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'''Celestial Intervention Agency''' or '''CIA''' was a secretive [[Gallifrey]]an organisation dedicated to selectively breaking the [[non-interference policy]] of the [[Time Lord]]s.
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The '''Celestial Intervention Agency''', also known as the '''CIA''', ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Deadly Assassin (TV story)}}) '''the Intervention Agency''', ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Lungbarrow (novel)}}) or, more casually, '''the Agency''' ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|A Blind Eye (audio story)}}, {{cs|Panacea (audio story)}}) was a secretive interventionist organization of the [[High Council of Time Lords]] that safeguarded the [[Web of Time]]. To achieve this, they often violated the [[non-interference policy]], and therefore had to operate in secret in order to give plausible deniability.


==History==
== Objective ==
===Origins and nature===
Their motto was "the story changes, the ending stays the same": their operatives protected the [[Web of Time]] by ensuring, by whatever means, that the net result of history remained constant, even though details might change. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Kingmaker (audio story)|The Kingmaker}}) Because they often violated the Time Lords' [[non-interference policy]], they had to operate in secret so as to give plausible deniability to the [[High Council]]; ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|World Game (novel)|World Game}}) in truth, they ultimately took their orders from [[Matrix Rassilon|Rassilon]] and the other [[Matrix Lord]]s, and the [[Lord President]]s were not aware of its existence until [[Pandad IV]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)|The Legacy of Gallifrey}})
The CIA were a group created to be a covert arm of the [[High Council]] to safeguard the Time Lords' interests. ([[DW]]: ''[[Shada (TV story)|Shada]]'') They evolved from a core group of [[Rassilon]]'s guards. ([[NA]]: ''[[Lungbarrow]]'') They would function as spies. It was said that "don't even know which side they're on." ([[BFA]]: ''[[Gallifrey (audio series)|Gallifrey]]'').


===CIA's involvement with [[the Doctor]]===
== History ==
The CIA initially employed [[Second Doctor|the Doctor]] to work for them following his trial for breaking the non-interference policy, a duty he did with much reluctance  His first mission for them completed, with [[Jamie McCrimmon]] at his side, the Doctor visited [[Space Station Chimera]] to speak with [[Dastari]] and peruade him to discontinue [[time travel]] experiments occurring there. ([[PDA]]: ''[[World Game]]'')
=== Origins ===
There existed various conflicting accounts of the Celestial Intervention Agency and other [[intervention]]ist groups' origins. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)|The Legacy of Gallifrey}}, {{cs|The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse}}) [[Thessalia]], writing around the time of [[the Imperator]]'s Presidency (quite late in the history of the [[Great House]]s), suspected that the intervention groups were legitimising themselves by planting new [[mythology|mythologies]] into [[the Homeworld]]'s [[noosphere]] through the [[caldera]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War}}) According to secret information found by {{Dhawan}} in [[the Matrix]] a secretive interventionist group operating off the record was instituted in the lifetime of the [[Founders of Gallifrey]], known as [[the Division]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children}})


Though this remains speculative, it seems very possible that the CIA sent [[Third Doctor|the Doctor]] to [[Uxarieus]] to prevent [[the Master]] from obtaining the [[Doomsday Weapon]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Colony in Space]]''), to [[Peladon (plane)|Peladon]] to assist in its joining the [[Galactic Federation]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Curse of Peladon]]'') and to [[Solos]] in Earth's future to deliver a package from the Time Lords. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Mutants]]'')
According to {{cs|The Book of the War}}, the interventionist espionage organisations from which the [[Celestis]] would eventually arise were created much later in [[Gallifreyan history|the Homeworld's history]], as a by-product of the Imperator Presidency. Following the Imperator's downfall, the idea of intervention divided [[the Homeworld|Homeworld]] society. While some interventionist groups like [[House Paradox]] openly renounced the [[Protocols of the Great Houses]], others used subterfuge, manipulation, conspiracy, and [[assassination]] to gain influence and further their agenda of reshaping the [[Spiral Politic]] to suit the Homeworld's needs. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War}}) [[Rollo]], a lifelong interventionist who was a loose contemporary of [[the Doctor]], was credited in one account as having been one of the "original founders" of the CIA. ([[GAME]]: {{cite source|The Iytean Menace (game)}})


It was a Time Lord by the name of Lord [[Ferain]] who appeared to [[Fourth Doctor|the Doctor]] to send him on a mission to [[Skaro]] to avert the [[creation of the Daleks]]. ([[NA]]: ''[[Lungbarrow]]'')
However, various accounts credited the notion that the Celestial Intervention Agency had been born early in Gallifreyan history. Some believed, by the time of [[Romana II]]'s early Presidency of Gallifrey, that the CIA had grown out of [[Rassilon]]'s private retinue of guards and agents. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow}}) A similar but distinct account stated that the CIA, to its fullest scale, was set up by Rassilon during the last century of the [[Eternal War]] to gather information on [[Great Vampire|enemy]] movements. Agents were recruited covertly from the [[Time Lord Academy|Academies]] and trained in every aspect of espionage and the gathering of data until the network of Gallifreyan spies was huge and difficult to dismantle, though Rassilon considered this "a problem for another day". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Multi-Faceted War (short story)|The Multi-Faceted War}})


:''This action would, incidentally, in retrospect, count as the first pre-emptive salvo of the [[Last Great Time War]].''
According to yet another account, the nascent, secretive [[intervention]]ist faction of Gallifrey was named "Celestial Intervention Agency" by [[Matrix Rassilon|Rassilon]] shortly after he died and was uploaded into the Matrix. Rassilon offered them the right to infringe upon the [[Laws of Time]] on occasion in exchange for acting as the [[Matrix Lord]]s' executors and servants in the physical realm. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)|The Legacy of Gallifrey}}) Inside the Matrix, the Matrix Lords once claimed that their council was itself the Celestial Intervention Agency. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Tides of Time (comic story)|The Tides of Time}}) Many of the lower-ranking C.I.A. operatives were never told the truth about their undying masters, instead being led to believe they were acting on orders from the Lord President. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)|The Legacy of Gallifrey}})


The Doctor suspected that the Time Lords (and therefore probably the CIA) sent him to [[Karn]] to prevent ex-Gallifreyan president [[Morbius]] from being resurrected and returned to body by [[Mehendri Solon|Dr. Mehendri Solon]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius]]'').
[[Book (The Whoniverse)|One history book]] purported that after the [[Minyan]]s, a [[species]] to whom the Time Lords had made overtures offering advanced technology, destroyed their own world in a [[nuclear war]], the Time Lord [[High Council]] issued a decree that they would adhere to a new policy of [[Non-interference policy|non-interference]]. While many readily agreed with this new policy, others did not and the Celestial Intervention Agency was formed. Its agents were deployed on the rare occasions where action was considered necessary for the preservation of Time Lord society. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse}})


:''Possibly, the [[Sisterhood of Karn]] itself had brought the Doctor to Karn.''
Still another account held that the Celestial Intervention Agency was formed as a direct response to [[the Doctor]] becoming a renegade. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Doctor Who Technical Manual (reference book)|The Doctor Who Technical Manual}})


When Co-ordinator [[Vansell]] of the CIA, saw that the Doctor's actions had allowed the [[Nestene Consciousness]] to escape destruction, he saw to it that a trial for him would take place on [[Space Station Zenobia]]. ([[PDA]]: ''[[Synthespians™]]'') After the transportation of [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] to the space station ([[DW]]: ''[[The Mysterious Planet]]'') and the presentation of evidence ([[DW]]: ''[[The Mysterious Planet]]'', [[DW]]: ''[[Mindwarp]]'', [[DW]]: ''[[Terror of the Vervoids]]''), the trial would conclude with the Doctor's prosecutor, [[the Valeyard]], exposed as the Doctor's own corrupt future self, the Doctor exonerated and political unrest on Gallifrey. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Ultimate Foe]]'')
The CIA's own files stated that the organisation had been created in response to the [[War Chief incident]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|CIA File Extracts (novel)|CIA File Extracts}})


===Other projects and missions===
=== Early history ===
The CIA sent a Time Lord as their agent to [[Apertsu]] to serve as a security consultant; however, he was captured by [[Aubertide]]s who wanted the secret of regeneration. ([[NA]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'')
At any rate, the CIA became a covert arm of the [[High Council]] to safeguard the Time Lords' interests, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Shada (novelisation)|Shada}}) functioning as [[spy|spies]]; it was said that they often "[didn't] even know which side [they were] on". ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Mindbomb (audio story)|Mindbomb}}) No President before [[Pandad IV]] was aware of the CIA, but many on the High Council did, even some who were not CIA agents themselves. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)}}, {{cs|The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)|The Legacy of Gallifrey}})


The CIA began to fear the number of temporally active races, so they began experimenting with various temporal technologies, including the [[TARDIS]]es, in an attempt to move the minds of (newly created) TARDISes within the minds of aliens taken from over 50 planets. Time Lady Professor [[Klyst]] oversaw this experiment. ([[BFA]]: ''[[Unregenerate!]]'')
For example, around the time of the [[Prydonian Academy Revolution]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|CIA File Extracts (novel)|CIA File Extracts}}) [[Lord Cardinal|Cardinal]] [[Borusa]] persuaded the Celestial Intervention Agency to manufacture evidence of [[treason]] against a fellow Councillor, Magnus, whom he saw as a threat to his own position of power. Forced to flee Gallifrey in disgrace, he became a Renegade, eventually facing the Doctor as [[the War Chief]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)|Timewyrm: Exodus}}) The CIA's internal files showed that they were actually unsure of the nature of the future War Chief's involvement, if any, in the Revolution, and indeed their information on his later activities was similarly tentative and sparse. They believed he may have some connection to [[the Master]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|CIA File Extracts (novel)|CIA File Extracts}})


