=====================================================================From: Henry Peter Gyrich, Anti-Mutant Task Force

To: Simon Trask, Director OpsStephen Lang, Deputy OpsBureau Chiefs

EYES ONLYAs requested, summary information on mutants known to be behind the "Fortress X" barricade.Full files and supporting documentation available on request.

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CIVILIAN NAMENot clearly established. Aliases include Eric Lensherr and Magnus Eisenhardt: either could behis real name, as all relevant records have been destroyed, we believe by Magneto himself.KNOWN RELATIVESMagda Eisenhardt: Wife, dead (circumstances of death not known).Wanda Maximoff: Daughter, and Pietro Maximoff, son. Both dead (see: Operation Red Hot)Lorna Dane: Possibly another daughter. Was incarcerated at Alcatraz, but died while trying toescape. Officers were disciplined: her use as a bargaining counter against Magneto might havebeen considerable.COMMENTSMagneto is clearly the biggest threat we currently face. Attempts to capture or kill him using"Minimum-metal" Exonim units of Mark-IV and V types have all failed, although we believethat the Baton Rouge ambush left him wounded.

I think our mistake in the early operations was in viewing Magneto purely and simply as aterrorist. He actually has a formidable strategic mind and a radical agenda which goes beyond

simple resistance or protest. He organized two extremely successful mutant terrorist cadres thatwe know of (see: Brotherhood, Acolytes) and also provided logistical and intelligence supportfor the Mutant Liberation Front. His attempt to reverse the Earth's magnetic poles would havesucceeded if it hadn't been for the intervention of Tony Stark and Reed Richards, whose fieldvalence manipulators are still running full-time to prevent a repetition of that crisis.

The truth is – and please don't take this as any kind of an endorsement – Magneto is an idealist.In other circumstances, if we hadn't been able to roll out the Exonim program when we did tocull mutant numbers so effectively, it's possible that he might have mobilized them into aterrifyingly potent force. Subject Simon Hall admitted under interrogation that Magneto hadplans to found a mutant republic on Genosha. I leave you to imagine the implications of that, inlight of the invaluable technical support that the Genoshan magistrates have provided to our ownpeople.

Bottom line: even if the opportunity of taking Magneto alive were to arise, I'd advise against it. Iwouldn't lower the threat assessment on his file until I'd seen him not just killed but ground intofine powder and scattered over the Eastern seaboard.

CIVILIAN NAMEScott SummersKNOWN RELATIVESParents: dead.Alex Summers, Brother. Died while resisting arrest. (See: Operation Clean-Sweep)Gabriel Summers, Brother. In induced coma at Barton-Howell research facility.COMMENTSSummers' power is to emit beams of energy from his eyes: intensely powerful, without recoil,upper limit still unknown. The power kicked in at age 14, which seems to be typical. Nowarning, and there were a whole lot of people nearby. He was in a cinema: a John Waynefestival in Anchorage. Seven fatalities, two of whom were Summers' mother and father.

He was incarcerated at our Buffalo holding unit for two years, then transferred to Alcatraz underthe terms of the Emergency Powers Act, when the prison became a specialized, mutants-onlyfacility. There he came to the attention of the prison governor, Harcourt Teesdale – known to theinmates as "Arcade" because of the mutant-themed amusements he would set up for guards andvisitors (my report: 12/07/08).

It was Arcade who discovered that ruby quartz inhibited the propagation of Summers' energypowers. He had Summers fitted with a face mask, complete with ruby quartz lenses in theeyeholes, and he surgically removed Summers' eyelids in order to remove from him any way ofshutting off his eye-beams by his own choosing. As "the Basilisk," Summers then became abespoke form of execution for other mutant inmates at the prison.

Summers is believed to have killed Arcade in the course of his escape, but damage to the bodywas so extensive that it wasn't possible to determine cause of death.

I believe that Summers is motivated primarily by a desire to expiate the guilt of the deaths he'scaused. His commitment to the mutant cause is unshakeable, and the threat level he representscannot be exaggerated.

