Cigarette Smoking Man/Relationships

===Family===
====Fox Mulder====
The CSM refers to Mulder as his 'son.' After visiting the Mulder family in the 1960s, the CSM would fondly remember young Fox and Samantha playing The fact that the CSM is his biological father has been noted in The Sixth Extinction: Amor Fati. When Scully encounters Jeffrey Spender in his disfigured state she tests his DNA and believes him to be Mulder himself because their DNA is similar, but she eventually realizes him to be Jeffrey Spender, related by blood. Jeffrey Spender tells the military tribunal that Fox Mulder is indeed his half-brother.
In October 1973, the CSM visited the Mulder household and may have had a role in choosing Samantha being abducted instead of Fox. Fox remembered this situation in 1997 while suffering several hallucinations. 
In March 1994, Mulder didn't recognize the CSM in Skinner's office when he was reprimanded by Skinner for possibly abusing Eugene Victor Tooms in an X-file case. 
In July 1994, the CSM wiretapped Mulder's phone in an attempt to send Mulder on probation and out of the FBI. His attempt failed when Mulder told AD Skinner about the wiretapping. 
In August 1994, Mulder was present at two meetings with the CSM involving Agent Scully's disappearance and the death of Duane Barry. He began to suspect that his partner, Alex Krycek, was working with the CSM after discovering cigarette butts in Krycek's car. 
In November 1994, shortly after Scully's return, Mulder discovered where the CSM lived. Mulder appeared at the CSM's apartment on 900 W. Georgia Street and attempted to threaten him for information. Mulder failed and, in his disgust, nearly resigned from the FBI. 
In March 1995, Mulder had a conversation with the CSM in Skinner's office in which the CSM informed Mulder that the truth sometimes needs to be hidden from the public in order to protect them. 
In April 1995, Mulder came into possession of a top secret MJ document which was being searched for by the CSM and Garnet operatives. The CSM desperately searched for Mulder and nearly killed him when lighting an old refrigeration car on fire. 
In November 1995, while searching through silos for a missing UFO, Mulder was discovered by the CSM and taken back to Washington when it was discovered that he knew nothing. 
In the summer of 1996, the CSM was threatened once again by Mulder when visiting Mulder's mother in hospital. 
In October 1997, the CSM allowed Mulder to gain the cure for Scully's cancer from the Advanced Research Project Facility in the Pentagon. He later visited Mulder and helped explain how the cure worked by inserting a microchip in Scully's neck. The CSM later brought a person who he claimed to be Samantha Mulder to meet with Fox at a restaurant. The next day, the CSM attempted to persuade Mulder to work for him, but Mulder turned the offer down. Mulder later believed the CSM had died after much of his blood was found in his apartment. 
In August 1998, the CSM was quite perplexed when he discovered Mulder in Antarctica, and even more confused when he discovered Mulder had the Purity vaccine. 
In early 1999, the CSM had a conversation with Mulder when he found him searching Diana Fowley's apartment. The CSM told Mulder of the events involving his father in 1973, and informed Mulder of the location where the colonization was to begin. 
In October 1999, after being exposed to an alien artifact, Mulder became an alien/human hybrid. When the CSM put him to sleep to work on extracting his alien genetic material, Mulder entered a dream state where he had several conversations with the CSM, and ultimately ended up living in the same neighborhood as he was while alien colonization that Mulder had apparently caused took place outside. While Mulder was in the dream, some of his genetic material was removed to provide immunity for humans against the viral Sixth Extinction. The material was implanted in the CSM, although, as stated above, it eventually began to slowly kill him. 
In May 2002, the CSM secretly sent Mulder the key to the Mount Weather Complex. With this key, Mulder learned of the date set for the colonization. When Mulder once again set eyes on the CSM, he at first believed him to be a ghost. 
In February 2016, Mulder confronted the CSM on how to prevent the Spartan Virus being killed. Mulder himself was infected, although CSM offered to save his life in order to help start over, but Mulder refused him as he wouldn't be able to forgive himself. Mulder than began to get sick from the virus, but was saved by Agent Miller and taken away. 
====Jeffrey Spender====
The CSM raised young Jeffrey Spender for a period of time in the early 1970s at April Air Force Base with Samantha Mulder. 
During his retirement in 1998, the CSM sent a letter to his son Jeffrey, but Jeffrey returned it without opening it. 
