CI5 is an international intelligence agency.
This highly effective organization fights criminals, cartels, and terror groups out to cause mayhem around the world. It is the progeny of an earlier incarnation with , formed back in the late 70s by George Cowley to combat 'anarchy, acts of terror, crimes against the public'. It has since developed, as one promotional blurb put it, "into an international force with operatives hired from around the world by the 1990s. With connections to the FBI, CIA and other law-enforcement agencies, CI5 operates outside borders with a group of specialists under a similar brief". We learn in time that CI5 was "jointly funded by the governments of the UK, U.S.A., Japan, Germany and France".
In the worlds of the current leader, Harry Malone, "Nothing happens in New York or Nagasaki. Peking or St. Peterburg, that does not have repercussions, which is why we have agents in all of these places. Like the crime we fight, we are now international." In the opening episode of the recorded adventures, an FBI agent describes CI5 to a novice saying only "they're the best".
We do not learn much information about the major players in CI5. Especially enigmatic in his own way is Malone. Likely in his mid-60s when we meet him, a time many would be considering retirement, Malone is the epitome of someone too darned busy to be able to retire - and too darned cantankerous to even consider the possibility. He is prone to shouting or growling his disapproval of errors by his people and they are on his good side. Those not under his command are perpetually being treated to his acerbic wit and caustic criticism. But those close to him know there is nothing he wouldn't do to keep them as safe as the kind of work they signed up to do would allow.
As Malone told us, there are many agents and analysts and technicians for CI5 all over the globe. We will be allowed to see a few of them here and there for brief moments in the limelight but largely it is a trio of operatives close to Malone that we are allowed to follow.
Two of these comprise a relatively new partnership between Chris Keel, American, briefly described by his cohort as 'gung-ho and all glory, Mr. Top Gun', and Sam Curtis. British, who modestly describes himself to be "cool [and] reliable". Both of these men are quite good looking and physically in terrific shape. They are both white, in their early 30s, and having the times of their lives by constantly putting themselves at risk. Keel is a former Navy SEAL and Curtis came to CI5 from another British intelligence organization (likely MI6).
The third is Tina Backus [I swear Keel and Curtis use a nickname of 'Backup' for her], a beautiful woman with short dark hair who comes to CI5 by way of the Canadian Secret Service. While she does not get nearly as action time as her colleagues in the field, when she does she clearly shows she is an expert in several martial arts. She is also a whiz at computers and can work solo undercover when needed.