Robert Reynolds

## Summary

Robert Bernard Reynolds, was a senior director of military intelligence, Deputy Director and later briefly, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Reynolds started his career as an analyist for the Pentagon's intelligence division, clerking for Under-Secretary of Defense for Policy Clark Gibson who later become the Secretary of Homeland Security. Reynolds then was hired as an special operations analyst by the CIA. Throughout the years, Reynolds rose through the ranks and expanded his personal influence in Eastern Europe, Oceania and Syria. By the time the ruthless politician Alexander Walker took office as President of the United States, Reynolds was Deputy Director of the CIA. Reynolds deemed Walker and his newly appointed Secretary of State, Eid Revord, too powerful to deal with and so baited his time and waited. As President, Walker highly distrusted the CIA and the original intellignece community in the US so he started rellying more and more on the NSA, where his uncle had become the Director, as well as on General McKennon, a Four Star US General who was the Commander of US Operations in the Middle East. In accordance with them and Revord, Walker created the "Office of Special Projects (OSP)" a new intelligence agency that answered directly to the White House and was under the supervision of Revord and Walker himself.

Following the assassination of President Walker and the OSP's shutdown, Reynolds finally initiated his long-term plan of consolidating power with the end goal of becoming the de facto leader of the United States and going to a proxy-war with Russia. He begun by blackmailing the weak Vice-President (who was now President) Selina Meyer by holding explicit photographs of her and documents detaling her brother's war crimes in Iran. He then forced her to make his old ally Clark Gibson the new Secretary of Homeland Security. That was done in the aftermath of the death of the previous Secretary who died alongside NSA Director Petiborne in a supposed "gas leak" at the latter's villa outside Washington D.C. Reynolds then met with Congressman O'Neil who was concerned that the CIA was increasingly starting to monitor not only terrorists globally as well as foreign citizens, but also Americans, and US government officials all the way up to the White House. O'Neil then threathened that Reynolds' time would be over as the Senate was looking at a bill that would limit the CIA's reach. In response Reynolds had O'Neil assassinated and made it look like a heart attack. The bill later fell under Reynolds' pressure. Deeming that nobody could stop him now.

At the same time however, Secretary of State Revord have started to question the death of Walker's uncle Petiborne. He had his contacts within the NSA inestigate and found that the gas leak was forced. He further researched Reynolds and found out that his family had immigrated after the fall of Nazi Germany, indicating that Reynolds was an undercover fanatic who wanted to instigate a war between the US and Russia to watch both countries burn while he became the global mastermind, as he would emerge as the head of the intelligence communties all over the world, and thus de facto global head. Revord then allied himself with the powerful Wales family to combat Reynolds. After long battles and operations around the globe, Revord finally found incrimidating evidence that prooved Reynolds murdered Congressman O'Neil and had signed contracts with a private army called "Pearl Securities", with the promise that once he initiated his coup and war begun with Russia in Syria, "Pearl Securities" would get all contracts for fighting on behalf of the US. With arrest imminent, Reynolds commited suicide by cyanide. Ironically, the same way many high-ranking Nazis had perished.