The Blackdoor Group

The Blackdoor Group is a clandestine agency within the CIA that operates autonomously from any central command chain at the highest level of national secrecy.  The group was created almost 70 years ago at the end of World War II to defend and protect American interests both domestically and abroad against threats outside the scope of traditional law enforcement.  Twenty Groups, or ‘Doors’ were established.  Each Door was originally given a specific area of expertise on which to focus such as surveillance, infiltration, assassination, medical research etc...  But because of the group’s secretive nature, only the President, Harry S Truman and the Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes were aware of its creation.  In order to escape any Congressional oversight after the initial funding of the initiative, Blackdoor was expected to fund itself through its own ‘initiatives’ using whatever means necessary.

Most of what is known about Blackdoor today has been gleaned through rumor and hearsay.   One report states that as time went on, the specific directives of the groups became diluted and the purvey of one Door frequently overlapped with the jurisdiction of another Door.  The actual name ‘Blackdoor’ originates from the central hallway deep within the Langley, Virginia headquarters that features 20 sets of black doors behind which each of the different groups maintains its headquarters.  It is said that each Door is unaware of the activities or nature of the operations conducted by any of the other Doors.

The one area in which all Doors within Blackdoor had traditionally cooperated was within Acheron, the off-site group headquarters located within an abandoned nuclear testing site deep below Baker Island in the Central Pacific.  Acheron traditionally served a research and development platform for each Door to conduct work that would have been illegal or unethical on U.S. ground.  While still maintaining the secrecy of their individual directives, each Door shared common resources (satellite intel, supercomputer mainframe access, intercepted telecommunications data, etc…).  Acheron was, in short, a place to put aside differences and use the incredible technology at their disposal towards a greater common good.

The Blackdoor Group falls within Plausible Deniability Patriot Act established in secret in March 1949.  The Act stipulates that each incoming President is not made aware of the Blackdoor Group unless a specific formal request is made the Central Intelligence Agency’s chief director to verify its existence.  Only the chief director is fully aware of Blackdoor existence and even he or she does not possess the power to dissolve any of the Doors.  Only by a 19-vote super majority by the other Doors can a single Door by eliminated.  This is done by each Door entering a special code within Acheron that will remotely lock and shut down the physical door within the Blackdoor Hallway.  All associated computer files are destroyed remotely as well.