Conrad Strughold

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Conrad Strughold
The X-Files character

Affiliated with	Syndicate
First appearance	The X-Files Movie
Last appearance
Portrayed by	Armin Mueller-Stahl

Conrad Strughold is a fictional character played by Armin Mueller-Stahl in the 1998 motion picture The X-Files: Fight the Future.

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Strughold is a German aristocrat and scientist, who is the leader of the Syndicate. The Strughold mine in remote West Virginia, where the Syndicate secretly kept files on and tissue samples of abductees, is named after him. In the film, he authorizes Scully's abduction, seeing it as a way to effectively break Fox Mulder's spirit, and as a more profitable alternative to outright killing Mulder. He lives in Tunisia. It is believed that he has Nazi ties and is unable to enter the United States because it would draw too much attention to the Syndicate. Strughold survived the demise of the Syndicate in season 6, though as of the end of the series, he is probably either dead, in hiding, or working with the New Syndicate (though the last option is unlikely).

It has been rumored that Strughold appeared briefly on the X-Files TV show assisting the Cigarette-Smoking Man in a surgery in "The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati," early in season 7. The project doctor, however, is never called "Strughold," and is played not by Armin Mueller-Stahl but by Israeli actor Brian George, probably best known for playing Babu on Seinfeld.

He is possibly the only member of the Syndicate to like or trust the Cigarette Smoking Man, as they are shown as having a slightly more cordial and far less adversarial relationship than with the other members.

Spoilers end here.

He is almost certainly named after Hubertus Strughold, a Nazi scientist who came to the US during Operation Paperclip after the end of World War II.

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