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Covert Group with Mundane Front

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Covert Group with Mundane Front	comment	One problem with being a member of the Government Agency of Fiction or of a Covert Group is that, at some point, you need to interact with the public or non-covert governmental agencies. This is where being a Covert Group with a Mundane Front comes in. A covert group has a highly mundane front and it will sometimes be commented that their funding is hidden from the public within the low funding the front group officially receives. Sometimes this will be played for laughs, as characters will either make fun of the official organ the spies are supposed to come from, or else see the front for the Paper-Thin Disguise that it is. As a general note, it is very common for a cultural attachÃ© to be one of these ("travel to interesting places; kill interesting people"). Compare with the low rank/high power of the Almighty Janitor, as well as Totally Not a Criminal Front, which is when something similar is done by criminals very poorly. See also Milkman Conspiracy and Overt Operative. When surrounded by even more secrecy, it becomes a case of No Such Agency. While not required, the Mundane Front may have an Unusually Uninteresting Name, or one with Ominous Mundanity.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_10401be7	comment	Season 2 of Batman: The Telltale Series features a sinister rogue government conspiracy who have their secret base hidden in a spa. Give them points for trying; Bruce enters to scope the place out and the dangerous operatives start telling him about the massages they have on offer.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_164f5129	comment	The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. U.N.C.L.E. headquarters is located behind Del Floria's Tailor Shop, while another entrance is via The Masque Club. U.N.C.L.E.'s "Section VII: Public Relations and Propaganda" had a charity fundraising group as a front.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_17024c6d	comment	The Pretender: The Centre pretends to be a think-tank as a front for their research and dubious business deals.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_17842d5f	comment	In Fallout 76, the entrance to one of the game's nuclear missile silos is disguised as a cargo elevator in a processing factory. Terminal entries found in the factory imply that the pre-war US government subsidized the factory's operations and maintained a bare minimum of activity to keep up appearances. The game also features another Chinese base (a military intelligence bunker) under the local Mama Dolce's factory, though unlike the commando base in Fallout 3, this one was wiped out by the Enclave after the war.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_1ad9726b	comment	Hunter: The Vigil has Task Force VALKYRIE, the high-priority special ops group that deals with supernatural incursions. Like the Secret Service, they're based out of the Treasury Department.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_1af12467	comment	Ghosted: To the general public, the Bureau Underground's base of operations in LA is simply the Mid Valley Coat Hanger Company.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_1b5eec6e	comment	Sheep in the Big City: In "Going off the Sheep End", General Specific and his soldiers disguise their so-called "Top Secret Military Base" as a bakery. They accomplish this by doing nothing more than covering up the "-se" on their sign with "-kery".
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: Xavier's School For Gifted Youngsters was this for decades. However, it's been blown up so many times, it probably doesn't qualify any more. The Weapon X Program? You know, the Big Bad behind Wolverine's transformation from relatively innocuous soldier to bladeâ€“handed immortal killing machine? Who've made life a merry hell for various Bâ€“list X-Men for the last thirty years? On paper, they're the Department of Agriculture, Pest Control Division.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_1c24c068	comment	A Young Girl's Guerrilla War: The Rising Sun Benevolent Organization advertises itself as a charitable association aimed at improving Japanese public health and fostering better relations between the Britannians and the local "Elevens". While the first is technically true (the RSBS provides education and medicine to Shinjuku residents), it also provides a front for the Kozuki Organization to gain funds and gather members for resisting Britannian occupation.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_1e91c61c	comment	Wild C.A.T.S.: The American agency devoted to looking into super-human crimes in the Wild Storm universe was the National Park Service, which is actually a real organization.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_22119589	comment	A villainous example occurs in Alias with the terrorist group SD-6 masquerading behind the name of a bank, Credit Dauphine.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_222c2051	comment	Chuck: Chuck and Casey's jobs at the Buy More are more or less genuine, but Casey has all sorts of weapons and gadgets hidden around the store, and the ice cream parlor where Sarah works is a front for a secret CIA base. It's not clear if the owners know this; presumably the place is run by the CIA, since Sarah is always away on missions and would probably be fired if it were a real job. Chuck's excuse is that he has to leave the store to answer tech support calls. As of Season 4, the Buy More has been entirely taken over by the CIA and is a full-fledged secret base. However, Morgan convinces General Beckman that people are getting suspicious about how effective the new Buy More staff is, getting her to hire the old, lazy employees back. The store more or less goes back to being a regular one after that, albeit with a secret underground base.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_2250e67e	comment	Star Trek: Enterprise has an organization of temporal agents from the 31st century. Their front man on Enterprise, Daniels, serves as Captain Archer's personal steward because it puts him near the man he was assigned to watch while allowing him to fly under everyone else's radar.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_230b3240	comment	Jack Ryan usually has super-paramilitary spy John Clark covering himself as a specialist in a mundane job category. Clear and Present Danger implies that he's also knowledgeable enough to cover himself other ways as well. Debt of Honor actually has him and his partner pretending to be Russians to infiltrate Japan. When the paramilitary anti-terrorist organization Rainbow is established in Rainbow Six, they're listed as belonging to the Special Air Service in a case of Hiding in Plain Sight. "The Campus", the secret anti-terrorist investigation and assassination squad at the center of his novels starting with The Teeth of the Tiger, operates completely off the government books under the cover of being a financial trading firm.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_237c99fd	comment	The climax of Some Like It Hot involves the "Friends of Italian Opera", which is a front for the Cosa Nostra.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_24a6dfde	comment	The Order of Denderah in lonelygirl15 uses the Hymn of One, Verdus Phamaceuticals, the Wyman Foundation, the Lullaby Project, Bio-Therapy Report LLC and Sacred Spirit.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_251cef2a	comment	Intelligence: The protagonist has many front companies, including a shipyard and a lumber business, but his favorite is a strip club called the Chick-A-Dee.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_25302c90	comment	In Once Upon a Spy, the unnamed intelligence agency has its headquarters located under an amusement park. The entrance is through the Tunnel of Love. It does maintain other fronts, such as the computing company that Jack works for.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_2593556	comment	In Fear No Evil, a My Hero Academia fanfic, on the surface Humarise is a charity and support group for Quirkless people. In actuality, Humarise is a cult with politicians and police deep in their pockets and imprison and brainwash their members.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Parodied in "Bart the Murderer" with intelligence agency vans disguised as "Two Guys from Quantico Pizza" and "Flowers By Irene". In "Brother's Little Helper", it is revealed that Major League Baseball is actually a secret organization that spies on Americans using everything from satellites to miniature cameras hidden in baseball bats.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_29a59965	comment	In Geography Club, the characters start a Gay-Straight Alliance at their high school. They call it Geography Club, so that people not in the know will think it seems boring and not want to join.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_2a842e3a	comment	In the Doctor Who Expanded Universe short story "Doom's Day: Hour One", the Lesser Order of Oberon is a Murder, Inc. organisation based in an anonymous grey office building, in a city filled with anonymous grey office buildings, on a fairly anonymous and grey planet. The entire city was secretly built to conceal the Order's offices.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	The Company in Heroes uses Primatech, a paper company based in Odessa, Texas. Noah Bennett outwardly seems to be a run-of-the-mill manager there.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	Justice League: In "The Return", Lex Luthor has a secret bunker ironically located underneath a barbershop. Equally bald hero Steel does point out that it's the last place anyone would look for Luthor. His tone suggests that he's equal parts impressed by the idea, angry that he didn't think of it, and drumming up plans for his own HQ in a Metropolis Barbershop (the Steel Works, last seen in Superman: The Animated Series, is a rather conspicuous old steel mill).
