International Contract Agency
The International Contract Agency is an agency that features in Hitman.
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History
The International Contract Agency (ICA) or the Agency
Many ICA agents were killed by members of the Franchise, to the point where Diana says she and 47 are all that's left. The ICA's last hit is placed on corrupt CIA agent Anthony Martinez and grey market arms dealer Vaana Ketlyn, and Diana splits the remaining funds between herself and 47. However, once the Franchise is eliminated, Diana states that all the assets are back online.
A secret ICA division led by Benjamin Travis secretly created a clone assassin of their own, a young girl named Victoria. When Diana learned of this, she flushed all ICA accounts, cut off all communication, and made the ICA publicly known. She then fled with Victoria and went into hiding. The ICA was reformed and a hit was ordered on Diana at her mansion near Chicago. However, once 47 shoots her and does not return Victoria, the ICA sent their forces after him. Later, "The Saints" (an elite all-female assassin team that Benjamin Travis formed) and numerous ICA soldiers attack the Waikiki Inn. Here the ICA is shown as ruthless, firing an RPG into the motel, and executing all of the witnesses. However 47 eliminated all members of the team. Later, the ICA besiege the town of Hope while searching for 47, in a plan named "Operation Sledgehammer". It is suggested that several civilians are killed as there is gunfire heard in the Hope fair; the ICA also causes an Ultra Ozone gasoline tanker to crash, setting fire to a large section of Hope. The third time the ICA appears is at the Burnwood family crypt in Cornwall, England; Travis used them to dig up Burnwood's crypt and used another team, the Praetorians, to protect himself. Nonetheless, 47 eliminates them both. In Hitman: Absolution's ending, Diana welcomes Agent 47 back, suggesting the ICA has rehired them both.
Overview
A clandestine organization providing assassination and mercenary services, the Agency was well-funded and its reach was worldwide. Credited assassinations have taken place in the Americas, the Pacific Rim, and Eurasia with it rumored to hold a presence on the other continents as well. No proof or trace of the Agency has ever been documented. Its targets are usually high-profile, heavily guarded individuals untouchable by any other means. Although politically neutral and ethically amoral, the Agency prefers the higher profits that come from global stability, and thus they often work for status quo nations against criminal organizations and terrorist networks. However they still primarily render its service to the highest bidder, eliminating established politicians and generals, given the right amount of currency.
It operated an independent cell structure, where the leaders in the inner circle never have any contact with their hirelings. The Agency made use of 'controllers' as go-betweens with its agents. These contractors then provide its freelance operatives, with electronic correspondence and mission briefings. Contractors also sell intelligence briefings on the subjects of missions to their agents for the fee of USD 1,500 per file. In the first game weapons had to be purchased from the Agency themselves (probably taking into account difficulties in moving firearms), whereas in the following games the player selected from a choice of which weapons they had so far collected which they wished to bring with them on the mission. In Hitman: Blood Money, the Agency would (for a fee) retrieve any of the five "custom" weapons the player had left behind in a mission, as much for continuity's sake as anything else.
Codes were used on transferred documents to instruct the agent in how to handle the messenger. This is shown in Hitman: Blood Money where "Code Red" written on a package delivered to 47 indicated that he had to eliminate the courier.
The slogan of the Agency was Merces Letifer which translated to mean Lethal Trade.
Members
- Aristotle Thorakis :
- Erich Soders :
- Angus Pritchard :
- Benjamin Travis :
- Diana Burnwood :
- Dolores Powell :
- Agent 47 :
- Max Valliant :
Notes
- The International Contract Agency featured in the setting of the Hitman universe.
In other media
Films
- In Hitman, the agency came to be referred to as the Organization in the setting of the 2007 live-action film. Like the Agency in the video games, the Organization benefits from ties to various government agencies, is neutral in global affairs and morality, and performs missions all over the world. Unlike the game, where the hitmen are contracted from a range of backgrounds, the Organization instead recruits orphans and trains them from an early age. When 47 ties FSB agent Yuri Marklov to a bathtub, and a clock ticks in a laptop, the name of the ICA is clearly visible in the laptop, confirming that 47's employers are the same organization as in the video games.
Appearances
- Hitman:
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