The method as they call it, though it was more so a germ line procedure of a singular meta-scientific complexity, had been given to them by the alien colonists as a quid pro quo. The Syndicate would help them create a population of alien hybrids who would hide in plain sight, cloned from human ova and alien material so there would be a cloned 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 meshe government to the German final solution. Collaboration whose motivation was simple self directed survival.

These cloning operations were spread around the country, the cataloging and record keeping done through a complex inter-institutional system that connected to every branch of the 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 was the brainchild of German scientists given immunity themselves for war crimes and allowed to continue the eugenics experiments that were Hitler's historic 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 US and UN administrations, the principles began to wrest control, accumulating power and influence across international borders. Since then by 1990 the operation ceased to have a member accountable to any one government and whose only orders were be taken from a man named S�.., a German industrialist who had fled his homeland to northern Africa.

These men, whose knowledge and access provided control of a foreseeable future had everything to lose. Their secret work, the cloning preparations and the cataloging, constituted their greatest vulnerability-exposure. Their detection would ensure not just their own demise but a far reaching disillusion in the 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 and other agencies served to hide their more odious undertaking. They had also in a crisis use a tool of the colonists themselves. Alien bounty hunters who police the cloning operations and enforced rule of on the countdown of the colonization. A double edged sword, whose cold blooded tactics could help stem a leak or a threat but it also kept a watch on the Syndicate, at threat in itself as the Syndicate had something to hide that not even the colonists knew about, a vaccine against the black oil. An inoculate 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 colonization. If the Syndicate�s own secret vaccine was discovered, a vaccine that would make themselves immune from the effects of the black oil. They would certainly be destroyed and the timetable of the colonization stepped up. They would protect the secret with their lives; they would kill to protect it. As it symbolized the only hope they had of avoiding enslavement when the planet was overtaken.

That they have been able over decades been able to conduct their work on the vaccine undetected was the result of a code among the Syndicate member that put honor and the future above personal politics. But now this code was beginning to break down and an incipient scramble for power was beginning to develop. A threat from within that doubled the threat from without, from Agents Mulder and Scully and the X-Files.