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_2e7ed09c	comment	Special Unit 2: The eponymous Special Unit uses a dry cleaners for cover. The actual base is located in an abandoned subway station under the dry cleaners. In one episode, a guy tries to rob the place with a handgun. Cue all the undercover cops taking out their oversized guns in a scene reminiscent of RoboCop 3.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_3501cc23	comment	Locke Lamora of the Gentleman Bastard sequence claims to be one of these in the second book... as in, he tells another character that he used to work in the weights and measures department until he was recruited as a spy by the Archon, a position he's now supposedly on the run from. (The part about weights and measures is a complete fiction, and he's actually working for the Archon, under threat of blackmail, at the time he says this.)
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_3b34143f	comment	Wizarding buildings in Harry Potter tend to hide behind fronts such as a closed department store (St Mungo's Hospital), a non-working phone (the public entrance to the Ministry of Magic) and a dingy pub (Diagon Alley).
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_3d1d4598	comment	Kingsman: Exploited in Kingsman: The Secret Service. The Kingsmen's classic tailor front is justified by having started out as one, catering to the rich and powerful and becoming quite wealthy and influential themselves in the process. After its owners and clients lost most of their heirs to World War I, they decided to use the un-inherited wealth to forge a new knightly order to ensure peace around the world. It may be the first case where the Covert Group grew out of the Mundane Front practically as a sideline. Kingsman: The Golden Circle gives us Statesman, a (really good) brand of liquor that's the mundane front for the Kingsman's American counterparts. The front is revealed to be a multi-billion-dollar company, as one would expect of capitalism; Kingsman sells a few thousand $5000+ suits a year, Statesman sells millions of $100+ bottles of liquor in the same timeframe.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_3f5f4ea2	comment	Played with in Austin Powers — the front organisation Virtucom makes more money legitimately than Dr Evil's criminal plans would bring in. This becomes a running gag, where each new movie would have Number Two suggest they focus on a front organization, which is by far more profitable (Starbucks in the second and a talent agency in the third), only to be dismissed.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_3ff0f7dd	comment	In KateModern, the Order's covers are the Hymn of One and St. Grinstead Psychiatric Research Institution.note Absolutely no relation to Scientology, which has its UK headquarters in the town of East Grinstead.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_42ffb88e	comment	The SCP Foundation has several front organizations. They usually have names with initials that spell out "SCP", like Soap from Corpses Products inc and Spicy Crust Pizza.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_43e8e7f9	comment	Trantor Falls. The library is actually the Second Foundation, hiding under the nose of the First Galactic Empire. Their knowledge of esoteric lore comes in handy when trying to convince people to leave them alone.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_44fe781e	comment	Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Marduk Institute is a front for SEELE. It's also mentioned that Marduk itself has 108 fronts. Ryoji Kaji, who basically everybody knows is a spy, is officially cited as a "UN attachÃ©" who had guardianship of Asuka.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_487324b4	comment	In Naruto: The Game of Life, the ANBU had their former headquarters in a building disguised as an apartment building, Naruto seemed more surprised that it was supposed to be a secret considering how bad he thought the cover story was as it simultaneously had sign for 'apartments for rent' but guards that would not let any perspective renters on the the property. It seems the only ones who thought it was a secret at all was Hiruzen Sarutobi and the ANBU commander as Naruto put it: "Most people in Konoha can tell where ANBU HQ is by the large amount of suspiciously polite, but firm guards saying, 'private residence only' to anybody who goes close to the building despite the 'apartments for rent' sign outside the door."
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_487bc396	comment	The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa: the guns used to assassinate Trujillo are bought from a CIA agent who's cover is the owner of a supermarket specialized in selling American goods.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_4ad23d8d	comment	Conversations with a Cryptid: A group of people working for a supervillain dedicated to finding out the dirty secrets that pro-heroes and the government don't want found out. A spy ring? No. A gossip magazine! In the magazine the Heroes Mirror's defense they don't realize they're working for a supervillain. Zach Smith is the head of the Heroes Mirror's Australian branch. His true job is working for All for One running the dark web criminal forum the Conspiracy.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_4d468d6f	comment	Delphi in American Horror Story: Coven is an esteemed asset management firm that acts as a front for an ancient line of witchhunters.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_51b3091a	comment	Knight Hunters has the four assassins working a cover job as florists, first alongside a little old lady and her cat, and later in a pink mobile trailer. In the sequel series, they're investigating suspicious suicides at prep schools, and go under cover as teachers and students.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_53a0bd8b	comment	The Twilight Zone (1985): In "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich", the mob boss Nino Lancaster uses Nino's Toys & Imports at the docks as a cover for his smuggling operation.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_562e8a6e	comment	Max Payne: In the first Max Payne, the title character infiltrates the Cold Steel Foundry at the start of the third act, a facility which Max notes is "a perfect front for all kinds of illegal activities." It turns out to hide a top-secret military bunker called the Deep Six, which is the home of Project Valhalla and Valkyr. In Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, "Squeaky Cleaners" are a bunch of hitmen serving as the Big Bad's private army. This has a further practical aspect in that the cleaning equipment helps remove bodies, blood and otherwise clean up the aftermath of killings.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_59735062	comment	Deus Ex: Mankind Divided: The base for Jensen's task force is hidden underneath a nondescript store run by a kindly old lady.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_5995d4d5	comment	The Ace Tomato company from Spies Like Us. In addition, Mission Control for the military's SDI weapon is hidden under a deserted Drive-In Theater.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_599d9bdc	comment	In There Was No Secret Evil Fighting Organization, the esper organization Amaterasu is hidden behind quirky urban bar Ama-no-Iwato. More than once police searching for the former have had coffee at the latter. It also gives the younger espers a place to hang out after school.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_5ada53ed	comment	James Bond occasionally claims to be working for Universal Exports in a few movies. It rarely lasts long. In Thunderball, SPECTRE is introduced using the cover of a refugee aid agency â€” "International Brotherhood for the Assistance of Stateless Persons". Which, when you think of it, would be very useful for a criminal organisation that works internationally and that would need to arrange false papers for its members, who could be hidden among the many legitimate refugees. Licence to Kill: The televangelist Professor Joe Butcher actually makes a profit from his preaching, even though it's only meant to be a cover for Franz Sanchez's drug operation. And a henchman working at a marine supply business gives himself away when he doesn't know what the Latin name for a Great White shark is. Finally lampshaded in Quantum of Solace: James Bond mocks Felix Leiter for the CIA's evident inability to do this competently. In Spectre, 007, M & Moneypenny enter a safe house with the frontage of "Hildebrand Rarities", a shout-out to a novella by Ian Fleming.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_60f02ddb	comment	In American Dad!, when a CIA agent answers the phone:
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_6196490	comment	In Ghost in the Shell, Section 9 employee Togusa mentions his cover is that of working for a security firm. Maj. Kusanagi on the other hand, maintains that she works for the Military. Ishikawa actually owns a gambling hall for cover. Section 9 usually work in official capacity or undercover, so they rarely need consistent covers. In each of these cases they're not so much 'fronts' as side-projects: Togusa tells his family he's in securities so they won't worry (as much), the Major, mentally, never left the service, and Ishikawa's pachinko parlour is one part of his personal data network, using the elderly players' head-computers to crunch his data (They are WELL compensated through their winnings).
