The Alliance of Twelve, with SD-6 being one of its subsidiary cells, is a fictional international organized crime group in the television series Alias. It is an organization involved in the trade of intelligence and weapons. The organization was founded by Alain Christophe, once a CIA counterintelligence officer, as well as other former agents of various other intelligence agencies and wealthy individuals investing in the spy trade after the Cold War. A covert cell structure is a method for organizing undercover or unconventional fighters against a large and well-established organization. ... An illustration from Lewis Carrolls Alices Adventures in Wonderland, depicting the fictional protagonist, Alice, playing a fantastical game of croquet. ... Organized crime or criminal organizations are groups or operations run by criminals, most commonly for the purpose of generating a monetary profit. ... Television series redirects here. ... Alias is an American Spy-fi television series created by J. J. Abrams which was broadcast on ABC from September 30, 2001 to May 22, 2006, spanning five seasons. ... Military intelligence (abbreviated MI, int [Commonwealth], or intel [U.S.]), is a military discipline that focuses on information gathering, analysis, and dissemination about enemy units, terrain, and the weather in an area of operations. ... Counterintelligence or counter-espionage is the act of seeking and indentifying espionage activities. ...

Organizational structure

The Alliance is divided into 12 sections, named SD-1 through SD-12. "SD" stands for Section Disparue — literally, the section which has disappeared in French (Sydney translates it as "the section that doesn't exist" in the episode Q&A). These organizational cells are spread all over the world; some known locations of SD cells are Berlin (SD-1),[[Paris, France|Paris] (SD-2), Athens (SD-3), Rome (SD-4), Tripoli (SD-5), Los Angeles (SD-6), Beijing (SD-7),Madrid (SD-8), London (SD-9), ], Seoul (SD-10),Tokyo (SD-11), Israel, and Zürich (SD-12). For other uses, see Berlin (disambiguation). ... Athens is the largest and the capital city of Greece, located in the Attica periphery. ... The Roman Colosseum Rome (Italian and Latin Roma) is the capital city of Italy, and of its Lazio region. ... Tripoli (population 1 million, Arabic: Ţarabulus) is the capital of Libya. ... Nickname: Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: , State County Settled 1781 Incorporated April 4, 1850 Government  - Type Mayor-Council  - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa  - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo  - Governing body City Council Area  - City  498. ... Beijing (Chinese: 北京; pinyin: Běijīng; Wade-Giles: Pei-ching; Postal System Pinyin: Peking), is the capital city of the Peoples Republic of China. ... This article is about the Spanish capital. ... London — containing the City of London — is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England and a major world city. With over seven million inhabitants (Londoners) in Greater London area, it is amongst the most densely populated areas in Western Europe. ... Seoul is the capital of South Korea and was, until 1945, the capital of all of Korea. ... Tokyo (東京; Tōkyō, lit. ... For other uses of Zurich, see Zurich (disambiguation). ...

Objectives

The Alliance aims to eventually reach world domination through its control over organized crime and the trade of intelligence. According to Jack Bristow and Sloane, the Alliance wished to change the world once it had achieved this, and rid the world of corruption, but had become bloated and corrupt over the years, diverging from their original vision and focusing instead on profit. Alexander the Great Philip II of Spain Napoleon Bonaparte For other uses, see World domination (disambiguation). ... Jonathan Jack Donahue Bristow, played by Victor Garber, is Sydney Bristows father on the television series, Alias. ...

SD-6

SD-6, headed by Arvin Sloane and based in Los Angeles, is the focus of the first two seasons of Alias. As viewers come to learn as the show progresses, their goals are quite different than their stated objective of "retrieval and study of intelligence both military and industrial throughout the world that is critical to the superiority and survival of the United States of America." Arvin Sloane, played by Ron Rifkin, was the former director of SD-6 on the television series, Alias. ...

In the first episode of Alias, agent Sydney Bristow is told by her father Jack that the organization she works for is in fact not part of the CIA as they pretend to be, but is rather a part of The Alliance of Twelve, an enemy of the United States and a rival to the CIA. Members of SD-6 believe it is a black ops division of the CIA, as Sydney herself did until the events of the pilot, and only a handful of senior staff know the truth and are complicit in the deception. Sydney Anne Bristow (born 17 April 1975), played by Jennifer Garner, is the main character on the television series Alias. ... Jonathan Jack Donahue Bristow, played by Victor Garber, is Sydney Bristows father on the television series, Alias. ... The Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) is an intelligence agency of the United States government. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

During the course of the first season, other heads of the SD cells are eventually shown meeting. Among them was Edward Poole, head of SD-9 (played by Roger Moore), who manages to convince Sloane to kill fellow SD head Jean Briault to influence an upcoming vote on whether to declare war on Alexander Khasinau, who has co-opted K-Directorate. Another SD leader is identified by the first name "Ramon," but his last name and his SD cell number are unrevealed. For other persons named Roger Moore, see Roger Moore (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see War (disambiguation). ... Alexander Khasinau is a fictional character from the American television series Alias. ... K-Directorate is a fictional organized crime group in the television series Alias, based in the former Eastern bloc countries. ...

