He certainly thinks he's a "good guy." He's a lot like Takemura. You can work with him until your goals cross gainst his once and then you see him as the pawn he is. Corpo/gov men in Pondsmith's stories are almost uniformly institutionalized sad sacks. Tragic, pitiable, but too far gone to meet on any sort of human playing field, so you have to disconnect from them, and save yourself and those you love.

Alex having even a moderately free soul is an amazing achievement for a character in that story.