When an innocent American archaeologist becomes entangled in a plot to assassinate the president of a South American nation, the IMF must rescue the seriously ill American and prevent the president being killed by his chief of security.

An unscrupulous banker in an African country is using stolen money plates to make counterfeit currency to finance his investments. To recover the plates and put the banker out of business, The IMF team devise a scheme involving a 'money-making machine', which is in fact Barney hiding inside a fake computer. The banker hands over the plates to Phelps to make currency, and is given what appears to be perfect quality notes from the "machine". Meanwhile, Cinnamon has convinced the banker to buy a large number of shares in an unprofitable mining company, claiming that the workers are about to discover a large amount of gold. When the banker is investigated by his superiors for purchasing the shares, he finds that his money has turned into useless confetti, and is promptly arrested.

A sacred jade statuette is stolen from a small Asian country, and ends up in the private collection of a wealthy American defense contractor. In order to prevent an international incident, the IMF team are dispatched to recover the artifact from a secure vault protected by an electrified door, and sound and pressure sensors. The owner is distracted by Cinnamon, posing as a journalist, and Rollin, disguised as an academic from the artifact's home country who later feigns a theft attempt and is "electrocuted" by the security system. Meanwhile, Barney, Willy and Jim sneak into the building and use a specially trained cat (Rusty) to retrieve the figurine from the vault.

A consignment of gold bullion that was shipped by the American government to fund a communist country's resistance movement was seized by the government. Nicholas Groat, an international chess champion and con artist intends to steal the gold, which is being held in a hotel where a chess tournament is being held. The IMF team must steal the gold and ensure it reaches the resistance movement. Rollin assumes the role of a chess novice who beats Groat in such a way that Groat realizes that he's cheating. He goes to Rollin's room and finds Barney manning a computer that is unbeatable at chess, but has the strange side effect of spending up any clocks that are near it. Soon after, Groat finds out that a time lock has been installed on the safe where the gold will be held. He enters into a deal with Rollin and his associates (the rest of the IMF team), who hatch a plan to steal the gold. They insert a chemical into the water which causes the symptoms of Typhoid to anyone who drinks it. The public health authority (Rollin and Willy) are called in, and they "inoculate" everyone in the hotel with an anasthetic. Soon, everyone in the hotel (including the soldiers guarding the gold) have been knocked out by the injections, and the team with Groat and his henchman set up the computer outside the safe, which opens the time lock. When the team recovers the gold, they force Groat and his associate into the safe at gunpoint and lock him in, and make their escape.