• Operation Services: The technicians and support personnel. They are responsible for the maintenence and distribution of resources. They maintain the support facilities, repair equipment, and distribute equipment to agents in the field. They are recruited from other government agencies, technical colleges, and occaisionally from small-time criminal operations. Most of these agents are 1st to 3rd level and have 50-80 CPs. They usually carry a communicator watch and a pistol.
• Development Services: Research scientists in the employ of the bureau, they develop most of the prototypes and production equiptment in use by Field Services. They are recruited using methods similar to those used for Operation Services. These personnel are normally level 3-7, and may have anywhere from 60-150 CPs. They may carry any type of equiptment, and most carry some sort of personal invention.
• Field Services: These are the standard field operatives. They are a mix of skilled humans, and super-powered beings (generally with mystical origins). Agents may be organized in permanent or temporary teams, or may work alone. They have the job of investigating reports of paranormal activity, collecting information on various phenomena, and sometimes doing battle with it. These agents are recruited from other government agencies, super-human groups (both criminal and legal), mental institutions, and during field investigations. Field Services agents are anywhere up to 12th level, and up to 200 CPs. They can carry any type of equipment, including many experimental prototypes engineered by Development Services, and almost always carry a communicator watch.
• Administrative Services: This includes any non-technical personnel permanently assigned to a base or support facility. Security personnel are usually former military or Secret Service, are level 3-5 and 70-140 CPs. Administrators are usually level 1-5 (many are former Field Services agents), and 50-150 cps. The administrators assign missions to field agents and dispatch Operation Services as necessary to supply agents in the field. Administrative Services personnel always carry a communicator watch, security personnel also carry 1 or more weapon depending on what type of facility they are guarding.

In late 1937 Project Raven became another Bureau of the Department of Defense called the Bureau of Paranormal Investigation. Franklin Roosevelt empowered the bureau to work on projects to counter Hitler's own experiments into the occult. Although the bureau was responsible for many important missions during this time - much of its work remains classified to this day and can not be revealed to the public.

The bureau came under attack in the early 1950's by J. Edgar Hoover, but he relented mysteriously after a visit to their headquarters in Washington D.C.. The bureau is known to have experimented with Psychoactive drugs and their effect on psychic powers in the 60's. Shortly afterward, the bureau formed its Psychic Services division.

From 1968 to 1976 the bureau's Psychic Services division provided psychic support from remote sites to agents in the field. However, in 1976 the division suffered a major blow and closed down. During the course of a mission the entire Psychic Services force suffered massive psychic feedback resulting in the deaths of half the division and permanent brain damage to another quarter of it. As a result the division was closed and the remaining personnel were absorbed into other divisions. There have been no moves to reopen the division since.

The main purpose of the bureau is the investigation of paranormal phenomena and its effect on the security of the United States. In reality they are often also forced to act on the data they retrieve in a timely manner. They research paranormal phenomena, including ways to harness and combat it. And are often the first line of defense against paranormal defense.

This organization was loosely inspired by the following:

• Tritac Systems' Bureau 13 RPG
• The Bureau 13 series of books based on the above by Nick Polotta
• Mike Mignola's Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense from the Hellboy comic
• Marvel Comics' Weird Happenings Organization
• The Ghostbusters (can't remember who owns them)