Kompromat is a letter in Far Cry 5. It can be found in an underground bunker hidden in a shed behind the Sawyer residence in the Holland Valley, next to a large shelving unit containing a VHS tape that is being sought by the CIA.
The letter is written to "Dmitri", a Russian former hotel staffer in the employ of (presumably) the FSB telling him he is to be put under the 'protection' of the Seed Family. It instructs him to guard the tape in his possession until such time as he is no longer being pursued by American intelligence.
Contents[]
- Dmitri -
- You've got the only hard copy of the tape that exists in the world. We're hiding you in plain sight in America. We've found a little religious extremist group in the northwest. They're armed but small time. Should be the perfect cover to shake that CIA assassin on your tail.
- Lay low until we contact you.
- - G. Voronina
Trivia[]
- Both the name and the content of this note are an obvious reference to the infamous real-world rumors surrounding President Donald J. Trump, and this note is just one of several references to a certain supposed piece of salacious blackmail material referenced repeatedly in the mission Patriot Acts.
- The author of the note briefly describes the "small-time" armed Northwestern cult "Dmitri" is to be placed with, suggesting that the Project at Eden's Gate was already firmly entrenched in Montana (having been forced out of its founding city of Rome, GA) by the time he was sent to live with them. Since the in-game tape is based on one rumored to have been filmed in 2013, this means "Dmitri" could've been placed undercover with Eden's Gate as many as five years prior to the game's events.
- The author of the letter, "G. Voronina", is almost certainly a reference to Galina Voronina, a Master Assassin of the Assassin's Brotherhood and formerly of the Order's defunct Russian branch. Although it's certainly possible that there is overlap between the Far Cry and Assassin's Creed universes, (as both series are products of game developer Ubisoft,) and that either Voronina had connections with Russian intelligence services or that her newly-reformed Russian Brotherhood had a hand in recording and/or procuring the sensitive tape. However, it's far more likely that Ubisoft included the reference as an Easter egg for the benefit of gamers who were fans of both franchises.
- This letter was definitely written before the events of the game, as "Dmitri" is already undercover as a cult member by the time the Junior Deputy finds him.