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Section 31 is an officially nonexistent and uncondoned rogue agency within the Federation Starfleet that claims to operate in the name of the security of the United Federation of Planets. Little information is available about the activities of the bureau. Those sympathetic to Section 31 have asserted that it is an elite intelligence and defense bureau dealing with threats to the Federation that official departments, such as the Federation Security Service or Starfleet Intelligence, either are simply not aware of, or are unable to properly confront. More hostile sources, however, claim that it is an organization dedicated merely to its own interests, regardless of whether said interests coincide with the interests of Federation security.

In the 22nd century, an ancestral organization within the United Earth Starfleet acted covertly in the interests of United Earth. Section 31's actions are autonomous and not controlled by Starfleet Command or the Federation government.

As a rogue agency, Section 31 seems to lack an official name. It is most commonly known as "Section 31," though several agents have indicated that this is not its true name; others have referred to it simply as the Organization or as the Bureau. It is also known colloquially as "Thirty-One." Its true name, if any, is unknown. The name "Section 31" was first coined by United Earth Starfleet Commander Charles Tucker III in 2155 when the Bureau recruited him for a mission in Romulan space.

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