History Main / NoSuchAgency

* 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]]).

* ''{{Film/Red}}'': The CIA Back Room. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in its debut scene:

-> '''[[KarlUrban Cooper]]:''' ''"I didn't know this place existed."''\\
'''[[ErnestBorgnine Records Keeper]]:''' ''"It ''doesn't''."''

* The CP9 of ''OnePiece''. While the CP1-8 (CP meaning Cipher Pol, or numbered police) are well-known government intelligence agencies, the ninth one is a complete secret that the ordinary citizens only think of as a rumor. This is because the CP9 has the right to ''kill'' whoever they feel is an obstruction to their mission.

* Division in all iterations of ''Film/{{Nikita}}'', including [[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.

* The Rainbow counter-terror unit in the TomClancy [[Literature/RainbowSix book]] and [[VideoGame/RainbowSix video game series]] ''RainbowSix''. Officially all its operations were performed by special forces units loyal to the country they occurred in. Though by the later [[Literature/JackRyan Ryanverse]] novel ''Literature/TeethOfTheTiger'', Rainbow has apparently become an OpenSecret in the government.

* 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]].

* In ''ExterminatusNow'', the protagonists manage to get away with getting a multi billion dollar secret research facility sucked into a dimensional portal by the fact that since it was completely off the books and officially non-existent, there's not evidence that can be used against them. Their boss has a fit when he realizes this.

* More seriously, {{Area 51}} is a real life subversion, as it's at least official enough that the President of the United States has to sign off on its budget every year. Though what they get up to is anyone's guess.

* 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 eponymous ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol''. Also, Steven Heck claims to work for a branch of the CIA that doesn't officially exist, but he could just be [[WannabeSecretAgent crazy]].

* In the {{Franchise/Halo}} series, Section Zero is the completely-classified arm of the [[StateSec Office Of Naval Intelligence]] who handle its InternalAffairs, and have a functional license to kill anyone they have to in pursuit of their missions; they [[UnPerson 'erased']] hundreds of soldiers and test subjects and burned huge numbers of files when they buried the failed [[SuperSoldier Spartan-I]] Program. Even within ONI, they're regarded as an urban legend at most.

* The Possible TropeNamer for this trope comes from the book TheWizardryConsulted, when Wiz under a geas bounces his online chats with his friends off of a website that, unknown to him, was one of many fronts for a No Such Agency. Since No Such Agency didn't have a team able to hunt down Wiz (him being an actual wizard on an alternate world where magic works, and No Such Agency not specializing in computer crime anyways), they had to ask the FBI to try and track down where the hacking were coming from. [[FridgeHorror You don't really want to know what would happen if they could have tracked him down themselves.]]

** The RPG has another example in the Blue Berets, a secret telepath branch of Earthforce created to counter a possible insurrection of the [[MutantDraftBoard Psi Corps]]. Their description starts with a denial of their existance or any possibility thereof.

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

-> '''[[KarlUrban Cooper]]:''' I didn't know this place existed.\\
'''[[ErnestBorgnine Records Keeper]]:''' It ''doesn't''.
->--''Film/{{Red}}''

The TropeNamer is the US [[{{NSA}} National Security Agency]], which from 1957 to 1962 officially didn't exist. Even after that they were very reticent about what they did, leading many in the government to snark that the abbreviation NSA really stood for "no such agency."

* {{Area 51}}.

* Area51.

* PlayedWith TheMenInBlack in the ''Film/MenInBlack'' film series: they are independent and get their funding from royalties on alien technology, so they mind-wipe even the government officials to deny their existence.

* Deconstructed in ''Film/{{Transformers}}'', when soldiers refuse to take orders from the secret agents, as their section does not officially exist.

* In RobertAHeinlein's ''The Puppet Master'', the narrator explains up front that you've never heard of his organization because they do not exist.
* The Rainbow counter-terror unit in the TomClancy book and video game series ''RainbowSix''. Officially all its operations were performed by special forces units loyal to the country they occurred in. Though by the later [[Literature/JackRyan Ryanverse]] novel ''Literature/TeethOfTheTiger'', Rainbow has apparently become an OpenSecret in the government.

* Bureau 13 of ''{{Babylon 5}}'', 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.
* Section 31 of ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. Not only are they officially non-existent, its actions clashed with the principles of the Federation.

* The ''GreyKnights'' are a curious example, as their existence is considered an urban legend in the Imperium, but there are select few chapters of Space Marines (Namely the Space Wolves and Blood Ravens) who 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.

* The eponymous ''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.

--> '''[[KarlUrban Cooper]]:''' I didn't know this place existed.\\

-->--''Film/{{Red}}''

--> '''[[KarlUrban Cooper]]:''' I didn't know this place existed.
--> '''[[ErnestBorgnine Records Keeper]]:''' It ''doesn't''.

->''"If you or any member of your IM Force are caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow all knowledge of your actions."''

A step up (or down) from a CovertGroupWithMundaneFront is a government agency whose very existence is officially regarded as an UrbanLegend and denied by TheGovernment officials to maintain PlausibleDeniability if their activities (often of black ops variety) become known to general public.

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