===The CIA and [[The War]]===
However, the CIA did keep tabs on another Time Lord who turned Renegade on the occasion of the Prydonian Academy Revolution: [[the Colonel]], whose "retirement" in [[20th century]] [[America]] on the planet [[Earth]] soon became a cover for his being a CIA spy. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|CIA File Extracts (novel)|CIA File Extracts}})
President [[Romana III|Romana]] sent CIA agents [[Gandar|Gandarotethetledrax]] and [[Cavis|Cavisadoratrelundar]] to observe/create the first Type 102 TARDIS (knowing that it would be a vital piece of technology in the upcoming war), and witnessed the former [[The Remote|Remote]] agent [[Compassion]] complete a transition to a sentient TARDIS. They were halted by the people of the [[Catuvalani]]. [[Eighth Doctor|The Doctor]] escaped with the Type 102 TARDIS. ([[EDA]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon]]'')


At some point in the lead-up to [[The War]], the CIA became worried that they might be erased from history (or caught in the crossfire) between the Time Lords and [[The Enemy]], and therefore created [[Mictlan]], a world outside of time and the universe for themselves to hide within. However, they also needed to remove themselves from the universe of physicality, and therefore turned themselves into [[The Celestis]]. ([[EDA]]: ''[[Alien Bodies]]'', ''[[The Taking of Planet 5]]'', ''[[Interference]]'')
According to one account, the CIA were responsible for the [[time loop]]ing of the [[Fifth Planet]] of the [[Solar System]] in an attempt to destroy the [[Fendahl]], and the resolution of the [[Morbius affair]]. Both of these operations preceeded the Doctor's involvement with the CIA. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Universal Databank (reference book)}})


===CIA involvement on Gallifrey (and its affairs)===
=== CIA's involvement with the Doctor ===
''to be added'' ([[BFG]]: ''[[Gallifrey (audio series)]]'')
As the CIA's prominence within Gallifrey's political circles grew, [[Matrix Rassilon|Rassilon]] in [[the Matrix]] decided to find a less easily trackable agent. He settled on [[the Doctor]], a [[Renegade Time Lord]] ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)|The Legacy of Gallifrey}}) who had also [[The Doctor and Susan's escape from Gallifrey|fled]] from [[Gallifrey]] in the aftermath of the [[Prydonian Academy Revolution]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Birth of a Renegade (short story)|Birth of a Renegade}}, {{cs|CIA File Extracts (novel)|CIA File Extracts}}) and, according to some accounts, had been an agent of [[the Division]] in [[The Doctor's early life|an earlier life]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Fugitive of the Judoon (TV story)|Fugitive of the Judoon}}, {{cs|The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children}}) The {{cs|Dalek Combat Training Manual}}, published during the [[Last Great Time War]], suggested that the CIA had coerced the [[First Doctor]] into taking the [[Hand of Omega]] before he left Gallifrey, intending for it to be used against the [[Dalek]]s. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)|Dalek Combat Training Manual}})


==Leadership==
According to one account, the CIA decided to use the Doctor as their agent early on. Havnig the power to control [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] from Gallifrey, it was suggested that they had been responsible for a large number of the First and [[Second Doctor]]'s unforeseen [[landing]]s, in particular those that forced them to deal with issues concerning Gallifreyan [[security]] such as the Daleks, the [[Cybermen]], [[First Monk|the Monk]], the [[Celestial Toymaker]], the [[Great Intelligence]] and others. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Universal Databank (reference book)}}) Indeed, Rassilon began steering the course of the Second Doctor's travels through time and space from afar, notably using him to defeat the Great Intelligence. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)|The Legacy of Gallifrey}}) The Time Lord [[Goth]] kept tabs on the Doctor for the CIA, notably posing as the fictional character [[Lemuel Gulliver]] in the [[Land of Fiction]] to get close to him. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Future Imperfect (short story)|Future Imperfect}})
*[[Centris]] was head of the CIA for a time before discovering how many people she had sent to the [[Oubliette of Eternity]]. Upon discovering the number, she threw herself into it. ([[BFA]]: ''[[Neverland]]'')


*Coordinator [[Vansell]] was head of the CIA during Romana's [[Lord President|presidency]] until he encountered the [[Neverpeople]]. ([[BFA]]: ''[[Neverland]]'')
However, the Second Doctor eventually realised he had become a tool of powers he did not understand, and stopped responding to their mysterious summons. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)|The Legacy of Gallifrey}}) The Second Doctor was soon [[the Doctor's trial (The War Games)|tried]] by three [[Time Lord]]s after he used a [[hypercube]] to call his people to resolve the [[War Chief incident]], with the Doctor's trial following [[Trial of the War Lord|that]] of [[the War Lord]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The War Games (TV story)|The War Games}}) Of these three Time Lords, [[Socra]] was secretly a CIA agent, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)|The Legacy of Gallifrey}}) as was [[Adelphi]]; ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Prisoners of the Sun (short story)|Prisoners of the Sun}}) although the identity of the third was disputed, with some accounts claiming that he was the oblivious Lord President, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Three Doctors (novelisation)|The Three Doctors}}) [[Pandad IV]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)|The Legacy of Gallifrey}}) others suggested that he was Goth, another CIA man. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Future Imperfect (short story)|Future Imperfect}})


*Coordinator [[Narvin]] took over as head of the CIA following Vansell's death aboard the [[time station]].
After he was tried and condemned to exile for breaking the [[non-interference policy]], however, the CIA officially extended an offer to the Doctor to become their agent in exchange for a reduced sentence. He reluctantly agreed to go on a mission with the Time Lady [[Serena]] against the [[Player]]s. (According to one account, after they completed that mission, he was assigned to go with [[Jamie McCrimmon]] at his side to [[Space Station Camera]] to persuade [[Dastari]] to discontinue [[Kartz]] and [[Reimer]]'s [[time travel]] experiments; ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|World Game (novel)|World Game}}, [[TV]]: {{cs|The Two Doctors (TV story)|The Two Doctors}}) according to other accounts, this mission had actually been assigned to the Doctor much earlier in his timeline, either by [[the Monk]], in the disguise of [[Chapter 9]] Constable [[Pavo]], ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Black Hole (audio story)|The Black Hole}}) the CIA, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Universal Databank (reference book)}}) or by Rassilon himself during his earlier period of manipulating the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)|The Legacy of Gallifrey}}) Yet another account suggested that after he performed any one mission for the CIA, the Second Doctor had his mind wiped and was returned to his trial, where he was offered the bargain all over again, with the CIA's demands each time limited to a single, manageable mission. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Save Yourself (short story)|Save Yourself}})


==Known CIA Personnel==
Rumour had it that the Doctor had been the best agent of the CIA. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Intervention Earth (audio story)|Intervention Earth}})


*Coordinator Centris
Ultimately, however, the Second Doctor was allowed to complete his regeneration into his [[Third Doctor|next incarnation]] and began his official [[exile on Earth]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space}}) albeit with the CIA still watching over him. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)|The Legacy of Gallifrey}}) To keep the Doctor "busy", the CIA arranged for {{Delgado}} to be released from [[Shada]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Prisoners of the Sun (short story)|Prisoners of the Sun}}) with a [[Adelphi|Time Lord messenger]] instead telling the Doctor that the Time Lords had failed to capture the Master at all. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons}}) This ploy backfired as the Master grew to be a formidable threat that even some elements within the CIA, such as Lord [[Melistar]], acknowledged as one of the greatest dangers to Gallifrey. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|CIA File Extracts (novel)|CIA File Extracts}})
*Coordinator Vansell
*Coordinator Narvin
*Director of Allegiance Ferain
*The Voice of the Agency


*President Niroc
According to one account, it was the CIA whom convinced the [[President (The Three Doctors)|President]] to bring the [[Three Doctors]] together to defeat [[Omega]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Universal Databank (reference book)}}, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Three Doctors (TV story)}}) Later, the CIA sent the Doctor after the Master when it was discovered that the latter had acquired [[Doomsday File|knowledge]] of the [[Doomsday Weapon]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Universal Databank (reference book)}}, [[TV]]: {{cs|Colony in Space (TV story)}}) The Doctor was then used to help the [[planet]] [[Peladon]]'s entry into the [[Galactic Federation]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Universal Databank (reference book)}}, [[TV]]: {{cs|The Curse of Peladon (TV story)}}) and to help the [[Solonian]]s achieve their [[super-human]] form, possibly in an effort to bring down [[Earth's Empire]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Universal Databank (reference book)}}, [[TV]]: {{cs|The Mutants (TV story)}})


*Councillor Sardon
Some accounts suggested that the [[Time Lord messenger (Genesis of the Daleks)|Time Lord messenger]] who attempted to change history through by sending the [[Fourth Doctor]] back to ancient [[Skaro]] to prevent the [[creation of the Daleks]] by [[Davros]] ([[TV]]: {{cs|Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks}}) was a CIA Director, either [[Ferain]] ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow}}) or [[Deliavatsud]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Dalek Problem (novel)|The Dalek Problem}}) A third account suggested that although the messenger, [[Valyes]], was not himself a CIA man, he had acted on behalf of [[Narvin]], the CIA [[Coordinator]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Ascension (Gallifrey audio story)|Ascension}}) This gambit, too, backfired, as it became the first shot in the protracted [[Last Great Time War]], ([[WC]]: {{cs|Monster File: Daleks (webcast)|Monster File: Daleks}}, [[COMIC]]: {{cs|Hunters of the Burning Stone (comic story)|Hunters of the Burning Stone}}) which would eventually end with the Time Lord race either dead ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Doctor Who and the Time War (short story)|Doctor Who and the Time War}}) or cowering at the end of the universe, their power broken. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent}})
*Councillor Ortan
*Councillor Ratisbon


*Almoner Crest Yeux
According to one account, the CIA also sent the Fourth Doctor to [[Karn]] to deal with the [[Brain of Morbius]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Universal Databank (reference book)}}, [[TV]]: {{cs|The Brain of Morbius (TV story)}})


