The X-Files

Season 4, Episode 7

Episode Title: Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man

Air Date: 1996-11-17

Overview:

The Lone Gunmen reveal the (possibly fake) secret history of the Cigarette Smoking Man to Mulder and Scully; from a young captain in the U.S. Army recruited to assassinate President Kennedy, to becoming the mysterious man in the shadows at the height of a global conspiracy.