FBI Unusual Incidents Unit

The FBI's Unusual Incidents Unit was founded by J. Edgar Hoover during the Cold War in response to the Soviet GRU's Directorate P. The UIU served as the US's tool for exploiting anomalies to prevent communists from doing the same. Initially, the UIU was quite competent at its work, receiving funding directly from the government, but after the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the GRU's Directorate P, funding was virtually cut off, severely impacting the UIU's operations. If not for the presence of rival organizations in America, such as the SCP Foundation and the Global Occult Coalition, the UIU would have been disbanded as well. Despite being considered incapable of maintaining secrecy, the UIU was nevertheless determined to do its best and often proved a powerful ally to organizations promoting normalcy and a formidable adversary to hostile groups.

The concept of the UIU emerged in 1930–1931 after Hoover and his colleague Clyde discovered a harbor belonging to the SCP Foundation. Suspecting it was a drug trafficking operation, federal agents raided the harbor but discovered anomalies and advanced equipment belonging to the Foundation. Having witnessed what the Foundation had been secretly doing for countless years, Hoover and Clyde decided to found their own organization to protect their country and compete with the Foundation.

Like other organizations dedicated to maintaining normalcy, the UIU used its own terminology to catalog the anomalies it discovered.

"Cart" denoted confirmed artifacts from the other world.

"Can" denoted confirmed anomalies, which were either impossible regions or events.

"Can Man" referred to confirmed abnormal people.

Furthermore, the UIU designated each anomaly by the year of its discovery, and the files documenting these anomalies focused not only on their physical description and capabilities, but also on their presumed purpose, mode of action, and behavior. Along with this information, samples of evidence confirming their existence and threat were recorded, and if they were found to be sensible, convictions for the crimes they committed were issued. The UIU also referred to shapeshifters as multimorphic mimics.

After the discovery of the interdimensional city-state of Three Portlands, the UIU, as part of the Three Portlands Compact of Free Association, became the primary organization concealing it not only behind the Veil but also from other organizations, with the exception of the GOC and, much later, the Foundation, using memetic disinformation campaigns. Although the UIU initially had a negative reputation in Three Portlands, relations improved to the point that a quarter of the UIU's irregular staff came from the city-state. Within Three Portlands, the UIU had primary jurisdiction over most major investigations, leaving crime prevention and community outreach to the Three Portlands Police Department. The U.S. Homeland Security Court for Three Portlands, responsible for the Veil-related case, authorized local UIU warrants. All of this was made possible by Hoover's early mandate, which made the UIU office in Three Portlands one of the largest paranormal enclaves, second only to the Miami office. The UIU also exerted some control over the freeports of Backdoor Soho, a space reminiscent of Manhattan's Soho, where paranormal artists were free to exhibit their work. However, despite the unit's best efforts, paracriminal activity prevailed. According to UIU File: 1988-021, the UIU opened a field office in Hy-Brasil, with the understanding that the UIU would only pursue criminals who had committed serious crimes on U.S. soil. However, the UIU unit, due to rumors of collaboration with the Chaos Insurgency, became outcasts from several organizations until September 2001.

In November 2001, the O5 Council agreed to hand over one of its former bases, namely Complex 94, near Seattle, disguised as a former bomb shelter, to the UIU organization.

Base Complex -90 near Seattle Founder Director McNamara

Commanders

Winston Bishop T. Goodite Hadley Hallstein Theodore McKinney Cooper Dean Peter Burns William Doucet Richard Frost

James Finch Howard Dean Fredrick Gibson Tobias Wood Titus Solowski Daniel Martindale Daniel Blake (formerly) Sabrina Marx Kate McTieriss (formerly) Quinn McAllister Darnell Christman Frank Luciano Robert McCragg Laura Stanton Agent Wolfram (deceased) Agent Yucker (deceased) Aaron Jay Kevin Callahan Michel S. Klimt Frank Auerbach Damion Hill Ian Walsh Alexander Muni Edgar Park Megan Scott Stella Abbey Leslie Jefferson Leonardo "Leo" James Carter Alexander Moriarty Richtoff Samantha "Sam" Breton Wellings Tyler O'Banner Jason Valdez Eugene Vega Kenneth Spencer Robin Thorne Florence Elsinger (deceased) Renée Morin Dinah "Skull-e" Howard Roxy "Rox Mulder" Chabout Ulysses van Cann Jessie Davis Quinn Lowe Diego de la Vega (formerly) Valarie Dell Lawrence Harrison Carlotta Deneb (formerly) Joseph Christoph (formerly) Ari Perkowitz Nolan Forrester John Powers Charles Idle (formerly) Gianna White Leslie Summers Michael Hutchinson (formerly) Saker No. 137 Agent Keohane Jessie Davis Virginia Cartal Richard Lambert Ellen Nichols Steffano Gonzalez Daniel Brainard Laurel Carver

International treaties: The Four Weil Conventions, the Charter of the Global Occult Coalition, and the Cologne Agreement defining para-law.

