History Main / NoSuchAgency

* The covert organization in all iterations of ''Film/{{Nikita}}'', including [[Series/LaFemmeNikita the two]] [[Series/{{Nikita}} TV series]] and the TransAtlanticEquivalent ''Point of No Return'', is a black-ops program for assassination and counterintelligence that does not officially exist. Which has allowed the program's leader to turn it into a work-for-hire operation that the government can't shut down.

** ''Teeth of the Tiger'' introduces "The Campus", a play on this trope. Another counter-terror organization set up at the behest of President Ryan, it operates completely outside of government oversight, relying on its cover as an investment firm[[hottip:*:and a little help from "intercepted" CIA and NSA intel]] for funding. Aside from Ryan, only a handful of people within the government are even vaguely aware there is more to The Campus than meets the eye, and the vast majority of those are mid-level types acting as "talent scouts" for the organization.

* In Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/ThePuppetMasters'', the narrator explains up front that you've never heard of his organization because they do not exist.
* Literature/{{Quiller}} works for The Bureau, an organization directly responsible to the Prime Minister of Britain, with "powers that would be called into question in the House of Commons should its existence be revealed".

* "[[NoNameGiven The Agency]]" in the 2000 ''Series/TheInvisibleMan'' TV series is an interesting variation. Due to their low budget [[OddlySmallOrganization and few personnel]] they had to exist mainly as a deniable floating task force for other government agencies, such as the Department of Fish & Game.

* When Section 31 is revealed in the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E18Inquisition Inquisition]]", Ben Sisko mentions he queried Starfleet Command on the organization. Command refused to either confirm or deny its existence. It's indicated that most of Starfleet Command and the Federation government ''really don't know'' that Section 31 exists, and it doesn't actually answer to ''anyone''.

** In ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'', Section 31 is more known and is considered to be an official part of Starfleet with its own admirals, ships, and command structure, as well as a much higher tech level than the rest of Starfleet (e.g. holographic disguises for both people and ships, personal attack drones, combadges, advanced tractor beams, fully-functional AI). They wear black badges. However, the events of Season 2 result in the organization being disavowed and going underground once again, for good this time, all official (and lots of unofficial) records wiped. A century later, no one even remembers that such an agency ever existed.

* ''TabletopGame/ConspiracyX''. The main opponent organization for the {{Player Character}}s is a secret government agency called the National Defense Directorate AKA the Black Book.

** After 9/11 and the reorganization of the US intelligence community, Delta Green was revived, given a proper government standing and using TheWarOnTerror as a cover of their operations against the mythos. A group of old guard agents were suspicious of this new organization and created their own RenegadeSplinterFaction mantaining the old conspiracy structure.

* The ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' Black Ops campaign setting is about the player characters working for "The Company". The Company is a highly secret organization that was founded by a select few individuals after World War II as a "conspiracy of protection" for the purpose of protecting humanity and Earth from all manner of paranormal threats. The number one rule given to all Black Ops agents is to protect the conspiracy at all costs.
* ''TabletopGame/PsionicsTheNextStageInHumanEvolution'' is about several massive conspiracies using people with psionic powers to further their own goals, so several organizations, locations, people, etc. don't officially exist. Finding out about them is likely to get you killed or on the radar of some very nasty people too.

* Blackwatch, the covert-ops branch of the ''{{VideoGame/Overwatch}}'' organization. While Overwatch functioned as public face and TheParagon, Blackwatch dwelt in the shadows. Doing the dirty work regular Overwatch couldn't be connected to. Their reveal by spiteful ex-leader Gabriel "Reaper" Reyes brought them and Overwatch as a whole down.
* Blackwatch, the government organization tasked with stopping the virus in ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' officially doesn't exist and has no insigna. Newscasts played during the credits suggests that even by the end of the game, most people assume they're just part of the USMC. They're more of an open secret by ''VideoGame/Prototype2'' though.

* ''Videogame/SoldierOfFortune'' has The Shop, a covert government organization that conducts black operations around the globe.