In May 1998, the CSM informed Spender, who did not recognize him, that he had him assigned to the Gibson Praise situation. The CSM also told Spender to know whom to "sacrifice" when necessary, and to not follow someone else's crusade. He later informed Spender that he was his father and they began working together. 
In September 1998, he met with Spender in his newly assigned X-Files office. He informed Spender of the "extreme solutions" that are sometimes used in their line of work. 
In early 1999, Spender had a heated confrontation when he believed his father was simply using him for his dirty work. Even so, he accepted when the CSM sent him out to kill a rebel alien impersonating the Second Elder. When he discovered from Krycek that his father had been involved in directing his mother's experiments, Spender was angered and decided to stop working for the Syndicate. 
After the destruction of the Syndicate, the CSM appeared in Spender's X-Files office, and shot him for his betrayal. When Spender didn't die, the CSM subjected him to brutal cloning experiments. 
Spender, disfigured by his injuries, later remembered that the CSM had destroyed his face and his dignity, but was unable to eliminate the one thing that Spender loved the most - his hatred of his father. Spender attempted to take revenge on the CSM by injecting a liquidized form of magnetite into Scully's baby son, William. The metal would stop the aliens that the CSM had conspired to aid from acquiring William, the one thing they needed. 
====Samantha Mulder====
In the 1960s, the CSM would often visit the Mulder home and would fondly recall young Samantha decades later. 
The CSM may have had a role in choosing Samantha to be abducted. (Note: The flashbacks seen in "Demons" were hallucinations and may or may not have actually happened.)
The CSM initialed the documents which called off the search for Samantha after her abduction in 1973. 
After her return in 1974, the CSM raised Samantha with his son, Jeffrey, at April Air Force Base in California, all the while continuing experiments on her. She ran away from the base in 1979, and by the time the CSM showed up with other government officials at the Dominic Savio Memorial Hospital, she had disappeared. 
According to Jeffrey Spender in May 2002, Samantha died, essentially by the CSM's hand, in 1987. 
In October 1997, the CSM brought a woman he alleged to be Samantha to meet with her brother, Fox. She claimed that she had been raised by the CSM, that he was her father, and that he had cared for her throughout her entire life. (Note: The episodes "Two Fathers", "Closure" and "The Truth" establish that she could not have been the real Samantha, but she may have been a used by CSM.)
===Colleagues===
=====Syndicate=====
In 1973, the CSM had a photograph taken with his colleagues at the State Department, who would all later form the Syndicate. Those in the picture included Bill Mulder, the Well-Manicured Man, Victor Klemper and Deep Throat. 
=====William Mulder=====
The CSM and William Mulder had worked together in the State Department since at least 1953, when they were sent to interview a black oil survivor of the Zeus Faber. 
The CSM would often waterski with Bill at the Mulders' summer house in Quonochontaug, Rhode Island. 
In October 1973, the CSM was still visiting Bill at the summer house. (Note: The events remembered by Fox Mulder in "Demons" were hallucinations and may or may not have happened.)
In April 1995, the CSM visited Bill Mulder after several years. He informed him of the recent MJ document which was in the possession of Bill's son, Fox. 
=====Well-Manicured Man=====
In a Syndicate meeting in April 1995, the CSM reported to the that everything had been dealt with involving Mulder and the missing MJ files. 
The Well-Manicured Man had grown increasingly angry at the CSM shortly afterward when he noticed the CSM's penchant for lying and implying that their problems could be solved "with enough bullets". 
In November 1995, the Well-Manicured Man was at odds with the CSM when he believed that the CSM put the Syndicate's security and secrecy at risk in botching a UFO salvage operation. 
In November 1996, the CSM reported to the Well-Manicured Man on his farm in Charlottesville about the situation involving a diplomatic pouch. The Well-Manicured Man once again had to remind the CSM how this problem couldn't be solved with killing. 
The CSM assisted the Well-Manicured Man in finding the assassin of his personal physician, Dr. Bonita Charne-Sayre. 
In May 1998, the CSM was recalled from his retirement by the Well-Manicured Man to retrieve Gibson Praise. The CSM told the Well-Manicured Man that the Well-Manicured Man was a coward, and the Well-Manicured Man hated the CSM's attitude that their operations were all a "game". 
In August 1998, the CSM called the Well-Manicured Man at his home in Somerset, England to inform him of a Syndicate meeting scheduled in London. The Well-Manicured Man did not approve of the CSM's suggestion of working with the colonists after the Purity virus mutated. 
