U.N.C.L.E.
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U.N.C.L.E. is an acronym for the fictional United Network Command for Law and Enforcement, a secret international intelligence agency featured in the TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.. Both were 1960s TV series produced in the United States.
U.N.C.L.E. is an organization consisting of agents of all nationalities. It's involved in maintaining political and legal order anywhere in the world and is multinational in makeup and international in scope, protecting and defending nations regardless of size or political persuasion. U.N.C.L.E. operates in Communist and Third World countries the same way that it does in the Western nations. Its primary opponent is the independent international criminal organization, THRUSH.
[edit] Headquarters
Its headquarters are in New York City and field agents are admitted by way of Del Floria's, a small, non-descript tailor/dry-cleaning shop located one flight below street level. The agents go to the single fitting booth and turn the coat hook on the back wall. Outside in the shop, Del Floria activates a mechanism on his pressing machine that releases the door. The wall swings inward and an agent finds him/herself in the main admissions area. There, a receptionist pins on a security badge (white or later, yellow for highest security clearance; red and green for low clearance and visitors). A chemical on the receptionist's fingers activates the badge.
[edit] Logo
The official logo of the organization is a black globe with somelines of longtitude and latitude picked out in white. Black rings of increasing radius surround the globe; to the right of it is the black silhouette of a man in a black suit holding a gun at his side, and a black band beneath the globe and the man features the name "U.N.C.L.E." in outlined letters. The logo is normally superimposed on a map of the world--yellow-brown continents with no country borders (a tribute to the one-world philosophy of U.N.C.L.E.) and blue seas--but is also used plain or with tones inverted on official U.N.C.L.E. documents.
[edit] Structure
U.N.C.L.E. is subdivided into eight sections:
[edit] Section I: Policy and Operations
This is the administrative branch. It contains the five chiefs of U.N.C.L.E. as well as all sector and station chiefs. There is a conference for everyone in this section yearly as well as an annual meeting of the five chiefs alone.
The five chiefs administer the business of U.N.C.L.E. from five regional offices that correspond loosely (but not exactly --- there is overlap) to the five major continents. The five offices are: New York, Caracas, Nairobi, New Delhi and Berlin.
[edit] Section II: Operations and Enforcement
This is the section that contains the field agents like Napoleon Solo, Illya Kuryakin, April Dancer and Mark Slate. It seems that each of the regional offices has a Chief of Enforcement who functions as second-in-command. Solo is Waverly's Chief of Enforcement.
[edit] Section III: Enforcement and Intelligence
These are the lower level field agents, junior enforcement agents, couriers and the like.
[edit] Section IV: Intelligence and Communications
This is the beginning of the support personnel sections. Any agent who works at a computer terminal or provides information for the field agents are members of this section.
[edit] Section V: Communication and Security
This section contains more support people, such as all the secretaries and communication people.
[edit] Section VI: Security and Personnel
Security guards and those who handle personnel matters (like hiring and medical insurance) processing are members of this section.
[edit] Section VII: Public Relations and Propaganda
Ironically, little is known about U.N.C.L.E.'s public relations front.
[edit] Section VIII: Research and Development
Known more colloquially as "The Lab."