* "The Agency" from the ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter'' series was this for the first three games. Starting with 'The Omega Strain' the agency was reorganized into an OpenSecret called the International Presidential Consulting Agency (IPCA). Although their existence is now known to the rest of the world their activities are supposed to be highly classified with only the President of the United States having full authority and oversight of the organization.
* The title organization in ''[[VideoGame/TheDivision Tom Clancy's The Division]]'' is this up until the start of the game. A group of highly trained [[DeepCoverAgent deep cover agents]] seeded throughout the U.S. by the government, whose job is to help contain major crises that are beginning to spiral out of control, and have the advantage of being locals, thus good knowledge of geography, and direct or near direct knowledge of what's going on. The pandemic and societal collapse sweeping New York City in the game convinces the government to activate and reveal them for their first operation.
* The title project of ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'' is also disavowed throughout the entire game. No matter what equipment they donate to member-nations, no matter how many civilians they rescue when dealing with alien Terror Strikes, the organization itself is never revealed. The most that the general public knows is the news reports of highly trained soldiers with advanced equipment being sighted occasionally fighting the alien invaders, with all governments involved denying knowledge about them.

* Much like the NSA up in the heading, the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the agency responsible for the manufacture and operation of SpySatellites, was a covert organization from its founding in 1961 to the declassification of the [[http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB257/19920918-2.pdf "fact of" their existence in 1992.]] Security around the agency was so tight, [[http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB257/19740206.pdf even their letterheads were marked "Secret".]] [[OpenSecret not that it mattered since the press had known about them]] [[http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB257/19740107.pdf as early as 1971.]]

* Parodied in ''ComicStrip/AngusOg'' where the Laird mentions he has a friend who "does something very hush-hush for the (British) government", only for his wife to say, in a surprised voice, that she thought he worked for MI6.

* ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation'' has both the Impossible Mission Force itself and the Syndicate, [[spoiler:which turns out to be an agency originally created by the British Secret Intelligence Service (a.k.a. MI6) that has since gone rogue]]. However, IMF itself does have official status in this movie to some degree: while still a super-black agency, it does have oversight and is accountable to the Senate Intelligence Committee (to an extent: Ethan's boss Brandt is shown refusing to talk about any IMF operations without permission from the Secretary, [[LoopholeAbuse whose position is vacant at the moment]]).

* In ''Film/{{Hellboy}}'', one of Tom Manning's jobs is to deny the existence of the Bureau of Paranormal Research & Defense and cover up all evidence of their missions (which is a deviation from the original comic books, where the Bureau's existence was public knowledge). But in the sequel, Hellboy deliberately reveals the Bureau's existence by appearing on a live news broadcast.

* The British SecretIntelligenceService, more famously known as MI-6, wasn't officially acknowledged to exist until 1994 (though thanks to their long association with the ''Franchise/JamesBond'' franchise, [[OpenSecret pretty much everyone knew about them anyway]]). In his 1976 book ''The Governance of Britain'', outgoing Prime Minister UsefulNotes/HaroldWilson had a chapter devoted to the SIS... which was one paragraph long and can be summed up as "An organisation exists, is funded by the taxpayer, and that's all I'm saying". Even now, they can get a bit touchy about their activities being brought up - Mitt Romney, during his run for President, caused a small diplomatic incident by casually revealing that he'd met agents of [=MI6=].

* PlayedWith in the ''Film/MenInBlack'' films and [[WesternAnimation/MenInBlack animated series]]: they started as a government agency in the late 1950s, but by TheNineties are independent and get their funding from [[ETGaveUsWifi royalties on alien technology]], so they mind-wipe even the government officials to deny their existence.

