Mitchell Dougherty was a CIA analyst who suffered from an obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Although he knew nothing about itwhatsoever, he was a significant antagonist during the "CIA HQ" mission of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell.
Biography[]
2004: Georgian Information Crisis[]
Employed in the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia, Dougherty operated in a department called "Information Retrieval". Owing to his OCD, he hoarded much of his work onto his personal PC which was not secure: unfortunately for the United States, this was a weakness exploited by Vyacheslav Grinko's mercenaries and Kombayn Nikoladze's computer technicians from the Kalinatek building in Downtown Langley, all of whom hacked into it.
Data sticks and emails to and from the Kalinatek building refer to Dougherty as "little birdie", and the data leak is continually monitored for new information - this leak is a 'peep hole;.
When the NSA group Third Echelon learned of the data leak, Sam Fisher was sent to infiltrate the CIA HQ to investigate this further. Using the CIA computer mainframe, Fisher located the perpetrator's computer and after accessing said machine for confirmation, Dougherty was captured by Sam during his smoke break for questioning by NSA interrogations expert John Baxter. After the questioning, they learned that his OCD was the cause of the data leak. It is unknown what happened to him afterwards. It is also left ambiguous whether the CIA found out that Dougherty's recklessness caused the information attacks.
Trivia[]
- Dougherty worked in "Information Retrieval". This is actually a reference to the 1985 film Brazil.
- Mitchell smokes an average of two packs of cigarettes a day.
- Although a major pawn in the events of the Georgian Information Crisis, Dougherty was absolutely oblivious of the assistance he had been providing America's enemies.
- According to his character biography that Grimsdottir wrote, she would 'hate to be stuck in an elevator with him'.