X-Files: Every Major Syndicate Member (And What Happened To Them)

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The shadowy, villainous cabal known as the Syndicate had many members on The X-Files, and here's what happened to all of them. It's well-known, even among those who weren't regular viewers, that X-Files' lead FBI agent partners Fox Mulder and Dana Scully were first and foremost after one thing: discovering and revealing the truth. After all, the show's slogan was «The Truth Is Out There.» The primary force working against them finding out those truths was the Syndicate, most directly personified by the iconic Cigarette-Smoking Man.

For the first six seasons of The X-Files — and arguably in an unofficial capacity afterward — Mulder and Scully's efforts were hampered by the Syndicate at every turn, and for very specific reasons. As would be revealed eventually, the members of the Syndicate were working to facilitate the invasion and colonization of Earth by a race of aliens, and had even brokered deals to survive said invasion. The aliens planned to invade with or without human help, so the Syndicate figured that if they couldn't beat them, they would join them.

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The Syndicate's alien colonization plan looked to have fallen apart during The X-Files season 6, but as would be shown later on, that wasn't entirely the case. Either way, the legacy of the Syndicate will never be forgotten in the X-Files universe, coloring every conspiracy its agents have or will ever uncover. Here's a look at every major member of the Syndicate group, and what their ultimate fate was.

While the Cigarette-Smoking Man, aka Carl Gerhard Busch Spender, was the most visible antagonist working as part of the Syndicate, it's sometimes easy to forget he wasn't the group's clear leader. In