The Method, as they called it, though it was more so a germ-line procedure of 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...collaborationists whose motivation was simple, self-directed survival.

These cloning operations were spread across the country, the cataloguing, the 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. It's original conception, the brain child of German scientists, given immunity themselves from 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 fifty years numerous US and UN Administrations, the principles began to wrest control, accumulating power and influence across international borders. Such said, by 1990, the operation ceased to have a member accountable to any one government and whose only orders would be taken from a man named, Strughold, a German industrialist who had fled his homeland to Northern Africa.

These men, whose knowledge and access provided control of 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 disillusion 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 smoke screen; a dodge or blind where the transgressions of Congress accountable agencies, served to hide their more odious undertakings.

They had even, at times, used the UFO phenomenon to create a hysteria that science and the intelligentsia had denounced so completely, as to make belief and believers seem so ridiculous and completely discreditable.

They had also, in a crisis, used a tool of the colonists themselves: alien bounty hunters who policed the cloning operations and enforced rule on the countdown to colonisation. A double-edged sword whose cold blooded tactics would help to stem a leak or threat, but who also kept a watch on The Syndicate. A threat in itself, as The Syndicate had something to hide that not even the COLONISTS knew of: a vaccine against the black oil, an innoculant against the substance in 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 colonisation. The Syndicate's own secret vaccine were discovered, a vaccine that would make them immune to the effects of the black oil, they would certainly be destroyed and the timetable for colonisation stepped up. They would protect this secret with their lives; they would kill to protect it, as it symbolised the only hope they had of avoiding enslavement when the planet was overtaken. That they had been able to, over decades, conduct work on the vaccine undetected was a result of a code among The Syndicate members that put honour and the future above personal politics. But now this code was beginning to break down and incipient scramble for power beginning to develop; a threat from within that doubled the threat from without...

from Agents Mulder and Scully of The X-Files...

Transcribed from The X-Files: The Album