Dan Briggs

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Dr. Daniel David Briggs, Ph.D., was a veteran of the United States Army's G-2 (Intelligence) section who had been honorably discharged with the grade of Lieutenant Colonel. During his Army service, he was Commanding Officer of a wartime unit, unofficially known as "Briggs's Squad" that performed complex missions for the U.S. armed forces. The team's personnel included Barnard "Barney" Collier, William "Willy" Armitage, and Rollin Hand. After the war, Briggs rounded up members of his former team, some of whom were believed to have turned to crime, and pulled them together to perform missions for the U.S. government. This new team became an independent covert-operations agency and was renamed the Impossible Mission Force, "IMF" for short, and Briggs was named as both its founding Director and the captain of the mission team called "The Director's Own," for at least one year. Possessing a Ph.D. in analytical psychology, he was a well-paid behavioral analyst outside his government service and an expert in reading human beings.