Donald Anderson
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| Donald Anderson | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Affiliations | DARPA |
| Game series | Metal Gear Solid |
| Appears in | Metal Gear Solid |
| First game | Metal Gear Solid |
| English voice actor | Greg Eagles |
| Japanese voice actor | Masharu Sato |
Donald Anderson was the office chief of DARPA during the Shadow Moses island incident. As an advocate of the nuclear retaliation theory, he funded the Metal Gear REX project with ArmsTech as part of the US' black budget. He and Baker visited the Disposal Facility where REX was developed, only to be taken as hostages during Liquid Snake's takeover of the facility.
He was interrogated by Revolver Ocelot when he refused to divulge his detonation code to the terrorist. However, Anderson was aware of Ocelot's true identity as Solidus Snake's spy and was killed during a torture session, making his death appear accidental. As a result, Liquid arranged for Decoy Octopus to take his place as a hostage and trick Solid Snake into revealing of an alternate method of activating REX. Snake found the decomposed corpse of the real DARPA Chief while held in captivity by Ocelot, but is not aware of the switch until Vulcan Raven revealed it to him.
He appeared to had been a personal friend of Jim Houseman, who laments his death. Anderson was the only person Houseman intended to spare during the Shadow Moses incident and he also intended to steal the Metal Gear REX data from Baker and had it delivered to Houseman.
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It could be theorised that Sigint is Donald Anderson, thanks to Sigint joining ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) which was later re-named DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency); and when Anderson discovered the true identity of Revolver Ocelot. However, no official word has been said on the subject.