Paranoia and ruthlessness

Of SD-6

SD-6 branch was headquartered in the Credit Dauphine building in Los Angeles, with entry through a special elevator to the sixth sub-level of the building. Every person who entered would be biometrically scanned and visually confirmed. It was revealed that as a security measure, all three areas of the foundations of the building itself were rigged with C-4 explosives which would go off if the inner vault had been breached during a security lockdown or for other contingencies. Failsafe or lockdown procedures could only be carried out by Arvin Sloane using his right index fingerprint; presumably, other SD cells had similar contingency plans (such as for deterring a CIA raid, which happens in Season 2) that would make it difficult to shut down.

In addition, SD-6 employed an internal security group responsible for investigating and terminating individuals who even know of SD-6's existence, those believed to know about the true nature of SD-6, or those suspected to be double-agents or traitors to SD-6. Sydney's fiance Danny was murdered by SD-6's internal security division in Season 1 after Sydney reveals to him that she works for SD-6, believing it to be a part of the CIA.

Of The Alliance

In addition to the cell-like nature of Section Disparue, which presumably allows the termination of entire SD cells in the event that it is wholly compromised, the Alliance of Twelve is an utterly ruthless organization that constantly suspects and conduct surveillance of even its head members.

When Arvin Sloane's wife Emily admits to knowing of the existence of SD-6, Arvin is told to have his wife killed as a test of loyalty. Arvin was able to win a temporary reprieve because of his wife's cancer which would kill her soon; when her cancer is found to be in remission, he is again told that in order to become a "full partner" in The Alliance, he would have to kill his wife. He did so, using a drug in her wine to stop her heart (in reality, he put her in suspended animation to fake her death). Emily Sloane is a fictional character from the American television series Alias. ...

Having proven his loyalty to the members of The Alliance, he is welcomed as a full partner and injected in the neck with a tracking device and mini-microphone to have his movements and conversations recorded 24/7. Although Sloane was clearly privy to matters that only a handful of men and women knew about, he was clearly not yet part of an 'inner circle' within The Alliance board, suggesting that there is some sense of competition and suspicion among even the SD cells and their leaders.

The end of The Alliance

The Alliance came to an end in the middle of Season 2 (Episode 13, "Phase One") of Alias when Sydney stumbles upon information, with Sark's aid, that leads her and Vaughn to believe there is one master server, server 47 (in keeping with the Rambaldi sub-plot of the show, where 47 is a key number in Rambaldi's works), which could potentially have all the information the CIA would need to shut down all of the SD cells simultaneously, thus acting as a sort of 'silver bullet' to the cell-like nature of the Alliance. Milo Giacomo Rambaldi is a fictional character from the TV series Alias. ... The metaphor of the silver bullet applies to any straightforward solution perceived to have extreme effectiveness. ...

Although the server was located on a Boeing 747 plane that was constantly airborne as a security measure, Sydney was able to pose as an escort for the computer technicians onboard during one of its landings and copy all the information from the server. When Jack attempted to go back to SD-6 headquarters to get confirmation that the information was genuine (as the CIA would only have one chance), he was apprehended by the acting head Geiger (Sloane had taken off and was declared MIA by the Alliance) who accused him of being a CIA spy. The Boeing 747, commonly nicknamed the Jumbo Jet, is a long-haul, widebody commercial airliner manufactured by Boeing. ...

Knowing she couldn't go back herself, Sydney called her SD-6 partner Marcus Dixon to get the confirmation and tells Dixon the true nature of SD-6. With this information, the CIA was able to successfully raid all the offices of various SD cells around the world; Sydney was a part of the CIA team that infiltrated SD-6 headquarters in Los Angeles and rescued her father moments before he would be electrocuted by Geiger. It is then revealed that Sloane had planned the destruction of the Alliance, having a technician bypass the surveillance devices in his neck, and he and Sark had supplied Sydney with the information the CIA needed to remove The Alliance - after he had cleared out (apparently) all Rambaldi artifacts to his own location outside of SD-6. However, one artifact escaped Sloane's attention. This artifact, the Horizon, had been sought by Prophet Five for thirty years, and was eventually retrieved (after coercing Sydney) by Irina Derevko, who then betrayed Prophet Five, almost four years after the fall of the Alliance. Marcus R. Dixon is a fictional character portrayed by Carl Lumbly, is one of Sydney Bristows coworkers and the CIAs Director of Joint Task Force on the television series, Alias. ... This article is about a character from the television show Alias. ... The Shed/Prophet Five, is a fictional international organized crime group in the television series Alias. ...