*Commander Torvald
The CIA was responsible for subtly directing the [[Sixth Doctor]] to become involved in the [[Cryon Incident]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|TARDIS Type 40 Instruction Manual (reference book)}}) thwarting the plot by the [[Neomorph]] [[Cybermen]] of [[Telos]] to destroy [[Earth]] in [[1985]], which would have violated [[Established History]]. This came much to the Doctor's anger when he realised that the Time Lords had maneouvered him into "this mess". ([[TV]]: {{cs|Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)}})
*Gandar
*Cavis
*Glospin
*Mortimus (The Monk)  
*The Doctor (reluctantly)


The CIA had another, much less mutually beneficial interaction with the Sixth Doctor when Coordinator [[Vansell]] of the CIA saw that the Doctor's actions had allowed the [[Nestene Consciousness]] to escape destruction and saw to it that [[The Doctor's trial (The Mysterious Planet)|a trial]] for him would take place on [[Space Station Zenobia]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Synthespians™ (novel)|Synthespians™}}) After the transportation of [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] to the space station, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Mysterious Planet (TV story)|The Mysterious Planet}}) and the presentation of evidence, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Mysterious Planet (TV story)|The Mysterious Planet}}, {{cs|Mindwarp (TV story)|Mindwarp}}, {{cs|Terror of the Vervoids (TV story)|Terror of the Vervoids}}) the trial concluded with the Doctor's prosecutor, [[the Valeyard]], being exposed as the Doctor's own corrupt future self, exonerating the Doctor and causing political unrest on Gallifrey. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Ultimate Foe (TV story)|The Ultimate Foe}}) One account suggested that the CIA, in light of their [[First Omega Crisis|simultaneous use of multiple incarnations of the Doctor]], were behind the creation of the Valeyard in an effort to prevent the Doctor from exposing the corruption of the [[High Council]] and the [[Ravolox Stratagem]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Universal Databank (reference book)}})


==CIA Assets==
=== Other projects and missions ===
[[File:Narvin Extermination.jpg|thumb|Narvin. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Extermination (audio story)|Extermination}})]]
During their "golden age", secret interventionist groups committed more than one [[retro-genocide]]. They came to see themselves as elites among the [[Great House]]s and [[god]]s among the [[lesser species]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War}})


*The CIA originally developed [[psychic paper]] technology. ([[PDA]]: ''[[World Game]]'')
The CIA sent a Time Lord to [[Jamie McCrimmon]] in order to correct a fluctuation in the timeline caused when Jamie tried to help King [[James II]] of England. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Glorious Revolution (audio story)|The Glorious Revolution}}) Whilst working for the CIA, [[Straxus]] attempted to erase {{Delgado}} from existence by [[time ram]]ming his TARDIS. However, the Master survived. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Threshold (audio story)|The Threshold}}) As a junior coordinator [[Narvin]] was dispatched on an intervention to [[Bellascon]] to halt the development of time travel there, encountering the [[Fourth Doctor]] there as well. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Erasure (audio story)|Erasure}}) The CIA began to fear the number of temporally active races, so they began experimenting with various temporal technologies, including [[TARDIS]]es, in an attempt to plant the minds of newly-created TARDISes within the bodies of aliens on over 50 planets. Time Lady Professor [[Klyst]] oversaw this experiment. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Unregenerate! (audio story)|Unregenerate!}})


*[[Space Station Zenobia]] (the location of the [[Sixth Doctor|the Doctor]]'s trial) was the property of the CIA. ([[EDA]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors]]'')
The CIA sent a Time Lord as their agent to [[Apertsu]] to serve as a security consultant; however, he was captured by [[Aubertide]]s who wanted the secret of regeneration. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature}}) After retrieving a [[Mask (Tabby Cats And Time Lords)|dangerous artefact]] from {{Ainley}} while on a routine visit to Earth, young operative [[Alistanathcalebiviteth]] was promoted to a full-time field agent. His first mission took him to "a piddling little place in the [[Greater Magellanic Cloud]]" to recover another artefact. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Tabby Cats And Time Lords (short story)|Tabby Cats And Time Lords}}) The CIA once had control of a [[TARDIS]] data file on [[the Master]]. ([[WC]]: {{cs|Who Is The Master? (webcast)|Who Is The Master?}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|CIA File Extracts (novel)|CIA File Extracts}})


*The [[Oubliette of Eternity]] a device which was supposed to remove people from history, but instead made them [[Neverpeople]]. ([[BFA]]: ''[[Neverland]]'')
During [[Romana II]]'s [[President of the High Council|presidency]], Gallifreyan students started to reject the [[Great Curriculum]] to study new fields and share what they had learned with other [[Temporal Powers]]. [[Vansell]] claimed that the CIA was helping in the effort. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Neverland (audio story)|Neverland}})


*They possessed a Vortex Ops unit which scanned the [[Time Vortex]] for any anomalies. ([[BFA]]: ''[[Weapon of Choice]]'')
=== Becoming the Celestis ===
[[File:Lord Smoking Mirror.jpg|thumb|Lord Smoking Mirror of the Celestis. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War}})]]
{{Main|Celestis}}
Around twenty years before the start of the [[War in Heaven]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War}}) the CIA [[War prediction|foresaw]] the upcoming war between the Time Lords and [[the Enemy]]. Worried that they might be erased from [[history]], they preemptively removed themselves from the [[timeline]] in a way that allowed them to continue existing as [[conceptual entity|ideas]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies}}, {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War}})


==External Links==
The Celestis continued to hold court in the extra-dimensional realm of [[Mictlan]], which they created using [[flux]] theory, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War}}) [[Block Transfer Computation]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)|The Taking of Planet 5}}) and [[the Matrix]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies}})
*[http://www.geocities.com/willbswift/docwho3a.html The History of the Time Lords Part V: Later Gallifrey - The Doctor Time's Champion Era]
 
[[Category:Gallifreyan organizations]]
However, as ideas, the Celestis required real people to think of them in order for them to continue to exist. To achieve this, the Lords and Ladies Celestial would manifest themselves to [[lesser species]] in "[[god]]-form", performing favours like [[resurrection]] in exchange for the [[Mark of Indenture]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War}}) Bearers of the Mark would then serve in Mictlan eternally after their death. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies}}) The Celestis also needed physical agents to represent them and act on their behalf in the outside universe, so they created the [[Investigator]]s. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)|The Taking of Planet 5}})
 
During the War in Heaven, the Celestis fought internally about whether to support the Time Lords or the enemy, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies}}) and individual members often interfered on behalf of one side or the other as if the whole conflict was a game. Notable Celestis involvements in the War included Lord [[Foaming Sky]]'s attempted invasion of the [[City of the Saved]]; Lord [[Halved Birth]]'s encounter with [[Vlad Tepes]] at the [[Forest of the Impaled]]; ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War}}) Lord [[Dervishage]]'s sabotage of the {{cs|The Brakespeare}}; ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Brakespeare Voyage (novel)|The Brakespeare Voyage}}) and [[Trask (The Highlanders)|Trask]]'s attempted recovery of [[the Relic (Alien Bodies)|the Relic]] at [[Qixotl's auction]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies}})
 
Ultimately, the Celestis were destroyed by a plot orchestrated by two of their own members, Investigator [[One (The Taking of Planet 5)|One]] and [[Hermit (The Taking of Planet 5)|the hermit]]. A flotilla of [[War TARDIS]]es sealed off and severed Mictlan from the [[Spiral Politic]] just in time for it and its inhabitants to be devoured by the [[Memeovore]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)|The Taking of Planet 5}})
 
On [[Nine Gallifreys|other Gallifreys]], the CIA did not become the Celestis and remained in service to the President through the start of the War in Heaven. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon}}, {{cs|The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell}}) President [[Romana III|Romana]] sent CIA agents [[Cavis]] and [[Gandar]] from [[Romana III's Gallifrey|her Gallifrey]] to find the first [[Type 102]] TARDIS, knowing that it would be a vital piece of technology in the upcoming War. Cavis and Gandar witnessed the [[Remote]] agent [[Compassion]] complete a transition to a sentient TARDIS, but the [[Catuvellauni]] prevented them from capturing Compassion before she escaped with the [[Eighth Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon}})
 
=== During the Last Great Time War ===
[[Braxiatel]] changed history by preventing Romana’s second regeneration and guiding her to resign the presidency, which she did. However, she used her last act as President to name herself Coordinator of the CIA, relegating [[Narvin]] to her Deputy. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Enemy Lines (audio story)|Enemy Lines}}) Narvin realised that a war against the [[Dalek]]s would soon begin. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Sins of the Father (audio story)|Sins of the Father}})
 
Prior to the outbreak of [[Last Great Time War]], Narvin went on numerous clandestine missions to try to prevent the conflict as "Coordinator In Extremis", which Romana was actually aware of. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Desperate Measures (audio story)|Desperate Measures}}) He recruited [[the Master]] to use [[the Eminence]] against the Daleks, however the Master went rogue. Narvin was forced to work with the Eighth Doctor to stop the Master using the Eminence to takeover Earth. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master}}, {{cs|The Death of Hope (audio story)|The Death of Hope}}, {{cs|The Reviled (audio story)|The Reviled}}, {{cs|Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan}}, {{cs|Rule of the Eminence (audio story)|Rule of the Eminence}}) Narvin recruited the Master again in [[War Master|a later incarnation]] to obtain [[swenyo]] for use in the construction of Time Lord battleships. He paid the Master with a [[Chameleon Arch]] and other technology. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Sins of the Father (audio story)|Sins of the Father}})
 
At the start of the [[Last Great Time War]], Romana was still Coordinator but the power of the agency in Time Lord politics was decreasing as the power of the [[War Council]] increased. After lobbying President [[War Livia Caralis|Livia]], Romana negotiated a information sharing procedure between the CIA and the War Council. By the time the [[Dalek]]s attacked [[Phaidon]] the Agency still had enough power to potentially veto an asylum vote. Romana agreed to the asylum but was furious the War Council only gave support in return for complete secrecy from then on, even from the CIA. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Celestial Intervention (audio story)|Celestial Intervention}})
 
Early in the War, the CIA sponsored [[Vibax (Assets of War)|Lord Vibax]], giving him a laboratory in the Capitol. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Assets of War (audio story)|Assets of War}})
 
