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S.H.I.E.L.D.

S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) is an international peacekeeping, law enforcement, and counter-terrorism agency sanctioned by the United Nations. They are led by a director who reports to the World Security Council made up of members from various nations. Founded to combat technologically advanced threats on world security (specifically the menace of Hydra), they remained throughout the years on the front lines, fighting terrorism, supernatural threats and extraterrestrial menaces as an international intelligence agency.

Sponsored by the U.S. Government and the United Nations was then formed as Supreme Headquarters, International Espionage, Law-enforcement Division, abbreviated S.H.I.E.L.D., although C.I.A. agent Colonel Rick Stoner was ultimately selected as the agency's first Executive Director. S.H.I.E.L.D. first concentrated itself to counter the menace of Hydra, a secret terrorist organization led by former Nazi officer Baron Wolfgang von Strucker.