Nearly every nation has at least one intelligence-gathering agency to keep tabs on its neighbours. Keeping track of all these organizations is a difficult task even for secret agents. Real-life spy agencies are, of course, an important part of the TOP SECRET game — but the game world also has a few other organizations with which player character agents should be familiar. These groups may serve as agencies for player character agents or as deadly foes to be fought across the world.

The TOP SECRET game world is very much like our own, with a few subtle (and not-so-subtle) differences. Most of the same nations exist on the map, and most of the same espionage organizations operate across the globe. In DRAGON issue 93, some of the spy organizations unique to the TOP SECRET world were described for use in campaign games. But what of the real agencies, such as the CIA, the KGB, and the British Secret Service?

This is the second in a series of articles presenting the TOP SECRET game world’s intelligence community. Last month, the American spy agencies were detailed. This month’s edition includes data on allied foreign intelligence-gathering agencies and important international organizations. Note that, though these agencies exist in the real world, they are given here only as constructs for the TOP SECRET game world. Some of the statistics given for these agencies are reasonably accurate and are taken from publicly available information, but some of the statistics were invented for the sake of completeness or were altered to conform to the specific background and nature of the TOP SECRET game world.

This is the last in a series of articles presenting the TOP SECRET game world’s intelligence community. DRAGON issue 93 described the game’s fictitious spy agencies; issues 97 and 98 gave information on the American and allied foreign espionage organizations, respectively. This month’s edition presents the Communist spy organizations (including the infamous KGB). It also gives a little more information on agencies described earlier, new agencies, and spy agencies in general.

A simple, but useful, character generator for Top Secret.

The following are the new (and hopefully) improved tables for determining PWV

A simple program for creating NPCs.

A listing of NPCs from the vast majority of Top Secret adventures.