Harley Burl was a prisoner captured by the Chimera and taken to a sulfide pit owned by Hasbro Mining near Madison, Wisconsin from November to December 1951. On the way there he befriended former Secretary of War Henry Walker. Initially, he never recognized nor knew of Walker's identity before he soon learning from a old tattered newspaper. He subsequently learned from Walker about President Noah Grace's treacherous compromise with the Chimera, Project Omega, and as well a recording tape of the said conspiracy in which it would potentially incriminate Grace.