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* SMERSH figured heavily in the JamesBond novels by IanFleming (at least till use of the organization was phased out around the time of {{Thunderball}}). However, the organization was never the super spy organization depicted, and may not have been in existence by the time that the Bond novels debuted. SMERSH (from ''SMER''t ''SH''pionam, or "death to spies") was in reality a sub-branch of the NKVD/MGB that was tasked during (WorldWarTwo The Great Patriotic War) with ferreting out ant-communist partisans, Nazi sympathizers and other enemies of the Soviet regime behind Soviet lines. They were also put in charge of the short manhunt for AdolfHitler in Berlin at the end of the war. SMERSH was offically closed down in March 1946.
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* ''{{Farscape}}'' had IASA (International Aeronautics and Space Administration), an International Agency of Fiction.
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* ''{{Series/Nikita}}'' has Division, a black-ops program that doesn't officially exist, and seems to have originally reported to a secret group of officials in the CIA. However, its leader, [[BigBad Percy]], has since gone rogue, and Division now works for the [[OnlyInItForTheMoney highest bidder]]. And unfortunately, Percy has [[TreacheryCoverUp taken steps]] to insure that [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy he can never be removed from power]] without bringing the ''entire US government'' down with him.
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** It is called the Circus until sometime between the end of Smiley's People and the start of The Russia House, when the main part of the Service, as it then becomes known, moves to an unpleasant office building on the south bank of the Thames, which is stated more clearly in The Secret Pilgrim. This is explained as being partly because of a desire to get rid of everything which reminds them of TheMole from Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, especially because they know he bugged the Circus before he was caught.
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* ''WalkerTexasRanger'', which depicts the Ranger Division (state investigation bureau) of the Texas Department of Public Safety.
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*** Or in Texas, where motor vehicle enforcement is divided into two departments, with vehicle registration being the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation (TXDOT), and driver's license offices under the jurisdiction of the Department of Public Safety (DPS).
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->'''Passport Officer''': You ever heard of Division 6?\\
'''Police Inspector''': There is no Division 6. This is bullshit.\\
'''Passport Officer''': Yeah.
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'''Police Inspector''': There is no Division 6. This is bullshit.\\
'''Passport Officer''': Yeah.
-->--''MenInBlack''
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* ''PhineasAndFerb'' has the O.W.C.A. (Organization Without a Cool Acronym), which employs [[AnimalSuperhero Animal Secret Agents]] to fight [[MadScientist Mad Scientists]].
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* {{Gex}}'s father used to work for [=NASA=] when he died in an incident involving eating tapioca pudding in zero gravity. After the family later became [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney rich]], Gex's mother bought 51% ownership of it, fired everybody, and turned Mission Control into a SuckECheeses.
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* The DMV (US Department of Motor Vehicles), employers of Patty and Selma. [[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2494443066906086178&q=family%20guy%20dmv&hl=en Also seen in]] ''FamilyGuy''.
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* The DMV (US Department of Motor Vehicles), employers of [[TheSimpsons Patty and Selma.Selma]]. [[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2494443066906086178&q=family%20guy%20dmv&hl=en Also seen in]] ''FamilyGuy''.
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* TheDCU also had a fictional version of the [=OSS=]; in the modern era, it has Checkmate, Cadmus, and the [=DEO=] (Department of Extra-Normal Operations).
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* TheDCU also had a fictional version of the [=OSS=]; in the modern era, it has Checkmate, Checkmate (later handed over to the United Nations), Project Cadmus, and the [=DEO=] (Department of Extra-Normal Operations). Operations), the DMA (Department of Metahuman Affairs), SHADE (Super Human Advanced Defense Executive), and the Global Peace Agency.
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They are often shown in the same way, either as [[ObstructiveBureaucrat obstructive bureaucrats]], or the GovernmentConspiracy. Many of these will only be seen as the [[HeroesRUs organisation behind our heroes]], paying their wages and HeroInsurance and assigning them missions (such as the first few on this list), providing occasional [[TheCavalry back-up]] (such as UNIT in ''DoctorWho''), or hunting for our unusual heroes (because they're aliens secretly operating on Earth, say). Sometimes, they'll just be inventing [[MontyPython silly walks]].
