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The [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] used Boren's Syndrome to cover up the side effects experienced by the surviving subjects of the [[ORION Project]] once the program was discontinued and the augmentees (retroactively designated "Spartan-Is") had been dispersed back to the [[ | The [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] used Boren's Syndrome to cover up the side effects experienced by the surviving subjects of the [[ORION Project]] once the program was discontinued and the augmentees (retroactively designated "Spartan-Is") had been dispersed back to the [[United Nations Space Command]] armed forces at large.{{Ref/Reuse|hgn}} | ||
ONI falsified the medical records of at least one of the Spartan-Is, [[Staff Sergeant]] [[Avery Johnson]], to describe him as a sufferer of Boren's Syndrome. He was said to have contracted the disease on [[Paris IV]] after absorbing a dangerously high amount of radiation originating from a crate of captured plasma grenades.{{Ref/Reuse|fs}} This cover-up (known to ONI as the "Paris/BS Spoof") was likely used as a means of deterring any investigation into his altered DNA and physiology, which would have revealed him as a Spartan-I.{{Ref/Reuse|hgn}} | ONI falsified the medical records of at least one of the Spartan-Is, [[Staff Sergeant]] [[Avery Johnson]], to describe him as a sufferer of Boren's Syndrome. He was said to have contracted the disease on [[Paris IV]] after absorbing a dangerously high amount of radiation originating from a crate of captured plasma grenades.{{Ref/Reuse|fs}} This cover-up (known to ONI as the "Paris/BS Spoof") was likely used as a means of deterring any investigation into his altered DNA and physiology, which would have revealed him as a Spartan-I.{{Ref/Reuse|hgn}} |