Historical Dictionary of United States Intelligence

TELINT telemetry intelligence TIARA tactical intelligence and related activities TSA Transportation Security Administration TTAC ...

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Chronology xxi 1765 Sons of Liberty, the first American dissident group, established. 1772 Beginning of organized resistance by ...

of American hostages; effort fails and affair ends in 1805 in a negotiated settlement. 1811 Congress passes secret resolution au ...

ley to use military force against Spain in Cuba. 24 April:Military In- telligence Section agents sent to Cuba to assist Cuban in ...

Cipher Bureau, first American agency to collect communications intel- ligence (COMINT). April–May:President Wilson invokes feder ...

ment creates “U-1” to carry out intelligence coordination and liaison. June:Attorney general creates Radical Division, soon rena ...

1938 Army chief of staff secretly authorizes the Signal Intelligence Service to intercept radio communications and provide crypt ...

1942 U.S. establishes Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) to collect radio broadcasts and press information. 1 January: ...

Special Operations (OSO) to conduct espionage and the Office of Reports and Estimates (ORE) to engage in analysis, both within t ...

MKULTRAinitiated.27 July:Korean truce takes effect.16 August:CIA overthrows Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh. 1954 Sovi ...

in Vietnam. Spring:Castro signs trade agreement with USSR. 1 May: Soviet Union downs a U-2 plane flown by Francis Gary Powers.Ju ...

1967 Rampartsreveals CIA funding of National Student Association. 8 June:USSLibertyattacked by Israeli gunboats. 1968 January:Th ...

12 May:Cambodian Khmer Rouge gunboats seize American merchant ship USSMayaguezand imprison its crew.15 May:U.S. marines free the ...

1983 Truck bombing in Beirut kills 241 U.S. Marines. U.S Embassy in Beirut bombed by Islamic extremists. 23 March:President Reag ...

Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board absorbs the Intelligence Oversight Board. President Bush establishes the National Drug Intel ...

passes Homeland Security Bill, establishing the Department of Home- land Security (DHS). 16 December:James S. Gilmore III, chair ...

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Introduction xxxvii The public perceives intelligence to be all action, with freewheeling agents either doing dastardly deeds or ...

leaders, analyze that information to make it relevant and actionable, and disseminate “finished” intelligence information in usa ...