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Of course, sometimes an agency has such a bland name because it really ''isn't'' all that important, and nobody involved could be bothered to try and come up with a good name for it.
 
A [[Super -Trope]] to [[Room 101]] and and [[The Group]]; Related to [[Maximum Fun Chamber]].
 
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== [[Fan Works]] ==
* In ''[[The Secret Return of Alex Mack]]'', the group actually known as the "Superpowers Research Initiative" exists on government documents and organizational charts solely under the name "Hazardous Waste Assessment, Amelioration and Abatement".
 
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* In the prologue of ''[[Men in Black (Filmfilm)|Men in Black]]'', Agent K flashes an ID at a pair of Border Patrol officers, identifying himself and his partner as being from "INS, Division Six" so that he can talk to an [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Illegal Alien]] in private. [[Subverted]], because one of the Border Patrol agents, a moment later, states "There ''is'' no Division Six" before following after K to see what he's up to. Just in time to end up [[Covered in Gunge]] and experiencing [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]].
* The first [[Transformers (Filmfilm)|Transformers]] movie features Sector 7, a secret government organization which researches Cybertronian technology, and which for some reason also has custom vehicles and uniforms, exactly the [[Mildly Military|sort of thing]] you'd expect a [[Overt Agent|secret organization to avoid]].
 
== [[Live Action Television]]: ==
* ''[[Star Trek]] [[Deep Space Nine]]'': While the Cardassians had the Obsidian Order, and the Romulans had the Tal Shiar, the Federation was eventually revealed to have Section 31, a covert operations agency so secretive that not only did nobody know about it (including effectively everybody within the Federation who was not already a member), but that what passed for its name was simply the title of the portion of the Federation Charter that allowed for the possibility of forming such an agency.
 
== [[Real Life]] ==
* The [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services:Office of Strategic Services|Office of Strategic Services]] was the [[World War II]] forerunner to the modern Central Intelligence Agency.
* The [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Activities_Division:Special Activities Division|Special Activities Division]], more-or-less the Central Intelligence Agency's special-ops organization.
* United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group: Better known as SEAL Team Six.
 
== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[SCP Foundation (Wiki)|SCP Foundation]], and more specifically, procedure 231-Montauk.
 
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