Vansell Vansell ( full name Vansellostophossius ) was Coordinator of the Celestial Intervention Agency . He was a determined person who did his utmost to keep Gallifrey in its position of power , and to maintain the Web of Time . Biography . The First Doctor knew him at the Prydonian Academy . He called Vansell by the nickname of " Nosebung " . ( AUDIO : " Neverland " ) Vansell belonged to the Deca , a clique of young Time Lord s and Ladies which included the Doctor and the Master . Like Ushas and Rallon , Vansell did well for himself and received his Rassilon Imprimatur before the Doctor . Vansell had already joined the CIA despite his youth and followed their orders to watch the Doctor closely . He contacted the CIA about the Doctor ' s departure from Gallifrey with Rallon and Millennia , leading to his expulsion from the Academy for his crime . The Doctor was angry about Vansell ' s betryal , and lectured him on the true meaning of friendship . ( PROSE : " Divided Loyalties " ) Angered because he believed the Sixth Doctor had let the Nestene Consciousness escape destruction by the Time Lord s , he set up his trial on Space Station Zenobia ( PROSE : " Synthespians™ " ) He accompanied the Lord President of Gallifrey to the planet Archetryx for the Archetryx Convention — a gathering to discuss the use of time travel capabilities of other races , such as the Monan Host and Andromedan s — but he had another motive there , which the Doctor disliked , of looking and taking any advancements that the other temporal powers had applied to their time machines , and having the CIA adapt them to Gallifreyan TARDIS es . During the attack from the Dalek s , he helped to defend Archetryx and was surprised that the Vagoyan s helped . He escaped with the Lord President , leaving the Doctor , Evelyn Smythe and Lady President Romana II fighting the Daleks when Etra Prime collided . When the Daleks approached Gallifreyan space , disguised as Monan time vessels , he allowed the transduction barrier to be lowered , which enabled the Daleks to invade Gallifrey . He helped the Doctor defeat the Daleks and stop them from destroying the universe with the Apocalypse Element . He was angry that the Doctor erased most of the security system ' s retina scans and replaced it with only Evelyn ' s , but he came round when he realised when it meant the Daleks no longer had a reason to kill so many Time Lord s . ( AUDIO : " The Apocalypse Element " ) Vansell led a Gallifrey an Time Station on an expedition into the world of anti - time to find what he believed to be the body of the Time Lords ' revered founder , Rassilon . He was possessed by anti - time energy , and attempted a coup over Madam President Romana . With her help , Vansell overcame the anti - time influence and trapped a group of Neverpeople ( along with himself ) inside the Time Station ' s temporal reactors . He and the Neverpeople were vapourized by the temporal energy of the reactors . ( AUDIO : " Neverland " ) He was succeeded as coordinator of the CIA by Narvin . ( AUDIO : " Weapon of Choice " ) Alternative timelines . In an alternative timeline , he attempted to warn the Doctor not to enable the Knights of Velyshaa to conquer Gallifrey . When that failed , he attempted to kill him . ( AUDIO : " The Sirens of Time " ) In another alternative timeline in which it was standard policy for the Time Lords to sell their temporal technology to the highest bidder and regeneration s could be extracted and sold , Vansell was a servant at the House of Heartshaven , the ancestral home of Lady Romana . However , he was secretly in the employ of her son Antonin . ( AUDIO : " Reborn " ) In another alternative timeline in which the Time Lords regularly altered history through the Temporal Intervention Agency , Vansell served as Castellan under Lady President Romana . ( AUDIO : " Disassembled " ) In another alternative timeline in which Rassilon failed to finish the Eye of Harmony before his death , Vansell served as Coordinator of the CIA under Lady President Romana . ( AUDIO : " Forever " )