Federal Agencies

### **FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION**

As one of the top federal law enforcement agencies, the F.B.I focuses their investigations on terrorism, corruption, foreign threats, and enforce criminal laws in the United States. The F.B.I has been the premier federal law enforcement agency with a generally positive performance record given the power and sensitive information it possesses, with the ability to initiate a federal investigation into any citizen in the entire country at any time, for a myriad of legal reasons. Though throughout the decades of the Bureau's history there have been some scandals which forced internal reforms that helped steer the Bureau back on track. The F.B.I in the state of San Andreas has its headquarters located in the downtown Metro area, being one of the tallest buildings of the Los Santos skyline. and has multiple field offices throughout the state as well. The various San Andreas state, county and local law enforcement agencies greatly appreciate the Bureau's expertise, personnel and advanced tech that can help crack even the most difficult and bizarre of criminal cases. While the F.B.I is the most well known of federal law enforcement/intelligence agencies to operate in the greater San Andreas area, there are some other notable agencies that don't often get as much attention and some that are said to not officially exist but eyewitness accounts say otherwise.

### **NATIONAL OFFICE OF SECURITY ENFORCEMENT**

While the FBI has its hands full dealing with major investigations into various criminal organizations and their dubious activities, one agency stands in eternal vigilance to ensure the worst of the worst never get past their radar. Headquartered in a clandestine facility near the mid-eastern coast of San Andreas, is N.O.O.S.E or National Office of Security Enforcement. Imagine if the N.S.A (National Security Agency) and Homeland Security had a baby, with unmatched surveillance and cyber capabilities to track and hack whoever, wherever, whenever, while still having the tactical technique and brute force to raid anyone, regardless how fortified. N.O.O.S.E is a powerhouse agency in and of itself, with a budget larger than the F.B.I and with less oversight and need to maintain good PR. N.O.O.S.E's stated mission is to secure and protect the citizens of the U.S.A and to primarily prevent terrorism and other malicious activities against the U.S.A before they happen. The agency over the past several yeas has come under fire from both members of Congress and the general public, as the true scope and scale of N.O.O.S.E's surveillance apparatus remains shrouded in mystery, and their signature 'Bust Open First, Ask Questions Later' style has angered many citizens, from privacy and anti-law enforcement militarization advocates to even a few former section chiefs and directors of the agency, who have spoken out against the increasingly reclusive agenda and excessively aggressive operations of N.O.O.S.E, but nonetheless when the next mass shooting, bombing or cyber attack is thwarted by them, it's hard to complain.

### **INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS AGENCY**

N.O.O.S.E may be far more secretive compared to the F.B.I, but if there was an agency for all manner of concerned citizens to be cautious of, it is the I.A.A or International Affairs Agency. As the nation's premier intelligence agency, the I.A.A is either a hero or a monster depending on who you ask. When it comes to getting the information it wants or needs, the I.A.A has means and methods to get it, either the easy way or their way, which is to say a way which its operatives would never want to admit to under oath in front of a Congressional Investigative committee. With its headquarters located in the San Andreas downtown metro area, directly adjacent to the F.B.I's HQ, in addition to several alleged Black Sites somewhere in San Andreas, the I.A.A and the F.B.I have a rivalry which dates back to which gets more funding and which kills/catches more national security threats, specifically terrorists. (Even though in reality it is N.O.O.S.E which actually has the largest budget and terrorist kill/capture count, but that doesn't stop the I.A.A. and F.B.I from feuding over bragging rights and which has cooler tech) While the I.A.A does consider its mission to be of patriotic priority, which is to ensure U.S. dominance in all manner of intelligence and counter-intelligence gathering operations for national security purposes, the agency has been fraught with accusations, scandals and even being caught red handed allying with bad guys to take out worse guys. From suspected coups, kidnappings, torture, assassinations, gun and drug running, the I.A.A makes the F.B.I look like choir boys and N.O.O.S.E look like the F.B.I, given its ominous means of asserting global intelligence dominance for the U.S. The I.A.A's operations are like an Abyss within a Black Hole, with different divisions not knowing what the others are doing, to the point where some divisions become like an inner-agency themselves. Despite the seemingly impossible to navigate labyrinth of the I.A.A's Byzantine hierarchy and operations, the inner-workings run like clockwork, and while the agency's reputation of international fear and domestic distrust has been rightfully earned, even if they are 'Our Good Guys', the I.A.A's funding never decreases and only goes up, and those in Congress responsible for it always seem to vote 'Yes' on such bills for some reason.

