Wisemen's Committee

From Metal Gear Solid, The Wisemen's Committee was a secret group of the most wealthy and powerful minds from the United States, Russia, and China who formed the Philosophers in a secret meeting following the first World War.

The Boss's father was a member of the Wisemen's Committee and later revealed the nature of the organization to his daughter, but was killed shortly afterwards by the Philosophers. After the last of the original members died during the 1930s, the organization began to run out of control, and the Wisemen's Committee degenerated into a mere shell of its former self.

With the deaths of the Wisemen's Committee, tensions rose between the three feuding remnants of the Philosophers, becoming the hidden face of the Cold War as each group attempted to concentrate power in their own nation. After World War II, the three branches of the Philosophers start to split up, which brings even more tension to the war.