CIVILIAN NAMEAnna-Marie Darkholme.KNOWN RELATIVESRaven Darkholme. Died in custody.Irene Adler. Died in custody.COMMENTSThis was a classic case of the agency shooting itself in the foot. When Darkholme and Adlertested X-gene positive and were arrested, why did nobody think to test the girl? She was onrecord as an adoptive child, but we know by long experience that mutants stick to their own:there was a better than fifty percent chance that Anna-Marie would have tested positive, too, andshe could have been taken into custody then, before her powers even manifested, at zero risk toour agents on the ground.

Instead, she went feral: dropped out of sight and survived somehow on the streets of variousMississippi towns before heading East. She's known to have encountered the Mutant LiberationFront in New York just before their attacks on Trask Corporation subsidiaries. We haven't beenable to establish whether Legacy took any part in those attacks, but she definitely provided intelfor them – obtaining site details and security codes by making casual skin-to-skin contact withemployees. She absorbs memories directly by touch, and is apparently also able, in the case ofmutants or other super-powered subjects, to absorb enhanced abilities in the same way.

We're missing a few links in the chain that brings her eventually into Magneto's orbit. Again, wecan't link her to any of the atrocities he committed in Genosha, San Francisco or New York, butthey certainly met at least once before the Fortress X barrier was raised. We're exploring thepossibility that they had an intimate relationship. Testimony given under duress by subjectSimon Hall (aka "Neophyte") seem to point to this.

CIVILIAN NAMESamuel Zachary GuthrieKNOWN RELATIVESExtremely numerous. Father, died in mining accident, main shaft, Barton and Marshall MinesCumberland facility.Paige Guthrie (Husk), sister, at large and known to have taken refuge at Fortress XMother and remaining siblings died while resisting arrest (See: Operation Clean-Sweep).COMMENTSField observations by surviving Exonim officers who have engaged with the mutants behind theforce walls indicate that Guthrie is a high-ranking field commander and possibly i/c mutantcombat units as far as day-to-day operations go. He's a good choice, from their point of view.Has a history of turning bad situations around and running up crazy but successful battlestrategies out of whole cloth.

He's vulnerable, though. His blast field only protects him from attack while he's moving, and hecan't move all the time. Exonim forward units are drilled in the necessity to track Guthrie while

he's in motion, but not to fire until he stops to give orders or assists to other mutant forces. I'mconfident that this patience will bear fruit.

Moreover, the deaths of his family damaged him. I never got the chance to interrogate himmyself, but our infiltrator in the X Force combat cell, Vanessa Carlysle (aka Copycat) indicatesin her reports that he talks a lot about his mother, and his guilt at not having saved her. Carlysledescribed a rift between Paige Guthrie and her brother, caused by Paige's resentment at herbrother's apparent unwillingness to embark on a campaign of violence in retaliation for their ownloss.

It was Paige who pushed Samuel to form the X Force cell, and directed their combat operationsbefore they made contact with Magneto and joined the Fortress X resistance group. Knowingwhat we now do about Samuel himself, it seems his willingness to let his sister take the lead inthose early operations arose from his ambivalence about the levels of violence that X Force wasusing.

Footnote: it was Paige Guthrie who ultimately unmasked Carlysle, and – we believe – killed herrather than allow her to complete her mission and download remaining intel to us.

CIVILIAN NAMERemy Etienne LeBeau.KNOWN RELATIVESNo blood relatives.Adoptive father, Jean-Luc LeBeau, currently in long-term custody at Angola.COMMENTSLeBeau was a career criminal even before his mutant powers kicked in, and – as far as ourrecords can show – he continued to be involved in crimes of theft and breaking and entering for along time thereafter, avoiding detection as a mutant through his own skills and his extensivecontacts in the New Orleans criminal underworld.

The bureau suspected for a long time that there might be a mutant working for one of theLouisiana crime syndicates, and twice came close to arresting him – once when he left his home

territory and traveled to Europe in connection with a jewel theft. The breakthrough, though,came when one of LeBeau's own confederates, Julien Boudreaux, handed him over to us as partof a plea-bargain.

