The Educational Protocol

The Educational Protocol was a top-secret organization and the overseers of Project History. Initially believed to be a government organization run by the Mysterious Man and the President with the goal of making American students into the best students in the world, it was later revealed the organization was not part of the government, and had a hidden agenda for creating Project History.

The entire organization was ultimately revealed to be a front created by Eric to initiate his master plan.

Fictional Biography:
The organization's existence was first hinted at in AP: Origins. Agent H's card mentioned being employed by the Educational Protocol and his office listed as being in the "Educational Protocol Secret Headquarters."

In AP: Apocalypse, Agent H reveals the organization's existence to the Mike Dame Posse after they discovered Project History's warehouse, including their (supposed) history. The Protocol was a government organization formed by Mr. Hornick in 2004 as part of a plan to turn American students into the best students in the world. Project History was the first sub-branch in the organization's proposed vast reach, and H was put in charge of it due to his familial relations to Hornick.

But shortly after, fellow Project History agent Tom appeared and revealed that he discovered the Protocol was not a legitimate government organization, having found a rejected bill for the proposed organization from 2004. The Educational Protocol had lied to its employees and was really an underground group, with a motive entirely ulterior to creating successful students, going so far as to create the President AI to maintain the illusion. Dissipating after the zombie apocalypse, the organization's true intentions were a mystery. After the reveals, the Second AP History Guy raided H's former office and ingested several samples of HSX, allowing him to gain the AP powers and start the AP Regime.

In AP: Ultimatum, Mike Dame and the AP History Guy ultimately discovered the entire organization was actually a feint, created by Eric to carry out his ultimate plan: to make Mike Dame fall in love with him. Basing the group on the rejected Educational Protocol bill, Eric created the Protocol in 2004 as a means of manufacturing threats that would endanger Mike Dame's life, manipulating Project History so their many experiments would get loose and find their way to AP History student Mike. Eric would then "appear" and save Mike from these threats, thus slowly getting Mike to appreciate him. The organization was made to look like a government agency to ensure its motives were completely confidential, and an evil clone of Hornick called Subject #0 was created to run the agency. Eric was destroyed by Mike and Greg shortly after.

Trivia:
The acronym for Educational Protocol was a hint towards its true nature: EP really stood for Eric's Plan.