List of fictional secret police and intelligence organizations
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This is a list of secret police organisations and intelligence agencies which are fictional:
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[edit] Contemporary world
- The Agency from Scarecrow and Mrs. King
- Alliance of Twelve from Alias
- CONTROL from Get Smart
- The Council from Metalocalypse
- Counter Terrorist Unit from 24
- S.T.A.R.S., a police task-force similar to SWAT, in the Resident Evil video game franchise
- U.N.C.L.E. from The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
- ZEP, the secret police of Taschist Borduria in The Adventures of Tintin
- FEAR, a paranormal investigation agency in the popular videogame.
[edit] Science-fiction
- Checkmate from the DC Universe
- The Forge from Doctor Who audio plays
- The Inquisition from Warhammer 40,000 - Imperial secret police similar to the Spanish Inquisition
- NID from Stargate SG-1
- S.H.I.E.L.D. and S.W.O.R.D. from the Marvel Universe
- The Imperial Security Bureau and Imperial Intelligence from the Star Wars universe
- Special Circumstances from Scott Westerfeld's Uglies trilogy
[edit] Star Trek and its spin-offs
- Section 31 - A rogue and officially nonexistent Federation intelligence organization
- Starfleet Intelligence - Federation
- The Tal Shiar from - Romulan secret police
- The Obsidian Order from - Cardassian secret police
[edit] Babylon 5
- The Nightwatch - Earth Alliance secret police
- Psi Corps - Earth Alliance secret police composed of telepaths, essentially "Thought Police", often working in tandem with the Nightwatch. They possess obvious references to the TV show The Prisoner and the Gestapo, which several characters comment on within the series ("...what are you up to today? Annexing Sudetenland?")
[edit] Fantasy
- The Cable Street Particulars from Terry Pratchett's Discworld - Ankh-Morpork secret police (under Captain Swing), and later merely the "plainclothes" division (under Samuel Vimes).
- The Owsla, the rabbit army/police and the Owslafa, secret police, especially of Efrafa, in Watership Down
- Bureau 13 from the role playing game Bureau 13: Stalking the Night Fantastic
- Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense
- The Dai Li from Avatar: The Last Airbender
[edit] Dystopian futures
- The Thought Police from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
- The Finger, the secret police of Norsefire, the fascist government of England, in the V for Vendetta comic and film adaption.