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They are often shown in the same way, either as [[ObstructiveBureaucrat obstructive bureaucrats]], or the GovernmentConspiracy. Many of these will only be seen as the [[HeroesRUs organisation behind our heroes]], paying their wages and HeroInsurance and assigning them missions (such as the first few on this list), providing occasional [[TheCavalry back-up]] (such as UNIT SHIELD in ''DoctorWho''), the MarvelUniverse), or hunting for our unusual heroes (because they're aliens secretly operating on Earth, say). Sometimes, they'll just be inventing [[MontyPython silly walks]].
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* Subverted in ''DeusEx'', as UNATCO appears to be a legitimate world law-enforcement body [[spoiler: but is just an arm of a more shadowy organization that has been manipulating member nations' laws to stage legal coups in every country.]]
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Dan Aykroyd said it was real, but Dan Aykroyd is not playing with a full deck.
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* The Organization for Scientific Investigation and Research (OSIR) featured in ''PsiFactor'' is bizarrely a genuine international non-governmental organization, though the TV show (presumably) veered off the actual organization by a pretty wide margin.
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* Of course, in Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series, there is an actual Government Agency of Fiction, the SO27 LiteraTec division...
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**** Also named the DoT in Georgia. Call it the DMV and everyone will still know what you're talking about.
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* [[MarvelUniverse]] has various United Nations agencies: [=SHIELD=] (Supreme Headquarters International Espionage Law-enforcement Division/Strategic, Hazard Intervention, Espionage Logistics Directorate.), [=SWORD=] (Sentient World Observation and Response Department), and [=ARMOR=] (Altered-Reality Monitoring and Operational Response). An ''evil'' multinational agency called Operation Zero Tolerance briefly existed to stomp on mutants, and Weapon Plus does the same thing.
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* [[MarvelUniverse]] The [[MarvelUniverse Marvel Universe]] has various United Nations agencies: [=SHIELD=] (Supreme Headquarters International Espionage Law-enforcement Division/Strategic, Hazard Intervention, Espionage Logistics Directorate.), [=SWORD=] (Sentient World Observation and Response Department), and [=ARMOR=] (Altered-Reality Monitoring and Operational Response). An ''evil'' multinational agency called Operation Zero Tolerance briefly existed to stomp on mutants, and Weapon Plus does the same thing.
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** Supposedly. Considering Dan Aykroyd's occasionally-tenuous grasp of reality, ThisTroper is not convinced.
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* The Natinanl Security Executive in ''SecondSight''. PretentiousLatinMotto: ''Silent Leges Inter Arma''.
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* The Natinanl Security Executive in ''SecondSight''. PretentiousLatinMotto: ''Silent Leges Inter Arma''.Arma''[[hottip:*:lit. "Laws fall silent in times of arms" or more accuratly "The laws are meaningless in times of war".]].
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* Department 7, the all-purpose government agency tasked with investigating whatever the Gamemaster wants them to, from ''D20Modern''.
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* DeathToSpies is named after the Soviet counterintelligence agency SMERSH (whose name is an [[FunWithAcronyms acronym]] meaning just that); the player takes the role of a counterintelligence agent and spy working for them during WWII.
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* The '''N'''uclear '''E'''mergency '''S'''upport '''T'''eam appears in ''TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' as... [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/NEST#Notes let's just let the TFWiki try to explain it.]]
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* [=SHIELD=] (Supreme Headquarters International Espionage Law-enforcement Division), [=SWORD=] (Sentient World Observation and Response Department), [=STRIKE=] (Special Tactical Reserve for International Key Emergencies), and the [=CSA=] (Commission of Superhuman Activities) of the MarvelUniverse.
** You forgot the [[{{Nextwave}} [=HATE=]]] (Highest Anti-Terrorism Effort). Well, maybe it wasn't so much an issue of [[CanonDiscontinuity forgetting]].
** [[{{ComicBook/Excalibur}} [=MI13=]]] is the metahuman/supernatural/extra terrestrial branch of the UK Directorate of Military Intelligence (replacing STRIKE, which was the British SHIELD). The designation is not used in reality.
*** STRIKE was originally replaced by WHO (the Weird Happenings Organisation, a ShoutOut to UNIT), Black Air, RCX (the Resource Contol eXecutive) and DUCK (Yes, really. Department of Unknown and Covert Knowledge). Some of these organisations turned out to be evil, and the exact juristiction boundaries (or even which ones, if any, existed at the same time) were never clearly established.
** SHIELD has currently been replaced by HAMMER, run by Norman Osborne.
** You forgot the [[{{Nextwave}} [=HATE=]]] (Highest Anti-Terrorism Effort). Well, maybe it wasn't so much an issue of [[CanonDiscontinuity forgetting]].
