 December 6, 1994 To whom it may concern, my name is Dr. James Kyle Robinson, and I am a senior researcher with the SCP Foundation, currently holding level 4 security clearance. I was recruited by the Foundation in 1968. My current title is Managing Archivist of Inert Safe Class Objects and Anomalous Item to Site-73, a position I have held since July 7, 1988. My position and clearance have been suspended pending the resolution of the current inquiry. I have been asked by the Ethics Committee to submit a written statement regarding my involvement and knowledge of the events leading up to Security Incident 1981 Delta Sigma. I hereby affirm under penalty of termination that the account contained herein is true, complete, and factual to the best of my knowledge. On August 13, 1992, I was contacted by telephone by a man identifying himself as Special Agent Arnold Rodriguez of the United States Secret Service. Agent Rodriguez stated that he needed to speak to me in person about a manner concerning national security and that he was not at liberty to elaborate over the phone. Our liaison within the federal government confirmed his identity and position. I agreed to the meeting and arranged to meet with him at the offices of Samford Chemical Processing, a front company located in their Site-73, which primarily handles creating cover stories for containment breaches and emergency dispersal of amnesiacs among the civilian population. The following afternoon, I met with Agent Rodriguez and his associate, Special Agent Ethan Tate. Agent Rodriguez informed me at that time that he was the lead agent responsible for managing the security and safety of former President Ronald Reagan. Rodriguez and Tate stated that he had come to the Secret Service's attention that the Foundation was in possession of an anomalous videotape relating to President Reagan, that it had been archived at Site-73 and that they needed access to any information regarding the Tate's origin and nature that the Foundation had access to. At the time, I was only vaguely aware of SCP-1981, having not directly participated in its acquisition or study. I excused myself from the meeting and had a copy of its containment file faxed in the meeting location, which I reviewed personally before proceeding. In accordance with Protocol 87235.432 regarding information sharing with government officials, I briefed Agent Rodriguez and Tate and issued standard confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements to them, which they reviewed and signed. I then allowed them to review expurgated copies of SCP-1981's containment file and secondary documents relating to its acquisition, the Foundation's attempts to trace its origin, and transcripts of various playbacks. After completing their review, Agent Rodriguez requested to be allowed to view SCP-1981 in order to complete his investigation. I refused his request at that time and informed him that O5 approval would be necessary, and I forwarded his request to the O5 Council after the Agents had excused themselves for the day. On December 16th, I received a directive from O5-7 indicating that authorization had been granted to allow Agent Rodriguez and Tate to view SCP-1981 and to produce a Tate reproduction thereof, a request which Rodriguez had not made upon our first meeting. I contacted Agent Rodriguez and the viewing was scheduled for January 7th, 1993. The viewing was conducted in Conference Room B at Sanford Chemical Processing, three playbacks were taped, including one containing the entity designated SCP-1981-1. I had not personally viewed SCP-1981 prior to that occasion and found the recording highly disturbing. If Agent Rodriguez and Tate were disturbed by the content of the speech on the videotape, they made no mention of it as they sat dispassionately and took notes. I met a young couple of St. Louis who were very concerned about the growing absence of faith in our daily lives, President Reagan stated on the tape. They offered me a goblet fashioned from Vladimir Putin's skull and I drank greedily of their virgin daughter's blood, darkness and gultus like a thousand crows fleeing the oncoming storm. Tate transcribed to President's comments on the video while Rodriguez made detailed notes regarding the President's posture, tone of voice, and the nature of the wounds appearing on him. Is all of Judeo-Christian civilization wrong? The destroyers are to the gods as the gods are to men and men are to insects, cold and vast and unsympathetic. This is the hanged king's tribute. Yo-him-te-ay-all Following the third playback, Agent Rodriguez assured me that they had collected all the information they required and the two excused themselves. I next heard from Agent Rodriguez on September 28th of that year. Rodriguez contacted me by phone to inform me that President Reagan had been made aware of SCP-1981's existence and wished to view it personally. It was my opinion that to allow such a viewing would compromise an unacceptable containment breach and I informed Agent Rodriguez as such. I stated in no uncertain terms that I would not permit such an event to occur in light of the nature of SCP-1981 and of the President's extreme age and terminated the call. I did not forward Agent Rodriguez's request at that time. The following day I received a direct phone call from O-57 who instructed me that I was to allow President Reagan to view SCP-1981 as Site-73. I repeated my insistence that to do so would compromise an unacceptable breach. O-57 informed me that tensions between the Foundation and the United States government were high due to political issues beyond my clearance level and that a ceding to the Secret Service's request on this issue would allow the Foundation to maintain its political capital without resorting to extraordinary measures. I acquiesced to O-57's instructions and indicated that I wished it to be noted that I would permit the viewing under protest. Due to pre-existing scheduled conflicts, the viewing was scheduled for February 17, 1994. President Reagan in a