Marcus Dixon (Reimagined)

Marcus Robert Dixon was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Both of his parents were Jamaican immigrants. After graduating from high school, Dixon went on to the United States Naval Academy. He graduated from the Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science in Economics and a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps. While at the Naval Academy, Dixon decided to become a ground intelligence officer.

After The Basic School, he went on to the Infantry Officer Course. Dixon then attended the Scout Sniper Platoon Commander Course and then the Ground Intelligence Officer Course. He was then assigned as a scout sniper platoon commander to Headquarters and Service Company, 3rd Battalion 6th Marines. Dixon later attended the Basic Reconnaissance Course. Afterwards, he was assigned as a platoon commander to the 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion. Eventually, Dixon was made a company executive officer.

He left the Marine Corps after five years of service and entered the Wharton-Lauder Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Very soon after earning both a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Arts in International Studies, Dixon obtained a position as an associate at a Washington, D.C. investment bank while he simultaneously applied to join the Central Intelligence Agency.

Before he could join the Agency, he had to go through a thorough medical and psychological exam, a polygraph interview and an extensive background investigation. Upon successfully completing the entire application process, Dixon was accepted as a clandestine service trainee.

After an orientation period, he resigned from the investment bank and went on to the CIA's Special Training Center, Camp Peary - "The Farm," near Williamsburg, Virginia for intensive operational training. There, Dixon went through the Basic Operations Course, which trained him in so-called "operational intelligence" or "tradecraft" espionage skills. After completing the Clandestine Service Trainee Program, he was recruited into a newly-established and highly unconventional black ops division of the Agency named Special Directorate 6.

Mandated to retrieve and study military and industrial intelligence critical to U.S. superiority and survival, SD-6 marks a return to classical methods of unilateral espionage operations. Instead of relying on foreign human intelligence assets or filtering the world through satellites and antennas, its operatives physically infiltrate dangerous and sensitive enemy locations to gather the required intelligence by whatever means necessary. In other words, they go back to the nitty-gritty world of undercover spies out there in the field, risking their lives for the sake of taking a photograph or recording a conversation or copying a computer hard drive.

Funded by the CIA's black budget, SD-6's operations are not only highly classified, but also hidden from congressional oversight. That status authorizes its operatives to work outside the boundaries of international laws and treaties.

Upon joining SD-6, Dixon was given non-official cover status; meaning he is an operations officer without any official connection to the CIA and also without diplomatic protection if ever caught in an act of espionage. His cover is that he is an investment analyst employed by Credit Dauphine, a corporate bank in downtown Los Angeles that serves as the front company for SD-6.

As a field operations officer, Dixon is sent on clandestine and covert espionage assignments. By assuming a false identity and utilizing the most advanced surveillance and combat technology for the aggressive collection of stored data in hostile territories, he goes undercover to infiltrate secure installations and seize critical intelligence without leaving a trace. SD-6's black ops status allows him to disregard many laws, agreements, or frameworks of ethical behavior in order to accomplish a mission. However, if Dixon were to ever be captured or killed, the CIA would completely disavow him and deny he was affiliated with the U.S. government at all.

Marcus Dixon's exemplary work has proven him to be one of the most extraordinary officers in the CIA's employ.