S.T.R.I.K.E.
S.T.R.I.K.E.
The organization was first mentioned when Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. Nick Fury came to a meeting with the British Prime Minister, James Callaghan, and was introduced to his United Kingdom counterpart, Tod Radcliffe. However, this is retconed the very next issue when its announced that Radcliffe is the Deputy Director of S.T.R.I.K.E[1].
It is revealed that Radcliffe is a traitor, working for the Red Skull, Commander Lance Hunter is introduced as S.T.R.I.K.E.'s director.
S.T.R.I.K.E. is later taken over by Captain Britain's enemy, the crimelord Vixen, and disbanded in the wake of Jaspers' Warp, where Mad Jim Jaspers became Prime Minister and used S.T.R.I.K.E.'s armored anti-superhuman "Beetle" squadron to hunt down superhumans within the British isles. S.T.R.I.K.E. was replaced by the Resources Control eXecutive (R.C.X.), Department of Unknown and Covert Knowledge (D.U.C.K.) and Weird Happenings Organization (W.H.O).
Like S.H.I.E.L.D., S.T.R.I.K.E. had hundreds of agents throughout several divisions. Elizabeth Braddock (Psylocke) - Twin sister of Captain Britain; would later join the X-Men; currently with the Exiles. Tom Lennox - Both a telepath and a telekinetic, Lennox was Betsy Braddock's lover. During the Jasper's Warp saga, Lennox was gunned down by S.T.R.I.K.E.'s armored anti-superhuman "Beetle" squad. Alison Double. Kevin Mulhearn - Kevin took an outside job as a mentalist under the name Doctor Destiny. He was performing his mind reading act at a theater in London, using his powers to tell what people had in their possession. He was killed by one of his volunteers from the audience who turned out the be Slaymaster, who had been charged with killing all of S.T.R.I.K.E.'s psi devision. Vicki Reppion - Killed by Slaymaster.[13] Avril Davis - Killed by Slaymaster.[13] Dennis Rush - Killed by Slaymaster. Andrew Hornby - Killed by Slaymaster. Leah Mickleson - Killed by Slaymaster. Stuart Hattrick - Killed by Slaymaster.
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