The Bureau of Operations was one of many bureaus within Imperial Intelligence, and along with the rest of the organization, survived the fragmentation of the Galactic Empire, for the most part, largely intact. It was the only bureau in the Imperial Intelligence to be called the "Bureau". The Bureau handles the covert operations which are beyond the scope or require greater resources than those of the average system cell. The Bureau may send in a team of specialists to a sector, in effect creating an at-large system cell, or they may send a few agents to augment an already existing system cell for a single mission.