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_630755ab	comment	The Cursors of Codex Alera are notionally simply the First Lord's personal messengers, modeled loosely after the Imperial Roman agentes in rebus. Actually, they're his personal spies, assassins, and covert operatives, although this second function is sufficiently well-known that people are sometimes surprised to be reminded that they're also messengers.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_637554db	comment	In The Middleman, the title character and Wendy do this, such as claiming to be from Sanitation in the first episode and climatologists in the second. Rule of Funny is the operating factor, as in another episode, the heavily WASPy Middleman claims he, and Latina Wendy, are Mossad agents. (Then again, Mossad undoubtedly has agents who don't look recognizably Israeli/Jewish...) Also, Wendy's family and friends think she works for the Jolly Fats Weehauken Temp Agency. In fact, even the Middlemen claim not to know who they work for. They just came up with the acronym OTS 2 K (Organization Too Secret To Know) to use when referring to the organization employing them.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_65d07453	comment	Both Captain America: The First Avenger and Captain America (1990) have the facility where Cap is given his powers hidden beneath an innocent looking store. An antique shop in the former and a diner in the latter, and both guarded by an innocent-looking lady with a Tommy Gun beneath the counter.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: In Agent Carter, as far as civilian acquaintances are concerned, Peggy Carter heads to work every day in the Bell Phone Company, which is a cover for the Strategic Scientific Reserve. In Season 2, she moves to LA, and the SSR office there is disguised as a talent agency. Daredevil (2015): In Season 1, Wilson Fisk owns a number of legitimate companies and shell companies to hide the source of his income, investing in real estate and construction. However as Fisk sees himself as a Well-Intentioned Extremist seeking to revitalize Hell's Kitchen (at least in Season One), it's meant as more than just a means of money laundering. The Hand in Season 2 are hiding behind the face of Asano, Japanese branch of the Roxxon Corporation. Luke Cage (2016): Cornell "Cottonmouth" Stokes has a number of fronts to his name, including real estate holdings, and his nightclub Harlem's Paradise. Harlem's Paradise is enough of a money-spinner that Cottonmouth could still remain afloat even after losing his other criminal assets.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_6a705f21	comment	The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius: The agency that tracks down Barry Ween is the Foliage Census. Their security clearance goes to eleven.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_6fa2c383	comment	In the first Max Payne, the title character infiltrates the Cold Steel Foundry at the start of the third act, a facility which Max notes is "a perfect front for all kinds of illegal activities." It turns out to hide a top-secret military bunker called the Deep Six, which is the home of Project Valhalla and Valkyr.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_7055c123	comment	In Volunteers, John Reynolds, the Peace Corps supervisor, is actually a member of the CIA working towards getting the bridge built so that American troops can have access to the communists. This is notably artistic license with history, as noted below, the Peace Corps would NEVER be used as a front by any country.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1: The Stargate program has the official cover of "deep-space radar telemetry". When Carter claims she's doing astronomy in an underground bunker, she gets some funny looks. O'Neill or Teal'c claiming likewise elicits outright disbelief. It also serves as a Mythology Gag. In the original movie, they mention using radar to track the end of the wormhole; you can still see the mapping device in the show a few times.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_72262aee	comment	In Avatar: The Last Airbender, the secret police force of the Earth Kingdom capital, the Dai Li, is officially known as the Ministry of Cultural Heritage Preservation.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_73d7930f	comment	In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the Federation's covert black ops group is known by the benign name 'Section 31' and its agents masquerade as working for any of Starfleet's security divisions. Slightly subverted in that this cover only fools other Federation citizens. The Romulan Tal Shiar is well aware of the agency's real name and purpose... which is exactly what Section 31 wants. It's a long story. Ironically, Section 31 operates as something more akin to a rogue agency than any kind of legitimate intelligence agency, and routinely uses the Federation's legitimate intelligence service (Starfleet Intelligence) as a mundane cover.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_7460586f	comment	Archer: The ISIS building literally has a Laundromat as a front for their office building, with the elevator to the office hidden in behind some industrial washing machines. It gets converted into a bar when the agency hits hard times.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_74f1eb4c	comment	In Sneakers, Cosmo runs the entire financial operations of the mafia (and his Dragon with an Agenda plan to crash the entire world economy) out of a server farm and supercomputer complex that has a completely mundane-seeming front of a toy company called PlayTronics on the outskirts of San Francisco. Robert Redford's character notes that a trained observer can tell the toy company is a front because the building clearly has security far beyond what any toy company would have.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_76b8cb10	comment	Fallout: In Fallout 3, the player can search the ruins of two corporations, L.O.B. Enterprises and Mama Dolce's, in the post-nuclear war Washington, D.C. and find that they were fronts for Chinese espionage and commando operations before the war. The former was being used to manufacture a pistol that shot incendiary rounds and the latter still has Chinese commandos, now ghoulified, using it as a base. In Fallout 4, there's an old secret DIA command center called the Switchboard located in the basement of a Slocum Joe's doughnut shop. The Slocum Joe's corporation itself is a legitimate company, and several other Slocum Joe's franchises can be found elsewhere in the Commonwealth which do not contain any secret government bases. At least, none that the player can find. In Fallout 76, the entrance to one of the game's nuclear missile silos is disguised as a cargo elevator in a processing factory. Terminal entries found in the factory imply that the pre-war US government subsidized the factory's operations and maintained a bare minimum of activity to keep up appearances. The game also features another Chinese base (a military intelligence bunker) under the local Mama Dolce's factory, though unlike the commando base in Fallout 3, this one was wiped out by the Enclave after the war.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_771fc130	comment	Delta Green has the Canadian black-ops anti-occult organization known as M-EPIC. The "EPIC" in M-EPIC stands for Environment Policy Impact Comission and it's officially and publicly part of the Department of Environment attached to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The group uses this cover so they can easily secure any rubber stamps from the Parliament and investigate anywhere without many questions.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_79f5dbd5	comment	In Inscryption, the ARG reveals GameFuna is a government front created for the purpose of decoding and analyzing the OLD_DATA acquired from Hitler's corpse. The developers assigned to the Inscryption game development were kept in the dark on the true purpose of the project.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_7cf5a07	comment	In The Flash (2014) Barry and Professor Stein approach Jefferson Jackson about being a candidate for Stein to merge with to become Firestorm. They aren't public officials in any sense but in an attempt to keeps things simple at first Barry claims that they are with the "Department of Safety" (which doesn't exist, there is a Department of Public Safety) and Stein has to clumsily add that the department is very new, and they don't have a website up yet.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_7ea3d0e1	comment	The bad guys in Under Siege 2: Dark Territory blow up a Chinese "fertiliser plant".