Legislative Statutes: Statutes, although rare, granted the executive branch broad rulemaking powers, often under national security legislation. These include the Atomic Energy Act, the Invention Secrecy Act, and the Arms Export Control Act.

Executive Rulemaking: The executive branch, consisting of officials and agencies, as well as the Homeland Security Council, had the authority to make rules and regulations within the paralegal framework.

Judicial Precedent: A system of limited jurisdiction courts was created to deal with unusual issues such as the civil rights of robots and the taxation of human souls.

The U.S. Paranormal Investigation Unit (UIU) and other U.S. paranormal investigative agencies reported directly to the Homeland Security Council, the highest executive body responsible for paranormal policy and overseeing paralegal affairs. The council was established in the 1940s by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and typically consisted of the vice president, the attorney general, the secretary of state, the secretary of defense, the secretary of the treasury, the postmaster general, the ambassador to the United Nations, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the executive assistant to the director of the Office of Unusual Incidents, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Senator John McCain, other Cabinet officials, senior officials, and private citizens appointed by the president. The council, in turn, reported to the president through its Homeland Security Advisor, who was selected as an expert on the paranormal and paralegal affairs. The Council meetings were also attended by the "Gang of Eight," which included the chairmen and ranking members of the congressional intelligence committees, the Speaker and Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, and the Majority and Minority Leaders of the Senate.

Although formally part of the FBI, the INS was largely autonomous, with only a small portion reporting to the Bureau's organizational structure. This much-derided INS is what most people believed the organization was. In reality, the INS was part of the Justice Department, with its own budget and an executive assistant director appointed directly by the president. INS operated on behalf of the Justice Department behind the Veil and was the only law enforcement/government agency in the anomalous world.

The UIU often recruited agents with backgrounds in psychology, STEM, and art history. Under the Patriot Act, these agents were required to administer personalized memetic suppressors, or "non-disclosure agreements," to prevent information leaks. This was a better alternative to amnesia, which could lead to the loss of valuable information. Most agents also had protective glyphs, and in Miami, after a major arrest, agents would get magical tattoos as a sort of "passageway." Many UIU agents, in addition to firearms, were skilled in thaumaturgy. About 30% of UIU agents were anomalous in nature. The UIU had several subdivisions, such as the UIU Metaphysics Division, the Northeast Division of the Anomalous Tactical Unit, and the Esoteric Laboratory Division at Quantico.

The UIU also had its own equivalent of the Foundation's MTF—the Mobile Occult Task Forces (MOTFs), which could be deployed in certain areas of North America. MOTFs were formed in 1995 as the UIU's own rapid response team for crisis situations, similar to special forces. They were composed entirely of combat mages, combat psychics, and other types of anomalous agents trained and armed to combat dangerous anomalies.

The Unusual Incidents Investigation Unit (UII) was a division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation created to rapidly respond to paranormal phenomena and crimes. During the Cold War, the UII received ample funding and resources from the American government, but after its main adversary, GRU Section P, was disbanded along with the Soviet Union, the Office of Resource Planning cut most of its funding, and the UII entered a state of steady decline. This led to a shortage of financial resources and personnel, and, combined with additional government obstruction, led to the UII being considered ineffective. However, thanks to the influence of the SCP Foundation and the Global Occult Coalition in the United States, the UII's dissolution was prevented. Despite these setbacks, however, the UII proved its ability to carry out its work, and it has even been claimed that its incompetence was merely a cover to avoid suspicion and attention. The U.S.A. acted with the best of intentions and, unlike the Foundation and the GOC, was more tolerant of the anomalous world, allowing anomalies to exist outside its borders as long as they did no harm, and maintaining the Veil of Secrecy. Like other American agencies, the U.S.A. maintained the Veil under the Veil Accords established after the Occult Wars, as well as numerous international agreements concerning the anomalous.

The UIU supported paralegal law—a body of law designed to conceal paranormal, esoteric, occult, paranatural, and anomalous phenomena for fear of causing mass panic, empowering criminal groups, and threatening humanity and national security. Although paralegal law was applied secretly, it was not secret law, as it was also incorporated into public law. Paralegal law was divided into "general paralegal law," which served to maintain the "veil," and "personal paralegal law," which served to keep people behind the "veil." Paralegal law was under the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal government, and constitutional authority was derived from the Commerce Act, the Copyright Act, the Definition and Punishment Act, and the Necessary and Proper Conditions Act. The four primary sources of paralegal law were:

One of the first public safety threats the UIU encountered was gang leader John Dillinger, who earned the UIU number 1933-001 for his ability to bring good luck to himself and his associates. After committing several crimes and repeatedly evading capture, the UIU began pursuing him. On November 20, 1933, the UIU attempted to apprehend Dillinger and his gang during a robbery of the American Bank and Trust Co. in Racine, Wisconsin, but agents mysteriously missed. Their next encounter occurred on January 15, 1934, when Dillinger and his gang robbed the First National Bank in East Chicago, Indiana, and escaped despite their getaway vehicle being discovered. After Dillinger was arrested and transported to Crown Point Jail in Lake County, Indiana, the UIU attempted to transfer its agents there before he escaped again. This pursuit culminated on July 22, 1934, when the UIU tracked him down at the Biograph Theater in Chicago, Illinois. Dillinger attempted to blend into the crowd, but the UIU spotted him and forced him to hide in a nearby alley. When the UIU agents cornered him, Dillinger drew his pistol to fight back, but his luck ran out, and the agents killed him.

