

They nonetheless continued with providing important data. ĭespite the positive track records, a lot of people, especially Chris Redfield still distrust them. While this server was intended to be top-secret, hacking methods by unknown persons led to public leaks. weapons, and had access to combat data on the " Umbrella Arsenal System". In operations where Blue Umbrella was involved, BSAA operators were to be armed with Blue Umbrella's anti-B.O.W. Forbidden by the UN to re-activate the Umbrella Security Service, combat duties were to be handed to internationally recognised anti-B.O.W. Tasked with assisting in the War on Terror using the Umbrella Archives obtained by the government in 2003, Blue Umbrella began studying effective means of tackling B.O.W.s. changed the logo to blue to indicate its separation from its predecessor -red- to the public but the company still kept it original name to make it clear to the public that they are cleaning up the mess started by the original Umbrella Corporation as atonement. To ready itself for a new stage in the ongoing War on Terror, Chapter 11 Reorganization was invoked on Umbrella U.S.A.'s assets in 2007, and the company began doing business once more under a new executive consisting of former employees trusted by the US government. Formationįollowing the 2004 Terragrigia Panic, knowledge of Bio Organic Weapons became public knowledge, and the threat of bioterrorist groups acquiring such weaponry intensified. While some may have been acquired by other companies, the controversial nature meant that in the case of Umbrella Japan, no buyer could be found and it was instead liquidated in March 2004. Umbrella Pharmaceuticals declared bankruptcy, with its subsidiaries following suit over the year. This case, dubbed the " Raccoon Trials", finally ended in 2003 with Umbrella being found criminally-liable, and international orders for the arrest of executives were made. Umbrella was banned from conducting business within the United States, and a class-action lawsuit on behalf of the victims' families went underway. With the existence of bio-weaponry kept a secret, the US government formed a policy of shifting all blame for the 100,000 deaths onto Umbrella. To both halt the spread and cover-up the research, the President ordered an experimental thermobaric weapon to be fired into the heart of the city on the morning of 1 October. In September 1998, a viral weapon, a modified ε strain, leaked into Raccoon City's drinking supply and mutated tens of thousands into creatures dubbed " Zombies".

in particular, and the Umbrella Corporation in general aided the United States government in providing bioweapons research contrary to the 1972 Bioweapons Convention. From the 1970s to the 1990s, Umbrella Pharmaceuticals and Umbrella U.S.A.