### **DRUG OBSERVATION AGENCY**

While the I.A.A may sneak a few thousand kilos of narcotics every once in a while for its Black Ops slush fund, there is a federal agency which is neck deep in the illicit narcotics trade, the D.O.A or Drug Observation Agency. This agency is one of the least well known among them, even though the D.O.A has extensive connections with and commits joint-operations with the F.B.I, specifically on major narcotics cases. The D.O.A's mission is to enforce the nation's federal narcotics laws, and it does so with an impressively vast array of tactics and tech despite being one of the smaller agencies and often not in the limelight. The D.O.A does not officially have a headquarters in San Andreas, though there are certainly undisclosed field offices and other secret locations used for operations. While the D.O.A does not usually suffer from the headline drama and inter-agency rivalry like others, it is not without criticism and bad marks. The D.O.A has been accused by whistleblowers of strategically increasing pressure on some organized narcotic trafficking syndicates while lessening pressure on others, in a deal to have more manageable and less violent syndicates dominate the drug trade. A Deal with the Devil? Maybe, but if it means less lethally laced narcotics on the streets and in American's bodies, in addition to having a few less cartels to worry about, it is a victory in the D.O.A's book. While there is no definitive evidence for it, just as the D.O.A cooperates with the F.B.I when it suits them, the D.O.A has been suspected of having cordial ties with the I.A.A. in its narcotics operations, such as giving assets seized like cash, weapons and narcotics to certain divisions of the I.A.A. in exchange for assistive raw intelligence it can't get legally. Though this is most likely the work of a rogue faction or certain individual agents and not the D.O.A in its entirety from the top brass down.

### **MAJESTIC-12**

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In the state of San Andreas, there have been several high profile incidents of citizens witnessing strange and unidentified objects in the skies, with onlookers both in fear and awe of not knowing just exactly what they are looking at. But within hours of the fantastical phenomena concluding, those same citizens have reportedly been confronted, often intensely by mysterious persons, threatening these citizens to never speak of what they witnessed, or else they will suffer the consequences. These persons have been said by those threatened to all have been wearing black, standard suit and tie outfits, with dark glasses and black sedans or SUVs, and always travel in pairs of at least two, sometimes three and even up to four. These persons do not identify themselves with any U.S. government agency nor private investigative firm. Their vehicle license plates have no identifying markings other than MJ-12. Victims of this harassment detail the sudden and brazen contact made by this shadowy group. The victims are always alone, and have just witnessed what could only be described as UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects). These menacing persons have been dubbed the Men in Black, for their appearance and their mannerisms, speaking to victims of their ire with a direct, monotone yet aggressive voice, with threats of "accidents" and "future suicide" if they don't keep their mouths shut about what they saw. So far, the remaining victims of this cabal have not reported their encounters to mainstream law enforcement, due to the impossibility of investigating an organization which doesn't officially exist and may have already infiltrated and compromised large swaths of the government, and of course, these UFO witnesses don't want to end up like others that have tried to expose these figures who are clearly above the law, and met an untimely fate as promised by the Men in Black.