=====Alex Krycek=====
In 1994, the CSM sent Krycek to spy on Agent Mulder as his partner when the X-Files were closed. 
In August of that year, Krycek began showing hostility towards the CSM after he was ordered to support Agent Mulder and not eliminate him. Krycek did not like the secrets that the CSM kept from him nor the fact that the CSM treated him like a common soldier. 
In April 1995, the CSM sent Krycek to kill Bill Mulder in the search for the missing MJ tape. 
The CSM then sent Krycek to kill Dana Scully. When he failed to complete the task and killed instead, this caused unnecessary tension between the CSM, Krycek, and the Syndicate. 
Soon afterward, the CSM sent Krycek to retrieve the missing MJ document from AD Skinner. Krycek received the document, but was nearly killed with a car bomb afterward by others sent by the CSM. As a result, Krycek angrily broke off all ties with the CSM. 
In November 1995, Krycek was infested with black oil, and immediately contacted the CSM. The CSM locked Krycek in Silo 1013 with a UFO salvage ship. 
In May 1998, Krycek was sent by the Syndicate to retrieve the CSM from his retirement in Canada. He brought the CSM back to the Syndicate, and was about to kill him before being ordered by the Well-Manicured Man not to do so. 
In early 1999, Krycek was working for the CSM again as his driver and chief operative. He assisted Jeffrey Spender in the assassination of a rebel alien, and was surprised to learn that the CSM had shared little information with Spender. 
In June 2000, the CSM sent Krycek to Bellefleur, Oregon to retrieve a UFO. Krycek instead worked with Mulder before he returned to the CSM's apartment and attempted to finally "send the devil back to hell." . 
=====X=====
In April 1996, X was sent by the CSM to help discover Mulder's source. The CSM was then seemingly unaware that X was that source. 
=====Marita Covarrubias=====
In April 1997, the CSM informed his operative and Mulder's source, Covarrubias, to work with Mulder and "tell him what he wants to hear". 
In June 2000, the CSM called Covarrubias to assist him in his final days in bringing back the project. She was sent to release Krycek from a penal colony in Forj Sidi Toui, Tunisia and was present when Krycek attempted to kill the CSM soon afterwards. 
=====Diana Fowley=====
In early 1999, the CSM turned to Fowley, following his son's attempt to kill the rebel alien, for help dealing with the rising rebel situation. He informed her of the events that had occurred leading up to the "Second Elder"'s assassination. 
Fowley remained close to the CSM, and was to go with him and the Syndicate when colonization began. When it turned out to be fake, and a group of rebels began to slaughter the Syndicate, Fowley and the CSM immediately left. 
In October 1999, Fowley was sent by the CSM to watch over Fox Mulder and report on his condition. 
Later that month, Fowley was present when the CSM extracted genetic material from the hybridized Mulder. She was murdered soon afterward. 
====Scott Blevins====
The CSM worked with Blevins in assigning Special Agent Scully to debunk the X-Files. He often advised Blevins on certain situations involving the X-Files. 
====Walter Skinner====
The CSM worked with AD Skinner in a similar capacity as he did with Blevins. In 1994, he assisted Skinner in pressuring both Agents Mulder and Scully during their investigation of the Tooms case. 
In July of that year, the CSM assisted Skinner in investigating Mulder's disappearance. After Mulder returned and Skinner learned that the CSM had wiretapped Mulder's phone, Skinner kicked him out of his office, much to his shock. 
In August, the CSM had once again been allowed access to Skinner's meetings, if not his office, and was present at two meetings concerning Duane Barry and Agent Scully's disappearance. Skinner barely acknowledged his presence. 
By March 1995, the CSM was back advising Skinner in his office on a situation involving a deadly contagion. 
In April 1995, the CSM attempted to use Skinner in order to gain information from Scully about the location of missing MJ documents. 
Soon afterward, Skinner negotiated a deal with the CSM to reinstate Mulder and Scully to the FBI. This event severed ties between Skinner and the CSM. 
In March 1996, the CSM attempted, and failed, to discredit Skinner by having him arrested for attempting to murder his wife. 
In February 1997, Skinner contacted the CSM in an attempt to cure Scully's cancer. The CSM informed him that there was a certain way to cure the cancer and that he would be willing to sell that method to Skinner for a price. 
