Cigarette Smoking Man
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The Cigarette Smoking Man (sometimes called CSM, Cancerman, or, by some fans, That Black-Lunged S.O.B.) is a fictional character played by William B. Davis on the 1990s television series The X-Files. The Cigarette Smoking Man oversaw Scully's debriefing and disposed of her evidence in the show's pilot episode, and eventually developed into the series' primary antagonist. The character is known initially only by this nickname because he is almost always seen chain-smoking Morley cigarettes, and is usually surrounded by clouds of smoke.
On the surface, it may seem that CSM merely tries to antagonize Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, but there is much more to him. He is involved in the Consortium, a shadow organization within the United States government that exists to hide from the public the fact that aliens are visiting Earth. The CSM is the one who knows the truth, and Mulder is the one trying to find it out. However, CSM's reasons are much more complex than simply the desire to hide the truth. Therefore, the character can not be described as purely 'good' or 'bad'.
In the sixth season episode "Two Fathers", his real name is revealed to be C. G. B. Spender. He was formerly married to Cassandra Spender, with whom he had a son, Jeffrey. He was a colleague of Fox Mulder's father William and a close friend of the Mulder family; the two-part series finale, "The Truth", reveals that he is Fox's biological father.
According to his fictionalized memoirs, depicted in the episode "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man", he assassinated both John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King. He also fixed the Super Bowl to ensure that the Buffalo Bills would never win a championship.