We tried to turn him, obviously: his cynicism and criminal background made him prime material,as far as we could see. Turned out, though, that he hated the authorities enough to resist all offersand all attempts to condition him. The decision was made to transfer him to Alcatraz and put himon the list for execution.

Great plan, in principle: in practice, though, he never got there. Some idiot let him get one of hishands free, and the armored truck they were transporting him in went up like a home-madecherry bomb. Officers on the ground couldn't identify any of the body parts, and another idiotcertified LeBeau as dead at the scene. By the time I got onto it and the threw a dragnet out, hewas gone.

The next time he surfaced was in Fortress X.

Oh, that gun he carries? It's a Jennings Volition Repeating rifle that dates from 1850 – a pricelessantique. We don't know where he sources the hollow-ball ammunition, but we do know he useshis bio-kinetic energy powers to charge up the bullets before he fires. You should think of that asa bazooka on his shoulder, rather than a rifle.

CIVILIAN NAMEUnknown.KNOWN RELATIVESNone.POWERSNot fully determined.COMMENTSI'm not prone to nightmares, but if I was, I'd probably be having them about this mutant. I wasgoing to say "woman," but what is she, really? Long range analysis seems to indicate that there's

no actual flesh-and-blood body under there, just a field of patterned plasma. She/it uses thedesignation Revenant, which as you know is just an old-fashioned word for a ghost, somethingthat comes back from the dead.

So is she saying she's Jean Grey? That somehow she survived the Albany explosion and thesubsequent USAF bombing strikes, and came back as a ghost made out of ionized gases? I mean,if that's the message Magneto wants us to get, then why not just go ahead and call her Phoenix?What rattles me is that we haven't been able to find out anything – not one, single detail – aboutRevenant's life prior to Fortress X or her arrival there. We have no visuals, no CI statements, noclue from wiretap or remote-listening files, no whiff of a clue as to who she is or where she camefrom.

What we do know is that she's telekinetic – one of the mutants who renew the force walls whenthey start to fail under our bombardment – and that the energy halo she trails around with hermimics the shape and configuration of the Phoenix effect reported and partially investigatedduring the Albany disaster.

Then again, if she's Phoenix, why haven't they turned her loose on us? Maybe they're scared ofher, too.

CIVILIAN NAMEJoanna CargillKNOWN RELATIVESGareth Cargill (brother). Whereabouts unknown.COMMENTSThe thing I can't decide about Cargill is whether or not she's a functional psychopath. You knowsome of the atrocities that have been attributed to her – inventive, sadistic, completelyunrestrained by anything you could call conscience.

I had the opportunity to interrogate her myself when she was at Ryker's, the first time she wascaught, and I actually asked her that question. "Do you think you're crazy, Jo? Do you think youneed help?" She laughed. A lot. She said in her opinion what messes you up is feeling somethingand holding back on it. She said she's got the healthiest mind out of anyone – no repression, noproblem.

Three days later she derailed the train that was carrying her to Alcatraz, killing nineteen people(most of whom were civilian passengers in other coaches, not law enforcement officers) andaffecting her escape from custody.

I don't know what it would take to blunt her edge. She's completely invulnerable, to the pointwhere nothing will even scratch her skin. You could put a diamond drill to her forehead, turn itup to full, and she wouldn't feel it.I speculate that means she can't feel anything else, either. That emotionally as well as physically,nothing can get through to her.

I'd love to be proved wrong. Be nice if she had an Achilles heel.

CIVILIAN NAMEAmara [surname unknown]KNOWN RELATIVESnoneCOMMENTSAnother import we could well have done without – and almost as big of a question mark asRevenant. We know she came up through Mexico, and we backtracked her from there to Brazil,but despite intensive efforts, that was as far as we got. It was as though she walked into the worldfully formed. She doesn't exactly look like she lived in that part of the world for any length oftime, does she?