In the early stages of the War, the CIA sent Braxiatel and [[Ace]] to the [[Obscura]], where Braxiatel destroyed a Dalek fleet at the cost of the Time Lord station in the dimensional rift and then fled the War. In the aftermath Romana ordered Narvin to bring her the Master. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Soldier Obscura (audio story)|Soldier Obscura}})
 
After the Agency detected the presence of two TARDISes on [[Kurnos 5]], Narvin captured {{Jacobi}} there, only to discover the Master had swapped bodies with the [[Eighth Doctor]]. The Doctor persuaded Narvin to let him pursue the Master in his body, ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Castle of Kurnos 5 (audio story)|The Castle of Kurnos 5}}) so Narvin gave him financial backing to travel to the [[Lehar system]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Edge of Redemption (audio story)|The Edge of Redemption}})
 
After unwittingly helping the Master to obtain the Anti-Genesis codes, ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|From the Flames (audio story)|From the Flames}}) Narvin worked with Livia to try to counter the Master’s changes to Dalek history. They were unsuccessful. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Master's Dalek Plan (audio story)|The Master’s Dalek Plan}}) The Master’s Anti-Genesis scheme was later erased from history by the interference of the [[Dalek Time Strategist (The Shadow Vortex)|Dalek Time Strategist]] and [[The Master (Sympathy for the Devil)|a parallel Master]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|He Who Wins (audio story)|He Who Wins}})
 
After the Master responded to the Agency's summons, Romana dispatched him with Leela to interrogate [[Finnian Valentine]], a freedom fighter who had deployed a temporal weapon, to gain information on a temporal power source. They learnt it was on [[Arcking]] however the Master went rogue, throwing Leela into the [[Time Vortex]], and went to Arcking to claim the power for himself. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Devil You Know (audio story)|The Devil You Know}})
 
Two months into the Time War, the Agency was trusted by Livia to find a way that she could resign on a constitutional technicality, unaware this was part of a plot to resurrect and install [[Rassilon]] in her place. At this time Coordinator Romana began secret negotiations with the [[Dalek Emperor in the Last Great Time War|Dalek Emperor]] however failed to make any progress. The Agency had to stop the War Council’s [[Project Revenant]] from falling into the hands of the Daleks, destroying the facility. Agent [[Karla (Celestial Intervention)|Karla]] went rogue, seizing the facility’s power core and taking into the Matrix and abandoning Narvin there. He was rescued by Braxiatel. Karla used the power core to retrieve Rassilon's mind from the Matrix and imprint it over President [[Valerian (Celestial Intervention)|Valerian]] upon his inauguration, resurrecting [[Rassilon (Desperate Measures)|Rassilon]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Desperate Measures (audio story)|Desperate Measures}}) Romana was subsequently arrested and tried for treason for her negotiations with the Emperor, with Narvin assuming the role of Coordinator, until she was pardoned by Rassilon. The CIA subsequently investigated the arrival of a dangerous stranger in the Capitol, eventually identified as [[Trave (Celestial Intervention)|General Trave]]'s [[Trave (Havoc)|future self]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Havoc (audio story)|Havoc}})
 
The CIA and War Council launched rival interventions on Ysalus to tip the balance of the planet’s civil war to ensure the planet wouldn’t fall to the Daleks in the future. This resulted in the war escalating, forcing the CIA to put Ysalus in a time freeze to avert its devastation. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Partisans (audio story)|Partisans}}) General Helia later notified the CIA that the time freeze had been breached and a signal from a local Kynla asking for help had been received on Gallifrey. He worked with them to evacuate the planet as the War Council had decided to erase it from history to stop the Sythes delivering its minerals to the Daleks. Agent [[Eris (Havoc)|Eris]] worked with Knyla for a year to prepare the evacuation however only a few hundred were saved before the War Council erased the planet from history, with Knyla among the casualties. Romana discovered Eris had helped Knyla send a signal across time calling for a resistance against the Time Lords, which she had preserved from erasure, so helped him flee Gallifrey. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Collateral (audio story)|Collateral}})
 
During the War, the CIA helped [[Quarren Maguire|Quarren]] develop his telepathic powers to the point he was able to alter reality. He refused to be a weapon however and used his powers to erase all trace of his existence and used a [[Chameleon Arch]] to become a human. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|One Life (audio story)|One Life}})
 
CIA activities were recorded in the [[Dalek Combat Training Manual]]. A specialist team from the CIA looked into recruiting undercover operatives to infiltrate the Daleks' [[secondary command structure]]. CIA operatives were sent to destroy or disable the Daleks' [[Progenitor]] devices in order to prevent from perpetuating throughout the universe. Knowing that [[River Song]] was involved with post-war events foreseen in [[the Matrix]], the CIA restricted information regarding [[Proto-Time Lord|her species]]. Information on the background to [[the Moment]] was restricted to senior CIA operatives only ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)|Dalek Combat Training Manual}})
 
After Romana attempted to have him assassinated by the [[Sicari]], President Rassilon dissolved the CIA, with its jurisdiction and resources being redirected to the [[Interior Defence Unit]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Assassins (audio story)|Assassins}}) Both [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] and the [[Eighth Doctor]] did not believe the CIA had truly been dismantled. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Shoreditch Intervention (audio story)|The Shoreditch Intervention}})
 
During the final segment of the war, [[Rassilon]] sent a group of agents of the CIA along with [[Karlax]], who had the mission to kill the [[War Doctor]] because of his opposition to the plans of the [[High Council]]. Before they could accomplish it, the agents died when their [[Battle TARDIS]]es were all destroyed by the sudden attack of [[Dalek stealth ship]]s. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Engines of War (novel)|Engines of War}})
 
=== After the Time War ===
As recorded in the [[TARDIS Type 40 Instruction Manual]], published following the [[Timeline Error Incident]] and the [[Twelfth Doctor's regeneration]] into the [[Thirteenth Doctor]], the CIA remained active after [[Gallifrey]] escaped destruction at the end of the [[Time War]] through its [[Fall of Gallifrey|relocation]] to a [[Gallifrey's pocket universe]]. By this point, [[the Doctor's second regeneration cycle]] and [[Missy]] were recorded in the [[CIA Files]]. In reflection of the [[Cryon Incident]], Time Lords were instructed to ensure that any encounter with the [[Cyber-race]] where evidence existed that they were using [[temporal technology]] should be reported to the CIA immediately. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|TARDIS Type 40 Instruction Manual (reference book)}})
 
== Known CIA personnel ==
=== Leadership ===
[[Sentris]] was the 217th [[Coordinator]] of the CIA. Her term ended when, upon discovering how many people she had sent to the [[Oubliette of Eternity]], she threw herself into it. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Neverland (audio story)|Neverland}})
 
[[Rigan]] was Coordinator early in the Doctor's [[Seventh Doctor|seventh incarnation]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Unregenerate! (audio story)|Unregenerate!}})
 
[[Vansell]] was Coordinator ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Sirens of Time (audio story)|The Sirens of Time}}) until his death aboard the [[Time Station]] during the [[anti-time]] crisis, following which he was succeeded by [[Narvin]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Weapon of Choice (audio story)|Weapon of Choice}}, {{cs|Neverland (audio story)|Neverland}})
 
A version of [[Straxus (The Great War)|Straxus]] became Coordinator. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Death of Hope (audio story)|The Death of Hope}})
 
Lord [[Ferain]] was [[Director of Allegiance]] for the CIA. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks}})
 
[[Niroc]] was [[Lord President]] of the Time Lords after the Doctor was deposed during his long absence. The Celestial Intervention Agency removed Acting President [[Flavia]] from office and instated Niroc, a much more controllable President, in her place. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors}})
 
[[Ortan]] ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors}}) and [[Ratisbon]] ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Warmonger (novel)|Warmonger}}) were Councillors involved with the CIA.
 
[[Farina]] was Coordinator when [[the Eleven]] escaped. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Eleven (audio story)|The Eleven}})
 
Other Coordinators included [[Harom]], ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Urban Myths (audio story)|Urban Myths}}) [[Bulek]], ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Sisters of the Flame (audio story)|Sisters of the Flame}}, {{cs|The Vengeance of Morbius (audio story)|The Vengeance of Morbius}}) and [[Sardon]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|World Game (novel)|World Game}})
 
[[Romana II]] became the Coordinator after resigning from the Presidency in an attempt to stop the wars that her [[Romana III|third incarnation]] would start. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Enemy Lines (audio story)|Enemy Lines}})
 
=== Agents ===
Agents of the CIA included [[Verika]], ([[GAME]]: {{cite source|The Iytean Menace (game)}}) Commander [[Torvald]], ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|A Blind Eye (audio story)|A Blind Eye}}) [[Gandar]], [[Cavis]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon}}) [[Glospin]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow}}) [[Mortimus]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel}}) [[Serena]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|World Game (novel)|World Game}}) [[Kurst]], [[Levith]], ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Neverland (audio story)|Neverland}}) [[the Doctor]], [[the Master]], ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master}}) [[Landa]], [[Dita]], [[Shimona]] ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Eleven (audio story)|The Eleven}}) and [[Ace]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Enemy Lines (audio story)|Enemy Lines}}) [[Rowella]], who had retired from active duty by some point postdating the [[Sontaran invasion of Gallifrey]], was considered the Agency's foremost expert on [[Earth]]. ([[GAME]]: {{cite source|The Iytean Menace (game)}})
 
A set of accounts suggested that in addition to formal full-time agents, a number of CIA operatives were semi-[[Renegade Time Lord|Renegades]]. They were allowed to go about their own business in thier [[TARDIS]]es most of the time, but were required to stay available for urgent assignments at any time. Such agents included [[Rollo]], for all that he had been one of the Agency's founders in its early days, his [[companion]] [[Volusa]], ([[GAME]]: {{cite source|The Iytean Menace (game)}}) as well as [[Kelly]] ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Tabby Cats And Time Lords (short story)|Tabby Cats And Time Lords}}) and [[the Colonel]] ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|CIA File Extracts (novel)|CIA File Extracts}})
 
=== Other personnel ===
During the early days of the [[Last Great Time War]], [[Leela]] acted as the CIA's [[liaison]] with the [[War Council]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Celestial Intervention (audio story)|Celestial Intervention}})
 
== CIA assets ==
The CIA developed [[psychic paper]] technology. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|World Game (novel)|World Game}})
 
[[Space Station Zenobia]] was the property of the CIA. It was the site of the [[Sixth Doctor]]'s trial; ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors}}) it was demolished during the Sixth Doctor's last days. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Brink of Death (audio story)|The Brink of Death}})
 
The CIA possessed the [[Oubliette of Eternity]], a device which was supposed to remove people from history, but instead made them [[Neverperson|Neverpeople]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Neverland (audio story)|Neverland}})
 
The CIA possessed a [[Vortex Ops]] unit which scanned the [[Time Vortex]] for any anomalies. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Weapon of Choice (audio story)|Weapon of Choice}})
 
== Behind the scenes ==
In his notes for {{cs|The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel}}, [[Craig Hinton]] elaborated on his concept of the wider cosmology of the [[Doctor Who universe|''Doctor Who'' universe]], including the idea of the [[Great Old One]]s as the survivors of an [[earlier race of Time Lords]] from [[Great Old Ones' universe|the previous universe]]. Therein, he identifed [[Shub-Niggurath]] as having been "that universe’s equivalent of the head of the CIA".
 
