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At his home in the Barracks, Benjamin Linus had a number of passports from various countries under different aliases. Amongst the passports were ones for Brazil, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden, and Switzerland. Sayid discovered the passports in a drawer in a hidden closet. ("The Economist") Ben used a Swiss passport to check into a hotel in Tunisia. ("The Shape of Things to Come")

Ben's Swiss passport[]

  • The name on the passport was "Dean Moriarty"
  • The passport number was 012153
  • The birth date was listed as March 03, 1962
  • Place of birth was listed as Zurich
  • The date of issue was listed as April 02, 2003
  • The expiration date was listed as April 01, 2013
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Ben's passports box as seen at Lost: The Auction

There were a few errors on the passport:

  • It was not the design of a real Swiss passport
  • Swiss passports are printed in 5 languages (de,fe,it,rm,en)
  • There was a typo on the date of issue, it should say 02 AVR/APR 03 and not AVR/PR
  • The international code for Switzerland is CHE and not SWI
  • Instead of "Place of birth" it should read "Place of origin"

Ben's Canadian passport[]

  • Ben used a Canadian passport to check into the hotel in Tunisia.
  • This passport also used the name "Dean Moriarty".

Ben's Brazilian passport[]

  • Ben's Brazilian passport had two spelling errors: first, the country name should read BRASIL instead of BRAZIL, and PASSPORT should read PASSAPORTE.

Trivia[]

  • Dean Moriarty was a character in Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road.
  • Dean Moriarty is the name of Alex Russo's boyfriend in Disney's Wizards of Waverly Place [1]
  • Professor Moriarty was the evil genius villain of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's series of Sherlock Holmes novels.
  • Arvin Sloane, the main antagonist in J.J. Abrams's Alias, based most of his work out of Zurich.
  • Ben's passport ID number is HNSO12153. The same passport ID number is found on Michael's passport.

Unanswered questions[]

Unanswered questions
  1. Do not answer the questions here.
  2. Keep the questions open-ended and neutral: do not suggest an answer.
For fan theories about these unanswered questions, see: Ben's passports/Theories
  • Why does Ben need so many different passports?
  • What has Ben used these passports for in the past?
  • Why does the passport say Dean Moriarty, not Benjamin Linus?
  • Which passports are real?
  • Where did he get them?
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