FOX was a special services division established by the CIA in the 1960s. Proposed by former SAS operative Major Zero and The Boss in 1962, FOX was a covert missions unit that fulfilled both special operations and intelligence duties. Zero's personal motivations for creating FOX was as a means to prepare himself for an eventual second attempt at recovering a defecting Soviet scientist, Dr. Nikolai Sokolov, of which he was forced to let the Soviets recapture him due to a secret deal made between then-President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to end the Cuban Missile Crisis. However, it was not until 1964 that FOX became an official branch of the CIA due to the CIA Director frowning upon it previously. Agents were aided in their sneaking missions by unique and advanced equipment developed within their own division, such as the active sonar, motion detector and anti-personnel sensor. FOX mainly operated one-man infiltration missions. Operatives also received extensive training to resist various methods of torture, and truth serum-based interrogation.