Origin

As a young teenager, Doc Hynes was obsessed with UFO sightings. He started a magazine covering the conspiracy with a focus on the "men in black." This got the attention of Department of Truth founder, Frank Capra, who mistook Doc's nickname for the honorific "Doctor." Upon finding out that he was only 15, Capra nearly abandoned his recruitment efforts, until Doc wowed him with his encyclopedic knowledge of men in black encounters and his understanding that while the witnesses were telling the truth, the reality of those encounters might be very different.

Creation

Doc Hynes debuted in Department of Truth #2 by James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds

Major Story Arcs

The Mothman

Doc was teamed up with Agent Lee Harvey Oswald. They were investigating UFO sightings across the country as possible tulpas. They noticed a number of them groups in the Ohio river valley, especially West Virginia. So in order to witness one themselves, they started to plant sightings in an attempt at controlled manifestation. Unfortunately, their wording ("strange flying objects") was not specific enough. What caught on with the local population was a man with wings and red eyes which would eventually be dubbed "The Mothman."

People started to believe that the Mothman was an omen of an upcoming tragedy. That belief got so strong that on December 15, 1967, the Silver Bridge collapsed, resulting in the deaths of 46 people, two of which have never been recovered. There were claims that the Mothman was hovering above the bridge during this incident. Lee and Doc were forced to change their investigation to a hunt. Relying on tranquilizers, they managed to capture The Mothman. This was the first time a tulpa was captured alive, according to the DOT. Neither the Soviets or the Nazis had ever accomplished it.

Doc would be incredibly stressed by the operation and requested to be moved to managing the archive.

White Hat

Significant changes to the DOT started to occur when Cole Turner, who was at the center of the Satanic Panic as a child, was recruited. For one, Hawk had grown disillusioned with the organization enough to defect to Black Hat, the clandestine organization that wants to end the DOT. Black Hat also got to Lee’s rival at the Ministry of Lies. He handed everything Black Hat needed to take down the DOT and then had himself killed to send a message to Lee.

Black Hat was even able to connect with Matty Kane, Cole Turner’s reporter husband. With their files being dumped on the internet and causing all old conspiracies to come back, Cole suggested a radical new strategy to Lee: tell the truth using Matty as their mouthpiece. So Lee told Matty everything. Before Matty can publish anything, Lee starts to regret it. He decides to go directly to the White House and inform the President about the Department of Truth for the first time since Nixon.

With the help of the current administration, Lee was able to get back control of DOT. Most of the old analysts were fired: including Frank, Hunky, and Doc Hynes. Cole and Matty were forced to go underground, but first they freed the Star Faced Man and took him with them before the DOT could take advantage. In their places, Lee hired incel Chuckie and religious zealot Chastity Sinclair.

Doc, Hunky, and Frank managed to secret out some files to an off-grid cabin that belonged to Doc, where Cole and Matty were hiding. There, they planned their next move. They determined they need to tell three stories. The story of Lee and the Department, the story of Barker and Black Hat, and the story of Cole and White Hat, which they have decided to name themselves.