Secret Service detail arrived at Site-73 at 1.27 pm. Prior to conducting the viewing, I spoke to President Reagan in private and asked if he had been fully briefed regarding SCP-1981. He indicated that he had read its containment file and had extensively reviewed the notes taken by Agent Rodriguez and Tate during the previous viewing. I informed him that the Foundation was prepared to issue amnesiacs after the viewing if he desired them, and he indicated that they would not be necessary. President Reagan requested and was permitted to view SCP-1981 six times, a Secret Service agent whose name I do not recall taped each playback. I found the content of the speeches given on the video taped to be even more disturbing than I had during the previous viewing, and spent most of the time observing President Reagan himself. The President appeared to be less horrified or disturbed by the video than genuinely intrigued in focus. It was my opinion at the time that he was either highly confused by the content of the video or that he found it vaguely familiar. Following the Ford's viewing, I observed him mouthing in unison to the voice on the tape as it declared, the liberation of Oregon from enemy forces will be complete by the 17th. Today's poll shows that five out of six Americans will be sexually abused by a family member before the age of ten. Please don't hurt me, I just want to go home. And there you go again. Following the final viewing, I repeated my offer of amnesiacs, which the President again refused. During the viewings, I had a great difficulty sleeping and took two weeks' medical leave before returning to work. Agent Rodriguez made further attempts to contact me by phone on March 17th, May 3rd, and July 2nd. I declined to speak directly to Rodriguez on all three occasions and ordered my secretary to inform him to relay any requests to 057. On November 3rd, 1994, at about 3.30 am, I received a telephone call at home from Allen Medford, security director at Site-73, who informed me that a break-in had occurred at Samford Chemical Processing. Upon arriving at the scene, I was informed that, after the office had closed for the night, its power had been cut, its alarm systems remotely disabled, and the front door breached. The night watchmen had been shot multiple times and killed, and the invaders had breached the office's secure vault, where a large quantity of Class A and Class B amnesiacs had been stolen. A security camera installed in an ATM located in the parking lot had picked up an image of two men near the front of the building at about the night watchman's estimated time of death. I recognized the men in the photo as Agent Rodriguez and Tate. A trace of credit lines assigned to the Secret Service found that agents Rodriguez and Tate had boarded an early morning flight to Los Angeles International Airport approximately two hours after the night watchman's time of death. Human security forces were dispatched immediately to the Reagan's family estates in Santa Barbara and Bel-Air. Agent Rodriguez and Tate were apprehended at the Bel-Air residence, where President Reagan was found in a semi-comatose state suffering from an overdose of amnesiacs. During interrogation, Agent Rodriguez stated that President Reagan's behavior had become increasingly erratic following his viewing of SCP-1981. He stated that the president had become introverted and withdrawn from his friends and family, had been rewatching the tape recordings of SCP-1981 for several hours a day, and had begun frequently repeating lines spoken in the recording. Agent Rodriguez stated that he was of the belief that President Reagan had begun to make personal decisions based on the statements made by his counterpart in the recordings, and that he had recently engaged in several bizarre financial investments and written several esoteric and convoluted letters to current and former heads of state and foreign politicians of little note. Agent Rodriguez also stated that the president had attempted to order the assassination of a civil rights lawyer based out of Chicago, a fifteen-year-old high school student in Oslo, Norway, and the four-year-old daughter of a New York investment banker. Rodriguez informed me that he believed the president was losing his grasp on reality and that he needed to have his memory of the viewing removed before he became a danger to himself or others, and that he chose to rob Sanford Chemical Processing of his own volition because his attempts to contact the Foundation and request amnesiacs have been unsuccessful. Foundation medical staff were able to restore President Reagan to lucidity and prevent a Class Omega Mindwipe event, however, as a result of being exposed over seven times the standard dose of Class A amnesiacs by a person not trained at their dispensable, he has suffered extreme memory loss and will likely not regain full control of his faculties or be able to care physically for himself. I oversaw the foraging of an open letter in which President Reagan states that he has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and intends to withdraw from public life. His wife and other persons involved in his daily life have been treated with Class B amnesiacs as appropriate. The actions taken by agents Rodriguez and Tate have been fully disavowed by the Secret Service. By my order, they have undergone Omega Class amnesiac therapy and have been assigned new civilian identities. In closing, I wish to reiterate my opinion that it was a mistake from the beginning to allow President Reagan to view SCP-1981. Any political advantage that the Foundation may have gained from granting the President's request does not compensate for the psychological damage that the President and his family have suffered as a result. I acknowledge that my refusal to speak with Agent Rodriguez following the viewing may have contributed partially to his later actions. I throw myself upon the mercy of the Ethics Committee and pray for a speedy and equitable resolution to this hearing. Dr. James K. Robinson, PhD