** Its intensely creepy British counterpart, Porton Down, toys with this trope. On the one hand, it is known to exist, and it is known that in the 50s at least, it dabbled in human experimentation... something that was only admitted after ''50 years'' of legal battles by the family of one young soldier who died horribly after exposure to the nerve agent Sarin. It also admitted that it once rendered an entire (admittedly small and mostly empty) island off Scotland uninhabitable for several decades in experiments related to Anthrax, and exposed coastal towns to ''E Coli'' bacteria as a supposedly relatively harmless way of figuring out how a biological attack would spread. Now, it claims that it merely studies biological weapons to defend against them, but no one really believes them - the fact that a BBC documentary team allowed in to look around had most of their questions along the lines of "what goes on in that building?" answered with a stony, "That's classified" did not help. The fact that the head of the House of Commons Defence Select Committee (equivalent to a Congressional Committee) said in 1999, "I would not say that the Defence Committee is micro-managing either DERA or Porton Down. We visit it, but, with eleven members of Parliament and five staff covering a labyrinthine department like the Ministry of Defence and the Armed Forces, it would be quite erroneous of me and misleading for me to say that we know everything that’s going on in Porton Down. It’s too big for us to know, and secondly, there are many things happening there that I’m not even certain Ministers are fully aware of, let alone Parliamentarians," didn't help either.

* The Corsairs in the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' universe are a branch of Alliance Marines who conduct black ops for the Alliance without official orders. Typically for the Alliance, they still have tons of red tape to navigate and have limited effectiveness.

** Bureau 13, an agency so secret that even its name is rarely known. The one guy that told Captain Sheridan the Bureau's name ended up dead shortly afterwards.

* "[[NoNameGiven The Agency]]" in the 2000 ''Series/InvisibleMan'' TV series is an interesting variation. Due to their low budget [[OddlySmallOrganization and few personnel]] they had to exist mainly as a deniable floating task force for other government agencies, such as the Department of Fish & Game.

* The eponymous ''TabletopGame/DeltaGreen'' was originally an ''official'' non-existent government agency. When it was disbanded, its members continued to operate covertly and illegally, becoming an unauthorized No Such Agency. Their rival and enemy is MAJESTIC-12, another official No Such Agency which oversees relations with TheGreys, attempt to study and weaponize their technology while complying to their demands (Which is basically control the United States), they are mostly formed by UsefulNotes/{{CIA}}, UsefulNotes/{{NSA}} and NRO agents.

* Much like the NSA up in the heading, the US National Reconnaissance Office was a covert organization from its founding in 1961 to the declassification of the [[http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB257/19920918-2.pdf "fact of" their existence in 1992.]] Security around the agency was so tight, [[http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB257/19740206.pdf even their letterheads were marked "Secret".]] [[OpenSecret not that it mattered since the press had known about them]] [[http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB257/19740107.pdf as early as 1971.]]

* Background Unit in ''LightNovel/HeavyObject'' is only a nickname as the unit itself does not officially exist nor are any of the members recorded as part of the military. They're sent on the dirty, dangerous missions that Legitimacy Kingdom doesn't want traced back to them and are completely expendable. [[spoiler:The only reason Quenser and Heivia dodge a court-martial after Unicorn lets them take the fall for an explosion in a city is that they were never officially there]].

* PlayedWith in the ''Film/MenInBlack'' films and [[WesternAnimation/MenInBlack animated series]]: they started as a government agency in the late 1950s, but by TheNineties are independent and get their funding from [[ETGaveUsWifi royalties on alien technology]], so they mind-wipe even the government officials to deny their existence.
-->'''James Edwards:''' Hey, what branch of the government do we report to?\\
'''Agent Kay:''' ''None'', they ask too many questions.

* Deconstructed in ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' when Lennox, Epps, and the other Special Forces troopers refuse to take orders from the Sector 7 agents because their unit does not officially exist. "That's right, and we don't take orders from people who don't exist."

* ''Film/TheBourneSeries'': Jason and the agents in Treadstone, and later Blackbriar, are implied to be this.
-->'''Conklin:''' I don't send you to kill. I send you to be invisible. I send you because you don't exist.
* In ''Film/{{Nixon}}'', the President feels that he can't rely on the FBI or the CIA, so he [[StartMyOwn institutes his own personal]] covert agency, The White House Plumbers.
* When the investigator protagonists in Vladimir Serebryakov and Andrey Ulanov's ''From America with Love'' reach the NSA, they are in effect never get past the doorman. After they were politely shown the door by a self-professed Major in a plain civilian suit, one of them remarks that it's only to be expected — the NSA headquarters was the only building he'd seen since the arrival to the USA ''[[SeriousBusiness which had the false windows]]''.
* In ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'', the Kingsmen are an international independent espionage agency that makes sure everything is okay in the world. But no-one knows of its existence.
** Same goes for their American counterpart the Statesmen in the sequel [[KingsmanTheGoldenCircle The Golden Circle]].
* ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation'' has both the Impossible Mission Force itself and the Syndicate, [[spoiler:which turns out to be an agency originally created by the British Secret Intelligence Service (a.k.a. MI6) that has since gone rogue]]. However, IMF itself does have official status in this movie to some degree: while still a super-black agency, it does have oversight and is accountable to the Senate Intelligence Committee (to an extent: Ethan's boss Brandt is shown refusing to talk about any IMF operations without permission from the Secretary, [[LoopholeAbuse whose position is vacant at the moment]]).

