After confronting and killing a government official responsible for the assassination of President Kennedy, Control ordered all records of Argent destroyed and pulled the organisation undercover.
(short for American Security Agency) was a U.S. government organization that supervised the creation of the national team of super-agents called the Force of July.
led by Martin Proctor (portrayed by Gregg Henry) has been abducting emerging metahumans and having them stored in pods so that he can build an army.
(Central Bureau of Intelligence) was formerly led by Sarge Steel and also included Danny Chase (and his parents), King Faraday, Richard Dragon, and Ben Turner in its stable of agents.
Steel was eventually depicted as a Federal Cabinet Secretary of Metahuman Affairs (giving him control of agencies such as the Suicide Squad), until the election of Lex Luthor as president.
Created from the ashes of its predecessor group, the Agency, it was originally set up by Amanda Waller to serve as a small, quasi-independent branch of Task Force X under the command of Colonel Valentina Vostok (formerly Negative Woman of the Doom Patrol) to perform operations worldwide considered vital to the security of American interests.
In the wake of events depicted in the miniseries The OMAC Project and Infinite Crisis, Checkmate has been re-chartered as a United Nations Security Council-affiliated agency.
(short for Department of Extranormal Operations) is a branch of the U.S. government concerned with the magical, the alien, and the superhuman and having connections with such organizations as the Suicide Squad and Knightwatch.
Other divisions include an agency for training 'gifted' youngsters whose powers manifest at a difficult age, and numerous surveillance and data-collection operations.
[20] Introduced in issue #1 of The American Way, the FDAA (short for Federal Disaster Assistance Administration) handles a U.S. government superhero team called the Civil Defense Corps.
[23][24] The Global Peace Agency is an organization that first appeared outside the DC Universe in the original OMAC series, but which became part of the DCU proper in Final Crisis #7.
[26] In the DC Comics Universe, the Human Defense Corps is a branch of the military established by then President of the United States Lex Luthor to reduce government dependency on superhumans when a major alien crisis breaks out, act as back-up to Earth's superheroes, and specifically counter any alien threat to Earth.
3 which has underground labs holding secret (and possibly illegal) research into genetically modifying living organisms using meteor rocks with the company's slogan being "We make things grow".
[33] Project Atom is a U.S. government initiative masterminded by General Wade Eiling and lead scientist Dr. Heinrich Megala with the aim of creating a superhero answerable only to the military.
The project used a combination of nuclear physics and a unique alloy called Dilustel with quantum properties that was cut from the skin of a captured alien known as the Silver Shield using X-Ionizer technology.
[34] Project Cadmus is a high tech genetic research facility responsible for the successful cloning of Jim Harper (the Guardian), and Conner Kent (the second Superboy), as well as a number of other heroes and villains.
Other Red Shadow operatives were: Pozhar (converts matter into energy), Bolshoi (martial artist), Molotov (explosives expert), Mrs. Gradenko (a were-bear), Yerosha (could alter a person's senses), Lamia (pheromone manipulation), the Blue Trinity (speedsters), and Schreck (metahuman vampire).
(short for Super Human Advanced Defense Executive) is a fictional U.S. military organization that investigates, assesses, and contains paranormal and superhuman activity.
After Father Time turned on the psychotic Gonzo, he and his troops vanished into the timestream; Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters were then made the leaders of S.H.A.D.E.
[43] Spyral (also known as "Second Hand") is a U.N sanctioned international agency, was founded by the German superspy Otto Netz, currently known under the pseudonym of "Doctor Dedalus".
Using her personal resources, she recruited enough of a force to convince Batman, Inc. to disband as soon as the conflict was done[44] Throughout "The New 52", Dick Grayson later joined it with Helena Bertinelli.
It was founded by the United Nations during the late 1970s as part of an effort to police the growing population of post-humans created in the wake of the Comet Effect.
These criminals had either agreed to or were coerced into serving as expendable agents, assigned to perform extremely dangerous or impossible missions, in return for a full pardon for their actions.
In 1951, seeking to fill the void left by the retired Justice Society of America, President Harry S. Truman created Task Force X.
Many years later, it was revealed through a conflict with Amanda Waller's Suicide Squad that Control had died and his granddaughter was covertly leading the now-small underground organization.
Under Checkmate's supervision, the pair subsequently salvaged it for themselves, founded Task Force X for fear of a second alien invasion, established Project Cadmus as a research branch, and investigate Superman's activities due to him possessing similar powers as the Kryptonian army.
With a non-powered but highly trained special forces teams and a select number of agents fitted with powerful (but long-term dangerous to their health) performance-enhancing equipment, T.H.U.N.D.E.R.
Université Notre Dame des Ombres (Our Lady of the Shadows University) was originally created to train OSS agents during World War II.
Today, it is a N.A.T.O.-sponsored covert intelligence training academy situated on the French Riviera, with an embassy office in Washington D.C. Its last known headmistress was Sandra Knight, the original Phantom Lady.
The World Army was organized after Earth 2's Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman sacrificed their lives to fight off the invasion from Apokolips.