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_7f6ae568	comment	The spy Mrs. Singh from The Secret Life of Kitty Granger works for the fashion magazine La Mode. Her cover lets her rub shoulders with the rich and powerful. It helps that La Mode is a real magazine staffed mostly by people who have no idea it's a front organization — the only people who know the truth are Mrs. Singh and her "secretaries", Kitty and Verity.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_812165e3	comment	In Tropico, in order to make the Secret Police building, you just have to designate an already built structure (bar, restaurant, theater, etc.), then it will be converted into the agents' base of operations. Their job description includes lots of wiretapping, preventing assassinations and swearing all the time that the place is not the Secret Police HQ.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the Federation's covert black ops group is known by the benign name 'Section 31' and its agents masquerade as working for any of Starfleet's security divisions. Slightly subverted in that this cover only fools other Federation citizens. The Romulan Tal Shiar is well aware of the agency's real name and purpose... which is exactly what Section 31 wants. It's a long story. Ironically, Section 31 operates as something more akin to a rogue agency than any kind of legitimate intelligence agency, and routinely uses the Federation's legitimate intelligence service (Starfleet Intelligence) as a mundane cover. Star Trek: Enterprise has an organization of temporal agents from the 31st century. Their front man on Enterprise, Daniels, serves as Captain Archer's personal steward because it puts him near the man he was assigned to watch while allowing him to fly under everyone else's radar.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_819b8c9e	comment	Warehouse 13: The eponymous artifact-collecting Warehouse was officially operated by the Secret Service, and they get somebody giving them trouble over it about Once an Episode. Reality Is Unrealistic in this case: protecting the President is the most well-known duty of the Secret Service, but they were originally the enforcement arm of the US Treasury, among other things. (In 2003, the Secret Service was moved from Treasury to Homeland Security, though they still investigate financial crimes and provide security for Treasury.) Warehouse 13 itself is out in a remote part of South Dakota and is officially an IRS warehouse. Good cover, except that everyone in the small town hates the protagonists. The Regents, the secret society that really runs the Warehouse, make use of underground facilities hidden beneath places as mundane as grocery stores, and host meetings in diners run by several of their members.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_860fb7f5	comment	In Gentlemen Explorers, the mysterious agency that recruits Riley and the Magician gives them cover identities as agents of the US Postal Service. It is later shown that this is the standard cover for its agents.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_87c2b177	comment	The protagonists of The Invisible Man belong to "The Agency", a covert organization that due to defense budget cuts ended up being absorbed by the Department of Fish & Game. In the second season, The Agency ends up being absorbed by several similar unrelated departments, such as the Department of Indian Affairs, the Department of Health and Human Services and the United States Postal Service until finally settling in... the Bureau of Weights and Measures. This becomes awkward in one episode where they go to a physics lab, and the scientists are actually expecting people from BWM to re-calibrate their equipment. On at least one occasion, they are forced to handle cases of their current parent organization, such as when they are sent to a Native American reservation to investigate a murder supposedly committed by Bigfoot while working for the Department of Indian Affairs. As it turns out, not only is Bigfoot real, but it's invisible too and is suffering from Quicksilver madness. When going to the Chinese embassy to rescue their agents, the Official introduces himself as from the Department of Fish & Game. The Chinese assume the second part of the name has to do with the Olympics, causing the Official to describe a different meaning of the word "game", including showing horns with his fingers. In one episode they actually managed to leverage being under Fish & Game on paper to be officially involved in the investigation of a foreign dignitary being assassinated. It happened at a nature reserve, and the sniper's bullet by sheer coincidence also struck an endangered species of falcon.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_883bd0f0	comment	Licence to Kill: The televangelist Professor Joe Butcher actually makes a profit from his preaching, even though it's only meant to be a cover for Franz Sanchez's drug operation. And a henchman working at a marine supply business gives himself away when he doesn't know what the Latin name for a Great White shark is.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_89cb808	comment	A Geek's Guide: Corporation of Occult Research and Extermination: CORE hides its activities behind a variety of normal businesses, which doubles at their primary budget source.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_8b4c8618	comment	Joker Game has the spies of the D-Agency study and live in an office building labelled the "Greater East Asia Cultural Society."
