nse Intelligence History 

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DIA History

o meet major wartime intelligence requirements. In 1986, 

Congress designated DIA a Combat Support Agency. Th at 

ame year, DIA employees earned a Joint Meritorious Unit 

Award (JMU) for intelligence support during the TWA and ACHILLE LAURO hijackings and the Philippine crisis 

ituation. 

Following the end of the Cold War, DIA reviewed its roles and organization to meet a new era of regional challenges and reductions in resources. For its achievements during 

he 1990 Gulf War, DIA earned a second JMU Award. 

t continued to support the warfi ghter in operations 

hroughout the world such as Somalia, Rwanda, the 

former Yugoslavia, and Haiti. Th e Armed Forces Medical 

ntelligence Center (AFMIC) and the Missile and Space ntelligence Center (MSIC) became elements of DIA in 

early 1992. In 1994, DIA received a third JMU Award for 

ntelligence support during these crises. It was awarded an 

unprecedented fourth award in 1996 for providing critical 

ntelligence to the warfi ghter and policymaker.

Th e newly formed Defense HUMINT (Human Intelligence) Service (DHS) achieved its initial operating capacity in 

995, consolidating the HUMINT activities of all the 

Services under the umbrella of DIA. Th e Agency was also 

designated the Intelligence Community executive agent for Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT). With a renewed focus on counterterrorism, which led to a fi ft h 

MU Award, the Agency provided military intelligence 

upport to hotspots in Africa, the Balkans, South Asia, 

Russia, the Persian Gulf, and Korea.

Counter Insurgency, Iraq 2004

Following the attacks of 11 September 2001, the Agency responded with timely and focused intelligence to combat al-Qaeda and terrorist networks throughout the world. DIA’s intelligence was crucial to warfi ghter successes in Afghanistan (earning a sixth JMU), Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, and the deployment of Agency personnel to the Iraq Survey Group. Over the past year, DIA supported relief eff orts in the aft ermath of the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and Hurricane Katrina.DIA remains “Committed to Excellence in Defense of the Nation” as the Intelligence Community undergoes transformation and postures for a new era of globallyoriented, technologically sophisticated, and rapidly adaptive intelligence for all aspects of support to policymaking and military operations.

Katrina Support

Scud Missile

FROG-7 in Winter, Edward L. Cooper, 1984. Russia began development 

of the FROG-7 (Free Rocket Over Ground) artillery rocket system in 1961. The systems are capable of fi ring nuclear, conventional high explosive, and chemical warheads. Iraq manufactured its own variant of the FROG-7 called the Laith 90 and used it against targets in northern Saudi Arabia in 1991. (DIA Military Art Collection)
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JANUARY 2006 

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e School 

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aqi and US 

e Gulf War.

1986: President Reagan sanctioned Libya for role in international terrorism.

1741: Birth of Benedict Arnold, American general and British spy.

1984: CWO Robert Prescott, DAO Guatemala, died in a plane crash.

1967: US and South Vietnamese troops launched major offensive in the Mekong River Delta.

1973: Paris Peace Accords signaled end of Vietnam War.1975: Church Committee began investigating US Intelligence Community.

1957: Eisenhower Doctrine proposed to protect any Middle East nation from Communist aggression.

1990: SR-71 reconnaissanceprogram terminated.

1991: Operation DESERT STORM launched—DIA provided signifi cant intelligence.

1975: Rockefeller Commission formed to investigate CIA activities.

1984: Nicaragua shot down US Army helicopter.

1982: Lebanese terrorist assassinated LTC Charles Ray, Assistant Army Attaché in Paris.

1917: Birth of LTG Vernon Walters, USA, ambassador, deputy DCI, military attaché.

1738: Birth of Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War hero who used HUMINT to capture Fort Ticonderoga without fi ring a shot.

Martin Luther 

King Jr. Day

1978: President Carter signed EO12036, restructuring US intelligence.

1921: William Friedman named head of Army Signal Corps Code and Cipher Section.

1977: Christopher Boyce and Andrew Lee arrested for selling intelligence satellite secrets to the USSR.

1968: North Koreans seized the intelligence ship USS PUEBLO. 

1982: US Navy ENS Stephen Baba sentenced to 18 years for espionage.

1968: Tet Offensive in Vietnam began—DIA analysts warned of attack.

FEB 2006

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New Year’s Day

(observed)
Peacekeepers on the Princip Bridge, COL Gary N. Cassidy, 1998. With the 

support of DIA, US and NATO forces provided stability for war-torn Bosnia in the mid 1990s and continue peacekeeping operations in the region today. Here, a NATO patrol crosses the Princip Bridge in Sarajevo, the scene of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand that helped lead to the outbreak of WWI. (Courtesy of the National Museum of the US Army, Army Art Collection)
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r created the 

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female CIA 

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orld Trade 

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1,000.

