Time Agency

The Time Agency was an organisation that originated around the 49th century and was shut down some time after the 52nd century. (TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang) The Agency employed humans called Time Agents. The Agents used wrist straps which enabled them to travel through time for missions of an unspecified nature.

One account stated that, "The Agents’ purpose is to change without interfering, to leave an effect with no evidence of cause. To be untraceable, undetectable, invisible. To all intents and purposes, the Agents do not exist." (PROSE: Sometime Never...)

History
The Time Agency was set up at some point after the 42nd century, as the Agency set up time treaties back in time up to the 42nd Century. (AUDIO: The Time Machine)

A group known as the Time Agents were used by the Council of Eight to manipulate history and remove "Rogue Elements." (PROSE: Sometime Never...)

Magnus Greel, a war criminal from the 51st century, lived in fear of Time Agents, initially suspecting the Fourth Doctor of being one until Li H'sen Chang mentioned the Doctor had asked questions. "A Time Agent wouldn't have asked questions!" exclaimed Greel. "A Time Agent would know." (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)

Kala and Jode were Time Agents sent from the 49th century to recover a weapon sent back in time to 1933. (PROSE: Eater of Wasps, Trading Futures)

Sabbath recruited several Time Agents into his crew, including Roja and Jaxa. (PROSE: Trading Futures)

Adam Mitchell sent a distress signal through time using Cyberman technology. Neal Shaw was sent to investigate the signal, but was frozen in time by Mitchell. The Eleventh Doctor freed Shaw, and Shaw returned to duty after giving the Doctor a way to track his vortex manipulator through time. (COMIC: Prisoners of Time)

Jack Harkness, a member of the Time Agency, was from the Boeshane Peninsula. This was a matter of great pride to the other citizens of the Peninsula. (TV: Last of the Time Lords) As an Agent, he worked with John Hart, also known as "Captain John". (TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang) After the Agency wiped two years of his memory for unknown reasons, he left the Agency and struck out on his own as a con man and freebooter. (TV: The Doctor Dances)

At the time Hart caught up with Jack again, Hart stated that the Agency had only seven Agents left and had subsequently been disbanded. (TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang)

In 5145, River Song acquired a vortex manipulator from the black market that was "fresh off the wrist of a handsome Time Agent". The wrist-strap was presented on the wrist, a reference to Jack Harkness, John Hart, or another unnamed Time Agent. The vortex manipulator ended up proving vital to saving the universe and was used by River and the Eleventh Doctor. (TV: The Pandorica Opens, The Big Bang)

Known former agents

 * Sabbath (PROSE: Sometime Never...)
 * Roja (PROSE: Trading Futures)
 * Jaxa (PROSE: Trading Futures)
 * Kala (PROSE: Eater of Wasps, Trading Futures)
 * Agent Six-Four (PROSE: Sometime Never...)
 * Captain Jack Harkness
 * Captain John Hart
 * Five other members after the Agency disbanded. (TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang)
 * Jode (PROSE: Eater of Wasps, Trading Futures)
 * The owner of a stolen Vortex Manipulator (TV: The Family of Blood)
 * A now wrist-less agent, possibly killed. (TV: The Pandorica Opens)
 * Neal Shaw was sent to investigate a signal sent through time by Adam Mitchell. (COMIC: Prisoners of Time)
 * Guy Taylor. (AUDIO: The Time Machine)

Other information

 * The 51st century war criminal Magnus Greel erroneously believed that after he had fled to Victorian London in his "time cabinet", a Time Agent (in the form of the Fourth Doctor) had pursued him. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang, AUDIO: The Butcher of Brisbane)
 * The Family of Blood once stole a Time Agent vortex manipulator. (TV: Human Nature)
 * Jack stated that the Time Agency had a large war fleet. (PROSE: The Stealers of Dreams)
 * The Time Agency and Hokrala Corp were both involved in the sinking of Atlantis. The event was considered a failure for the Time Agency. (PROSE: The Undertaker's Gift)
 * The Agency used time capsules before the invention of the Vortex Manipulator. (AUDIO: The Time Machine)

Behind the scenes

 * Time Agents make an appearance in the Decide Your Destiny book, The Time Crocodile, where they are shown to have the authority to arrest people. Because the book has no definite storyline — readers determine the story's outcome — it is hard to say with absolute certainty that the event occurred.