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_8d8157e0	comment	Lexx plays this for laughs in Season 4 with the ATF. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms exists in Real Life; it is an organization within American Law Enforcement with a focused scope of authority. In the show, the bureau operates vastly beyond this scope. Among other things it negotiates First Contact with the crew of the Lexx, it forcibly maintains the Masquerade, and even President Evil is merely the puppet of its director.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_8d817ccb	comment	Lost: The Others recruit Juliet through Mittelos Bioscience.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: The Red Horse Garage, Suicide Slum in some stories was a front for Project Cadmus.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_8eda89ef	comment	The spy/assassin November 11 in Darker than Black is officially supposed to be a minister of some sort. In the second season, two Contractor assassins, Mina and Genma and Kirihara are officially clerks for Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, which is a front for a Black Ops group supposedly fighting against The Syndicate. Given that the actual Ministry is involved in things like managing civil service and telecommunications, this is a perfect example of a "boring" department providing cover for nefarious schemes.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_8ee238c9	comment	Persona: In Persona 2, Club Zodiac is run by the Masked Circle, a cult with Zodiac-themed names for its members. In the sequel, the club falls under the ownership of the Taiwanese mob. In Persona 3, SEES — practically The Men in Black investigating and hunting monsters formed out of the human subconscious stationed in a high school — are officially listed as an unnamed extracurricular group that arranges activities for its alumni, which are also double-excuses to train them with weapons.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_93939352	comment	In Spectre, 007, M & Moneypenny enter a safe house with the frontage of "Hildebrand Rarities", a shout-out to a novella by Ian Fleming.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_963d9065	comment	S.H.I.E.L.D.: It is mentioned in Moon Knight that a toy store is owned and operated by S.H.I.E.L.D. as a cover. The classic Nick Fury stories had a barber's shop.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_97e27637	comment	Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro: Later in the manga, the Hayasaka brothers ran a firearm smuggling operation using a spice shop as a front.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_986e857e	comment	Ben 10: Ben's grandad belongs to the Plumbers, an MIB-like organization. In the latter series, it's revealed that they're basically the Galactic Police, with every government on Earth respecting their authority in situations involving aliens. We eventually see the Earth headquarters; it's an Elaborate Underground Base hidden beneath the unassuming Max's Plumbing shop, accessible by a hidden elevator.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_998cbda3	comment	Daredevil (2015): In Season 1, Wilson Fisk owns a number of legitimate companies and shell companies to hide the source of his income, investing in real estate and construction. However as Fisk sees himself as a Well-Intentioned Extremist seeking to revitalize Hell's Kitchen (at least in Season One), it's meant as more than just a means of money laundering. The Hand in Season 2 are hiding behind the face of Asano, Japanese branch of the Roxxon Corporation.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_9bab2711	comment	In Small Time Crooks, the protagonists start a cookie shop as a front for a bank robbery attempt. The bank robbery fails, but the cookie shop becomes wildly successful.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_9e0b4b87	comment	The Wildfire biological research laboratory in The Andromeda Strain is an underground Defense Department secret facility buried underneath a Department of Agriculture research station.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: In the original games, the criminal organization Team Rocket runs the Rocket Game Corner and Viridian City Gym. This is played completely straight in the game, despite Team Rocket having constructed a secret base beneath the casino, through which they must enter. Considering that Team Rocket members wear all-black matching uniforms wherever they go, this may be enough to raise suspicions of corruption or willful blindness on the part of the police. Team Galactic in the fourth-generation games uses the cover of being a research center into alternate forms of energy production. This is a bit more plausible, as despite their nefarious goals, they don't do a whole lot of obvious crime, so mostly they just get funny looks from other people for their uniforms. Team Flare passes themselves off as a fashion cult who are harmless aside from the truly abhorrent amount of money you need to pay to join. Their leader Lysandre never even openly associates with Team Flare and doesn't even run his secret base near the HQ of Lysandre Labs, his legit company, instead having a hidden underground base located elsewhere. Even when they are revealed to be a PokÃ©mon-abusing terrorist corporation to the world, they just let that label stick for a while so that they can focus on their true (and much worse) goals.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_9f997b2b	comment	Finally lampshaded in Quantum of Solace: James Bond mocks Felix Leiter for the CIA's evident inability to do this competently.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_9feb7ff3	comment	Power Rangers Jungle Fury: The heroes operate out of a pizza place whose one normal employee doesn't know what's going on for quite some time.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_a33c20a6	comment	Covert Affairs: As far as anyone outside the CIA knows, Annie works for the Smithsonian, and she often uses this as a cover while traveling abroad. In one episode, her niece's class is supposed to take a field trip to the Smithsonian while Annie is on an overseas mission, and Auggie has to smooth things over by giving them a tour.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_a56240bf	comment	True Lies (2023): Harry appears to work for Telynox Solutions, a run-of-the-mill computer company that's a front for Omega Sector. Banter between Harry and a desk assistant indicates that the front office staff honestly believe they're working for a computer company and have no idea this is a government spy agency. "Working Vacation" confirms most of the office staff is unaware the annual company retreat in Mexico is a cover for Omega Sector brass meeting. Thus, when the resort is attacked, Maria has to keep employees safe and unaware of what's happening.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_a90d239a	comment	The Milkman Conspiracy from Psychonauts uses a cookie-selling girl scout organization for cover.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_a993be1f	comment	In Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, the Bumani Exchange Corporation in the space station above Telos is a poorly-concealed front for the Exchange. It's poorly concealed in part because of, and for, being an Open Secret among the station's leadership for when they need a friend in extralegal business; and the Exchange has worked with enough discretion to avoid an investigation by the authorities.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_ab42c63a	comment	Get Smart: Maxwell Smart pretends to be in the greeting card business. He also mentions that, to keep his landlord from getting suspicious about all the attempts on his life, he told him he works for the IRS. Max praises the Israeli spy agency "YENTA" for its cover as a delicatessen. It turns out YENTA is a delicatessen that only does spy work in its slack season.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_aee68dc5	comment	A CIA officer's cover (whether working abroad or at headquarters) might be (theoretically) assigned not only to the usual suspects (Department of State, Defense, Homeland Security) but also some weirder ones (e.g. Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, and yes, perhaps even the Bureau of Weights and Measures), as well as private US corporations (not naming names) that have agreed to let the CIA use them for cover. Similarly, an SIS officer might easily be assigned to a quango with business abroad (the British Council in any country is notorious for being riddled with spies—probably even more so than even the British Embassy) or at home (if working at Vauxhall Cross). During the Vietnam War, the CIA ran a charter airline, Air America, to support covert CIA operations all over Southeast Asia. One of the few exceptions: You will never, ever find a CIA officer under Peace Corps cover. EVER. That would detract from the legitimacy of the Peace Corps (goes the argument), and so if you want to serve in both the Peace Corps and the CIA, you have to do your two years at the Peace Corps, wait five whole years, and then you can apply. Applications to join the CIA take at least six months to process. If you have any current or former employment in the CIA, you are permanently ineligible for service in the Peace Corps. The only reason many countries allow the Peace Corps in is because they're emphatically not a CIA front. Ever. If the CIA tried to use the Peace Corps as a front and got caught, it would mean the Peace Corps would be pulled from those countries, the US would take a terrible diplomatic blow, and a bunch of innocent, skilled, and altruistic people would get hurt, arrested, and/or killed. It's just not worth it, especially when there are much more discreet alternatives.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_b186bec2	comment	The covert agency that employs the titular characters of Scarecrow and Mrs. King is secreted within a film production company, reached through a closet that's actually the agency's front door.