Cigarette Smoking Man/Syndicate

In 1974, Cassandra Spender was returned and began to be used by the CSM in his hybridization projects. 
Also in 1974, Samantha Mulder was returned from the aliens. Hybridization experiments began on her in April Air Force Base, California. 
In March 1992, the CSM was present at the meeting with FBI Section Chief which assigned to debunk the X-Files. After Mulder and Scully investigated their first X-file in Oregon, the CSM was present with Blevins at ' hypnosis sessions with Doctor Heitz Werber. Afterward, he placed evidence from Ray Soames into a secret file in the Pentagon, where many other boxes containing evidence could also be found 
In 1994, the CIA Agent attempted to interrogate John Barnett. However, Barnett died before any information was given. 
Later that year, he was present with when Skinner reprimanded Agent Scully for her unconventional reports and investigations into the X-Files. He was also present when Skinner reprimanded both Agents Mulder and Scully for possibly injuring . When Mulder and Scully finished their investigation and sent file X 129202 to Skinner, the CSM told Skinner that he believed the file to be correct. 
In May of that year, the CSM placed an fetus in the secret Pentagon files. 
In July, the CSM worked with AD Skinner in trying to ascertain the whereabouts of Special Agent Mulder, who had gone missing. After Mulder was discovered and reported back to Skinner's office, the CSM attempted to goad Skinner into placing Mulder on censure, transfer, suspension, and probation, a "four bagger", but when Skinner discovered that Mulder's phone had been wiretapped, he forced the CSM to leave his office. 
Soon afterward, the CSM sent Agent to work against and spy on Mulder. 
The CSM was present at a meeting, following Agent Scully's disappearance and possible , which tried to ascertain 's whereabouts. He closely observed Agents Krycek and Mulder. Later that day, Krycek contacted the CSM in order to tell him that Mulder had discovered that Barry was going to . After the events of Skyland Mountain, the CSM ordered Krycek to verify Mulder's version of events. When asked by Krycek why they did not simply eliminate Mulder, the CSM claimed it was policy not to eliminate him, or else Mulder's quest would become a crusade. That morning, the CSM observed the meeting with Skinner, Krycek, Mulder and other FBI agents which investigated the death of Duane Barry. 
After Scully's return in November 1994, the CSM visited Skinner's office. He angrily showed Skinner a report and attempted to ask him to put a stop to Agent Mulder's activities. 
In March 1995, the CSM was present in Skinner's office when Agent Mulder reported to Skinner about a case that he and Scully were assigned to, involving a contagion. The CSM asked Mulder questions about the case implying the Syndicate was involved. 
In April 1995, the CSM led a group of Garnet operatives in hunting down Kenneth Soona after he broke into secret MJ documents. When he was unable to discover the MJ documents, the CSM informed the Syndicate that he had them and afterward discovered that Agent Mulder was in possession of the document. 
After discovering that Mulder was at the Two Grey Hills Navajo reservation, the CSM and the Garnet operatives searched throughout the small town for Mulder and the MJ document, but was unable to find him. Soon afterward, the CSM reported to the Syndicate that Mulder had been killed and that the document had been fully retrieved. 
The CSM's next report to the Syndicate didn't go quite as well, as the members were beginning to distrust whether he was in possession of the MJ files and whether Mulder was dead. Skinner later made a deal with the CSM in which Mulder and Scully were reinstated to the FBI and Albert Hosteen, who had told twenty other Navajos of the exact contents of the file, would not inform the public of the contents. The CSM was forced to make the deal. 
In October 1995, the CSM was able to gain Dr. Shiro Zama's records after his death. This helped further the cause of the Syndicate's /human tests. 
In November 1995, while salvaging a UFO, the CSM once again came into contact with people infected with the black oil. When he reported to the Syndicate, they were angered by his operations involving Skinner which put their secrecy at risk. The CSM had placed the salvage UFO and his black oil- infested former operative, Alex Krycek, into a secret missile silo, Silo 1013. 
In March 1996, the CSM was present after AD Skinner was charged with attempting to murder his own wife. He was apparently attempting to discredit Skinner in order to remove the assistant director's support of the X-Files. 
In April 1996, the CSM was behind a scenario involving subliminal messages sent over cable wires. This was discovered by Agents Mulder and Scully. 
