International Security Alliance

ISA is an initialism for International Security Alliance, an intelligence agency.

Background
A highly secretive organization, its agents have been operating in the town of Windenburg at least since the early 1980s, when the Russian-based black ops group, KGO-12, was discovered by the US Government. The ISA is a sort of combination of a law enforcement organization, such as the FBI, DEA, or Interpol, and a spy agency, such as the CIA or Britain's MI-6. In more recent years the agency has in fact been identified more specifically as a branch of the U.S. government. The agency's mandate does appear to be law enforcement, with a specialty in the sort of high-level, international organized crime.

The estimated annual budget for the ISA is $29.5 billion.

History
In 1966 the CIA found evidence that the Russian Government were creating an agency with the sole target of killing US CIA Agents. Frank Dwyer led the creation of the (at the time) super secret organisation. The strongest CIA and FBI agents were taken out of active duty and placed in a facility in Washington DC where they were rigorously trained for 48 months before being ready to start missions. The first mission was for ISA agents to infiltrate KGO-12's base to gain intel. It was successful for a while, until then head Demis Astrok discovered the plan and neutralised (killed) anyone he deemed a traitor. To this day, it's not known if there are ISA-12 Agents in KGO-12.

Bjorn Bjergsen, Natasha-as-Clara and Alina
The real Clara was born to KGO-12 parents as Alina Romanov and had an older twin sister, Natasha Romanov in Russia; both her parents were working against the United States as part of KGO-12. While Alina preferred to focus on studies, Natasha followed her parents’ footsteps and went through the organisation’s recruitment process and was provided with a new American identity, (Helena Wethers) and developed an American accent which she has never dropped.

Natasha decided to brainwash Alina into thinking she was Clara Sunlitt, a lawyer working her way up. Alina, now Clara, met Bjorn shortly after she came to the US and they quickly fell in love. Knowing that Bjorn worked for the WSB, Natasha was on a mission to obtain certain documents for KGO12 and would frequently drug her sister and take her place, but after the mission was completed, her commander ordered her to stick with Bjorn as he is an undercover WSB agent. Natasha managed to keep her ruse going for years, secretly obtaining information to send to KGO12, but 20 years ago they asked her to obtain documents detailing the key ingredients of a drug known as F87 which was created by the WSB and mimics death for up to one week, but it needs a reversal drug known as ‘Athoxazon’ to wake the recipients up

On that fateful day 20 years ago when flight ATL-7823X went down, Bjorn saw Natasha-as-Clara looking through his files and speaking Russian, before quickly realising her ties to KGO12 and slowly put a plan in motion to have her kidnapped after the triplets’ party (in order to arouse suspicion). Natasha-as-Clara had developed a sudden attachment to her great-niece Sienna Durant as they had bonded over the last few weeks she had taken Alina’s place; in the heat of the moment, she abducted her after stealing Bjorn’s confidential files and managed to escape before Bjorn could put his plan in motion.

Bjorn realised Natasha-as-Clara was heading to the airport and his boss ordered a young Nathan West (who grew to be Elsa Bjergsen’s future husband) to shoot down the plane as part of a military operation named Operation Republic and to make it seem like Clara was on the plane. Natasha-as-Clara never got on the plane and seemingly disappeared with Sienna. Natasha decided to send the Real Clara (Alina) to a medical facility in Berlin. The world now believes Clara is dead along with Sienna, but in reality, Natasha-as-Clara managed to get to a very small town in New Zealand and made a life for her and her now daughter, knowing Bjorn would have her killed if she stepped foot on US soil. Sienna’s name was changed to Nadia Lane. Bjorn was unable to find any information on Natasha (and doesn’t know about Alina’s existence), so still believes her name is Clara.

Present & Former ISA Agents
(present), (former)


 * Bjorn Bjergsen (vice Director of US HQ)
 * Kay Armstrong (in training in Washington)
 * Clarissa West (in training in Washington)
 * (FUTURE) Billie Reed (long lost daughter of Kate Roberts

ISA-Owned Buildings/Properties

 * ISA USA HQ - Washington D.C.
 * ISA UK HQ - Dover, England