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The Celestial Intervention Agency, also known as the CIA, (TV: The Deadly Assassin [+]Loading...["The Deadly Assassin (TV story)"]) the Intervention Agency, (PROSE: Lungbarrow [+]Loading...["Lungbarrow (novel)"]) or, more casually, the Agency (AUDIO: A Blind Eye [+]Loading...["A Blind Eye (audio story)"], Panacea [+]Loading...["Panacea (audio story)"]) was a secretive interventionist organization of the High Council of Time Lords that safeguarded the Web of Time. To achieve this, they often violated the non-interference policy, and therefore had to operate in secret in order to give plausible deniability.

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Their motto was "the story changes, the ending stays the same": their operatives protected the Web of Time by ensuring, by whatever means, that the net result of history remained constant, even though details might change. (AUDIO: The Kingmaker [+]Loading...["The Kingmaker (audio story)","The Kingmaker"]) Because they often violated the Time Lords' non-interference policy, they had to operate in secret so as to give plausible deniability to the High Council; (PROSE: World Game [+]Loading...["World Game (novel)","World Game"]) in truth, they ultimately took their orders from Rassilon and the other Matrix Lords, and the Lord Presidents were not aware of its existence until Pandad IV. (PROSE: The Legacy of Gallifrey [+]Loading...["The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)","The Legacy of Gallifrey"])

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There existed various conflicting accounts of the Celestial Intervention Agency and other interventionist groups' origins. (PROSE: The Legacy of Gallifrey [+]Loading...["The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)","The Legacy of Gallifrey"], The Whoniverse [+]Loading...["The Whoniverse (novel)","The Whoniverse"]) Thessalia, writing around the time of the Imperator's Presidency (quite late in the history of the Great Houses), suspected that the intervention groups were legitimising themselves by planting new mythologies into the Homeworld's noosphere through the caldera. (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)","The Book of the War"]) According to secret information found by the Spy Master in the Matrix a secretive interventionist group operating off the record was instituted in the lifetime of the Founders of Gallifrey, known as the Division. (TV: The Timeless Children [+]Loading...["The Timeless Children (TV story)","The Timeless Children"])

According to The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War"], the interventionist espionage organisations from which the Celestis would eventually arise were created much later in the Homeworld's history, as a by-product of the Imperator Presidency. Following the Imperator's downfall, the idea of intervention divided Homeworld society. While some interventionist groups like House Paradox openly renounced the Protocols of the Great Houses, others used subterfuge, manipulation, conspiracy, and assassination to gain influence and further their agenda of reshaping the Spiral Politic to suit the Homeworld's needs. (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)","The Book of the War"]) Rollo, a lifelong interventionist who was a loose contemporary of the Doctor, was credited in one account as having been one of the "original founders" of the CIA. (GAME: The Iytean Menace [+]Loading...["The Iytean Menace (game)"])

However, various accounts credited the notion that the Celestial Intervention Agency had been born early in Gallifreyan history. Some believed, by the time of Romana II's early Presidency of Gallifrey, that the CIA had grown out of Rassilon's private retinue of guards and agents. (PROSE: Lungbarrow [+]Loading...["Lungbarrow (novel)","Lungbarrow"]) A similar but distinct account stated that the CIA, to its fullest scale, was set up by Rassilon during the last century of the Eternal War to gather information on enemy movements. Agents were recruited covertly from the Academies and trained in every aspect of espionage and the gathering of data until the network of Gallifreyan spies was huge and difficult to dismantle, though Rassilon considered this "a problem for another day". (PROSE: The Multi-Faceted War [+]Loading...["The Multi-Faceted War (short story)","The Multi-Faceted War"])

According to yet another account, the nascent, secretive interventionist faction of Gallifrey was named "Celestial Intervention Agency" by Rassilon shortly after he died and was uploaded into the Matrix. Rassilon offered them the right to infringe upon the Laws of Time on occasion in exchange for acting as the Matrix Lords' executors and servants in the physical realm. (PROSE: The Legacy of Gallifrey [+]Loading...["The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)","The Legacy of Gallifrey"]) Inside the Matrix, the Matrix Lords once claimed that their council was itself the Celestial Intervention Agency. (COMIC: The Tides of Time [+]Loading...["The Tides of Time (comic story)","The Tides of Time"]) Many of the lower-ranking C.I.A. operatives were never told the truth about their undying masters, instead being led to believe they were acting on orders from the Lord President. (PROSE: The Legacy of Gallifrey [+]Loading...["The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)","The Legacy of Gallifrey"])

One history book purported that after the Minyans, a species to whom the Time Lords had made overtures offering advanced technology, destroyed their own world in a nuclear war, the Time Lord High Council issued a decree that they would adhere to a new policy of non-interference. While many readily agreed with this new policy, others did not and the Celestial Intervention Agency was formed. Its agents were deployed on the rare occasions where action was considered necessary for the preservation of Time Lord society. (PROSE: The Whoniverse [+]Loading...["The Whoniverse (novel)","The Whoniverse"])

Still another account held that the Celestial Intervention Agency was formed as a direct response to the Doctor becoming a renegade. (PROSE: The Doctor Who Technical Manual [+]Loading...["The Doctor Who Technical Manual (reference book)","The Doctor Who Technical Manual"])

The CIA's own files stated that the organisation had been created in response to the War Chief incident. (PROSE: CIA File Extracts [+]Loading...["CIA File Extracts (novel)","CIA File Extracts"])

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At any rate, the CIA became a covert arm of the High Council to safeguard the Time Lords' interests, (PROSE: Shada [+]Loading...["Shada (novelisation)","Shada"]) functioning as spies; it was said that they often "[didn't] even know which side [they were] on". (AUDIO: Mindbomb [+]Loading...["Mindbomb (audio story)","Mindbomb"]) No President before Pandad IV was aware of the CIA, but many on the High Council did, even some who were not CIA agents themselves. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus [+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)"], The Legacy of Gallifrey [+]Loading...["The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)","The Legacy of Gallifrey"])

For example, around the time of the Prydonian Academy Revolution, (PROSE: CIA File Extracts [+]Loading...["CIA File Extracts (novel)","CIA File Extracts"]) Cardinal Borusa persuaded the Celestial Intervention Agency to manufacture evidence of treason against a fellow Councillor, Magnus, whom he saw as a threat to his own position of power. Forced to flee Gallifrey in disgrace, he became a Renegade, eventually facing the Doctor as the War Chief. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus [+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)","Timewyrm: Exodus"]) The CIA's internal files showed that they were actually unsure of the nature of the future War Chief's involvement, if any, in the Revolution, and indeed their information on his later activities was similarly tentative and sparse. They believed he may have some connection to the Master. (PROSE: CIA File Extracts [+]Loading...["CIA File Extracts (novel)","CIA File Extracts"])

However, the CIA did keep tabs on another Time Lord who turned Renegade on the occasion of the Prydonian Academy Revolution: the Colonel, whose "retirement" in 20th century America on the planet Earth soon became a cover for his being a CIA spy. (PROSE: CIA File Extracts [+]Loading...["CIA File Extracts (novel)","CIA File Extracts"])

According to one account, the CIA were responsible for the time looping of the Fifth Planet of the Solar System in an attempt to destroy the Fendahl, and the resolution of the Morbius affair. Both of these operations preceeded the Doctor's involvement with the CIA. (PROSE: The Universal Databank [+]Loading...["The Universal Databank (reference book)"])

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As the CIA's prominence within Gallifrey's political circles grew, Rassilon in the Matrix decided to find a less easily trackable agent. He settled on the Doctor, a Renegade Time Lord (PROSE: The Legacy of Gallifrey [+]Loading...["The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)","The Legacy of Gallifrey"]) who had also fled from Gallifrey in the aftermath of the Prydonian Academy Revolution, (PROSE: Birth of a Renegade [+]Loading...["Birth of a Renegade (short story)","Birth of a Renegade"], CIA File Extracts [+]Loading...["CIA File Extracts (novel)","CIA File Extracts"]) and, according to some accounts, had been an agent of the Division in an earlier life. (TV: Fugitive of the Judoon [+]Loading...["Fugitive of the Judoon (TV story)","Fugitive of the Judoon"], The Timeless Children [+]Loading...["The Timeless Children (TV story)","The Timeless Children"]) The Dalek Combat Training Manual [+]Loading...["Dalek Combat Training Manual"], published during the Last Great Time War, suggested that the CIA had coerced the First Doctor into taking the Hand of Omega before he left Gallifrey, intending for it to be used against the Daleks. (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual [+]Loading...["Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)","Dalek Combat Training Manual"])