* In the ''Matt Helm'' series of novels written by Donald Hamilton, the U.S. assassination agency with no name that Matt works for.

* In Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/ThePuppetMasters'', the narrator explains up front that you've never heard of his organization because they do not exist.

* Literature/{{Quiller}} works for The Bureau, an organization directly responsible to the Prime Minister of Britain, with "powers that would be called into question in the House of Commons should its existence be revealed".
* The [[Literature/HonorHarrington Honorverse]] book ''Shadow of Freedom'' introduces the Mobius SecretPolice, an agency whose existence is a state secret, [[OpenSecret even though literally everybody on the planet is aware of their existence.]] In practice, it is a domestic intelligence and espionage agency that exclusively employs undercover agents. One character muses on the fact that on most other worlds, a SecretPolice would not try to keep it's own existence a secret, and wonders if the agency's founder even understood what the phrase meant.
* Much like the ''Film/MenInBlack'' example, PlayedWith by the Ministry of Magic in ''Literature/HarryPotter''. Its name suggests a governmental department on par with the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Justice, but no-one in the U.K.'s {{Muggle}} government knows it exists other than the Prime Minister, and they certainly don't ''report'' to him, unless bursting in unannounced at irregular intervals to give him information he has no context for and can't possibly act intelligently upon counts.
* The Dark Clerks in [[Literature/{{Discworld}} Ankh-Morpork]] are a myth, as everyone knows. If they weren't a myth, they'd be employed by the Patrician to deal with problems when the City Watch can't find any evidence of lawbreaking and the Assassins' Guild would leave too much of a paper trail.
** And the History monks? No Such Monastery!

* Franchise/StargateVerse:
** Fifteen years into the project, Stargate Command remains a secret known only to cleared members of the participating militaries and the highest government officials of the 50 nations that are signatories to the Antarctic Treaty System. The latter were only read into it because there's an Ancient outpost underneath the continent. The project was supposed to go public in the third ''Series/StargateSG1'' movie, ''Revolution'' (partly because the number of people involved is in the thousands at this point, making keeping the secret increasingly difficult), but [[DevelopmentHell the plans for the movie were derailed by MGM's bankruptcy]].
** The NID is also portrayed in this manner. Indeed, it was originally supposed to be referred to as NRD, standing for No Real Department. However, this sounded too awkward and so was changed to NID.

* When Section 31 is revealed in the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E18Inquisition Inquisition]]", Ben Sisko mentions he queried Starfleet Command on the organization. Command refused to either confirm or deny its existence. It's indicated that most of Starfleet Command and the Federation government ''really don't know'' that Section 31 exists, and it doesn't actually answer to ''anyone''.
** In one of the novels, someone visits Bashir representing "the organisation you know as Section 31". When Bashir questions this, the agent explains he's never had occasion to use ''any'' name for his employers.
** When Section 31 shows up in ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' the name is implied to refer to Article 14, Section 31 of the (United Earth) Starfleet Charter, which allows bending rules in times of extreme threat -- suggesting that Section 31 is less a name for the organisation and more a mission statement.

* In ''Series/{{Threshold}}'' the eponymous agency's very existence is classified, with its operatives having to [[ImpersonatingAnOfficer impersonate other federal agencies' agents]] when on the job.
* "[[NoNameGiven The Agency]]" in the 2000 ''Series/InvisibleMan'' TV series is an interesting variation. Due to their low budget [[OddlySmallOrganization and few personnel]] they had to exist mainly as a deniable floating task force for other government agencies, such as the Department of Fish & Game.

