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** The 05 Council combines this with [[Mysterious Backer]] and [[Evil Mentor]]; seeing how even rank and file members of the Foundation itself admit to being a [[Necessary Evil]], it is likely its leaders feel the same. The 05 Council is composed of thirteen (probably) individuals who head the Foundation from the shadows, their very existence hidden to all but members with Clearance Level 2 or higher. The website itself gives at least three contradictory files for each member, suggesting all but one (at most) is a [[Red Herring]], and whenever they appear in an adaptation, they are shrouded by dark silhouettes. Some are likely not even human, being SCPs themselves.

*** The same can be said of "the Administrator", who is mentioned in some stories. He (or she, or they or ''it'') may be the 05 Council's superior, a pseudonym used by one of them, or just a fiction they created to distract anyone who might try to uncover their secrets. If the Administrator is real, they stay out of sight.

*** There's also the Ethics Committee, which may be less "villain" than the rest of the Foundation but still of the [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] type; while they recognize the need for cruelty and torture on occasion to prevent greater evils, ~~they're~~ job is to assure the Foundation doesn't go too far. Should the Foundation's "necessary evils" become "unnecessary", they act to correct that and punish the member(s) responsible (via reprimanding, demoting, or in some cases, executing the offender.) As such, they have access to data and information even the 05 Council does not. (As in, they know ''all'' the info that's been [REDACTED] and [DATA EXPUNGED] in the documentation of each and every SCP.) As might be assumed, their identities are ''completely'' unknown (lacking even the deceptive files of the 05 Council), and most other members of the Foundation are ~~terrified~~ of them.

*** There's also the Ethics Committee, which may be less "villain" than the rest of the Foundation but still of the [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] type; while they recognize the need for cruelty and torture on occasion to prevent greater evils, their job is to assure the Foundation doesn't go too far. Should the Foundation's "necessary evils" become "unnecessary", they act to correct that and punish the member(s) responsible (via reprimanding, demoting, or in some cases, executing the offender.) As such, they have access to data and information even the 05 Council does not. (As in, they know ''all'' the info that's been [REDACTED] and [DATA EXPUNGED] in the documentation of each and every SCP.) As might be assumed, their identities are ''completely'' unknown (lacking even the deceptive files of the 05 Council), and while most other members of the Foundation regard them as a joke, this quickly changes for members who are actually brought before them for disciplinary actions...

** Dr. Wondertainment (a toymaker who has created many SCPs) is this - [[Ambiguously Evil| if he ''is'' a villain]] - although it's not clear if the name refers to the owner, president, and/or CEO of a company ''or'' the company itself. There are many suspects, with some actually believing Dr. Wondertainment is [[Enemy Within|a member of the Foundation]].

** And there are many minor examples, such as whoever built SCP-1678, aka "Under London". The Foundation believes the creator of this underground city (who violated many crimes against humanity by doing so) [[Corrupt Politician|is a member of British Parliament]], but until solid proof is obtained, accusing any of them of such would be unwise. SCP-3999 is some sort of sadistic demon who tortured an unfortunate researcher for millions of years (to his point of view) until that researcher made a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to destroy it; nothing more than that is known about the monster, although the victim's notes claim it is "indescribable".