"Hammerdown didn't start as a supersoldier programme," Tom said. "The original Hammerdown was a rightwing extremist group, headed by Leon Saint-Claire and made up of some of the nastiest criminals you'd ever come across. For five years they managed to operate on US soil without the CIA, FBI or even the police knowing anything about them...until JFK," he said, smirking.<br/><br/>"You know those rumours there was another gunman at the JFK assassination?" the driver said. "There was, but the second gunman never fired a shot. He was further along the route, Oswald killed Kennedy before the other assassin got a chance. Unfortunately for Saint-Claire the police caught the other gunman and the guy grassed them up to the police. They had a chance to put Saint-Claire somewhere he wouldn't trouble anyone ever again but...the CIA had a change of heart."<br/><br/>"A supersoldier programme already existed by then," Sam said. "Problem is the CIA needed a way to convincingly cover it up if something went wrong. Who better than a crime lord who'd fooled every US law enforcement agency for five years before anyone noticed him. What they didn't know is Saint-Claire only agreed because he had an ulterior motive for helping them, one which...well, you may not like the real reason Project Hammerdown existed. I only know because Sam told me a few years ago when he all but had a complete nervous breakdown trying to hide it from us.