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I made a thread here >>141232 explaining why Meiman does that. Here's more backstory explanation:
Dr. Pavel was a Russian citizen who was employed by Rosatom (a Russian nuclear energy state corporation). For a 2009 IEEE Symposium, Pavel published a paper detailing how electronically powered nuclear reactors could be weaponized, causing Bateman to shut down his own personal fusion reactor program, fearing that, if in the wrong hands, it could be weaponized as itself could be programmed as it could be run by computer.
The fact that Pavel had this knowledge made him a target of the League of Shadows and the CIA. Bane had already gotten to Pavel before the Russians could retrieve him and so at this time Pavel was being given to Bill Wilson, who assumed it was his job to detain and, if necessary, torture Pavel. Really, Bane saved Pavel from being tortured by the CIA, who would've used extraordinary methods of divulging any information he had on the subject of nuclear power (of course to get ahead of the Russians before they could even get to Pavel to begin with).
From attached image:
>in the Chelyabinsk region.
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>uranium disappeared from the facility.
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>Officials at the [...] launched an investigation but were unable to detain and question Dr. Pavel.
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>Dr. Pavel [...] [unintelligible] in an attempt to sell his services.
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>A local militia in Uzbekistan claimed to hold Dr. Pavel captive and contacted Outpost Sector [...] [unintelligible]-957 for a hand-over.
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>During transit of the prisoner to Forward Base [...]
In the last line, Pavel is referred to as a "prisoner" and is mentioned to having been transited to "Forward Base [...]."
From the
Wikipedia article for
Forward operating base :
A forward operating base is any secured forward operational level military position, commonly a military base, that is used to support strategic goals and tactical objectives.
In most senses of the word, Dr. Pavel was a prisoner of the CIA.