### **OXIDE-VINSON-LAMBERT**

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While the organization known only as Majestic-12 is obviously tasked with suppressing the truth of the UFO phenomenon at whatever the cost from the public and most of the rest of the government, there is possibly another, perhaps even more clandestine group, either within Majestic-12 or perhaps its own agency entirely, that is tasked with the recovery of crashed UFOs. The allegation of such a beyond top secret unit truly existing and operating, comes from one eye witness, who to this very day has never revealed their identity but told their experience to an investigative reporter at Weazel News about their witnessing of a UFO crash retrieval. It was a dark and cold night in the Sandy Shores area, on October 17th, 2020. The anonymous eyewitness, who only went by the alias of John Doe, claimed that as they were looking up into the night sky through their amateur telescope to stargaze on top of one of Sandy Shore's desert peaks, they saw a peculiar, bright light, which seemed to be far too close to be a star or even a planet in our own solar system like Mars or Venus. As John Doe continued to stare in awe, the bright light came closer and faster from above, until it zoomed far overhead of John Doe, over Sandy Shores, across the Los Alamos Sea, and stopped over Grapeseed, where it circled a few times in a row in a disoriented manner, before tanking to one side and falling to the ground. John Doe had just seen all of this in a matter of less than a minute and immediately got their gear, into their car and drove to Grapeseed as fast as possible. Within several minutes after having witnessed the UFO crash, John Doe was on the outskirts of Grapeseed, They had parked their car, took out their phone to record, and saw the smoke coming from above the fields in the center of the farming area, when they heard distant radio chatter, yet couldn't hear actual words and didn't see anyone. John Doe quickly found a ditch in the field and an irrigation tarp to cover themself in, where they could see the crashed craft, but at a safe enough distance to hopefully not be detected. The craft was a solid white color, and had the shape of an egg, and from John Doe's visual estimations between thirty to forty feet in diameter. As they were just about to start recording on their phone, the lights in all of the buildings and streets went out, and so did John Doe's phone and other equipment they had brought. All electronics were dead instantaneously. Then, within seconds afterwards, a deep humming of helicopter blades could be heard coming in from all directions. But these helicopter blades sounded different, as if they were muffled. Soon up to a dozen Black-Hawks swarmed around the crash site, with dozens of heavily armed and armored black military fatigue wearing soldiers rappelling down and scrambling to surround the crashed craft. As John Doe froze with fear and uncertainty of what would happen next, that same radio chatter could be heard not too far off from in front of them. A soldier, perhaps an officer of some unknown rank, emerged from a barn with the radio in their helmet as they touched the side and said, "Oxide-Vinson-Lambert, execute retrieval.", before sprinting off towards the craft, as John Doe watched a few meters away, covered by the tarp and darkness of night. The black clad soldiers broke into three groups, each seemingly with their own responsibility. One team of about a dozen soldiers created a defensive perimeter, with weapons drawn while others turned on massive and blindingly bright lights that all shown outward and in a 360 degree circle. This must have been to block anyone nearby from seeing what was within the perimeter, the craft itself, John Doe thought to himself, still terrified if they were to be discovered. The next group of about a half dozen soldiers put a large tarp over the craft, and used a variety of tools to lift and balance the craft unto a semi-truck with a huge flatbed, which had been drove in opposite from where John Doe was watching across the field. The soldiers latched locks and straps unto the craft, securing it to the semi-truck, before giving a thumbs up, as some sort of an all clear. Then the last group, which was presumably those in the semi-truck and those in the Black-Hawks, drove and flew away in the same direction, with the Black-Hawks hovering over the semi-truck in a defensive formation, just as fast as they had arrived out of nowhere. The remaining soldiers on the ground ran to the main road in Grapeseed just as a convoy of black humvees sped down the street and once all inside, sped off into the oblivion of the night. The whole process from when John Doe had entered the ditch to when the red back lights of the last humvee dissipated from sight, took roughly three minutes. There were no markings or insignia or even numbers on any of the soldiers or vehicles. Not even an American flag. The only identifiable information were those three names that unknown officer said, Oxide-Vinson-Lambert. So that is what this mysterious unit has been dubbed and referred to ever since. They are called OVL, pronounced like oval, due to the abbreviation of Oxide-Vinson-Lambert. Once John Doe's story was revealed by Weazel News in an investigative report special broadcast, the U.S. military and intelligence agencies denied such claims as quote, "Ludicrous and fantastical allegations of an amateur astronomer who had one too many that night." But for those that still believe what John Doe claims they witnessed, there have been nicknames given to this unit, such as Wranglers because of how they wrangle the craft like cattle, or Swoopers, because of how they swoop in and swoop out so fast, or even Grapeseed's Finest, due to the proficiency and professionalism exercised by them. This event has come to be known as the Grapeseed Incident and has sparked conspiracy theories, UFO/E.T. enthusiast pilgrimages to the alleged area of the crash site and skeptics who try to debunk John Doe's claims. Some say it was a craft of extraterrestrial origin, others say it was a foreign nation's military aircraft that was intercepted by the U.S. military, or even that it was a top secret experimental aircraft of the U.S. and the whole extraterrestrial narrative is to obfuscate the truth. Whatever the truth is about what happened or didn't happen that night, at least Grapeseed's local economy has been massively helped by the influx of curious visitors, even if the locals complain about traffic congestion and the faint odor of cannabis emanating from tour groups. However, a new hangar had been hastily built at Fort Zancudo, a few weeks later after the incident supposedly occurred.