Government official (San Hieronymo Incident)

Government Officials, specifically High Officials, were officials within the United States Government involved in allowing Gene to steal the ICBMG and Metal Gear RAXA and take over the chain of command at the San Hieronymo Peninsula.

History
At some point in the 1970s, High government officials, whether out of their own free will or on orders from either the CIA or the United States Department of Defense, aided Gene and the now-renegade FOX Unit into stealing the ICBMG and Metal Gear RAXA. However, Gene and his forces turned on at least one of them, and although officially dead, one of them remained in hiding at the Airport.

During the San Hieronymo Takeover, Naked Snake and his resistance unit, under information from someone named "Ghost", learned that a government official was involved in taking the ICBMG. After the failure in stopping the transport of nukes at the Warhead Storage Facility, they traced the airport where the government official was in hiding, and went there and interrogated him on the location of the Silo Complex. After Snake was captured, a government official was escorted through the town by various FOX members. A unit from the resistance located him and interrogated him as to the location of the Guest House, where Snake was currently being held.

Behind the scenes
The government officials can also be recruited. During the recruiting EVA and Ocelot Missions, Snake and his resistance has to interrogate a government official at the Town at night time regarding information about a "man with twirling revolvers" after a spy unit planted in the town located him. Later, a government official was spotted by a spy unit within the Guest House, with the resistance arriving to interrogate him about a radio frequency located within one of the lockers of the Soviet Security Base, although he was attempting to resist them, resulting in them interrogating him twice. Eventually, a spy unit within the Western Wilderness discovered a government official within the Western Wilderness, apparently as a prisoner. The resistance then captures him and recruits him into their ranks. Dialogue through various characters as well as spy reports suggest that they are the same character, although whether there are multiple government officials or just one are not confirmed. The official bio for Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Plus suggests that the government official(s) was/were amateur carpenters by the time of the mission.

Appearances
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Plus