1956: Britons Guy Burgess and Donald MacLean admitted spying for Moscow.1985: Poland expelled US Defense Attaché COL Frederick Myer for espionage.

1962: KGB COL Rudolf Abel exchanged for U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers.

1978: Canada expelled 11 Soviet diplomats for operating a spy ring.1996: LTG Patrick Hughes, USA, became 12th Director, DIA.

1994: Aldridge Ames arrested for espionage.

1961: Defense Secretary Robert McNamara directed the establishment of a DIA.

1898: USS MAINE blew up in Havana harbor precipitating war with Spain.

1967: 1LT George Sisler, fi rst Military Intelligence offi cer to receive Medal of Honor, killed in Vietnam.

1963: John Hughes, special assistant to Director, DIA, gave Cuban Missile Crisis briefi ng on national television.

1998: Osama bin Laden issued fatwathat justifi ed attacks on US citizens anywhere.

1991: Cessation of hostilities in Gulf War.

1945: Yalta Conference marked beginning of Cold War.

1950: Klaus Fuchs charged with giving atomic bomb secrets to the Soviets.

1895: Birth of John Ford, fi lmmaker, naval offi cer, WW II 

intelligence offi cer.

President’s

Day

JAN 2006

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MAR 2006

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SATAN’S SANDBOX, SFC Elzie Golden, 2003. Apache helicopters providing support to a column of advancing Bradley armored fi ghting vehicles and 

Abrams tanks during the drive on Baghdad in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. (Courtesy of the National Museum of the US Army, Army Art Collection)
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MARCH 2006

1931: “Star-Spangled Banner” became US national anthem.

1949: NATO pact signed.

ton 

elivered 

in” speech.

1963: DIA’s production Center occupied Arlington Hall Station, VA.

1965: First American combat soldiers in Vietnam.

1862: USS MONITOR fought CSS VIRGINIA in fi rst ironclad ship battle.

1977: Reorganization of Defense intelligence established ASD(C3I)

position.

an doctrine 

d to Turkey 

for “contain

SSR.

1951: Seoul, capital of South Korea, recaptured by UN forces.

1984: Iranian-backed terrorists kidnapped CIA Beirut station chief William Buckley.

1965: DIA added medical intelligence element.

1747: Birth of William Duer, Army offi cer, Continental congressman, banker, intelligence offi cer.

ation 

EEDOM 

1965: Defense Secretary Robert McNamara approved DIA’s plan for Defense Attaché System.

1999: Operation ALLIED FORCE in Kosovo began.1882: Offi ce of Naval Intelligence established.

1985: MAJ Arthur Nicholson killed by Soviet soldiers in East Germany.

1977: DIA’s new National Military Intelligence Center completed in Pentagon.

ndbreaking 

n Washing

 a memorial 

S soldiers 

etnam.

1990: TV MARTI began broadcasts directly to Cuba.

1973: Last US troops left Vietnam.

1991: Warsaw Pact dissolved.
DEADLY DVINA, Artist Unknown, 1978. The SA-2 Dvina

surface-to-air missile became the focal point in the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. The distinctive circular pattern of protective SA-2 missile sites captured on fi lm by a U-2 reconnaissance fl ight on 14 

October 1962 signaled the presence of Russian offensive nuclear missiles in Cuba. Thirty-six countries continue to employ the SA-2 system. (DIA Military Art Collection)
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1970: China’s satellite reconnaissance program began with launch of CHINA ONE.

1976: Permanent Senate Select Intelligence Committee established.

1964: Defense Special Missile and Astronautics Center established.

1965: US troops landed in Dominican Republic.

S&T 

formed.

ntina seized 

d Islands 

itish—US  aided Brit

e.

1961: Bay of Pigs landing in Cuba.

1775: Paul Revere’s famous midnight “intelligence” ride.

1943: Photo interpreter Constance BabingtonSmith detected a V-1 rocket near Peenemunde, Germany.

1961: Soviet GRU COL Penkovskey provided intelligence to US and UK.

1981: Groundbreaking for Defense Intelligence Analysis Center, Bolling AFB.

1915: Germans used chemical warfare (chlorine gas) effectively for the fi rst time in warfare.

1999: India successfully test-fi red a longrange model of its Agni ballistic missile.

2001: China released 24 US Navy EP-3 crewman following a collision with a Chinese fi ghter.

1950: NSC 68 established policy for opposing Communist expansion.1986: US planes bombed Tripoli and Benghazi to retaliate for Libyan terrorism.

pecial 

Command ral Lee 

d to General 

pomattox 

Civil War.