According to one account, the CIA decided to use the Doctor as their agent early on. Havnig the power to control the Doctor's TARDIS from Gallifrey, it was suggested that they had been responsible for a large number of the First and Second Doctor's unforeseen landings, in particular those that forced them to deal with issues concerning Gallifreyan security such as the Daleks, the Cybermen, the Monk, the Celestial Toymaker, the Great Intelligence and others. (PROSE: The Universal Databank [+]Loading...["The Universal Databank (reference book)"]) Indeed, Rassilon began steering the course of the Second Doctor's travels through time and space from afar, notably using him to defeat the Great Intelligence. (PROSE: The Legacy of Gallifrey [+]Loading...["The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)","The Legacy of Gallifrey"]) The Time Lord Goth kept tabs on the Doctor for the CIA, notably posing as the fictional character Lemuel Gulliver in the Land of Fiction to get close to him. (PROSE: Future Imperfect [+]Loading...["Future Imperfect (short story)","Future Imperfect"])

However, the Second Doctor eventually realised he had become a tool of powers he did not understand, and stopped responding to their mysterious summons. (PROSE: The Legacy of Gallifrey [+]Loading...["The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)","The Legacy of Gallifrey"]) The Second Doctor was soon tried by three Time Lords after he used a hypercube to call his people to resolve the War Chief incident, with the Doctor's trial following that of the War Lord. (TV: The War Games [+]Loading...["The War Games (TV story)","The War Games"]) Of these three Time Lords, Socra was secretly a CIA agent, (PROSE: The Legacy of Gallifrey [+]Loading...["The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)","The Legacy of Gallifrey"]) as was Adelphi; (PROSE: Prisoners of the Sun [+]Loading...["Prisoners of the Sun (short story)","Prisoners of the Sun"]) although the identity of the third was disputed, with some accounts claiming that he was the oblivious Lord President, (PROSE: The Three Doctors [+]Loading...["The Three Doctors (novelisation)","The Three Doctors"]) Pandad IV, (PROSE: The Legacy of Gallifrey [+]Loading...["The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)","The Legacy of Gallifrey"]) others suggested that he was Goth, another CIA man. (PROSE: Future Imperfect [+]Loading...["Future Imperfect (short story)","Future Imperfect"])

After he was tried and condemned to exile for breaking the non-interference policy, however, the CIA officially extended an offer to the Doctor to become their agent in exchange for a reduced sentence. He reluctantly agreed to go on a mission with the Time Lady Serena against the Players. (According to one account, after they completed that mission, he was assigned to go with Jamie McCrimmon at his side to Space Station Camera to persuade Dastari to discontinue Kartz and Reimer's time travel experiments; (PROSE: World Game [+]Loading...["World Game (novel)","World Game"], TV: The Two Doctors [+]Loading...["The Two Doctors (TV story)","The Two Doctors"]) according to other accounts, this mission had actually been assigned to the Doctor much earlier in his timeline, either by the Monk, in the disguise of Chapter 9 Constable Pavo, (AUDIO: The Black Hole [+]Loading...["The Black Hole (audio story)","The Black Hole"]) the CIA, (PROSE: The Universal Databank [+]Loading...["The Universal Databank (reference book)"]) or by Rassilon himself during his earlier period of manipulating the Doctor. (PROSE: The Legacy of Gallifrey [+]Loading...["The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)","The Legacy of Gallifrey"]) Yet another account suggested that after he performed any one mission for the CIA, the Second Doctor had his mind wiped and was returned to his trial, where he was offered the bargain all over again, with the CIA's demands each time limited to a single, manageable mission. (PROSE: Save Yourself [+]Loading...["Save Yourself (short story)","Save Yourself"])

Rumour had it that the Doctor had been the best agent of the CIA. (AUDIO: Intervention Earth [+]Loading...["Intervention Earth (audio story)","Intervention Earth"])

Ultimately, however, the Second Doctor was allowed to complete his regeneration into his next incarnation and began his official exile on Earth, (TV: Spearhead from Space [+]Loading...["Spearhead from Space (TV story)","Spearhead from Space"]) albeit with the CIA still watching over him. (PROSE: The Legacy of Gallifrey [+]Loading...["The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)","The Legacy of Gallifrey"]) To keep the Doctor "busy", the CIA arranged for the Master to be released from Shada, (PROSE: Prisoners of the Sun [+]Loading...["Prisoners of the Sun (short story)","Prisoners of the Sun"]) with a Time Lord messenger instead telling the Doctor that the Time Lords had failed to capture the Master at all. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons (novelisation)","Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons"]) This ploy backfired as the Master grew to be a formidable threat that even some elements within the CIA, such as Lord Melistar, acknowledged as one of the greatest dangers to Gallifrey. (PROSE: CIA File Extracts [+]Loading...["CIA File Extracts (novel)","CIA File Extracts"])

According to one account, it was the CIA whom convinced the President to bring the Three Doctors together to defeat Omega. (PROSE: The Universal Databank [+]Loading...["The Universal Databank (reference book)"], (TV: The Three Doctors [+]Loading...["The Three Doctors (TV story)"]) Later, the CIA sent the Doctor after the Master when it was discovered that the latter had acquired knowledge of the Doomsday Weapon. (PROSE: The Universal Databank [+]Loading...["The Universal Databank (reference book)"], TV: Colony in Space [+]Loading...["Colony in Space (TV story)"]) The Doctor was then used to help the planet Peladon's entry into the Galactic Federation, (PROSE: The Universal Databank [+]Loading...["The Universal Databank (reference book)"], TV: The Curse of Peladon [+]Loading...["The Curse of Peladon (TV story)"]) and to help the Solonians achieve their super-human form, possibly in an effort to bring down Earth's Empire. (PROSE: The Universal Databank [+]Loading...["The Universal Databank (reference book)"], TV: The Mutants [+]Loading...["The Mutants (TV story)"])

Some accounts suggested that the Time Lord messenger who attempted to change history through by sending the Fourth Doctor back to ancient Skaro to prevent the creation of the Daleks by Davros (TV: Genesis of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)","Genesis of the Daleks"]) was a CIA Director, either Ferain (PROSE: Lungbarrow [+]Loading...["Lungbarrow (novel)","Lungbarrow"]) or Deliavatsud. (PROSE: The Dalek Problem [+]Loading...["The Dalek Problem (novel)","The Dalek Problem"]) A third account suggested that although the messenger, Valyes, was not himself a CIA man, he had acted on behalf of Narvin, the CIA Coordinator. (AUDIO: Ascension [+]Loading...["Ascension (Gallifrey audio story)","Ascension"]) This gambit, too, backfired, as it became the first shot in the protracted Last Great Time War, (WC: Monster File: Daleks [+]Loading...["Monster File: Daleks (webcast)","Monster File: Daleks"], COMIC: Hunters of the Burning Stone [+]Loading...["Hunters of the Burning Stone (comic story)","Hunters of the Burning Stone"]) which would eventually end with the Time Lord race either dead (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Time War [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Time War (short story)","Doctor Who and the Time War"]) or cowering at the end of the universe, their power broken. (TV: Hell Bent [+]Loading...["Hell Bent (TV story)","Hell Bent"])

According to one account, the CIA also sent the Fourth Doctor to Karn to deal with the Brain of Morbius. (PROSE: The Universal Databank [+]Loading...["The Universal Databank (reference book)"], TV: The Brain of Morbius [+]Loading...["The Brain of Morbius (TV story)"])

The CIA was responsible for subtly directing the Sixth Doctor to become involved in the Cryon Incident, (PROSE: TARDIS Type 40 Instruction Manual [+]Loading...["TARDIS Type 40 Instruction Manual (reference book)"]) thwarting the plot by the Neomorph Cybermen of Telos to destroy Earth in 1985, which would have violated Established History. This came much to the Doctor's anger when he realised that the Time Lords had maneouvered him into "this mess". (TV: Attack of the Cybermen [+]Loading...["Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)"])

The CIA had another, much less mutually beneficial interaction with the Sixth Doctor when Coordinator Vansell of the CIA saw that the Doctor's actions had allowed the Nestene Consciousness to escape destruction and saw to it that a trial for him would take place on Space Station Zenobia. (PROSE: Synthespians™ [+]Loading...["Synthespians™ (novel)","Synthespians™"]) After the transportation of the Doctor's TARDIS to the space station, (TV: The Mysterious Planet [+]Loading...["The Mysterious Planet (TV story)","The Mysterious Planet"]) and the presentation of evidence, (TV: The Mysterious Planet [+]Loading...["The Mysterious Planet (TV story)","The Mysterious Planet"], Mindwarp [+]Loading...["Mindwarp (TV story)","Mindwarp"], Terror of the Vervoids [+]Loading...["Terror of the Vervoids (TV story)","Terror of the Vervoids"]) the trial concluded with the Doctor's prosecutor, the Valeyard, being exposed as the Doctor's own corrupt future self, exonerating the Doctor and causing political unrest on Gallifrey. (TV: The Ultimate Foe [+]Loading...["The Ultimate Foe (TV story)","The Ultimate Foe"]) One account suggested that the CIA, in light of their simultaneous use of multiple incarnations of the Doctor, were behind the creation of the Valeyard in an effort to prevent the Doctor from exposing the corruption of the High Council and the Ravolox Stratagem. (PROSE: The Universal Databank [+]Loading...["The Universal Databank (reference book)"])

Other projects and missions[[edit] | [edit source]]

Narvin. (AUDIO: Extermination [+]Loading...["Extermination (audio story)","Extermination"])

During their "golden age", secret interventionist groups committed more than one retro-genocide. They came to see themselves as elites among the Great Houses and gods among the lesser species. (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)","The Book of the War"])

The CIA sent a Time Lord to Jamie McCrimmon in order to correct a fluctuation in the timeline caused when Jamie tried to help King James II of England. (AUDIO: The Glorious Revolution [+]Loading...["The Glorious Revolution (audio story)","The Glorious Revolution"]) Whilst working for the CIA, Straxus attempted to erase the Master from existence by time ramming his TARDIS. However, the Master survived. (AUDIO: The Threshold [+]Loading...["The Threshold (audio story)","The Threshold"]) As a junior coordinator Narvin was dispatched on an intervention to Bellascon to halt the development of time travel there, encountering the Fourth Doctor there as well. (AUDIO: Erasure [+]Loading...["Erasure (audio story)","Erasure"]) The CIA began to fear the number of temporally active races, so they began experimenting with various temporal technologies, including TARDISes, in an attempt to plant the minds of newly-created TARDISes within the bodies of aliens on over 50 planets. Time Lady Professor Klyst oversaw this experiment. (AUDIO: Unregenerate! [+]Loading...["Unregenerate! (audio story)","Unregenerate!"])

