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Arvin Sloane, played by Ron Rifkin, was the former director of SD-6 on the television series, Alias.
Arvin Sloane was the cold, calculating leader of SD-6, directing its operations against the U.S. government under the guise of being a secret organization within the government itself. He was eventually promoted to being a full member of "The Alliance", the organization that operates above each individual SD cell.
Following the downfall of The Alliance and SD-6, Sloane went underground, continuing his obsessive pursuit of the artifacts of eccentric 16th century inventor, Milo Rambaldi. Between seasons 2 and 3 (the two-year gap where Sydney Bristow went missing), Sloane turned himself into the U.S. government and, in exchange for his freedom, utilized all of his knowledge to help bring down various terrorist organizations. Sloane then moved to Zurich, Switzerland, setting up a humanitarian organization and apparently becoming a philanthropist. Sloane still occasionally works for the CIA through utilizing Sloane's contacts with the Covenant, but his motives still incite suspicion within the government.
Sloane was married to his long-time spouse, Emily, who was suffering from apparent terminal cancer. Sloane, presuming that Emily was near death, told his wife everything about what he did for a living. However, SD-6 soon caught wind of this fact and said that a condition of Sloane being promoted to a full member of the Alliance was that he must kill his wife, who now knew too much. Unable to bring himself to actually do this, Sloane initially tried to flee, but Emily was shot and killed accidentally by Marcus Dixon. In retaliation, Sloane later had Dixon's wife killed in a car bomb explosion.
Recent revelations have shown that Sloane had a brief tryst with Irina Derevko, Jack Bristow's wife and Sydney Bristow's mother. Sloane believes that, as a result, he may be Sydney's real father.
See also: List of characters from Alias.