2035

LEAD AUTHORITY: Joint Investigation Team

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: 1; surveillance frames available: 3; identity match: matched by subject/asset map.

Passport-style identity photograph for Tanner — Argus engineer — 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 Argus and associated decisions. 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

LEAD INVESTIGATOR: State your full name for the record.

TANNER — ARGUS ENGINEER: Tanner — Argus engineer

LEAD INVESTIGATOR: Do you understand the status of this interview and the limits placed on distribution?

TANNER — ARGUS ENGINEER: Yes. Record that I have asked for the original media and audit trail to be preserved.

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

TANNER — ARGUS ENGINEER: Yes.

DOCUMENTARY EXHIBIT D-01 Retained extract: Investigators retained a record concerning the retained record concerning Tanner — Argus engineer. Relevant systems or locations: Argus

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

TANNER — ARGUS ENGINEER: I am not refusing the question. I am separating what I remember from what I learned afterwards. Check Argus against the unprocessed record before you accept the later label.

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

TANNER — ARGUS ENGINEER: That is broadly how I remember it. I cannot confirm the exact time from memory. the person who held the contemporaneous log can confirm the sequence, but not necessarily the interpretation.

DOCUMENTARY EXHIBIT D-02 Retained extract: Investigators retained a record concerning the retained record concerning Tanner — Argus engineer. Relevant systems or locations: Argus

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

TANNER — ARGUS ENGINEER: I saw what happened. I did not know then what it meant. I will not improve my memory to make the chronology easier.

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

TANNER — ARGUS ENGINEER: That is broadly how I remember it. I cannot confirm the exact time from memory. My answer is limited to what I personally saw, heard or ordered.

LEAD INVESTIGATOR: Are you saying the official record is wrong?

TANNER — ARGUS ENGINEER: 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 Tanner — Argus engineer. Relevant systems or locations: Argus

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

TANNER — ARGUS ENGINEER: That is broadly how I remember it. I cannot confirm the exact time from memory. Check Argus against the unprocessed record before you accept the later label.

LEAD INVESTIGATOR: Why was the matter not escalated through the ordinary reporting route?

TANNER — ARGUS ENGINEER: I saw what happened. I did not know then what it meant. My answer is limited to what I personally saw, heard or ordered.

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

TANNER — ARGUS ENGINEER: I have withheld attribution, not the physical event.

LEAD INVESTIGATOR: What is the single next action this investigation should take?

TANNER — ARGUS ENGINEER: Speak to the people who were physically present before asking another database to explain them.

LEAD INVESTIGATOR: Do you wish to add or correct anything before the recording is suspended?

TANNER — ARGUS ENGINEER: 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.]

Supplemental visual evidence exhibits

Restricted surveillance exhibit S-01 concerning Tanner — Argus engineer — SURVEILLANCE EXHIBIT S-01 Internal surveillance frame retained under the case evidence schedule. Do not treat date, location, association or conduct as established without the source ledger and adjacent frames.

Restricted surveillance exhibit S-02 concerning Tanner — Argus engineer — SURVEILLANCE EXHIBIT S-02 Internal surveillance frame retained under the case evidence schedule. Do not treat date, location, association or conduct as established without the source ledger and adjacent frames.

Restricted surveillance exhibit S-03 concerning Tanner — Argus engineer — SURVEILLANCE EXHIBIT S-03 Internal surveillance frame retained under the case evidence schedule. Do not treat date, location, association or conduct as established without the source ledger and adjacent frames.

Dossier visual exhibit C-04 concerning Tanner — Argus engineer — DOSSIER IMAGE EXHIBIT C-04 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 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

Preserve and independently verify the original record associated with Argus, 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.

LEAD INVESTIGATOR — sealed electronic signature held separately

Evidence custodian — receipt and hash recorded

END OF CONTROLLED RECORD — CTC-046