Dr. Frank Stanton

Inventor of radio ratings as a grad student in the years before World War II. Wartime newsman and intel asset. Tiffany Network founder. Believer in the forward progress of American civilization and the power of television to bind that people together. Red-baiter. Member of Eisenhower's post-nuclear-war secret Council of Twelve. Presidential debate inventor. Head of the RAND Corporation. The man behind the technocratic memetics behind Perry Mason, Gilligan's Island, Mission: Impossible, Green Acres, Bridget Loves Bernie. Limited hangout-doer of The Selling of the Pentagon. Big, big proponent of the INDIGO program. Boss. Confidant. Friend.

Archie, the History of Operation URIEL

The former president of CBS (1946 to 1971) and its current vice-chairman. Along with the company’s founder William Paley, Dr. Stanton is responsible for growing CBS from an obscure regional radio operation into the so-called “Tiffany Network,” the gold standard for American television.

Dr. Stanton’s long tenure at CBS has not been without controversy. During the “Red Scare,” he required CBS employees to swear loyalty oaths to the United States. He also established an office for monitoring employee political activities and opinions, and blacklisted journalists and entertainers for their supposed leftist sympathies.

For his Ph.D. thesis, Dr. Stanton invented a method of monitoring radio audience size, a sort of forerunner to the Nielsen ratings system. He helped pioneer the advent of color television in the early 1950s and organized the first televised presidential debate in 1960. In 1958, President Dwight Eisenhower selected him to serve in the "E-10" group, a secret body of civilian appointees charged with maintaining continuity of government in the event of foreign invasion or national emergency.

Dr. Stanton is highly placed within SANDMAN. Until Operation ALLOCHTHON, he was responsible for the Project’s North American memetics operations and was charged with overseeing URIEL. Archie was one of his direct reports. In the wake of ALLOCHTHON, Dr. Stanton announced he was retiring from the Project and would facilitate Archie’s succession to his post.