Frederick Irvine

Frederick "Charles" Irvine was the Director of the department from 1956 through 1998, retiring after serving forty-two years in charge of what he affectionally called "his little batch of crazy people."

Already a middle-aged general in the United States Army, Irvine agreed to accept a dose of ETKC-51 during a tertiary round of testing in 1954. He'd already decided that a fifty-fifty chance of insane and dead was far preferable to an eighty percent chance of miserable death by early prostate cancer.

When the original program director's abuse of trust was discovered, Irvine fought for the position of Director and won it based on the strength of his reputation, and on his willingness to call in several dozen favors.

Though the department was often handed Black Ops missions that other departments within the DoD wouldn't touch, Irvine had been Army too long to allow such missions to be mishandled. He had a keen grasp on what acceptable collateral damage really meant, and perferred to keep the number as close to zero as possible.