** [[{{ComicBook/Excalibur}} [=MI13=]]] is the metahuman/supernatural/extra terrestrial branch of the UK Directorate of Military Intelligence (replacing STRIKE, which was the British SHIELD). The designation is not used in reality.
*** STRIKE was originally replaced by WHO (the Weird Happenings Organisation, a ShoutOut to UNIT), Black Air, RCX (the Resource Contol eXecutive) and DUCK (Yes, really. Department of Unknown and Covert Knowledge). Some of these organisations turned out to be evil, and the exact juristiction boundaries (or even which ones, if any, existed at the same time) were never clearly established.
** SHIELD has currently been replaced by HAMMER, run by Norman Osborne.
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* [[MarvelUniverse]] has various United Nations agencies: [=SHIELD=] (Supreme Headquarters International Espionage Law-enforcement Division), Division/Strategic, Hazard Intervention, Espionage Logistics Directorate.), [=SWORD=] (Sentient World Observation and Response Department), [=STRIKE=] (Special Tactical Reserve for International Key Emergencies), and [=ARMOR=] (Altered-Reality Monitoring and Operational Response). An ''evil'' multinational agency called Operation Zero Tolerance briefly existed to stomp on mutants, and Weapon Plus does the same thing.
**The United States has [[{{Nextwave}} [=HATE=]]] (Highest Anti-Terrorism Effort) [[CanonDiscontinuity sometimes]], the [=CSA=] (Commission of SuperhumanActivities) Activities), and [=O*N*E=] (Office of National Emergency). During the MarvelUniverse.Dark Reign story, SHIELD was replaced by dodgy organisation [=HAMMER=].
** You forgot the [[{{Nextwave}} [=HATE=]]] (Highest Anti-Terrorism Effort). Well, maybe it wasn't so much an issue of [[CanonDiscontinuity forgetting]].
****The United Kingdom has [[{{ComicBook/Excalibur}} [=MI13=]]] is [=MI13=]]], the metahuman/supernatural/extra terrestrial branch of the UK Directorate of Military Intelligence (replacing STRIKE, which was the British SHIELD). The (the designation is not used in reality.
*** STRIKE was originally replaced byreality). Previous British agencies where *deep breath*: [=STRIKE=] (Special Tactical Reserve for International Key Emergencies, a UK SHIELD), WHO (the Weird Happenings Organisation, a ShoutOut to UNIT), Black Air, RCX (the Resource Contol eXecutive) and DUCK (Yes, really. Department of Unknown and Covert Knowledge). Some of these organisations turned out to be evil, and the exact juristiction boundaries (or even which ones, if any, existed at the same time) were never clearly established. \n** SHIELD An MI13 story [[lampshaded]] this by having an MI6 officer remark none of these agencies will ever last.
**Canada hascurrently been replaced by HAMMER, run by Norman Osborne. Department H in the Alpha Flight comics.
**The United States has [[{{Nextwave}} [=HATE=]]] (Highest Anti-Terrorism Effort) [[CanonDiscontinuity sometimes]], the [=CSA=] (Commission of Superhuman
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* ''{{Transformers}}'' comics have had a few, starting with the Intelligence and Information Institute (III) that was meant to handle the Transformers for the US government (i.e. give a fake story about where they came from and refuse to notice the Autobots were goodies). The IDW comics had Skywatch.
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* The Agency of the ''MenInBlack'', also called Division 6. Although the original term 'Men in Black' referred to just unknown men in suits. (typically associated with the government or aliens.)
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* ''PowerRangers'' has [[PowerRangersLightspeedRescue Lightspeed]], a demon-fighting rescue organization; [[PowerRangersTimeForce Time Force]], TimePolice from the year 3000; and TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture it will have a SpacePolice group called [[PowerRangersSPD SPD]].
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* ''PowerRangers'' has [[PowerRangersLightspeedRescue Lightspeed]], a demon-fighting rescue organization; [[PowerRangersTimeForce Time Force]], TimePolice from the year 3000; and TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture it will have a SpacePolice group called [[PowerRangersSPD SPD]].SPD]] and the sinister Alphabet Soap in [[PowerRangersRPM RPM]].
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* In ''SluggyFreelance'' the FBI operated the Orsintos Labs project that studied various paranormal phenomena, including Oasis. It's explained that they did this because they were jealous the CIA hogging all the alien cases.
