Impossible Mission Force

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The Impossible Mission Force (IMF) is a fictional intelligence agency of the U.S. government from the American television series Mission: Impossible and its three movies starring Tom Cruise, Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible II, and Mission: Impossible III.

IMF agents are sent on covert missions to tackle the dangerous world of counterterrorism, espionage and international crime. They operate under non-official cover status and if captured or killed the U.S. government will disavow any knowledge of their actions.

In the television shows it was implied to be an independent agency with loose ties to such organizations as the Central Intelligence Agency, MI-5, and Interpol.

In the 1996 film Mission: Impossible the IMF is actually a black ops division of the C.I.A. In Mission: Impossible II, it's not clear to whom IMF answers if anyone, though it is implied it is connected to a larger worldwide network. Mission: Impossible III, IMF is indeed identified as the independent agency (whose majority of agents comedically front as Department of Transportation employees) of the series.