User blog comment:D. Cello/Assassinews 03/01 -- Assassin's Creed III era and boxart revealed/@comment-3018037-20120302220330/@comment-1153722-20120302224406

Maybe he has a similar role to Machiavelli in Brotherhood. People thinking he is a Templar, but that he in fact isn't. But it isn't explicitly stated that there are Templars on the American side, that was my own interpretation... I'm gonna change that.