* The Literature/GreyKnights Adeptus Astartes chapter in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' are a curious example, as their existence is considered an urban legend in the Imperium, and only a select few of the other Space Marine chapters (namely the Literature/{{Space Wol|f}}ves and Literature/BloodRavens) are allowed to learn of their existence. In addition, they are considered the militant arm of the Ordo Malleus, making them soldiers of the Inquisition. However, anyone else who fights alongside them are either killed or mind-wiped after the war is over in order to preserve their secrecy. Only the Space Wolves have managed to escape this, primarily because there were too few Grey Knights left after the first War for armageddon, and afterwords dealing with the situation would have required calling the entire chapter to heel, something that is virtually impossible to do to a first founding chapter. Note that the Grey Knights ''did'' try... and the Space Wolves defeated them.

* The ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' Black Ops campaign setting is about the player characters working for "The Company". The Company is a highly secret organization that was founded by a select few individuals after World War II as a "conspiracy of protection" for the purpose of protecting humanity and Earth from all manner of paranormal threats. The number one rule given to all Black Ops agents is to protect the conspiracy at all costs.

* The Third Echelon in the ''VideoGame/SplinterCell'' series is a black ops and intelligence agency of the US government. Their existence is hidden even from the NSA, which they are technically part of. When their existence is exposed in ''Conviction'' [[spoiler:by way of a TyrantTakesTheHelm making an AssassinationAttempt on the U.S. President]], they are publicly disavowed, and the President sets up an ''even more'' CovertGroup that doesn't even have a stationary base of operations, Fourth Echelon, in ''Blacklist''.
* The Corsairs in the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' universe are a branch of Alliance Marines who conduct black ops for the Alliance without official orders. Typically for the Alliance, they still have tons of red tape to navigate and have limited effectiveness.
* ''VideoGame/{{Section 8}}: Prejudice'' introduces a unit called the Spear which serves as the game's BigBad. [[spoiler:It was an elite paramilitary unit intended to exterminate any alien life that could be an obstacle to human colonies (read: all of it), but its leadership began to get mentally unstable (partly from remorse) and they were disavowed and ordered destroyed by USIF regulars. They've come back for revenge.]]

* ''Videogame/SoldierOfFortune'' has The Shop, a covert government organization that conducts black operations around the globe.

* The title organization in ''[[VideoGame/TheDivision Tom Clancy's The Division]]'' is this up until the start of the game. A group of highly trained [[DeepCoverAgent deep cover agents]] seeded throughout the U.S. by the government, whose job is to help contain major crises that are beginning to spiral out of control, and have the advantage of being locals, thus good knowledge of geography, and direct or near direct knowledge of what's going on. The pandemic and societal collapse sweeping New York City in the game convinces the government to activate and reveal them for their first operation.
* The title project of ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'' is also disavowed throughout the entire game. No matter what equipment they donate to member-nations, no matter how many civilians they rescue when dealing with alien Terror Strikes, the organization itself is never revealed. The most that the general public knows is the news reports of highly trained soldiers with advanced equipment being sighted occasionally fighting the alien invaders, with all governments involved denying knowledge about them.
* "The Agency" from the ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter'' series was this for the first three games. Starting with 'The Omega Strain' the agency was reorganized into an OpenSecret called the International Presidential Consulting Agency (IPCA). Although their existence is now known to the rest of the world their activities are supposed to be highly classified with only the President of the United States having full authority and oversight of the organization.

'''Agent Kay:''' None, they ask too many questions.

* The existence of the Osean 8492nd Squadron, a.k.a. [[spoiler:the Belkan Aggressor Squadron]], in ''VideoGame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar'' is denied by the Osean government, probably because of the [[spoiler:unsavory association with the ex-Belkan military. Comes to bite them in the ass later on, when it turns out that the 8492nd remained loyal to the Belkan government the whole time]].

