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| - William Mulder was born in 1926. (TXF: "Within", "DeadAlive") While working in the State Department, William Mulder found that the choices that needed to be made were highly complicated. (TXF: "Anasazi") He would often travel by road, while working at the State Department. (TXF: "The Blessing Way") One of the men that Mulder worked with was the Cigarette Smoking Man. Together, they dreamed that computers would someday exist, ignorant of the fact that such technology would one day be home appliances capable of the most technical espionage. (TXF: "Anasazi") In about 1948, William Mulder and the Cigarette Smoking Man began working on a highly classified Project together at the State Department. (TXF: "Two Fathers") The Project dated back to Roswell in 1947. (TXF: "One Son", "The Truth") Mulder would continue to work on the Project with the CSM for about the next twenty-five years, until around 1973. (TXF: "Two Fathers") Another of William Mulder's friends who worked with him at the State Department was Alvin Kurtzweil. Both were disenchanted with their work, although Mulder's disenchantment outlasted Kurtzweil's. (The X-Files Movie) In the 1950s, William Mulder and men like him were instructed by the government to gather genetic data on the general populace for the purpose of post-apocalyptic identification, due to the threat of nuclear holocaust at that time. Mulder helped collect the data, so that former Nazi scientist Victor Klemper had access to a DNA database of nearly everyone who had been born since 1950, but Mulder strenuously objected once he realized that Klemper was using the medical data in an effort to create a human/alien hybrid. This work was officially known as Operation Paper Clip. (TXF: "Paper Clip") Many names of doctors were connected to both William Mulder and the Cigarette Smoking Man; one of these doctors was Eugene Openshaw, a Nobel winner for early works in genetics. (TXF: "Two Fathers") While working at the State Department in 1952, Mulder learned that three patriotic veterans – Edward Skur, George Gissing and Terrill Oberman – had been working for the State Department when they had been transformed into something inhuman by a government conspiracy that included Roy Cohn and Senator Joseph McCarthy. Mulder thereafter learned that both Gissing and Oberman had killed themselves because they found it too difficult to live with what they had been turned into. Mulder also discovered that, in the conspiracy's attempt to cover up the truth of what they had done to Skur, he was labeled as a Communist before being reported to have killed himself and resigned to someplace where no one would look for him. One morning of 1952 after Edward Skur escaped, Mulder visited a doctor's house in Chevy Chase, Maryland and tried to save the doctor – who had been attacked by Skur – but to no avail, as Mulder was too late. Despite the fact that his family and career would be risked if Mulder was caught trying to expose the truth about Skur and the government conspiracy, he nevertheless made an attempt to let the truth be known and, to this end, he left a clue in the doctor's house that summoned an investigator of the doctor's death, FBI Agent Arthur Dales, to the Hoot Owl. There, Mulder was sitting in a darkened booth upon Dales' arrival. Mulder was originally mistaken by Dales as being Skur himself and as having murdered the doctor, but Mulder corrected the FBI agent, adding that he had come to warn Dales about Skur. Mulder continued to do exactly that, cautioning Dales that Skur would try to kill him and telling the FBI agent that Skur was actually not a Communist but the last of three men who had been operated on. Mulder also informed Dales about the government conspiracy, saying that he was no longer willing to have their crimes on his conscience and that Skur wanted vengeance for what they had done to him. After Mulder mentioned that Skur thought both Dales and his FBI partner, Hayes Michel, were part of the conspiracy (the two agents having previously arrested Skur for allegedly being a Communist), Dales realized that Skur had targeted Michel, who was killed at home by Skur moments later. Mulder's information nevertheless subsequently helped Dales with the case and led him to find the X-files. Mulder thereafter cooperated with the conspiracy members. At night, he arrived in the back of a car outside the Skur residence with Roy Cohn and other men, shortly after Agent Dales had been talking to Mrs. Skur, and sat next to Dales, looking uneasily at him, after Cohn ordered the FBI agent to get in the car. Later that night, Mulder accompanied Cohn and Agent Dales into the office of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, at FBI Headquarters, but both Mulder and Cohn were unexpectedly expelled from the room by Director Hoover. Following Dales' conversation with Hoover, Mulder sat in the front passenger seat of the same car that he had previously been in, while Dales still sat in the back of the car and the only other person inside the vehicle was the driver. After the driver instructed Dales to meet Skur inside the bar and to put him at ease in preparation for the entrance of the other men, Mulder was asked by Dales if the reason he had sought out the FBI agent was to make Dales his "stalking horse", but Mulder gravely declared that he followed his orders. Along with the driver, Mulder subsequently monitored the audio of Dales' meeting with Skur. Mulder was about to open his door, when Skur began to attack Dales, but was convinced by gestures from the driver to wait until the sounds of struggle had subsided. Mulder then led the way as he and the driver hurried inside the Hoot Owl, only to find that Dales had handcuffed Skur to the bar. In daylight shortly thereafter, Mulder drove the same car in which he had been a passenger, maneuvering the vehicle along a long, straight rural road while Skur sat in the front passenger seat, handcuffed to the vehicle. Mulder abruptly stopped the car and exited the vehicle, tossing keys to a confused Skur who then unfastened his restraints and continued to drive in the same direction that the vehicle had been going as Mulder walked the other way, having let the killer go free in the hope that (by letting Skur live) the truth of the crimes that had been committed against him and the others might someday be exposed. Around the same time as this incident, Mulder attended a televised hearing that was reportedly against Communism. He sat behind McCarthy and Cohn at this event. (TXF: "Travelers")
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