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Three-letter Agencies

Three Letter Agencies are a general category of "spook" agencies, which defend America, but generally act mysteriously. A knock on the door at any hour from any of them should make you want to run for the back door or jump out the nearest window, except it won't help since they're already watching it.

Some are likely to make you disappear. Some may just want to question you. Some, you'll never know about, but they're already watching you. It doesn't matter that you may not have heard of some of them, they already know who you are, who you've dated, and what you ate for breakfast.

ATF - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

CIA - Central Intelligence Agency
DEA - Drug Enforcement Agency
DHS - Department of Homeland Security
DIA - Defense Intelligence Agency
DOD - Department of Defense
DOE - Department of Energy (yes, them too)
FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation
INR - Bureau of Intelligence and Research
ISR - Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency
NRO - National Reconnaissance Office
NGA - National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
NSA - National Security Agency
ONI - Office of Naval Intelligence
TFI - Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence

USSS (United States Secret Service) falls into this category, even though it has 4 letter in its acronym.
{Phone Rings}

Friend 1) Hey, how's it going

Friend 2) Ok, but there's a black van parked in front of my

house. I think it's a three-letter agency and {static}{click}

Friend 1) Hello? Hello? What would one of the three-letter agencies want with you?

Friend 2 is never heard from again.
by JWSmythe June 4, 2009
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A score of g for the rating agencies who rate countries, banks,
business for their ability to predict debt defaulters.

And who got it wrong.
That is one of the grating agencies that are telling my country we rate
a c - .

Is that rite?
Yeah, whos rating them!
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Three-letter Agencies

The federal agencies comprised of three letters.
Usually refers to the ATF (bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms), CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), DOE (Department of Energy), FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigations), IRS (Internal Revenue Service) and NSA (National Security Agency)
by Larstait November 6, 2003
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agenty

Being a person or organization that takes logical action to achieve goals. Or, approaching an ideal game-theoretic agent.
"is the US government, like, agenty?"
"when is it ever..."
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Swag.Agenty is linked to Swaggy_Agent. He is a rapper that's plot takes place in Roblox.
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He is a digitally born creative agency, here to save the world from boring advertising. He specialised in researching consumer behaviour, tracking trends, analyzing performance and connecting the dots between data and the gut.
You are an agencywaale if you are focused on ROI.
Agencywaale helps in connecting creativity across the entire brand experience.
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the best person ever… duh.
Agentcyber is a very talented artist, and he is known for being awesome.
Agentcyber is the best. periodt.
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