Millennium Group
The Millennium Group is a secret society that features in Millennium.
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History
The Millennium Group was a secret society that first came into being as an early Christian sect that formed around the year 100 A.D. The organization was formed at the dawn of Christianity and was based upon Judeo-Christian endtime prophecies. (Episode: Millennium)
J. Edgar Hoover was the originator of the modern group and recruited several members from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. (Episode: Matryoshka) By 1996, the Group was composed mostly of former FBI agents. (Episode: Pilot)
Overview
The symbol of the group was an ouroboros and their trademark phrase was "this is who we are". (Episode: The Hand of Saint Sebastian)
The members of the Group believed that an apocalyptic event was inevitable and it was their job to guide the world through the coming crisis. (Episode: Owls)
The group had a number of unusual initiation rituals that seemed to come in stages. When a member had worked on the consulting side of the group for a certain amount of time and was considered 'ready', they would be sent to meet with the Old Man, a mysterious elderly individual who lived in the mountains of Washington and was presumably the leader of the group. (Episode: Beware of the Dog)
In time, two factions began to emerge that sundered the Millennium Group. One group were the Roosters who believed in a religiously eschatological view of the end of the world. Their opposite were the Owls which was a faction that believed the world would end with a secular natural disasters. (Episode: Roosters)
The group had extensive contacts with various levels of power, both public and private, and maintained an apparently extensive information gathering network. As of the late 1990s, the group was able to monitor and document the sale of certain types of books, as well as who purchased them. (Episode: 19:19)
The group had a long and somewhat unclear connection to the artificially developed Marburg virus, which Peter Watts claimed was developed by the Soviets and was connected to the Ebola virus. During the first gulf war, the group tested the virus on both Iraqi's and U.S. troops, and this may have had some connection to the gulf war syndrome, but the evidence was inconclusive. (Episode: Collateral Damage)
Members
- Old Man :
- Frank Black :
Notes
- The inspiration for the Millennium Group was a real-life organization called the Academy Group, which consisted of retired law enforcement agents working as a private investigative firm. Millennium's creator Chris Carter had come to know members of the Academy Group through contacts he had made with the Federal Bureau of Investigation while researching his earlier television series The X-Files.
Appearances
- The X-Files:
- Millennium:
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