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_b2ad762f	comment	Agent G starts out with the protagonist working for the International Refugee Society, which is a nod to Spectre in Thunderball. The organization is actually a covert front for a Murder, Inc. group that provides the ultra-wealthy with high-tech Hollywood Cyborg-performed assassinations.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_b40c60f6	comment	G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Marvel): The chaplains' assistants stationed at Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island in the mid-1980s were always rather wary of those ruffians from the motor pool, blissfully unaware of the Joes' Elaborate Underground Base until Cobra came by to invade it. Issue 3 even dealt with Hawk and Scarlett trying to maintain their cover with the chaplains' assistants, while several Joes in the Pit were trying to stop a captured Cobra robot from escaping to the surface to broadcast their location.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_b4cd70c2	comment	In Mission: Impossible III, Tom Cruise's character claims to work for the Virginia Department of Transportation. (Later, when he escapes from IMF headquarters, it's implied that their base actually is hidden behind VDOT.) Alternatively, that's what every agent says, so they keep a stash of VDOT stuff to give out.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_b6b17592	comment	Kingsman: The Golden Circle gives us Statesman, a (really good) brand of liquor that's the mundane front for the Kingsman's American counterparts. The front is revealed to be a multi-billion-dollar company, as one would expect of capitalism; Kingsman sells a few thousand $5000+ suits a year, Statesman sells millions of $100+ bottles of liquor in the same timeframe.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_b7db5642	comment	Stranger Things: Officially, the Hawkins National Laboratory is a research center run by the Department of Energy, which leads most people to assume it is fairly uninteresting (Dustin initially thinks they "design lightbulbs or something"). However, it becomes clear the research they do, such as using Eleven's telekinesis and mind reading to access alternate dimensions and monitor Soviet officials, involves multiple higher-ranking government agencies than the DOE. It has military police (US Army) providing security, and the badge that Connie Frazier shows to the Wheelers suggests she works for the NSA, which could also explain the phone bugging (not exactly within the Dept. of Energy's remit). The entire venture also likely has CIA backing (what with the whole thing being an offshoot of the classic MKULTRA experiments). The government field agents use vans marked "Hawkins Power And Light" to drive around town and carry out surveillance without getting too much attention.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_b8eb4fe5	comment	In Sakura Wars and its associated media, including anime and movies, the Takarazuka Revue hosts an elite unit of demon-fighting badasses under the cover of a theatre troupe.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_b9fa3a7	comment	Undercover Brother: The headquarters of the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. are located beneath a barber shop.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_bdb947ab	comment	In Agent Carter, as far as civilian acquaintances are concerned, Peggy Carter heads to work every day in the Bell Phone Company, which is a cover for the Strategic Scientific Reserve. In Season 2, she moves to LA, and the SSR office there is disguised as a talent agency.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_bdc49dbe	comment	In The Laundry Files, the supernatural math-magician enforcement/spy agency is fronted as, and always referred to as, "The Laundry", as it was at one time situated above (or behind) a Chinese laundry.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_bfe2dc5a	comment	Scooby Apocalypse: The Athena facility, the Complex's data backup facility, which is hidden within a paper mill. Lampshaded by Shaggy commenting on the oddity of it, with Velma pointing out that they couldn't exactly advertise it as a secret facility.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_c0d295c4	comment	RED and BLU in Team Fortress 2 have several of these, and might be considered to be front companies themselves since even though they claim to be demolition and construction companies respectively, they've basically turned into PMCs.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_c1c642f7	comment	The headquarters of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense in Hellboy (2004) is located below a Sanitation Department building. Which also happens to neatly explain the garbage truck they drive around in where Hellboy can easily hide in. The location is even introduced via Gilligan Cut. Director Manning is on television telling the audience that there's no such thing as the B.P.R.D., immediately before the next scene shows the sanitation station with the helpful Title In explaining that it's the organization's headquarters.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_c1c6431b	comment	In Hellboy (2019), the BPRD team up with MI11, which apparently has a secret base in a London chip shop.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_c24a2f2b	comment	In SMPLive, Schlatt & Co.'s ordinary looking coffee shop is a front for an illegal drug operation.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_c3a1c8f8	comment	UFO (1970): SHADO (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defense Organization) operates under the cover of a film studio.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_c4076b9e	comment	Gunslinger Girl's Social Welfare Agency is an Italian government-sponsored institution that helps orphans and aids the rehabilitation of the physically injured with state-of-the-art cybernetic prosthetics. Unknown to the public however they also have a surveillance and intelligence-gathering division to help deal with the Five Republics terrorists, and some of the orphaned and injured girls they "help" have been transformed by the aforementioned cybernetic prosthetics into brainwashed cyborg assassins to murder said terrorists.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who. In "Spearhead from Space", it's mentioned that UNIT HQ is pretending to be a branch of the Pensions Dept.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_c487221e	comment	Men in Black: MIB headquarters is hidden in the ventilator building of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel. Field agents also claimed to be Division 6 of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. This became a Running Gag in the cartoon where they'd claim they were from Division 6 of whatever organization vaguely applied to the jurisdiction. Which would often result in competent civil servants knowing such a division did not exist.note Important to note, the INS itself no longer exists; it was dissolved post-9/11 and its former duties are now handled by the Dept. of Homeland Security, primarily its Immigration and Customs Enforcement division.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_c861aa06	comment	Every single conspiracy in Psionics: The Next Stage in Human Evolution maintains mundane fronts for their psionic super soldiers, who are waging a shadow war right under the noses of the public.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_ca07828e	comment	The team from The Unit use the cover of being in logistics. To be fair, though, they do in fact do logistical work — in fact, one episode begins with Brown being tested in such. However, the cover is entirely believable; no one ever questions why the obviously badass soldiers are working in logistics, they simply believe, or are told by someone and then believe, that the operators have earned safe, cushy desk jobs after serving multiple tours in the Middle East as part of the regular Army. This cover does falter at times. One episode has the newest recruit SFC Bob Brown's young daughter Serena blabbing that "my father shoots bad guys". This alarms some senior officials, since the Unit's cover is a non-combatant clerical unit, forcing Bob and his wife to teach Serena to lie about what he does. Another episode has Unit operator Hector Williams' new girlfriend's retired Senior NCO dad showing disdain to him due to him officially being a logistics clerk. The guy then suddenly starts being buddy-buddy with Hector, upon being subtly informed of his actual job. This sudden change makes the girlfriend a little suspicious. When he admits his cover, she dumps him, because she wanted someone who'd leave the Army and settle into a stable civilian job. A logistics clerk has transferable skills, while a "gunfighter" doesn't.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_ca08598f	comment	The Wire: The Barksdale Organization initially operates out of Orlando's, a strip club, and have a problem with the Front's owner, Orlando, wanting to get into drug dealing for more income, when they need someone to run the club with a clean criminal record. After Avon is arrested, Stringer runs the operation out of a funeral home. The Greek's associate Spiros almost always meets his drug dealer associates at a dingy Greek diner that never seems to have any clientele except for an old man who just sits at the counter reading a newspaper. It turns out that "customer" is the Greek himself. Proposition Joe runs his drug empire out of his appliance repair shop. He actually does repair appliances for people in his community, though he notes that modern society is too wasteful to actually make appliance repair profitable. He does the work because he actually enjoys it.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_ca92edf1	comment	An acronym no doubt familiar to anyone who has played Call of Duty: Black Ops, the main wet work program in the Vietnam War was titled MACV-SOG... Military Assistance Command Vietnam, Studies and Observations Group. (This one might have renamed more than anything for greater palatability on the home front; the original official gloss for "SOG" was "Special Operations Group", and it's doubtful anyone involved was expecting the change of name to fool the North Vietnamese.)