Magma came to the party late, so to speak. Alpha and beta Exonims were already deployed, andthey zeroed in on her in the desert West of Tucson. There's an intriguing piece of camera footagefrom one of the Exonim suits that survived partially intact. It shows unit B-1073 orderingMagma to stop and surrender, and then – when she ignores the command – cutting loose on herwith a flamethrower. She turns around in the spray of ignited napalm, lifting her arms, bowingher head, getting every part of her body saturated like someone in the shower. Then she walksacross to B-1073 and she melts him; which given the heat tolerances of the beta unit, means she'sgenerating a temperature of around 5000 degrees Fahrenheit.

We know she was looking for Magneto, and she hooked up with him around the time of theambush in Nevada (see: Operation Pig Iron) which almost killed him. It's theorized that herarrival knocked out or distracted several squads of the non-ferrous Exonims, enabling Magnetoto survive what we all thought was a completely inescapable trap.

There's a whole lot of officers in the field who want to deliver a little payback to this kid. Thirdbattalion took the unusual step of putting a bounty on her – all unofficial, and all in good fun.The guy who gets a confirmed kill gets a month's furlough. Colonel Risman told me it's againstregs but good for morale, so he turns a blind eye.

CIVILIAN NAMEDouglas Ramsey.KNOWN RELATIVESPhilip and Sheila Ramsey. Parents. Father turned the son in on the amnesty program (secondoffer), and underwent voluntary sterilization as an X-gene carrier. Mother committed suicide ayear later.COMMENTSWe were holding Ramsey at one of the LS (limited security) units on the Pacific Coast. We hadhim pegged as a low risk, and I still hold to that initial evaluation. His powers appeared to relateto the acquisition of languages, and therefore to be more or less irrelevant in a combat situation.

He still managed to escape, though, by subverting one of the guards (Eileen Haloke). She waspart-Navajo, and Ramsey forged some sort of emotional bond with her by speaking to her in theNavajo tongue. She freed him from his cell and then accompanied him when he escaped from thecompound. She was sighted with him on numerous occasions thereafter.

But she wasn't with him on August 5 of the following year, when – traveling on foot through theFinger Lakes area of New York State – he was at ground zero for a meteor strike which had beentracked by NORAD as coming in from the direction of the Perseid cluster. First forces arrivingon the scene found Ramsey apparently infected by some sort of alien matter whose make-up –judging from inert samples obtained afterwards – included hitherto unknown compounds of bothcarbon and silicon. This alien matter was able to replicate in a quasi-viral manner, and it spreadthrough Ramsey's whole system in the space of minutes.

Accurate intel as to what happens next is hard to obtain. The units on site, who were waiting forthe arrival of Hazmat teams so that they could apprehend Ramsey without risk of infection,suffered simultaneous failure of all electronic systems. Survivors reported seeing Ramsey"speaking in tongues" – screaming out disconnected words and phrases in a variety of languages,some of which weren't languages of all but high-pitched squeals like the data squawks of amodem. Some observers thought that he was shouting "help me", identifying that commonphrase in five different language clusters.

Perhaps our people dropped their guard because Ramsey seemed so helpless – because he wasclearly in agony and more or less incapacitated. If they'd moved quickly enough, they might havekilled him at that point with a single well-placed shot. A moment later, the Exonim units turnedon each other, discharging all their weapons in a three-second exchange of fire which caused aforty-meter wide crater. As we now know, Ramsey himself was not harmed in that conflagration.Or, to look at it another way, he died. The thing that uses Douglas Ramsey's shape now isarguably the thing that came down in that meteor.

It's just a crying shame that it still thinks of itself as a mutie.

CIVILIAN NAMEJames ProudstarKNOWN RELATIVESJohn Proudstar (brother). Died in custody.Bethany Proudstar (half-sister). Took own life.COMMENTSProudstar came to our notice after an initial Exonim sweep of Arizona and New Mexico led tothe death of his brother and the incarceration of several known confederates. We knew there wasanother X-gene positive in the area, but until post-mortem examination of John Proudstaridentified him beyond doubt as a mutant, we didn’t have any description to go on. This was inthe early days of the Exonim program, so dedicated hunter cadres were thin on the ground andconcentrated – for political reasons – on the East Coast.

