- Not to be confused with Mayer.
Harold Meyer (ハロルド・マイヤー Harorudo Maiyā) is a former CIA case officer originally from East Germany. After retiring, he wanted revenge on Jeremy Stainton for managing the brainwashing experiments that killed his family.
Appearance[]
Meyer is a bald, elderly German man with a skinny build and pale skin. He wears round-cornered glasses and a light-colored dress shirt, also sometimes wearing a black suit with a black bowler hat. In his youth, he had short light-colored hair. He carries a Mauser M712 pistol for a weapon.
Eda Initial Stage history[]
Meyer was born in the eastern part of Germany. Sometime after WWII, his parents did not want him and his sister to continue living in the DDR due to their worry about East Germany's future. Accordingly, Meyer fled with his family out of the country, but they got separated along the way. Whereas Meyer was able to make it to the American embassy in West Berlin, his family and sister were taken into military custody at Camp King, where they were subjected to brainwashing experiments in the CIA's Project Bluebird (renamed Project Artichoke and then renamed Project MKUltra), dying from the torture involved.[1] Later, Meyer officially defected from East Germany and joined the CIA due to his language skills and connections to Germany.[2]
Upon joining the CIA, Meyer accessed the files and reports on Project Bluebird and was devastated to find out that his own family were subjects who were killed. At the same time, Meyer had already started his own family, and he decided that he would not do anything about his old family since he wanted to keep his new family's happiness and he had already pledged his loyalty to the United States government.[1] He eventually became a case officer for the CIA, participating in counter-espionage in Berlin and covert operations in the Middle East and South America.[2] Later, Bluebird/MKUltra was cancelled and became a scandal once some of the details was made public.
Wandering Old Case Officer[]
Later in the 1990s, Meyer was completely depressed after his wife's death the previous year as well as his son and family being killed in an accident years before. Although he was then retired, he was friends with the case officer Chesterton, and they still saw each other at least once a year. After his wife's death and attending a family funeral, Meyer felt alone in the world and had stayed at home. Reading a Pennsylvanian newspaper, Meyer was furious that Jeremy Stainton, who oversaw the brainwashing experiments that killed his parents and sister, was being praised for charity work. Feeling that he could no longer stand by while Stainton was praised as a kindhearted person, Meyer decided to track him down in order to kill him and avenge his family. Days after leaving his house, Chesterton felt suspicious that he had not heard back from Meyer, so he asked Richard Ravencroft for a favor to discreetly track down Meyer.[2]
Going to Stainton's house, Meyer talked with Stainton's wife and found out the place where he would be giving a lecture about his charity work with children.[1] Leaving her house, the elderly man walked away and prepared to confront Stainton. Suddenly, Eda and Amber Whinberry, who were forced to track Meyer down discreetly, spotted him on the sidewalk and pulled up to him. As Amber clarified that she was sent by the CIA to find him, Meyer pulled out his pistol and began firing several rounds into their window, managing to wound Amber in the shoulder and forcing Eda to swerve the car away and into a streetlight pole.[2] Later at the location, Stainton gave his lecture while Meyer disguised himself among the attendees. Once Stainton finished his speech, he walked backstage alone to the waiting room when he was confronted by Meyer holding a pistol. As he tied him to a chair, Meyer asked the scared ex-agent if he remembered what he did at the Juster Mansion in Germany, surprising him.
At that point, Eda and Amber burst into the room with their weapons drawn, prompting Meyer to point his gun at Stainton's head. He asked the women if they were Stainton's maids, and Amber merely pleaded with him to leave the ex-agent alive in exchange for walking away. Answering that he was not interested, Meyer stated that he only cared about killing Stainton, relaying his tragic story and family deaths to the two women. Yelling in a fit of rage, he expressed his disgust at Stainton being praised for charity work, deriding it as a mockery. Claiming that it was how the world unfortunately worked, Meyer proclaimed that he could not let him live due to his countless murders during Operation Bluebird. As he pointed the gun at the back of Stainton's head, Amber tossed a smoke grenade near him. While covering his mouth, the elderly man tried to shoot at the women, but they disarmed him.
Pinning down Meyer, Amber commented that it seemed selfish for him to bide his time while being an active agent and waiting until later to act on his grudge, saying that he was no different than Stainton insofar as making excuses for himself. Looking at her, Meyer warned her to watch her back or her superiors would give her the same lethal fate. Once the police arrived, he was only arrested for criminal trespassing, and Amber guessed that Chesterton would likely arrange for him to be sent to a proper institution to be treated more or less well.[1]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Eda Initial Stage Chapter 07: Wandering Old Case Officer Part 2
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Eda Initial Stage Chapter 06: Wandering Old Case Officer Part 1