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_cac20f89	comment	JAG: In "Impact", The Bradenhurst Corporation officially handles toxic waste near Twenty Nine Palms, CA, but in reality builds UFO-like UAVs for Uncle Sam.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_ce4be0b6	comment	In Thunderball, SPECTRE uses the cover of a refugee aid agency — "Firco" in the novels; "International Brotherhood for the Assistance of Stateless Persons" in the film.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_d281c41c	comment	In The Sinking City, the town of Oakmont has a charity called EOD which stands for "Everyone's Obvious Duty (is to help each other)" (they had to shorten the last part). Most of the members come from the neigbouring town of Innsmouth, home of the Esoteric Order of Dagon.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_d2c74459	comment	In Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam, the Crossbone Vanguard uses the cover of being a civilian freight company, Blackrow Shipping, when not flying under the banner of pirates, allowing them to move around the Earth Sphere without suspicion.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_d31ffd8d	comment	In Get Smart, CONTROL has its headquarters in the Smithsonian.... in a display about CONTROL. The display pretends CONTROL was disbanded at the end of the Cold War. In fact, many of CONTROL's political rivals claim that it should have been disbanded after its chief rival went defunct.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_ddad77ae	comment	Astro City: While Honor Guard isn't a covert group, their call center is, to protect them from being targeted by supervillains. The employees are hired through shell companies that serve as their cover, with names like HumanoGlobal, Hampton Genetics, Halston-Godney, Hanawa Giken...
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_e0fcfdea	comment	The Avengers (1960s): Emma and Steed frequently infiltrate innocent sounding organisations that are a front for (admittedly goofy) dark covert operations.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_e1ec0e62	comment	Grand Theft Auto IV has the United Liberty Paper which is a cover for an unrevealed government agency, headed by a mysterious man wearing horn-rimmed glasses. They apparently are a black-ops organisation judging by the type of assassinations they blackmail Niko into making. Grand Theft Auto V reveals that this organization was a front company for the IAA, a Government Agency of Fiction with an Inter-Service Rivalry with the FIB.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_e278316b	comment	The Prisoner (1967): The Village, where Number 6 and the others are imprisoned, passes for an eccentric holiday resort.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The covert government demon research/fighting organisation known as The Initiative operates beneath a UC Sunnydale fraternity house, with the soldiers posing as lecturers and senior students. In "The Killer in Me", a couple of years after this base is shut down, Buffy tries to get in contact with them by phone, only to get a flower shop on the other end. She then runs into Initiative soldiers in the ruins of their Elaborate Underground Base, who make it clear they got her message.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_e2b86487	comment	The Riftwar Cycle: Mara's spy network is an exaggeration. Her spies usually run small businesses as their cover, and enough of them turn a profit for the network to be largely self-financing.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_e4c53c04	comment	Jumpin' Jack Flash: At a funeral for a dead spy, it's mentioned that he was in the greeting card business, presumably a Shout-Out to Get Smart.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_e542bff1	comment	The Secret Return of Alex Mack: The Superpower Research Initiative starts out officially as the Hazardous Waste Abatement and Amelioration Agency. Which isn't entirely false, either, because on several occasions they do deal with toxic waste... but only after they deal with whatever bugaboo said waste created.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_e758728c	comment	Hellboy: The headquarters of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense in Hellboy (2004) is located below a Sanitation Department building. Which also happens to neatly explain the garbage truck they drive around in where Hellboy can easily hide in. The location is even introduced via Gilligan Cut. Director Manning is on television telling the audience that there's no such thing as the B.P.R.D., immediately before the next scene shows the sanitation station with the helpful Title In explaining that it's the organization's headquarters. In Hellboy (2019), the BPRD team up with MI11, which apparently has a secret base in a London chip shop.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_eaa941cf	comment	Barry's aviation company "Independant Airline Consultants" from American Made.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_eb3f769d	comment	In the Aubrey-Maturin series, Stephen Maturin is one of Britain's most effective spies, but uses his status as a respected natural philosopher and physician to travel in wartime.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_ec44d991	comment	Bill the Galactic Hero: A frozen-food kosher ham store is literally a 'front' — just a cardboard wall attached to the front of a tank used to ambush the revolutionaries, as Bill finds out when he tries to open the door. The unconvincing cover of a Jewish ham store makes no difference, as it turns out all the 'revolutionaries' are government spies anyway.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_eef69f10	comment	Sherlock Holmes Fanon has turned "The Diogenes Club", founded by Sherlock's brother Mycroft Holmes, into one of these while turning Mycroft Holmes from being a fat and lazy (but undeniably brilliant) civil servant into a 19th century M. The ur-example comes from The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes:
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_f01bf1a2	comment	In Kim, Colonel Creighton, the head of the Ethnological Survey of British India, also directs the secret service. There is an overlap between the two organisations; for instance, both Creighton and one of his top agents, Hurree Chunder Mookerjee, write and publish legitimate ethnological papers and share the ambition of being admitted to the Royal Society. Apparently, this was Truth in Television.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_f0c816fb	comment	Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul: Gustavo Fring is a fast-food tycoon / drug lord who uses his chain of fried chicken restaurants (Los Pollos Hermanos) as a legitimate front for his underground meth-trafficking cartel. Gus Fring's drug ring also hides their meth-producing lab underneath a mundane laundromat building called the LavanderÃa Brillante; it's a perfect front for shipping in industrial quantities of chemicals and having tons of trucks coming and going without anyone batting an eye. Most of the employees (with the exception of the manager) are legitimate, primarily because the laundromat only employs poor Latino immigrants that can be threatened with deportation if they peek too closely on what's really going on. Surprisingly, there's no jokes about "money laundering". When Walter White earns his massive bucketloads of cash from meth-cooking, Saul Goodman recommends that Walt and Skyler should purchase a legitimate front in order to launder all this money. Saul tries to convince them to buy a laser tag arena (because it's managed by someone in on the take), but Skyler decides the old car wash where Walter used to work is more in-character, including working as the wash's manager to launder the money by reporting additional nonexistent customers. Unfortunately, Walt ends up earning so much money, there's no way for Skyler to convincingly launder it all, leaving them with a small mountain of greenbacks they can't even use without arousing suspicion. Saul also tries convincing Jesse Pinkman to purchase a nail salon to launder his own money; but Jesse hates the idea of running a business, paying taxes despite being a criminal, as well as having to give Saul a 17% cut, and so he rejects doing this. Saul has an associate named Ed Galbraith who will give anyone a new, untraceable identity somewhere else in the country within a day for a flat fee of $125,000 per person (and he can raise the fee for more difficult clients). The location he runs this business from is a regular vacuum cleaner repair shop, and the secret code for requesting a disappearance from Ed is to ask for "a new dust filter for a Hoover Max ExtractÂ® Pressure Proâ„¢ Model 60". Before he ended up in a wheelchair, Hector Salamanca laundered his drug money through a number of Mexican restaurants in the Albuquerque area (one an ice cream parlour called El Griego GuiÃ±ador, another named El MichoacÃ¡no). It's noted that the money they bring in is far less than Gus' enterprises, and their fate is left unclear after Hector is paralyzed and unable to manage them (and the people left to care for them in his stead end up being killed shortly afterwards). Dr. Caldera is a Back-Alley Doctor who works as a vet, providing medical services and contact information for the Albuquerque's criminal underworld. However, he takes his job as a vet quite seriously and only sees his criminal activities as a side business, eventually wiping his hands of illegal activities to focus on being a legitimate vet full-time, passing on his criminal contact info to Saul before leaving town for good.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_f0d11823	comment	Tales from the Loop: In theory, "Riksenergi" is a state-run power company. It is, however, the world's worst kept secret that it is in fact a cutting-edge STEM research think-tank, and that it's main mission is operating the titular Loop, a massive particle accelerator hidden underneath a Stockholm exurb.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_f2ca5c43	comment	The Windup Girl. The calorie Megacorp that Anderson works for funds Yates unprofitable kink-spring factory just so they can have a window into Thailand, a country where any "Calorie Man" is liable to be lynched. Unfortunately Yates thinks of himself as an inventor rather than a spy, and misses the fact that new fruit and vegetables are mysteriously appearing in Bangkok markets. Anderson fires Yates for this and takes over the factory himself, and it's implied he killed Yates when the latter took violent objection to losing control of his life's work.