Celestial Intervention Agency
Celestial Intervention Agency or CIA was a secretive Gallifreyan organisation dedicated to selectively breaking the non-interference policy of the Time Lords.
History
Origins and nature
The CIA were a group created to be a covert arm of the High Council to safeguard the Time Lords' interests. (DW: 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).
CIA's involvement with the Doctor
The CIA initially employed 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)
Though this remains speculative, it seems very possible that the CIA sent the Doctor to Uxarieus to prevent the Master from obtaining the Doomsday Weapon. (DW: Colony in Space), to 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)
It was a Time Lord by the name of Lord Ferain who appeared to the Doctor to send him on a mission to Skaro to avert the creation of the Daleks. (NA: Lungbarrow)
- This action would, incidentally, in retrospect, count as the first pre-emptive salvo of the Last Great Time War.
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 Dr. Mehendri Solon (DW: The Brain of Morbius).
- Possibly, the Sisterhood of Karn itself had brought the Doctor to Karn.
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)
Other projects and missions
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. (NA: Human Nature)
The CIA began to fear the number of temporally active races, so they began experimenting with various temporal technologies, including the TARDISes, 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!)
The CIA and The War
President Romana sent CIA agents Gandarotethetledrax and 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 Remote agent Compassion complete a transition to a sentient TARDIS. They were halted by the people of the Catuvalani. 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)
CIA involvement on Gallifrey (and its affairs)
to be added (BFG: Gallifrey (audio series))
Leadership
- 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 presidency until he encountered the Neverpeople. (BFA: Neverland)
- Coordinator Narvin took over as head of the CIA following Vansell's death aboard the time station.
Known CIA Personnel
- Coordinator Centris
- Coordinator Vansell
- Coordinator Narvin
- Director of Allegiance Ferain
- The Voice of the Agency
- President Niroc
- Councillor Saran
- Councillor Ortan
- Councillor Ratisbon
- Almoner Crest Yeux
- Commander Torvald
- Gandar
- Cavis
- Glospin
- Mortimus (The Monk)
- The Doctor (reluctantly)
CIA Assets
- The CIA originally developed psychic paper technology. (PDA: World Game)
- Space Station Zenobia (the location of the the Doctor's trial) was the property of the CIA. (EDA: The Eight Doctors)
- The Oubliette of Eternity a device which was supposed to remove people from history, but instead made them Neverpeople. (BFA: Neverland)
- They possessed a Vortex Ops unit which scanned the Time Vortex for any anomalies. (BFA: Weapon of Choice)
