Theme: Secret Government Agencies

Secret Government Agencies refers to government agencies (usually branches of the US government but there are a number of examples from other countries) who are tasked with protections of the realm and usually operate within a veil of secrecy.

The Spy Film of the 1960s created an array of government agencies with colourful acronyms and their engagement in spying activities. In wider genre material, there are a great many agencies with missions to protect against alien invasion, monsters, occult forces or entities from other realms.

There are also another whole side to government agencies – that of the sinister government agency. Here such agencies are constantly trying to cover up evidence of alien activity, obtain control of those with psychic powers or superpowers, capture aliens or monsters or appropriate scientific advances for weapons purposes. The more paranoid of these imagine such agencies as having incredible reach and control. One of the most common of these agencies is often assumed to be the Men in Black.