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* David Wingrove's ''[[Chung Kuo]]'' has the Ministry, the only ministry without a name, that is tasked with hiding the truth about the past by all means possible.

* [[Isaac Asimov]] wrote a short story called ''The Dead Past'', where it turns out the government has a stranglehold on science in a massive conspiracy to prevent science from rediscovering an apparatus capable of looking into the past. {{spoiler|It turns out to be a glorious deconstruction, because it turns out that this is for humanity's own good, as 'the past' starts at about a second ago, and the device can see anywhere in the world, thus making privacy obsolete. The protagonists fail to realize this until after they've managed to publicize the technology far and wide.}}

* [[The Mad Scientist Wars]] seems to set one of these up by introducing the mysterious '''M''', [[The Men in Black]]-staffed Government Agency. Subverted in that it turns out that they have no ulterior motives- instead what they do is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]], keeping '''M'''ad Scientists from destroying the planet, and helping them.

* In [[The Laundry Series]] by [[Charles Stross]], "The Laundry" is the name of a branch of the UK civil service responsible for dealing with incursions of [[Cosmic Horror]]. Amongst other things, they make people who (accidentally or otherwise) attempt to summon an [[Eldritch Abomination]] or other [[Things Man Was Not Meant to Know]] disappear, either in the traditional way or by giving them a regular civil service job to keep them out of trouble. Definitely a case of a benign conspiracy, as nobody wants to end up timesharing their cortex with a [[Mind Rape|demonic intelligence]] because some computer nerd accidentally wrote a summoning algorithm...

* [[MAG ISA]] -- [http://mag-isa.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/119800 we have a bunch of guys sitting around the table] who seem to have control of the police forces of the nation... and other things that can be used for more evil against the people...

* Hinted at in [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070927 this] ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' strip. Several people, two of them government agents, are murdered, and when another agent asks a lot of questions about it, the Internal Affairs guys are ''very'' emphatic about her keeping quiet.

'''Internal Affairs:''' "Seem?" }}

* The government conspiracy in ''[[Fans]]!'', whilst undoubtedly secretive and ruthless, is eventually revealed as being non-malevolent in nature (if not without it's corrupt side), in fact sharing the same goals (if with [[Anti-Hero|more pragmatic and darker methods]]) as the heroes.