Operation Outcome is a program that was formed as an improvement over Operation Treadstone and possibly even Operation Blackbriar. Aaron Cross was enlisted under Operation Outcome.
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The Outcome agents had two of their chromosomes altered, giving them better recovery from physical injuries, increased physical performance, pain suppression, enhanced intelligence with additional unknown benefits. Since Treadstone agents were prone to physical and psychiatric ailments such as strength, speed, depression, anger, compulsive behaviors, headaches, sensitivity to light, and in Jason Bourne's case, amnesia. The program may have been designed to overcome those obstacles after Bourne went rogue and Treadstone was upgraded to Blackbriar.
A point of distinction between Outcome versus Treadstone or Blackbriar is that Outcome agents are better prepared to talk their way out of trouble rather than fight (cf. commentary on The Bourne Legacy deleted scenes).
When Bourne and Pamela Landy exposed both Treadstone and Blackbriar to the public in The Bourne Ultimatum, Agent Byer decides to scrub operation Outcome by eliminating the agents (program participants) worldwide and the R&D staff including Dr. Marta Shearing. They hope this will keep the other beta programs like LARX safe.
Unlike Treadstone and Blackbriar, Operation Outcome is not a CIA program. It is like the other two, in that it is a Beta program project.
Members[]
Staff[]
- Retired Admiral Mark Turso
- Terrence Ward - Sterisyn-Morlanta executive, consultant for National Research Assay Group (NRAG)
Associated personnel[]
- Eric Byer - Head of NRAG
- Dita Mandy - NRAG official
- Zev Vendel - NRAG official, specializing in science
- Arthur Ingram - NRAG official
- Lieutenant General Don Paulson - Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) liason
- Dr. Marta Shearing - Sterisyn-Morlanta researcher
- Dr. Donald Foite - Sterisyn-Morlanta researcher
Assets[]
- Outcome-1
- Outcome-2 (Not shown in film)
- Outcome-3
- Outcome-4
- Outcome-5 (Aaron Cross)
- Outcome-6
- Three other unnamed program participants deceased previous to the start of the film.