1954: President Eisenhower delivered “domino theory” speech.

1917: US declared war on Germany and entered WW I.

1947: US and USSR established military liaison missions in occupation zones in Germany.

1975: C-5A crashed killing USDAO Saigon members Celeste Brown, Vivienne Clark, Dorothy Curtiss, Joan Prey, and Doris Watkins.

1948: President Truman signed the Marshall Plan to rebuild Western Europe.

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MAY 2006

2002: FBI agent Robert Hansen sentenced to life in prison for selling secrets to Moscow.

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Memorial

Day

1862: Professor Thaddeus Lowe demonstrated the value of aerial reconnaissance from a balloon at the Battle of Fair Oaks, VA.1917: LTC Ralph Van Deman, called “Father of Modern Military Intelligence,” placed in charge of Military Intelligence Division.

2001: A US court convicted four al-Qaida members of terrorism charges in the bombing of two US embassies in Africa.

tan con

nuclear test.

1972: SALT I Treaty signed by Presidents Nixon and Brezhnev.

1950: Harry Gold arrested on espionage charges for passing atomic secrets to USSR.

1985: Retired Navy CWO John Walker arrested for spying.

1919: War Department created Code and Cipher Solution Section or “the Black Chamber.”

1974: India exploded a nuclear device in the Rajasthan Desert.

1987: Iraqi aircraft fi red Exocet missiles at USS STARK, killing 37.

1988: Moscow began withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Samuel 

ame 5th 

IA.

1968: Paris peace talks began between North Vietnam and US.

1991: Last Soviet SS-20 intermediate range missile destroyed under INF Treaty.

1946: OSS operative Virginia Hall awarded Distinguished Service Cross for heroism.

1945: WW II hostilities ended in Europe.

1972: Palestinian terrorists hijacked a Belgian airliner and fl ew it to Tel Aviv.

amese 

s defeated 

ien Bien 

1976: National Foreign Intelligence Board established.

1961: Alan Shepard became fi rst American in space.

1961: EO10936 created President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board

1968: MSGT Roy Benavidez earned Medal of Honor in Vietnam protecting intelligence personnel and equipment.

1960: SA-2 missile downed American U-2 and Soviets captured pilot Francis Gary Powers.
eting 

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iles 

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Flag Day

1963: DIA Automated Data Processing Systems Center assumed data management responsibility.

1988: Terrorist group “17 November” killed CAPT William Nordeen, the Defense Attaché in Athens.

1917: The fi rst US troops arrived in France in WW I.

an War 

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on of South 

orists 

hobar Tow

i Arabia.

1948: Berlin Blockade began.

1941: Foreign Broadcast Monitoring Service (later FBIS) established.

1963: DIA assumed J2 functions from the Joint Staff.

1963: USSR and US agreed on “hot-line” telephone link.

2002: Hamid Karzai inaugurated as president of Afghanistan. 

T II Treaty 

Presidents 

Brezhnev.

1775—Battle of Bunker Hill.

1775: Continental Congress established the US Army.

1942: The Offi ce of Strategic Services (OSS) established.

1970: DIA’s Assistant Army Attaché MAJ Robert Perry killed by Palestinian guerrillas in Jordan.

1999: NATO and Yugoslavia signed accord for withdrawal of Serbian forces from Kosovo.

1967: Israeli planes and ships attacked the USS LIBERTY, a Navy/NSA SIGINT collection ship.

1999: Osama bin Laden added to FBI’s “10 Most Wanted” list.

1944: Allied troops landed in France on D-Day—intelligencecoup.

1967: Six-Day War began in Middle East.

e of Mid

—WW II 

ater turning 

 possible 

nal intel

1989: Chinese troops crushed protestors in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

1964: Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) founded.

2003: Iraq Survey Group (ISG) established.
THE HIZARA PROVINCE, SFC Elzie Golden, 2003. US Army troops 

preparing for combat operations in a mountain village in Hizara Province, Afghanistan, during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. (Courtesy of the National Museum of the US Army, Army Art Collection)
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JULY 2006

1776: Declaration of Independence signed.

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gement of 

ears after its 

ent.

1942: Arlington Hall Station made an offi cial military intelligence post.

1990: NATO declared Warsaw Pact no longer a military threat.

1775: George Washington took command of the Continental Army.

Independence 

Day

viator Ame

disappeared 

cifi c.

1918: Bolling Field named after COL Raynal Bolling.

ested the 

 bomb at 

o, NM.

1979: DIA established Directorate for Resources and Systems.1996: DIA civilian Judith Goldberg killed while on duty in Cairo.

1977: House of RepresentativesPermanent Select Committee on Intelligence established.

1977: COBRA DANE phased-array radar system operational.

