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Shadowy Syndicate -
Sinister conspiratorial cabal of anonymous businessmen
"representing secret global interests" on the sci-fi series THE
X-FILES/FOX/1993-2002. The Shadowy Syndicate (a bunch of old white
guys) ran their dirty deeds workshop from the comfort of their
headquarters on West 46th Street in New York City. It member
included Don Williams as The First Elder; Stanley Walsh as The
Second Elder; John Moore as The Third Elder; a portly fellow
called The Fat Man; and John Neville as a distinguished-looking
older man referred to as the Well-Manicured Man. He once
informed FBI Agent Dr. Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) on their
mission: "We predict the future, and the best way to predict the
future is to invent it" (Episode No. 49 "The Blessing Way"). To
this end, the Syndicate has had its fingers in malevolent deeds
since World War II (illegal human testing, cloning), including
an unholy alliance with an alien group of outer space aliens.
One of their nastiest operatives was the carcinogenically-challenged
human called "The Cigarette Smoking Man" played by William B.
Davis. He once explained to FBI agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny)
that the Syndicate formed to forestall an alien invasion of
earth: "We had agreed to cooperate with the alien colonists. By
a majority vote taken by the group that your father (Bill Mulder)
and I worked for. A group that came together at the State
Department on a project dating back to 1947 to Roswell. The vote
changed that though. It changed everything. We no longer cling
to any government agency. We now operate privately on our own
projects." In a show of good faith, each group member gave up
one family member to the aliens for testing and experimentation,
in exchange for an alien fetus that hopefully would give the
humans the alien genome, the DNA to create a human hybrid who
could survive the holocaust to come. In the meantime, a vaccine
was created that would save everyone. But according to the CSM
"It's too late now. Colonization will soon begin. There will be
a sequence of events. A state of emergency will be declared. A
massive outbreak of virus by bees. And the takeover will begin."
The CSM's henchmen included The Crew-Cut Man, The Gray-Haired
Man, The Red-Haired Man and Quiet Willy. On the February 14,
1999 episode of THE X- FILES most of the Syndicate members
(except CSM) were burned to death by faceless rebel aliens.
Mulder eulogized them saying "They burned themselves. With a
choice made long ago by a conspiracy of men who thought they
could sleep with the enemy...only to awaken another enemy."
See also -
CHEMICALS, DRUGS & POTIONS:" - Black Oil" and
TOBACCO PRODUCTS
-"The Cigarette Smoking Man"
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