When U.S. law enforcement discovered the interdimensional city-state of Three Portlands, accessible from Portland, Maine, Portland, Oregon, and the Isle of Portland, United Kingdom, while pursuing the "Chicago Spirit," the Bureau of Investigation (BII) hid it from the public. While fighting the criminal organization, its incursion was met with citizen protests. Citizens fought the BII, forcing Director Hoover to seize the U.S. entrances to Three Portlands and prohibit anyone from entering or leaving. This continued until President Herbert Hoover established the Hoover Mandate, which guaranteed the autonomy of Three Portlands in exchange for allowing U.S. federal agents to operate freely within the city-state. The British Occult Service was initially opposed, wanting Great Britain to exert influence over Three Portlands. However, with the outbreak of the Seventh Occult War/World War II, Great Britain entered into a Freedom of Ports Agreement with the Bureau of Investigation (UIU), retaining the Freeports under its jurisdiction in exchange for wartime concessions. During the war, Three Portlands served as a clandestine supply route and refuge for the Allied Occult Initiative, the predecessor of the GOC, leading to an attack on the Freeports by the Ahnenerbe Obskurakorps. Fortunately, the UIU, along with the BOI, the International Center for the Study of Unified Thaumatology, municipal police golems, and other citizens, successfully repelled the attack. Since then, Three Portlands has grown in popularity and technological sophistication, becoming one of the most notorious anomalous communities in the world, as it was seen as a haven for paranormal individuals. While this was happening, the UIU and BOI worked tirelessly to keep the Freeports a secret from the Foundation, as they were considered the biggest threat to it, though the organization later learned of this, as expected.

In 1942, after the Church of the Broken God attempted to recreate their God, it resulted in the creation of a feral, savage monster that began wreaking havoc across Mexico. The UIU assisted the Foundation and the IDF in combating this monster, and they eventually succeeded in destroying it thanks to SCP-2399. Afterward, the UIU assisted the Foundation in cleanup, helping them collect the fragments of the Broken God. One of these fragments, the UIU claimed, was the "heart," SCP-882, which had caused the whole thing. However, while interviewing witnesses and participants, the UIU encountered a woman with chains for hair, who had been one of the victims consumed by the beast before being regurgitated as cyborgs transformed from SCP-217. This woman convinced UIU agents to hand over SCP-882 to her so she could personally destroy it.

In the late 1960s, the UIU received reports of a group of monstrous and grotesque humanoids stealing cattle feed. Agents were dispatched to the scene and, upon encountering the creatures, attempted to shoot them, but despite their deformed bodies, the humanoids proved resistant to firearms and easily escaped. During an attack in South Carolina, the UIU quickly intervened, forcing the humanoids to flee in their vehicles. The UIU managed to disable one of their vehicles before pursuing the others, and during the chase, one monster jumped a police car, causing it to crash, while the others escaped. Upon investigation, the UIU discovered that the humanoids were descendants of siblings Simeon, Armond, Yvette, and Jorge Avakian, who believed they would usher in a New Eden with their children. In the early 1970s, the UIU tracked the entire family, or more commonly known as the colony, designated UIU-15511, to an abandoned warehouse and dispatched thirteen agents to confront them. Unfortunately, the mutated family gained the upper hand and wiped out most of the agents, leaving only four alive. The UIU proceeded to demolish the building, but by the time it was destroyed, the colony had completely vanished. The UIU then received word that the colony had overtaken a train headed for the West Coast and called upon the unit to stop them. The UIU did everything in its power to stop the train, but to no avail due to the monstrous offspring sacrificing themselves to thwart their efforts. To make matters worse, two more trains were overtaken by the colony and, upon arriving at their destination, proceeded to slaughter countless innocents. In desperation, the UIU appealed to the Foundation for aid and military reinforcements. The organizations managed to derail the fourth train in a city in Kentucky, but failed to stop the last two. All trains arrived in Long Beach, California, where the colony overwhelmed the combined forces of the UNP and the Foundation and seized three oil tankers, intending to spread.

Operation UIU was apparently founded by former O5 Council member Stimson after he joined the FBI and took SCP-001 with him (Suggestion by Jonathan Ball). He tried to convince others of the anomalous nature of the world around him, but no one believed him.

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