Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-79.52.61.188-20130415085048/@comment-1672596-20130710113956

Mr. Grave wrote: 50.53.154.87 wrote: Hmm... looking back on that briefing tape, I sort of get the sense that maybe Big Boss is being secretive because it might dip slightly into his private life and other personal things he doesn't want to discuss? I second this. He could have also kept his knowledge about Cipher secret to Kaz because he lost faith in him. Although Snake was forgiving, that doesn't mean he kept the same relationship with Miller even after his betrayal. And for you saying that Kaz was already backstabbed by Zero, sure he was, but why would he serve as an instructor in FOXHOUND later on? You do realize that the tape most likely took place between the events of the ZEKE battle and Kaz's admission, right (Kaz was still reacting as though he wasn't aware of Paz's status as a CIPHER agent despite the second ending explicitly revealing from Kaz's mouth to Big Boss that he knew who Paz was and her real allegiances all along)? Big Boss would have absolutely no reason at that point to be secretive of CIPHER to Kaz, especially not for that reason.

As far as his generally being secretive, his attempts at even trying to keep a secret regarding who he was and why he was in Costa Rica were so horribly done that it's a wonder how he was ever ABLE to truly work as a CIA agent. Case in point, when he blew his cover by making a contradiction about what type of photographer he was to Chico (he earlier told the FSLN that he was a bird photographer, but then when rescuing him told him he was a war photographer), he made an unconvincing (especially to himself) attempt to cover (claiming that he was photographing the "birds of the battlefield" in an unsure tone). Don't even get me started at the horrible attempts ate lying to Huey and Cecile about his status as an Entymologist and a Ornithologist. It's almost as though Big Boss wasn't even bothering to try to lie. They had enough holes in the stories for it to be swiss cheese. If he couldn't craft believable lies regarding why he was there, how on earth could he hide his ties to CIPHER. It's one thing to simply not mention his ties, its quite another to try to lie about your cover. Heck, even Campbell was a better liar than Big Boss, and his bad attempts at lying were noted by Solid Snake in the briefing files for MGS.

As for the second theory (that it would work to CIPHER's advantage if Big Boss couldn't connect the dots), I found that hard to believe, as he seemed to not remember ever founding anything with Zero DESPITE Paz flat out telling him what EVA told Solid Snake in MGS4. I could understand his not connecting the dots if it were a simple name change, but he should have at least recognized the story Paz told instead of giving a confused, unfamiliar reaction to it.