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David Langstrom is the current Assistant Deputy Director of Operations (ADDO) for the Central Intelligence Agency. A career intelligence officer, Langstrom is a mutant specialist, personally groomed by the late Chester Whelan to replace him in the Agency's hierarcy.
 
David Langstrom is the current Assistant Deputy Director of Operations (ADDO) for the Central Intelligence Agency. A career intelligence officer, Langstrom is a mutant specialist, personally groomed by the late Chester Whelan to replace him in the Agency's hierarcy.
  
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'''Occupation:''' Assistant Deputy Director of Operations, CIA
 
'''Occupation:''' Assistant Deputy Director of Operations, CIA
  
'''First appearance:''' Dec 2003
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'''First appearance:''' [http://community.livejournal.com/x_logs/152835.html December 18, 2003]
  
 
'''Family:''' Helen (wife), Henry (son), Karen (daughter)
 
'''Family:''' Helen (wife), Henry (son), Karen (daughter)

Revision as of 16:34, 10 June 2008

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David Langstrom
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Portrayed by None
Known Aliases: None
Affiliations: CIA
Socked By: Dex
Introduction: December 18, 2003


David Langstrom is the current Assistant Deputy Director of Operations (ADDO) for the Central Intelligence Agency. A career intelligence officer, Langstrom is a mutant specialist, personally groomed by the late Chester Whelan to replace him in the Agency's hierarcy.

Details

Name: David Arnold Langstrom

Aliases: None

Occupation: Assistant Deputy Director of Operations, CIA

First appearance: December 18, 2003

Family: Helen (wife), Henry (son), Karen (daughter)


Biography

Langstrom had a standard middle class Mid-Western childhood. He joined the military in the early 80s, in order to pay for university. After graduating from the University of Chicago with a degree in psychology and a Masters in International Relations, he was place in military intelligence. Langstrom distinguished himself as an uncommonly successful field officer, well suited and comfortable working in tense or dangerous situations. He served in Intelligence until 1991, when he was injured during the Gulf War. A nearby mine explosion injured his back and pelvis, leaving him unable to walk.

He accepted a honourable discharge due to medical reasons from the Army, and during his rehabilitation, was approached by Chester Whelan, then the current ADDO of the CIA. Whelan offered the experienced operative a job in the Agency's operations division as a group supervisor; a fairly advanced position even considering Langstrom's experience. Langstrom agreed, and spent the rest of the next year split between re-learning to walk again and coming to grips with the complex networks of the world's priemere intelligence agency.

Over the next few years, Langstrom moved rapidly up to take over a new position created by Whelan; the mutant desk. All intelligence, analysis and operations that involved mutants went across his desk, and he quickly built up a strong awareness of the increasing trend of mutation. Whelan also began to pass over information and control of his own network of covert operations and assets, kept secret from Congress, the Executive, and in some cases, the Director himself. Amongst those were Lost Boys, Whelan's secret group of mutant operatives.

When Whelan retired in 2001, Langstrom was promoted to his mentor's job, ADDO, with all of the Agency's operations involving mutants now his direct sphere of influence. He wisely closed down numerous programs' of Whelan's, some stretching back to the fifties, and destroyed the traces. The remaining programs he quickly reorganized and reburied, creating his own resources seperate from Whelan's control. With the growing emergence of Charles Xavier's school, Langstrom decided to seed an old agent, Gambit, into the school as insurance should Xavier's intentions every run counter to the interests of the United States. When they activated Gambit, he was dismayed to discover not only had their conditioning failed, but Gambit retained his knowledge of the Agency's secrets and was directly involved in the death of Whelan himself.

Since then, Langstrom has been quietly expanding his information on his former agent, as well as any associates. Xavier's remains a priority for him, in terms of obversation and analysis, looking for the first hint of danger. He has strongly criticized the relationship between the President and the X-Men, arguing that the elected representatives of the government should not be beholden to the whim of a private citizen in terms of national security and defense. The necessity of working with the X-Men in the situation at Alcatraz has only deepened the distrust.

David Langstrom is a driven man; fervently patriotic and unapologetic for it. Much like his mentor, he has no issues circumventing established procedures or even legal restraints if he must to safe guard US interests abroad. Despite his distrust of the X-Men, Langstrom is not anti-mutant, and has repeatedly urged the Agency to focus on recruiting and training them for the operations end of the CIA. His abilities and leadership are widely respected in Washington, and he's proven numerous times to be one of the most skillful officers to hold the post.

Powers/Abilities

None


Plots

Devil In My Mind

X-Men Mission: Alcatraz

X-Men Mission: Opera Redux

Meta

PB:

Socked by: Dex

Langstrom is loosely based off of the original comics canon character of Henry David Gyrich. Since the movieverse Gyrich was both a young staffer of Kelly's and killed by Mystique in X1, his inclusion was impossible.