Eh, to an extent, but the warning flag I should raise here is that one should not confuse professionalism with mercy. Those agencies love to pull those sorts of “cut their heart out with a scalpel” operations, leaving behind no discernable signs of a chest-cracking, because it has a palpable memetic effect in making them look spooky and terrifying and not to be fucked with.
But while they don’t have DREAMING MALIGNITY, DREAMING SINISTER and INFERNO DAMPER do exist, and allocate non-zero collateral budgets for a reason. Not everything can be done with perfect elegance, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t still have to be done, belike.
On another note - well, it depends on how much work you are asking “~unaffiliated” to do.
The Empire isn’t quite so neurotic about its wars as we are on modern Earth, and more importantly has certain notions about freedom of choice and ethical responsibility (a long way downstream of the conception of a polity as an association-of-associations-of-people rather than as a chunk of land owned by a shiny hat) even when being governed which don’t go along with our notion that the citizen body is collectively irresponsible for what their government - or their government’s pet - does.
The first order consequence of which is that if you are going along quietly with storing missiles in your homes, etc. ad naus., then Theater Command will be more than happy to blow you to hell, noting in its briefings and aftermath reports that they engaged “auxiliary ablative meat” - which is to say, not civilians insofar as they were helping the enemy to conduct military operations.
(Duress is a very limited defense to crime in their legal system. [And one rarely attempted, since the usual response to attempted duress is, as the humans say, “Up yours. Die.”] It’s an even more limited defense to warcrime.)
Many people do not particularly appreciate this position on the part of the Imperial Admiralty, but since doing so discourages people from attempting to blackmail them with their own decency, the Admiralty isn’t known for caring a great deal about those people’s opinions.
The second order consequence of which, too, is that if your government is, say, mind-bogglingly stupid enough to carry out a military operation targeting civilians for atrocities, and if you the people are, say, mind-bogglingly stupid enough to throw a street party in celebration and/or otherwise make public your approval of same, then it will take the Senate all of five minutes to officially reclassify you as “uncivilized brigands of no worth” and authorize Theater Command to carry out the kind of strategic bombing campaign that the ghosts of “Bomber” Harris and Curtis LeMay might consider slightly overkill.