The National Security Agency
One of the government agencies the Syndicate used as a front.
In The X-Files, the National Security Agency is one of the government agencies through which the Syndicate works: its hitmen, most of them ex-military, worked as a front in agencies such as the FBI, the Department of Defense and the National Security Agency, and the Cigarette Smoking Man's affiliations include the National Security Agency.
Lore & Background
In the third season, Mulder is trapped on a train carriage that could be wired with a bomb, according to a killer who claims to be an NSA agent. In the season 11 episode "This", Mulder and Scully are contacted by the virtual consciousness of Richard Langly, part of an NSA simulation designed to come to life when participants die.
Reader's Guide
In The X-Files Game, a former U.S. naval base at Sand Point was used as the setting for the NSA facility at the end of the game.
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