The IMF agent is a fictional intelligence agency in the Hollywood action movie Mission Impossible, which is called "Mission Impossible Force" and abbreviated as IMF. In reality, similar institutions are: the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI; ); The United States Central Intelligence Agency.

The intelligence, espionage and anti-espionage agencies of the US government are mainly responsible for collecting and analyzing global political, economic, cultural, military and scientific information, coordinating the activities of domestic intelligence agencies, and reporting the information to various departments of the US government.