AMIB

The Alien & Metaphysical Investigation Bureau, better known as the "American Men in Black" or AMIB is a secret organzation created some time ago to investigate sightings of "weres" and alien craft & beings. Unlike the CIA in "Tom Clancy" novels, the men and their actions described so far have been cold and ruthless. They have killed and detained a number of citizens whom they felt knew too much. This includes people who found themselves the result of genetic experiments with alien technology. They have authority over the FBI and police, much to the resentment of the latter two, and have forcefully shut down black-budget projects involving secret alien tech, such as "Project America." It has been suggested they may bribe into silence those they feel are a lesser risk.

Any Cyantian they come across will be shot. As a scene in "No Angel" showed the characters on Earth coming across a group of Cyantian Kyoti who threatened them, there have invariably been other unpleasant incidents between humans and hostile Cyantians, which may be partly responsible for the AMIB's ruthlessness.

Other major nations also have their own secret orginizations looking into reports of aliens and weres (those too poor probably end up with another country's agents in their territory). Not all are as cold as the AMIB, but they do cooperate and there is an understanding any one that is seen as too soft on covering things up in it's territory, others will.