Holly White

Holly White was an American freelance journalist and undercover CIA agent who assisted Solid Snake during the Zanzibar Land Disturbance.

Early career
The daughter of a French mother and a British father, Holly was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on the wars in Afghanistan. She was also a well-known director for KTV and received an Emmy for her acclaimed documentary The Unknown Bloodshed. Holly also worked as a fashion model for the magazine Depeche Vogue. Behind all of this, however, she served as an undercover agent for the CIA, which made use of her status and fame to further its intelligence operations.

In November 1999, Holly infiltrated Zanzibar Land for the CIA while posing as a journalist, during the Zanzibar Land Disturbance. A month later, FOXHOUND agent Solid Snake was dispatched to the country to rescue the kidnapped Dr. Kio Marv, as part of Operation Intrude F014. Snake had been informed that Holly would provide support on his mission, though the briefing report had not included a picture of her. Holly first made radio contact with Snake as he entered the Zanzibar Building, later providing intel to him and serving as a navigator of the fortress' layout.

At one point, Holly's cover was blown and she was captured. Imprisoned in the basement of the Tower Building, she was eventually rescued by Snake and the two met in person. Holly then resumed her intelligence duties, and later disguised herself as an enemy soldier to evade notice. It was Holly who exposed Dr. Drago Pettrovich Madnar's treachery to Snake, when Dr. Marv's rescue ended in failure, having had the CIA look into Dr. Madnar's background due to feeling suspicious of him. After Snake retrieved Marv's OILIX formula, and defeated Zanzibar Land's leader Big Boss, Holly met with him once more and the two made their escape from the fortress. Awaiting extraction via helicopter, both Holly and Snake were forced to hold off an entire platoon of Zanzibar Land troops, before eventually being rescued.

Although Snake had made plans for Christmas dinner with Holly at the end of the mission, these were never met due to Snake's retreat to the Alaskan wilderness.

Behind the scenes
Holly White (ホーリー・ホワイト) appears in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. The original MSX2 version spelled her first name as "Horry" in the ending (as well as in the manual), as did the Previous Operations section of Metal Gear Solid. Later versions of Metal Gear 2 used the spelling "Holly", which was also used in Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes.

Holly's bio in the Metal Gear 2 manual states that she won a Grammy for her documentary "The Unknown Bloodshed." However, Grammies are music awards.