On June 19th, an email was sent to those who had signed up on the company's website. Whilst informing about an event at Comic-Con 2008, it was noticeable that the email contained a carbon copy address to . On July 18th, another email from Octagon Global Recruiting identified Hans Van Eeghen's role with the DHARMA Initiative. Hans also appeared in person at Comic-Con, and showed a select few from the testing procedure a secret video, which was recorded by Dan Bronson and shown to attendees at the Lost panel.