In the summer of 1996, the CSM led a task force to capture Jeremiah Smith at the Social Security Administration. Once Smith was captured, he was held in a cell and interrogated by the CSM for several days. When Smith noted that CSM was dying of lung cancer, he was set free CSM later went to watch over Teena Mulder in the hospital. The First Elder came there and confronted CSM about an obvious leak of information. He decided to set a trap for CSM's men to see who it was, and it was successful, as they learned it was X. The CSM saw that Mulder's condition worsened and convinced the Alien Bounty Hunter to heal her, as her son would be more dangerous if he had nothing left to lose. 
The CSM listened in on a conversation between , , Mulder and Scully in which Frohike thought he had found information about his past. He listened in from afar with technology that could cut through their jamming, and also had a sniper rifle trained on the door. He decided not to shoot Frohike after all. 
In November 1996, the CSM contacted AD Skinner after discovering that Mulder and Scully were in possession of a diplomatic pouch. He was sent by the Syndicate to retrieve the pouch, which had highly classified secrets within it. He reported afterward to the Well-Manicured Man that Mulder had been spotted on a plane in Russia. 
Soon afterward, the CSM was ordered by the Well-Manicured Man to discover who assassinated his physician. The CSM discovered the assassin, and his tie to the Russians, who had been attempting to inoculate their comrades from the black oil. Later, he was able to call off a congressional hearing started by Agents Mulder and Scully. 
The CSM went to Mulder's office to meet Skinner. There, Skinner insisted he knew CSM knew what happened to Scully and that he could have it fixed. He asked him what it would take. Without agreeing to anything, the CSM simply said he would need to get back to him and left. Later, he went to Skinner's office to make the deal. 
In April 1997, the CSM ordered Skinner to scrub evidence of Jane Brody's death, and, discretely, sent the Grey-Haired Man to observe and "finish the job" (murder Detective Ray Thomas) if he didn't. He threatened Skinner afterward, and made sure to note he is involved with him and cannot go to the authorities without implicating himself. 
He then reported to the Syndicate the progress with escaped smallpox-carrier bees, which he had exterminated, and the fact that he had a "man in place" to insure that that wouldn't happen again. Later, he found Skinner in his apartment threatening him at gunpoint, convinced the CSM will not help Scully. In his sly way, the CSM assured him he would, and Skinner decided not to kill him. Then, he got a call from Covarrubias for instructions on what to tell Mulder. He told her to tell him what he wants to hear. 
In October 1997, the CSM investigated Fox Mulder's apparent death. Despite the fact that the Syndicate believed Mulder to be dead, the CSM had his doubts. He was infuriated when he thought the Syndicate had sent someone else to keep Mulder in check. He later discovered that Mulder was in fact alive, and allowed him to retrieve the cure for Scully's cancer. 
Shortly afterwards, the CSM reported to the Syndicate about Mulder still being alive. He claimed that he had allowed Mulder to escape with Scully's cure in order to insure Mulder's loyalty. Perhaps in response to this breach of security, the First Elder sent an assassin who shot the CSM in his apartment. 
After the shooting, the CSM left the United States and retired to a cabin in North Hatley, Quebec, Canada. 
In May 1998, the Syndicate brought the CSM out of retirement. Krycek was sent with another man to get the CSM in Canada. The CSM shot the other man, but Krycek cornered him. The CSM met with the other Syndicate members and, after making a quip about the inability of the man who shot him to kill him, was asked to deal with the Gibson Praise situation. After booking a room at the Avalon Hotel, the CSM went to the psychiatric Hospital to meet up with Jeffrey Spender to tell him that he pulled the strings to get him the case and to warn him to know who to trust. On the street, the CSM was confronted by the WMM about his lack of progress when he found out Mulder went to DA about Praise. The CSM, however, insisted it was just a game. He sent the Black-Haired Man to kill the Assassin and kidnap Praise so he could turn him over. Afterwards, the CSM burned down the X-Files office in the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building. AS he left the building, he met up with Jeffrey again, and told him that he was his father. 