Proudstar proved exceptionally resourceful and resistant to capture. Conventional forcesdeployed against him seldom even raised his trail. When a hunter cadre was eventually sent, helured seven Exonims into a box canyon and destroyed them by toppling rock chimneys on them.He even showed a certain satirical humor in choosing the site of this ambush – known locally asWasted Effort Rock.

Local bureau chiefs will be aware that we attempted to set up our own ambush using Proudstar’shalf-sister, Bethany, as the bait. This plan was to some degree frustrated by her suicide, butProudstar walked into the ambush in any case, determined to retrieve the woman’s dead body.His state of mind at that point is unknown, as he killed every officer present.

The next time he surfaces is at Fortress X. Unusually, the name Berserker was given to him notby his own side but by our forces. His recklessness and unthinking ferocity repeatedly play rightinto our hands: then he tears his way out again.

CIVILIAN NAMEJulian KellerKNOWN RELATIVESWilliam and Elizabeth Keller. Parents. Serving life terms at Lompoc federal prison for harboringa mutant. Elizabeth identified as X-gene bearer and sterilized.James. Brother. Dead (see Operation Clean-Sweep).COMMENTSKeller came from a rich family – new money, but plenty of it. That probably helped him to stayoff our radar for as long as he did, although former West Coast Director Robert Monahan wascertainly both unwise and premature when he declared the Western seaboard mutant-free.

Keller might have evaded capture for many years longer if it hadn’t been for his own arrogance.He allowed himself to be seen at Los Angeles clubs and restaurants, and maintained a highlydistinctive 1967 Chevrolet Camaro. Following that trail without undue difficulty, MRDinvestigators found that Keller had been living for a year and a half in a bespoke undergroundshelter fitted out to luxurious standards.

The next sentence ought to read: “and that shelter became his burial mound.” However, the fieldofficer assigned to the operation wholly underestimated Keller’s telekinetic powers. A laserattack intended to kill him instantly, before he even knew an attack was imminent, succeededonly in severing his hands and forearms. Keller was able to stanch the flow of bloodtelekinetically, and tore his way through the attacking Exonims to effect an audacious escape.Three jet fighters pursued him: the largest piece of metal obtained from the subsequent wreckagemeasures seven millimeters.

Keller was one of the last mutants to make his way to Fortress X, having by that time survivedon his own resources for three years. He was part of no resistance group, was sheltered by nopro-mutant agencies and made contact with no foreign sympathizers. He seems to have made apoint of pride out of not accepting any help from others.

It’s not known what finally brought him to respond to Magneto’s call. Perhaps he reached thelimits of his own sturdy self-reliance. Or it could be that Megan Gwynn (see below) had a handin recruiting him, as she’s known to have done for Sofia Mantega and Sidney Green.

CIVILIAN NAMEMegan GwynnKNOWN RELATIVESOwen and Brenda GwynnGrandparents. Dead.Possibly related to Jason Wyngarde (Mastermind): DNA comparison was suggestive, butinconclusive.COMMENTSGwynn was born in Wales, and there’s ample reason to wish she’d stayed there. She and hergrandparents were part of a general expulsion of X-gene positives from the United Kingdom,with the apparent intention of settling them on a series of small islands in the Irish Sea.

That plan became moot when Irish separatists bombed one of the ships carrying the transportees,and the others turned back. The Mutant Liberation Front seized control of the ship carrying

Gwynn (we believe it also numbered Jonathon Starsmore and Elizabeth Braddock among itspassengers) and ultimately were able to berth it at the Canadian port of Saguenay.

Gwynn was as green as grass when she arrived, and was one of many mutants recruited,groomed and trained by East Coast mafia crime families. It’s known beyond doubt that sheserved the Carcotti organization as a runner and enforcer. Must have been quite a culture shockfor a kid brought up in the Welsh valleys, but – obviously – she survived and thrived in thatDarwinian environment.

Fun fact: Gwynn used to have butterfly wings, and went by the nausea-inducing pseudonym ofPixie. Her current shoulder accessories are more demonic in nature, and apparently they arrivedon the night of the Bleecker Street Massacre (qv). As far as we know, Gwynn hadn’t killedanyone up to that point. God knows, she’s making up for lost time now.