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* In Marvel Comics, the real-life MI5, MI6 and the Joint Intelligence Committee have all appeared in MI13 stories written by Paul Cornell. MI6 previously ran superhero operations in ''Shang Chi, Master of Kung Fu''.
* {{TheBoys}} are backed by the CIA.
* In Marvel Comics, the real-life MI5, MI6 and the Joint Intelligence Committee have all appeared in MI13 stories written by Paul Cornell. MI6 previously ran superhero operations in ''Shang Chi, Master of Kung Fu''.
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* [=MI6=]'s domestic counterpart, the British Security Service ([=MI5=]) is depicted in ''{{Spooks}}''.
* More realistic takes on [=MI6=] (although referred to as [=SIS=]) and [=MI5=] can be found in ''TheSandbaggers'' and ''QueenAndCountry'' (although both depict [=SIS=] using a structure reportedly closer to the real [=CIA=].)
* More realistic takes on [=MI6=] (although referred to as [=SIS=]) and [=MI5=] can be found in ''TheSandbaggers'' and ''QueenAndCountry'' (although both depict [=SIS=] using a structure reportedly closer to the real [=CIA=].)
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* [=MI6=]'s domestic counterpart, the The British Security Service ([=MI5=]) is depicted in ''{{Spooks}}''.
* More realistic takes on [=MI6=] (although referred to as[=SIS=]) [=SIS=], its real name) and [=MI5=] can be found in ''TheSandbaggers'' and ''QueenAndCountry'' (although both depict [=SIS=] using a structure reportedly closer to the real [=CIA=].)
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* The Laundry, the UK's EldritchAbomination response team in CharlesStross novels. Also their American counterparts, the Black Chamber, and their German counterparts, the Geheime Sicherheit Abteilung (Secret Security Department, also known as the "Faust Force").
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* [[TheLaundrySeries The Laundry, Laundry]], the UK's EldritchAbomination response team in CharlesStross novels. Also their American counterparts, the Black Chamber, and their German counterparts, the Geheime Sicherheit Abteilung (Secret Security Department, also known as the "Faust Force").
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* The Ministry of Magic in ''HarryPotter''.
* All governments in ''{{Discworld}}'' are obviously fictional, but the only one organised enough to have actual ''agencies'' (beyond "a bunch of soldiers hired by the feudal ruler") is Ankh-Morpork. The Dark Clerks seem to be the organisation that deals with situations Vetinari feels might be dangerous, but which it would be inappropriate for the Watch to deal with. They're Assassins' Guild graduates, often scholarship boys (ie. they entered the Guild because they were ''already'' really good at killing, not because their family had money).
** The former Patricians had a SecretPolice called the Cable Street Particulars, now reinvented as the Watch's investigative and undercover arm.
**The Kingdom of Lancre has several governmental agencies, departments and bodies. It's just that [[OddlySmallOrganisation they're all run entirely by Shawn Ogg]].
* All governments in ''{{Discworld}}'' are obviously fictional, but the only one organised enough to have actual ''agencies'' (beyond "a bunch of soldiers hired by the feudal ruler") is Ankh-Morpork. The Dark Clerks seem to be the organisation that deals with situations Vetinari feels might be dangerous, but which it would be inappropriate for the Watch to deal with. They're Assassins' Guild graduates, often scholarship boys (ie. they entered the Guild because they were ''already'' really good at killing, not because their family had money).
** The former Patricians had a SecretPolice called the Cable Street Particulars, now reinvented as the Watch's investigative and undercover arm.
**The Kingdom of Lancre has several governmental agencies, departments and bodies. It's just that [[OddlySmallOrganisation they're all run entirely by Shawn Ogg]].
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* CI5, the organised crime, terrorism and spy fighting agency that employs TheProfessionals.
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* DempseyAndMakepeace hasSI10, [=SI10=], which fulfils a similar role to CI5, [=CI5=], though it has a more rigid hierarchy and appears to be an actual police unit.
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* The AMC series ''{{Rubicon}}'' has the American Policy Institute, a government think tank that seems to do most of the intelligence gathering for other agencies.
* The AMC series ''{{Rubicon}}'' has the American Policy Institute, a government think tank that seems to do most of the intelligence gathering for other agencies.
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* CI5, the organised crime, terrorism and spy fighting agency that employs TheProfessionals.
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