UNIT website

The UNIT website is the official website of the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce. It contains pages on the history of the organisation, in which it is mentioned that the founding event of UNIT's history was the 1968 London Underground Incident, details of press releases, publications and conferences.

There are also two secure areas on the site, password-protected, one originally being "bison" but later changed to "badwolf", containing non-interactive UNIT forum threads about various events up to the Sycorax invasion of Earth in 2006. The other secure section allows for remote flying of missiles, with the password "buffalo".

The secure areas became inactive after March 2009 but came back in 2011.

Secure Login
The Ops Board section includes operational reports during and after the events of Rose, Aliens of London/World War Three, and The Christmas Invasion, as well as references to Dalek and Father's Day. The central figures include Major Jenny Maguire, taciturn commanding officer and someone with a past with the Doctor (he annoys her), and Staff Sergeant Annie Frederick who handles press relations.


 * Operation Mannequin (Rose) reveals there was disruption of communications during the Nestene's move (speculated to be protecting itself from radio wave attacks) and that as few cameras were working, little footage was taken of the Autons. Four hundred thirty people died and nearly a thousand were injured. UNIT's cover story was that there was a gas explosion and that due to faulty plastic, some shop dummies contorted in heat and were believed to "move" (Frederick admits few people will swallow this); to provide disinformation, secret operatives bombarded radio stations with obviously fake stories of talking dummies and waxworks attacking (and others claiming they saw nothing)


 * London Contact (Aliens of London) had UNIT irritated by the government's "useless" response, as if they didn't want to contain the situation; they sent one of their expert EVA teams from Geneva to "show willing". When the Doctor arrived, Maguire and Frederick were annoyed. Aftermath of Number Ten (World War Three) showed UNIT shellshocked by the loss of their team and the scale of the Slitheen attack, and Maguire called in for a meeting at the temporary offices of the PM in Westminster. Maguire referred to Harriet Jones as "the acting PM’s some woman I’ve never heard of with my mother’s hair-do".


 * Briefing: Rose Tyler reveals that UNIT were aware Rose was the current companion and had compiled a dossier on her. As a result, they discovered Mickey Smith's www.whoisdoctorwho.co.uk website and were distraught and surprised to discover how much he knew; their security codes were quickly changed. Sgt Catherine Petts, dossier compiler, reported Pete Tyler's death "appear[s] to be A Temporal Event. I’ve had a look through, and it even appears fleetingly on our files (1987/11-Be3a)", indicating UNIT has seen Reaper attacks before.


 * Guinevere One (The Christmas Invasion) introduces Major Blake as UNIT react to the missing satellite and the Sycorax debate, with Blake snarking that he bets Jones will use it as an excuse to visit Tower Ops. Project Rooftop has the aftermath: mass looting had broken out because of the shattered windows but was brought down by the police; UNIT deactivated Blackberry devices across the UK while they tried to get their press statement straight, made worse by only inexperienced junior staff being present at Fleet Street during the holidays; there was a decision to continue covering up UNIT's previous forty years and act like the Sycorax were a surprise. Jones ordered that UNIT claim the ship blew up of its own accord and not to mention Torchwood's laser weapon, while UNIT wondered what it was. Jones also requested to speak at Major Blake's funeral.

Behind the scenes
The website dates the London Underground Incident as having happened in 1968. This would give credence to the theory that the Second Doctor's earlier and later adventures with UNIT occured in the late 1960s through to the early to mid 1970s, rather than at later dates. However, this statement completely ignores the dialogue of The Web of Fear, which firmly places the serial in at least the 1970s.