The CIA sent a Time Lord as their agent to Apertsu to serve as a security consultant; however, he was captured by Aubertides who wanted the secret of regeneration. (PROSE: Human Nature [+]Loading...["Human Nature (novel)","Human Nature"]) After retrieving a dangerous artefact from the Tremas Master while on a routine visit to Earth, young operative Alistanathcalebiviteth was promoted to a full-time field agent. His first mission took him to "a piddling little place in the Greater Magellanic Cloud" to recover another artefact. (PROSE: Tabby Cats And Time Lords [+]Loading...["Tabby Cats And Time Lords (short story)","Tabby Cats And Time Lords"]) The CIA once had control of a TARDIS data file on the Master. (WC: Who Is The Master? [+]Loading...["Who Is The Master? (webcast)","Who Is The Master?"], PROSE: CIA File Extracts [+]Loading...["CIA File Extracts (novel)","CIA File Extracts"])

During Romana II's presidency, Gallifreyan students started to reject the Great Curriculum to study new fields and share what they had learned with other Temporal Powers. Vansell claimed that the CIA was helping in the effort. (AUDIO: Neverland [+]Loading...["Neverland (audio story)","Neverland"])

Becoming the Celestis[[edit] | [edit source]]

Lord Smoking Mirror of the Celestis. (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)","The Book of the War"])
Main article: Celestis

Around twenty years before the start of the War in Heaven, (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)","The Book of the War"]) the CIA foresaw the upcoming war between the Time Lords and the Enemy. Worried that they might be erased from history, they preemptively removed themselves from the timeline in a way that allowed them to continue existing as ideas. (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Loading...["Alien Bodies (novel)","Alien Bodies"], The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)","The Book of the War"])

The Celestis continued to hold court in the extra-dimensional realm of Mictlan, which they created using flux theory, (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)","The Book of the War"]) Block Transfer Computation, (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 [+]Loading...["The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)","The Taking of Planet 5"]) and the Matrix. (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Loading...["Alien Bodies (novel)","Alien Bodies"])

However, as ideas, the Celestis required real people to think of them in order for them to continue to exist. To achieve this, the Lords and Ladies Celestial would manifest themselves to lesser species in "god-form", performing favours like resurrection in exchange for the Mark of Indenture. (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)","The Book of the War"]) Bearers of the Mark would then serve in Mictlan eternally after their death. (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Loading...["Alien Bodies (novel)","Alien Bodies"]) The Celestis also needed physical agents to represent them and act on their behalf in the outside universe, so they created the Investigators. (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 [+]Loading...["The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)","The Taking of Planet 5"])

During the War in Heaven, the Celestis fought internally about whether to support the Time Lords or the enemy, (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Loading...["Alien Bodies (novel)","Alien Bodies"]) and individual members often interfered on behalf of one side or the other as if the whole conflict was a game. Notable Celestis involvements in the War included Lord Foaming Sky's attempted invasion of the City of the Saved; Lord Halved Birth's encounter with Vlad Tepes at the Forest of the Impaled; (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)","The Book of the War"]) Lord Dervishage's sabotage of the The Brakespeare [+]Loading...["The Brakespeare"]; (PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage [+]Loading...["The Brakespeare Voyage (novel)","The Brakespeare Voyage"]) and Trask's attempted recovery of the Relic at Qixotl's auction. (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Loading...["Alien Bodies (novel)","Alien Bodies"])

Ultimately, the Celestis were destroyed by a plot orchestrated by two of their own members, Investigator One and the hermit. A flotilla of War TARDISes sealed off and severed Mictlan from the Spiral Politic just in time for it and its inhabitants to be devoured by the Memeovore. (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 [+]Loading...["The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)","The Taking of Planet 5"])

On other Gallifreys, the CIA did not become the Celestis and remained in service to the President through the start of the War in Heaven. (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon [+]Loading...["The Shadows of Avalon (novel)","The Shadows of Avalon"], The Ancestor Cell [+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)","The Ancestor Cell"]) President Romana sent CIA agents Cavis and Gandar from her Gallifrey to find the first Type 102 TARDIS, knowing that it would be a vital piece of technology in the upcoming War. Cavis and Gandar witnessed the Remote agent Compassion complete a transition to a sentient TARDIS, but the Catuvellauni prevented them from capturing Compassion before she escaped with the Eighth Doctor. (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon [+]Loading...["The Shadows of Avalon (novel)","The Shadows of Avalon"])

During the Last Great Time War[[edit] | [edit source]]

Braxiatel changed history by preventing Romana’s second regeneration and guiding her to resign the presidency, which she did. However, she used her last act as President to name herself Coordinator of the CIA, relegating Narvin to her Deputy. (AUDIO: Enemy Lines [+]Loading...["Enemy Lines (audio story)","Enemy Lines"]) Narvin realised that a war against the Daleks would soon begin. (AUDIO: Sins of the Father [+]Loading...["Sins of the Father (audio story)","Sins of the Father"])

Prior to the outbreak of Last Great Time War, Narvin went on numerous clandestine missions to try to prevent the conflict as "Coordinator In Extremis", which Romana was actually aware of. (AUDIO: Desperate Measures [+]Loading...["Desperate Measures (audio story)","Desperate Measures"]) He recruited the Master to use the Eminence against the Daleks, however the Master went rogue. Narvin was forced to work with the Eighth Doctor to stop the Master using the Eminence to takeover Earth. (AUDIO: Eyes of the Master [+]Loading...["Eyes of the Master (audio story)","Eyes of the Master"], The Death of Hope [+]Loading...["The Death of Hope (audio story)","The Death of Hope"], The Reviled [+]Loading...["The Reviled (audio story)","The Reviled"], Masterplan [+]Loading...["Masterplan (audio story)","Masterplan"], Rule of the Eminence [+]Loading...["Rule of the Eminence (audio story)","Rule of the Eminence"]) Narvin recruited the Master again in a later incarnation to obtain swenyo for use in the construction of Time Lord battleships. He paid the Master with a Chameleon Arch and other technology. (AUDIO: Sins of the Father [+]Loading...["Sins of the Father (audio story)","Sins of the Father"])

At the start of the Last Great Time War, Romana was still Coordinator but the power of the agency in Time Lord politics was decreasing as the power of the War Council increased. After lobbying President Livia, Romana negotiated a information sharing procedure between the CIA and the War Council. By the time the Daleks attacked Phaidon the Agency still had enough power to potentially veto an asylum vote. Romana agreed to the asylum but was furious the War Council only gave support in return for complete secrecy from then on, even from the CIA. (AUDIO: Celestial Intervention [+]Loading...["Celestial Intervention (audio story)","Celestial Intervention"])

Early in the War, the CIA sponsored Lord Vibax, giving him a laboratory in the Capitol. (AUDIO: Assets of War [+]Loading...["Assets of War (audio story)","Assets of War"])

In the early stages of the War, the CIA sent Braxiatel and Ace to the Obscura, where Braxiatel destroyed a Dalek fleet at the cost of the Time Lord station in the dimensional rift and then fled the War. In the aftermath Romana ordered Narvin to bring her the Master. (AUDIO: Soldier Obscura [+]Loading...["Soldier Obscura (audio story)","Soldier Obscura"])

After the Agency detected the presence of two TARDISes on Kurnos 5, Narvin captured the War Master there, only to discover the Master had swapped bodies with the Eighth Doctor. The Doctor persuaded Narvin to let him pursue the Master in his body, (AUDIO: The Castle of Kurnos 5 [+]Loading...["The Castle of Kurnos 5 (audio story)","The Castle of Kurnos 5"]) so Narvin gave him financial backing to travel to the Lehar system. (AUDIO: The Edge of Redemption [+]Loading...["The Edge of Redemption (audio story)","The Edge of Redemption"])

After unwittingly helping the Master to obtain the Anti-Genesis codes, (AUDIO: From the Flames [+]Loading...["From the Flames (audio story)","From the Flames"]) Narvin worked with Livia to try to counter the Master’s changes to Dalek history. They were unsuccessful. (AUDIO: The Master’s Dalek Plan [+]Loading...["The Master's Dalek Plan (audio story)","The Master’s Dalek Plan"]) The Master’s Anti-Genesis scheme was later erased from history by the interference of the Dalek Time Strategist and a parallel Master. (AUDIO: He Who Wins [+]Loading...["He Who Wins (audio story)","He Who Wins"])

After the Master responded to the Agency's summons, Romana dispatched him with Leela to interrogate Finnian Valentine, a freedom fighter who had deployed a temporal weapon, to gain information on a temporal power source. They learnt it was on Arcking however the Master went rogue, throwing Leela into the Time Vortex, and went to Arcking to claim the power for himself. (AUDIO: The Devil You Know [+]Loading...["The Devil You Know (audio story)","The Devil You Know"])

Two months into the Time War, the Agency was trusted by Livia to find a way that she could resign on a constitutional technicality, unaware this was part of a plot to resurrect and install Rassilon in her place. At this time Coordinator Romana began secret negotiations with the Dalek Emperor however failed to make any progress. The Agency had to stop the War Council’s Project Revenant from falling into the hands of the Daleks, destroying the facility. Agent Karla went rogue, seizing the facility’s power core and taking into the Matrix and abandoning Narvin there. He was rescued by Braxiatel. Karla used the power core to retrieve Rassilon's mind from the Matrix and imprint it over President Valerian upon his inauguration, resurrecting Rassilon. (AUDIO: Desperate Measures [+]Loading...["Desperate Measures (audio story)","Desperate Measures"]) Romana was subsequently arrested and tried for treason for her negotiations with the Emperor, with Narvin assuming the role of Coordinator, until she was pardoned by Rassilon. The CIA subsequently investigated the arrival of a dangerous stranger in the Capitol, eventually identified as General Trave's future self. (AUDIO: Havoc [+]Loading...["Havoc (audio story)","Havoc"])

