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The Method, as they call it, though it was more so a germ-line procedure, whose singular medi-scientific complexity, had been given to them by the alien colonists as a quid pro quo. The Syndicate would help them to create a population of alien hybrids who would hide in plain sight. Cloned from human ova and alien bio material. So there would be a clone race immune to the effects of the black oil when the return to the planet began. For this, the Syndicate would be sequestered, granted a sort of immunity, or asylum, given a place in the grander scheme. They were the Vichy government to the German final solution. Collaboration as (soon/suit?) as motivation was simple self directed survival. These cloning operations were spread across the country. The cataloguing and record keeping done through a complex intra-institutional system that connected to every branch of government. From the social security administration to the department of defense.
The operation, under the working title Purity Control, had been launched in 1948. Its original conception the brainchild of German scientists given immunity themselves for war crimes, and allowed to continue the eugenic experiments that were Hitler’s dark legacy. The Syndicate had begun as a subset of a shadow intelligence agency whose original orders were to create plausible denial, and an effective cover up of Purity Control. But through 50 years, numerous U.S. and UN administrations, the principles began to wrest control, accumulating power and influence across international borders.
(Subset? Such set?) by 1990 the operation ceased to have a member accountable to any one government, and whose only orders would taken from a man named Strughold, a German industrialist who had fled his homeland to Northern Africa. These men, whose knowledge had access provided control over a foreseeable future, had in spite of this everything to lose. Their secret work, the cloning preparations, and the cataloguing, constituted their greatest vulnerability, exposure.
Their detection would ensure not just their own demise, but a far reaching dissolution of social and religious order around the globe. To protect against this, the Syndicate employed methods of disinformation, using covert government programs that had been regrettably discovered, as a kind of smokescreen. To dodge or blind with the transgressions of congress accountable agencies served to hide their own more odious undertaking. They had even at times used the UFO phenomenon to create a hysteria that science and intelligentsia denounced so completely as to make belief in believers seem ridiculous and completely discreditable.
They had also in a crisis used a tool of the colonists themselves. Alien bounty hunters who police the cloning operations and enforced rule of the countdown to colonization. A double edged sword whose cold blooded tactics could help to stem a leak or threat. But it would also kept a watch on the Syndicate. A threat in itself since the syndicate had something to hide that not even the colonists knew of. A vaccine against the black oil. An inoculant against the substance against which the alien life force was held. In fact, the very medium of the life force itself. To guard this secret was perhaps even more critical than the truth of the existence of alien life, and of colonization. If the syndicate’s own secret vaccine were discovered, the vaccine that would make themselves immune from the effects of the black oil, they would certainly be destroyed if the timetable for colonization stepped up. They would protect this secret with their lives. They would kill to protect it. As to symbolize the only hope they had of avoiding enslavement when the planet was overtaken. That they had been able to over decades conduct their work on the vaccine undetected, was a result of code among the syndicate members that put honor in the future above personal politics.
But now this code was beginning to break down. An incipient scramble for power beginning to develop. A threat from within that doubled the threat from without. From Agents Mulder and Scully and the X-Files.