In August 1998, the CSM worked with Dr. Ben Bronschweig after an outbreak of Purity occurred in Blackwood County, Texas. He saw the firefighter who had been exposed to purity, however, this time the man was alive, being used for organic material. This was unlike what he had seen before, and ordered Bronschweig to test the vaccine on it. The CSM then went to London to attend Syndicate leader Conrad Strughold's meeting to address this sudden development. Afterwards, he sent the Black-Haired Man to obtain Agent Scully, who had been affected by the virus. He traveled with the bubble litter and the BHM on the plane to Wilkes Land, Antarctica to watch over her delivery into the buried UFO there. Soon, he discovered a breach of security when Mulder secretly arrived and, when the ship rocked, he realized Mulder had the vaccine and introduced it into the system. The CSM ordered all of the men to abandon the post and left Mulder. 
In September 1998, the CSM reported to Strughold in Foum Tataouine, Tunis, concerned that Mulder may have seen too much. This concern was brought on when he received word that the X-Files had been re-opened Later that month, the CSM reported to the Syndicate about a fully gestated alien on the loose in Phoenix, Arizona. He was sent by the Syndicate to "dispose" of the problem. He was able to release Gibson Praise from Syndicate custody in order to find the creature. He then went to Spender and congratulated him about how he handled the case and Mulder. He admitted he has killed before, but also stated one could not kill what a man stands for. 
By November 1998, the CSM was still keeping tabs on Mulder and Scully by consulting with Assistant Director . He was present when Agent Scully attempted to ask Kersh for the use of Navy satellites. Afterwards, he attempted to contact Agent about the information, and later worked with Kersh and Spender to discover what Agent Scully was doing. 
In early 1999, the CSM learned of the killings at the Potomac Yard. He investigated on the scene and knew it was the alien rebels that had killed the doctors, though Eugene Openshaw had survived and been taken to St. Mark's Medical Center. The CSM was able to clean the area of some key evidence and went to the hospital to find out what happened from Openshaw. Surprisingly, he learned that Cassandra was now a successful alien-human hybrid and the rebels wanted to expose the conspiracy by taking her alive. Openshaw noted that he would be questioned, something neither of them wanted. As he was confined in a medical bed and immobile, the CSM then manipulated the medical equipment to kill him. He left and reported to the Second Elder about the rebel attack and of an emergency Syndicate meeting to discuss. There, the CSM briefed the group on the attack. Oddly, the Second Elder suggested joining the rebels. As Krycek argued with him, the CSM gradually realized that the Elder was not really himself, and cut Krycek off. He ended the conversation by simply saying they will proceed with their plan they have had for 50 years. 
The CSM had also instructed his son to catch Mulder and Scully in his office in order to have them suspended for trespassing in the X-Files office. This was to keep Mulder at bay, but his son was not so aware and came back to him at the Syndicate meeting room, demanding to know the truth about his mother. The CSM dismissed this, since he was not confident his son could handle knowledge of the full truth. Spender objected, and the CSM slapped him twice to get the message across. He intercepted his son again later, giving him a mission to kill the rebel who was impersonating the Second Elder, in order to give him a "fighting chance" of rejoining his good graces. 
Nevertheless, the CSM did not have confidence in his son or anyone else to do what needed to be done. He decided to confide in Diana Fowley and she agreed to help him. 
At the next meeting of the Syndicate, the CSM encouraged the option of handing over Cassandra in order to save themselves. The group agreed, and so preparations were made. The CSM went to Fowley's apartment to look for his son when he found Mulder already there, looking through her things. He confronted the CSM at gunpoint about his new revelations. The CSM insisted Mulder had his story wrong, that his father gave his sister up to save her and work on a vaccine to save him as well, not just themselves. Mulder wanted to kill the CSM, but could not. The CSM left the apartment. After giving Mulder the name of the location where the family members are being returned, El Rico AFB, he left.
The CSM then left to get Cassandra in order to return her to the aliens. The CSM tried to have a moment with Cassandra where they would look to the future, but she vehemently disagreed with his plan, and encouraged him to kill her to stop colonization. The CSM could not, and, apologetically, left her to the group of doctors. The CSM escorted her with them via train car to El Rico. Unbeknownst to him, Mulder and Scully tried to intercept the train, but were unsuccessful. They arrived at the hangar and joined the rest of the Syndicate after meeting up with Fowley, who had just been with Mulder. CSM noted Krycek was absent, however, there was not time to dwell on it as the aliens entered the hangar prematurely. Indeed, they were actually the alien rebels and they quickly surrounded the group, however, the CSM was able to see it coming and both him and Fowley quickly escaped by car. 
Category:Cigarette Smoking Man