The CIA and War Council launched rival interventions on Ysalus to tip the balance of the planet’s civil war to ensure the planet wouldn’t fall to the Daleks in the future. This resulted in the war escalating, forcing the CIA to put Ysalus in a time freeze to avert its devastation. (AUDIO: Partisans [+]Loading...["Partisans (audio story)","Partisans"]) General Helia later notified the CIA that the time freeze had been breached and a signal from a local Kynla asking for help had been received on Gallifrey. He worked with them to evacuate the planet as the War Council had decided to erase it from history to stop the Sythes delivering its minerals to the Daleks. Agent Eris worked with Knyla for a year to prepare the evacuation however only a few hundred were saved before the War Council erased the planet from history, with Knyla among the casualties. Romana discovered Eris had helped Knyla send a signal across time calling for a resistance against the Time Lords, which she had preserved from erasure, so helped him flee Gallifrey. (AUDIO: Collateral [+]Loading...["Collateral (audio story)","Collateral"])

During the War, the CIA helped Quarren develop his telepathic powers to the point he was able to alter reality. He refused to be a weapon however and used his powers to erase all trace of his existence and used a Chameleon Arch to become a human. (AUDIO: One Life [+]Loading...["One Life (audio story)","One Life"])

CIA activities were recorded in the Dalek Combat Training Manual. A specialist team from the CIA looked into recruiting undercover operatives to infiltrate the Daleks' secondary command structure. CIA operatives were sent to destroy or disable the Daleks' Progenitor devices in order to prevent from perpetuating throughout the universe. Knowing that River Song was involved with post-war events foreseen in the Matrix, the CIA restricted information regarding her species. Information on the background to the Moment was restricted to senior CIA operatives only (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual [+]Loading...["Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)","Dalek Combat Training Manual"])

After Romana attempted to have him assassinated by the Sicari, President Rassilon dissolved the CIA, with its jurisdiction and resources being redirected to the Interior Defence Unit. (AUDIO: Assassins [+]Loading...["Assassins (audio story)","Assassins"]) Both Susan and the Eighth Doctor did not believe the CIA had truly been dismantled. (AUDIO: The Shoreditch Intervention [+]Loading...["The Shoreditch Intervention (audio story)","The Shoreditch Intervention"])

During the final segment of the war, Rassilon sent a group of agents of the CIA along with Karlax, who had the mission to kill the War Doctor because of his opposition to the plans of the High Council. Before they could accomplish it, the agents died when their Battle TARDISes were all destroyed by the sudden attack of Dalek stealth ships. (PROSE: Engines of War [+]Loading...["Engines of War (novel)","Engines of War"])

After the Time War[[edit] | [edit source]]

As recorded in the TARDIS Type 40 Instruction Manual, published following the Timeline Error Incident and the Twelfth Doctor's regeneration into the Thirteenth Doctor, the CIA remained active after Gallifrey escaped destruction at the end of the Time War through its relocation to a Gallifrey's pocket universe. By this point, the Doctor's second regeneration cycle and Missy were recorded in the CIA Files. In reflection of the Cryon Incident, Time Lords were instructed to ensure that any encounter with the Cyber-race where evidence existed that they were using temporal technology should be reported to the CIA immediately. (PROSE: TARDIS Type 40 Instruction Manual [+]Loading...["TARDIS Type 40 Instruction Manual (reference book)"])

Known CIA personnel[[edit] | [edit source]]

Leadership[[edit] | [edit source]]

Sentris was the 217th Coordinator of the CIA. Her term ended when, upon discovering how many people she had sent to the Oubliette of Eternity, she threw herself into it. (AUDIO: Neverland [+]Loading...["Neverland (audio story)","Neverland"])

Rigan was Coordinator early in the Doctor's seventh incarnation. (AUDIO: Unregenerate! [+]Loading...["Unregenerate! (audio story)","Unregenerate!"])

Vansell was Coordinator (AUDIO: The Sirens of Time [+]Loading...["The Sirens of Time (audio story)","The Sirens of Time"]) until his death aboard the Time Station during the anti-time crisis, following which he was succeeded by Narvin. (AUDIO: Weapon of Choice [+]Loading...["Weapon of Choice (audio story)","Weapon of Choice"], Neverland [+]Loading...["Neverland (audio story)","Neverland"])

A version of Straxus became Coordinator. (AUDIO: The Death of Hope [+]Loading...["The Death of Hope (audio story)","The Death of Hope"])

Lord Ferain was Director of Allegiance for the CIA. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)","Genesis of the Daleks"])

Niroc was Lord President of the Time Lords after the Doctor was deposed during his long absence. The Celestial Intervention Agency removed Acting President Flavia from office and instated Niroc, a much more controllable President, in her place. (PROSE: The Eight Doctors [+]Loading...["The Eight Doctors (novel)","The Eight Doctors"])

Ortan (PROSE: The Eight Doctors [+]Loading...["The Eight Doctors (novel)","The Eight Doctors"]) and Ratisbon (PROSE: Warmonger [+]Loading...["Warmonger (novel)","Warmonger"]) were Councillors involved with the CIA.

Farina was Coordinator when the Eleven escaped. (AUDIO: The Eleven [+]Loading...["The Eleven (audio story)","The Eleven"])

Other Coordinators included Harom, (AUDIO: Urban Myths [+]Loading...["Urban Myths (audio story)","Urban Myths"]) Bulek, (AUDIO: Sisters of the Flame [+]Loading...["Sisters of the Flame (audio story)","Sisters of the Flame"], The Vengeance of Morbius [+]Loading...["The Vengeance of Morbius (audio story)","The Vengeance of Morbius"]) and Sardon. (PROSE: World Game [+]Loading...["World Game (novel)","World Game"])

Romana II became the Coordinator after resigning from the Presidency in an attempt to stop the wars that her third incarnation would start. (AUDIO: Enemy Lines [+]Loading...["Enemy Lines (audio story)","Enemy Lines"])

Agents[[edit] | [edit source]]

Agents of the CIA included Verika, (GAME: The Iytean Menace [+]Loading...["The Iytean Menace (game)"]) Commander Torvald, (AUDIO: A Blind Eye [+]Loading...["A Blind Eye (audio story)","A Blind Eye"]) Gandar, Cavis, (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon [+]Loading...["The Shadows of Avalon (novel)","The Shadows of Avalon"]) Glospin, (PROSE: Lungbarrow [+]Loading...["Lungbarrow (novel)","Lungbarrow"]) Mortimus, (PROSE: The Quantum Archangel [+]Loading...["The Quantum Archangel (novel)","The Quantum Archangel"]) Serena, (PROSE: World Game [+]Loading...["World Game (novel)","World Game"]) Kurst, Levith, (AUDIO: Neverland [+]Loading...["Neverland (audio story)","Neverland"]) the Doctor, the Master, (AUDIO: Eyes of the Master [+]Loading...["Eyes of the Master (audio story)","Eyes of the Master"]) Landa, Dita, Shimona (AUDIO: The Eleven [+]Loading...["The Eleven (audio story)","The Eleven"]) and Ace. (AUDIO: Enemy Lines [+]Loading...["Enemy Lines (audio story)","Enemy Lines"]) Rowella, who had retired from active duty by some point postdating the Sontaran invasion of Gallifrey, was considered the Agency's foremost expert on Earth. (GAME: The Iytean Menace [+]Loading...["The Iytean Menace (game)"])

A set of accounts suggested that in addition to formal full-time agents, a number of CIA operatives were semi-Renegades. They were allowed to go about their own business in thier TARDISes most of the time, but were required to stay available for urgent assignments at any time. Such agents included Rollo, for all that he had been one of the Agency's founders in its early days, his companion Volusa, (GAME: The Iytean Menace [+]Loading...["The Iytean Menace (game)"]) as well as Kelly (PROSE: Tabby Cats And Time Lords [+]Loading...["Tabby Cats And Time Lords (short story)","Tabby Cats And Time Lords"]) and the Colonel (PROSE: CIA File Extracts [+]Loading...["CIA File Extracts (novel)","CIA File Extracts"])

Other personnel[[edit] | [edit source]]

During the early days of the Last Great Time War, Leela acted as the CIA's liaison with the War Council. (AUDIO: Celestial Intervention [+]Loading...["Celestial Intervention (audio story)","Celestial Intervention"])

CIA assets[[edit] | [edit source]]

The CIA developed psychic paper technology. (PROSE: World Game [+]Loading...["World Game (novel)","World Game"])

Space Station Zenobia was the property of the CIA. It was the site of the Sixth Doctor's trial; (PROSE: The Eight Doctors [+]Loading...["The Eight Doctors (novel)","The Eight Doctors"]) it was demolished during the Sixth Doctor's last days. (AUDIO: The Brink of Death [+]Loading...["The Brink of Death (audio story)","The Brink of Death"])

The CIA possessed the Oubliette of Eternity, a device which was supposed to remove people from history, but instead made them Neverpeople. (AUDIO: Neverland [+]Loading...["Neverland (audio story)","Neverland"])

The CIA possessed a Vortex Ops unit which scanned the Time Vortex for any anomalies. (AUDIO: Weapon of Choice [+]Loading...["Weapon of Choice (audio story)","Weapon of Choice"])

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In his notes for The Quantum Archangel [+]Loading...["The Quantum Archangel (novel)","The Quantum Archangel"], Craig Hinton elaborated on his concept of the wider cosmology of the Doctor Who universe, including the idea of the Great Old Ones as the survivors of an earlier race of Time Lords from the previous universe. Therein, he identifed Shub-Niggurath as having been "that universe’s equivalent of the head of the CIA".

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