Citations:CSM

Noun: "(X-Files fandom slang) initialism of Cigarette Smoking Man"

 * 1996, Ted Edwards, X-Files Confidential: The Unauthorized X-Philes Compendium, page 169:
 * While Mulder is unconscious, Krycek irradiates the agents, retrieves the tape on his own, and strikes a deal with CSM: The alien will be told where its spacecraft is in return for the tape.
 * 1997, James Hatfield & George "Doc" Burt, The Unauthorized X-cylopedia: The Definitive Reference Guide to The X-Files, page 57:
 * By 1968, CSM was in such a powerful position that he gave orders to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, and “worked hard to keep any President from knowing” he even existed.
 * 1998, Andy Mangels, Beyond Mulder and Scully: The Mysterious Characters of The X-Files, page 4:
 * Although Skinner has been controlled in the past by CSM, that control has slipped further as Skinner has seen direct threats to his own life from the overall conspiracy.
 * 1998, Paul Cornell, Martin Day, & Keith Topping, X-treme Possibilities: A Comprehensively Expanded Rummage through Five years of the X-files, page 309:
 * Krycek claims that he loves his country, and wants revenge on the CSM (presumably for trying to have him killed).
 * 2001, Ray Pratt, Projecting Paranoia: Conspiratorial Visions in American Film, page 232:
 * Although the CSM has few lines, metaphorically he represents all the secret U.S. operatives of the cold war and after.
 * 2001, David Bell & Lee-Jane Bennion-Nixon, "The popular culture of conspiracy/The conspiracy of popular culture", in The Age of Anxiety: Conspiracy Theory and the Human Scienecs (eds. Jane Parish & Martin Parker), page 140:
 * There is also affirmation that the main conspirator is CSM, however the conspiracy itself finds no clear resolution and ‘the truth’ is not illuminated through this narrative:
 * 2002, Tom Kessenich, EXaminations: An Unauthorized Look at Seasons 6-9 of The X-Files, page 11:
 * By the way, I realize the CSM is the show’s resident villain, but the WMM has always struck me as being more sinister.
 * 2005, Charlton D. McIlwain, When Death Goes Pop: Death, Media & The Remaking Of Community, page 155:
 * A map of the Pentagon is visible as the CSM walks out of the building.