In April 1997, Skinner was finally made to pay the price so that Scully could be cured. He was involved in covering up the murder of Detective Ray Thomas, and the CSM had used his gun for blackmail. He later appeared at the CSM's apartment and threatened him with a gun when the CSM implied he wouldn't save Scully. 
In 2016, CSM offered Skinner a deal to survive his upcoming plan to depopulate the human race, however on the condition he helps him get Scully's son William. Skinner throws the deal back in his face, and CSM reveals the true father of William: which is CSM himself. 
====Alvin Kersh====
On November 16, 1998, the CSM was speaking with AD Alvin Kersh when they were interrupted by Agent Scully. He was later assisted by Kersh when they were trying to ascertain what Scully was trying to do. 
===Romantic Interests===
====Teena Mulder====
 Fox Mulder was conceived from an extraconjugal affair between CSM and Teena Mulder. 
The CSM would often visit Teena and her family in the 1960s, and they were quite close. 
William B. Davis' favorite line of dialogue from the finale, "Talitha Cumi", involved the Cigarette Smoking Man referencing Bill Mulder, when the CSM tells Teena Mulder, "He was a good water-skier, your husband. Not as good as I was, but then... that could be said about so many things, couldn't it?" Davis was amused and aware that this reference to William Mulder additionally implied that the CSM was a lot better in bed than Mulder had been. The statement was also an inside joke, as – at the time the episode was produced – Davis was actually a championship-level water-skier in reality.
In the summer of 1996, the CSM visited Teena in order to reminisce about the past. She suffered a stroke soon after and was hospitalized. The CSM visited her in hospital. 
He stayed by her at the hospital for days, apparently trying to wait for Fox Mulder. Soon after X's death, the CSM contacted an Alien Bounty Hunter who cured Teena of her brain damage. 
====Cassandra Spender====
The CSM was married to Cassandra in the late 1960s, and fathered young Jeffrey Spender with her. 
On October 13, 1973, the CSM offered up Cassandra to the alien colonists in return for an alien fetus and postponing the colonization. She was returned soon after. 
Beginning in 1974, the CSM directed the ization experiments on Cassandra. 
In early 1999, the CSM was saddened to learn from Dr. Openshaw, that he might have to kill Cassandra to protect the conspiracy. He soon realized that he was unable to kill Cassandra to protect the conspiracy. 
The CSM finally decided that he would have to return Cassandra to the colonists, which would inversely start the colonization.
===Other Friends and Enemies===
====Dana Scully====
Scully first noticed the CSM when she was assigned to the X-Files. She noticed his lack of humor and constant appearances in Blevins's office. 
She noticed the CSM in AD Skinner's office when she was reprimanded during the Tooms case in 1994. 
In April 1995, during his search for the missing MJ documents, the CSM ordered his top assassins, Alex Krycek and Luis Cardinal to murder Scully. They failed and murdered her sister instead, causing tension between Scully and the CSM. 
In November 1995, Scully came into contact with the CSM while searching for a UFO in North Dakota. She was promptly sent back to Washington. 
In April 1996, Scully was tricked into believing Mulder was working with the CSM through subliminal messages sent to her via cable wires. She quickly discovered they were false. 
By November 1996, Scully was firmly convinced that the CSM did not believe in the United States and its laws. 
In August 1998, after being infected with the black oil, the CSM led a team to retrieve Agent Scully and take her to a secret base in Antarctica. 
In November 1998, Scully learned that both AD Kersh and Agent Spender were working with the CSM and began to avoid them. 
In early 2000, the CSM attempted to dissuade Agent Scully from investigating the abduction of Samantha Mulder. He believed this would hurt Fox's crusade In the spring of 2000, the CSM contacted Scully with the supposed cure for all disease. Scully left with the CSM to get the cure, all the while taping the conversations she had with him. The CSM brought her to a cabin in Milford, Pennsylvania to meet with his contact, Cobra. Scully was able to get the disk containing the cure from Cobra, just after he was killed. The CSM saved Scully and soon replaced her disk with another before she left. 
In June 2002, Scully found out that the CSM was still alive and seemingly toying with her and Agent Mulder. 
====Gibson Praise====
In May 1998, the CSM kidnapped Gibson Praise and handed him over to the Syndicate. 
In September 1998, the CSM used Praise to hunt for an alien who had killed several people in Phoenix, Arizona. Praise accused the CSM and the Syndicate of being very afraid of him. Praise later ended up in the custody of Mulder and Scully. 
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