* More seriously, {{Area 51}} was a real life subversion for most of its existence, as it was at least official enough that the President of the United States had to sign off on its budget every year. Though what they get up to is anyone's guess. The theories that the typical man on the street knows about all boil down to "Aliens!", but those more grounded in reality speculate that it's where the Air Force tests the cutting-edge technology of tomorrow, like stealth planes were in the Eighties. It's even possible that the alien conspiracy theories are actually ''encouraged'' because they obfuscate what's actually going on at the base: the aforementioned cutting-edge technology. On August 16, 2013 Area 51's existence was confirmed by the US government. It was, in fact, used to test the Lockheed U-2 spy plane, and reportedly their programs resulted in an increase of UFO sightings in the area. It's generally presumed that such testing of current aircraft and missiles has been moved to other locations by this point, since Area 51 has become too famous to keep anything that actually has to leave the ground secret.

* The existence of the Osean 8492nd Squadron, a.k.a. [[spoiler:the Belkan Aggressor Squadron]], in ''VideoGame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar'' is denied by the Osean government, probably because of the [[spoiler:unsavory association with the ex-Belkan military. Comes to bite them in the ass later on, when it turns out that the 8492nd remained loyal to the Belkan government the whole time]]. The Ghosts of Razgriz themselves become this retroactively, since their involvement in the war and even existence is denied by Osea for ten years thereafter--even the title of the game refers to this.

* The eponymous ''TabletopGame/DeltaGreen'' was originally an ''official'' non-existent government agency. When it was disbanded, its members continued to operate covertly and illegally, becoming an unauthorized No Such Agency. Their rival and enemy is MAJESTIC-12, another official No Such Agency which oversees relations with TheGreys, attempt to study and weaponize their technology while complying to their demands (Which is basically control the United States), they are mostly formed by {{CIA}}, UsefulNotes/{{NSA}} and NRO agents.

* The unit fomerly known as the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_Support_Activity Intelligence Support Activity]]'', they serve as the intelligence gathering division of the USSOCOM and JSOC, providing intelligence for other units such as the SEAL Team 6 and Delta Force. Officially it was "disbanded" in 1989 but it continued existing, every information available is classified and the new name is a series of codenames that frequently changes. Some of the most famous codename include: Centra Spike[[labelnote:Note]]Used during their operations in the hunt for Pablo Escobar[[/labelnote]], [[Franchise/MetalGear Grey Fox]][[labelnote:Note]]Used in the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan[[/labelnote]] and Inteprid Spear[[labelnote:note]]Current or last codename known[[/labelnote]].

* Deconstructed in ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' when Lennox, Epps, and the other Special Forces troopers refuse to take orders from the Sector 7 agents because their unit does not officially exist.

* The unit fomerly known as the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_Support_Activity Intelligence Support Activity]]'', they serve as the intelligence gathering division of the USSOCOM and JSOC, providing intelligence for other units such as the SEAL Team 6 and Delta Force. Oficially it was "disbanded" in 1989 but it continued existing, every information available is classified and the new name is a series of codenames that frequently changes. Some of the most famous codename include: Centra Spike[[labelnote:Note]]Used during their operations in the hunt for Pablo Escobar[[/labelnote]], [[Franchise/MetalGear Grey Fox]][[labelnote:Note]]Used in the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan[[/labelnote]] and Inteprid Spear[[labelnote:note]]Current or last codename known[[/labelnote]].

* The eponymous ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol'' doesn't exist for the purpose of providing deniable assets to the U.S. government. Also, Steven Heck claims to work for a branch of the CIA that doesn't officially exist, but he could just be [[WannabeSecretAgent crazy]]. (Steve is either the second best spy in the world, or crazy enough to be as effective as he is.)

* ''ComicBook/DoubleDuck'' has The Agency-full name, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Agency So Secret It Doesn't Even Have A Name]]. Its existence is not publicily aknowledged until [[spoiler:the story "Reboot" has the government disband it and replace it with the less expensive Direction, that proceeds to expose the former existence of the Agency in the name of trasparency, never mind they exposed all the Agency's operators to revenge from the criminals they had opposed]].

* The eponymous ''TabletopGame/DeltaGreen'' was originally an ''official'' non-existent government agency. When it was disbanded, its members continued to operate covertly and illegally, becoming an unauthorized No Such Agency.