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_f4ca0e0	comment	The Weapon X Program? You know, the Big Bad behind Wolverine's transformation from relatively innocuous soldier to bladeâ€“handed immortal killing machine? Who've made life a merry hell for various Bâ€“list X-Men for the last thirty years? On paper, they're the Department of Agriculture, Pest Control Division.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_f4e799ee	comment	Burn Notice: Carla uses one of these as a cover. Michael uses these occasionally, but he prefers private organizations. According to the narration, being in geological fieldwork is a good cover, getting used by multiple people in various episodes. When Michael gets on a semi-friendly relationship with the CIA again, the base of operations is a subsection shared with a more mundane government agency. It's more than just a front or a handy cover ID, as the real reason is simply practical business sense by sharing location costs and having a similar level of security.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_f7558a18	comment	In Men in Black: The Series, the agents are officially working for the Department of Weights And Measures. The cover they give always takes the form: "<Situationally-Appropriate Government Agency>, Division Six", so they've been hotel inspectors, immigration, coast guard, and a host of others.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_f7f52529	comment	In Thunderball, SPECTRE is introduced using the cover of a refugee aid agency â€” "International Brotherhood for the Assistance of Stateless Persons". Which, when you think of it, would be very useful for a criminal organisation that works internationally and that would need to arrange false papers for its members, who could be hidden among the many legitimate refugees.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_f8acc9ea	comment	In Control, the Federal Bureau of Control, the US Artifact Collection Agency, claims to the people Locked Out of the Loop that it exists purely as a liaison office for various other federal agencies.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_f954bf10	comment	In Nebulous, K.E.N.T.'s cover is that they're a laundry. Much to Professor Nebulous's annoyance, their sponsors in the Government seem more inclined to buy equipment for the laundry than for eco-troubleshooting operations.
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Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_fe8ef766	comment	Captain America: every retelling of his origin story consistently portrays FBI housing Project Rebirth in the back of an antiquity store tended by an old lady who is actually an undercover FBI agent.
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Spies Like Us / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
The Accountant (2016) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
The Andromeda Strain / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
The Ipcress File / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
The Mummy (2017) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
The Professional / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Thunderball / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Volunteers / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Resident Evil (Franchise) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Agent G / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Call for the Dead / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Codex Alera / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
European Travel For The Monstrous Gentlewoman / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Fantastic Creatures / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
GI Joe Classified / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
James Bond / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Kim / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Legend of the Galactic Heroes / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Leviathan / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Ripley's Bureau of Investigation / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
RoleOfHonour	seeAlso	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Search By The Foundation / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Shadowrun Storytime / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Sixth Column / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Spy School / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
The End of Eternity / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
The Fifth Elephant / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
The Institute / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
The Last Vampire / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
The Southern Reach Trilogy / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
The Teeth of the Tiger / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
The Windup Girl / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Thunderball / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Ayakashi Triangle (Manga) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Cat Shit One (Manga) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Moriarty the Patriot (Manga) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Purple Eyes in the Dark (Manga) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Alice Isn't Dead (Podcast) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
The Magnus Archives (Podcast) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
A Geek's Guide: Corporation of Occult Research and Extermination (Roleplay) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Cardians Tokyo (Roleplay) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Agent Carter / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Alias / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Alphas / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Deadly Class / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Elementary / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Ghosted / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
JAG / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Jean-Claude Van Johnson / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Lexx / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Stranger Things / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
The Americans / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
The Avengers (1960s) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
The Blacklist / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
The Invisible Man / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
The Old Man / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
The Unit / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
True Lies (2023) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Achtung! Cthulhu (Tabletop Game) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Castle Falkenstein (Tabletop Game) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Hunter: The Vigil (Tabletop Game) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Psionics: The Next Stage in Human Evolution (Tabletop Game) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Tales from the Loop (Tabletop Game) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
The Origin (Tabletop Game) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
WitchCraft (Tabletop Game) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Video Game) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Control (Video Game) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Entropy : Zero 2 (Video Game) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Fallout 76 (Video Game) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Floor 13 (Video Game) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Grand Theft Auto IV (Video Game) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast (Video Game) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
KGB (Video Game) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Liberal Crime Squad (Video Game) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Project Downfall (Video Game) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Streets of Rage (Video Game) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
The Aethra Chronicles (Video Game) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
The Longest Journey (Video Game) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Video Game) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Yakuza 0 (Video Game) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Chaos;Head (Visual Novel) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Shale Hill Secrets (Visual Novel) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Steins;Gate (Visual Novel) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Steins;Gate 0 (Visual Novel) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Steins;Gate 0 (Visual Novel) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Yumina the Ethereal (Visual Novel) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Dimension 20 (Web Video) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
SMPLive (Web Video) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
For Love Nor Money (Webcomic) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
LEGO Space: The Comic (Webcomic) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Wake of the Clash (Webcomic) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
[REDACTED] SMP / Webvideo / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Secret Magic Control Agency / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Shaun the Sheep / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Sheep in the Big City / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Pacific: World War II U.S. Navy Shipgirls (Fanfic) / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Get Smart / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front

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