1941: Offi ce of the Coordinator of Information established; became the OSS in 1942.

1990: DIA activated Iraq/Kuwait Regional Working Group (IZKUWG).

1988: Eight-year Iran-Iraq war ended.

1990: DIA received the fi rst reports of Iraqi divisions near the Kuwaiti border.

1975: US APOLLO 18 and the Soviet SOYUZ 19 docked in space.

1915: US Marines and Navy invaded Haiti.

1953: Armistice for Korean War signed.1999: VADM Thomas Wilson became the 13th Director, DIA.

1947: President Truman signed the National Security Act.1964: Defense Intelligence Liaison Offi ce, London, established.

1990: DIA went to WATCHCON II and issued warning report on Iraqi.

1990: US warships in the Persian Gulf placed on alert.1989: Lebanese terrorists announced the execution of Marine Lt Col William Higgins.

AUG 2006

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ESCORTING HOME, Richard J. Terry, 1986. The FULCRUM fi ghterinterceptor fl ies today in the air forces of twenty different countries, including 

several members of NATO. Seen here escorting a BACKFIRE bomber, the MIG-29 FULCRUM refl ected Moscow’s drive to modernize its air forces in the mid-1980s. (DIA Military Art Collection)
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1814: British Army burned Washington, DC.1966: DIA Liaison Detachment, Ottawa, established.

1963: Ground Force Panel authorized, early cooperative effort between DIA and CIA.

1968: Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

1994: Last Soviet troops departed East Germany.

1949: Soviets detonated their fi rst atomic weapon, an event detected by 

the Air Force.

ruise 

uck targets 

stan and the 

1981: American F-14s shot down two Libyan SU-22s over Gulf of Sidra.

1990: DIA designated Executive Agent for DESERT SHIELD imagery collection.

1991: President Bush signed a covertactivities limitation bill to prevent Iran-Contrastyle activities.

1960: First broadcast via satellite made from Bell Laboratories.

truction of 

Wall started.

1961: Defense Secretary McNamara appointed Lt Gen Joseph Carroll the 1st Director, DIA.

1949: GEN Omar Bradley appointed fi rst Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

1945: US dropped the second atomic bomb, “Fat Man,” on Nagasaki, Japan.

1942: US executed six German saboteurs who had landed on Long Island in June.

1974: VADM Vincent de Poix became 3rd Director, DIA.1998: Al-Qaida bombed US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. 

ropped 

mic bomb, 

,” in combat 

ma.

1965: Limited Test Ban Treaty signed.

1955: Prototype U-2 made its fi rst planned fl ight.

1990: Iraq invaded Kuwait.

1961: DoD issued Directive 5105.21 establishing “Defense Intelligence Agency.”

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Labor Day

1974: LTG Daniel Graham became 4th Director, DIA.1977: Lt Gen Eugene Tighe became 6th Director, DIA.1995: Lt Gen Kenneth Minihan became 11th Director, DIA.

1990: The DoD Joint Intelligence Center became operational. 

oximately 

ns in a 

eslan, 

 in Chechen 

sis.

1961: NRO formally established1976: Soviet MiG-25 and pilot defected to Japan, providing intelligence.

1944: First German V-2 long-range rocket struck London.

2001: Al-Qaida members assassinated Ahmad Massoud, Afghan Northern Alliance leader.

Donald 

came 2nd 

IA.

1996: Afghanistan’s Taliban rebels captured Kabul and hanged former president Najibullah.

1940: William Friedman’s Signals Intelligence Service cracked Japanese PURPLE code.

2001: Al-Qaida crashed commercial planes into World Trade Center and Pentagon, killing almost 3,000 people, including 7 from DIA.

2001: NATO mutual defense clause used for fi rst time in 52-years after 9/11 attacks.

1996: Defense HUMINT Service reached full operating capability.

1981: LTG James Williams became 7th Director, DIA.

1981: Red Army Faction ambushed GEN Kroesen, USAEUR, in Germany.

1949: Berlin Airlift ended after the opening of land routes to West Berlin.

R executed 

achev 

m spies 

oward and 

mes.

1776: British Army executed CAPT Nathan Hale, American soldier and spy.

2001: DIA analyst Ana Montes arrested for passing secrets to Cuba.

1984: Hezbollah bombed Beirut Embassy killing DIA’s CWO Kenneth Welch and IS1 Michael Wagner, USDAO.

1994: US forces landed in Haiti in Operation UPHOLD DEMOCRACY.

1947: CIA and Air Force established by the National Security Act.

s Forrestal 

t Secretary 

1974: DIA established the General Counsel.

1963: DIA established the Production Center.

1990: UN Security Council imposed air embargo against Iraq.

1972: Palestinian terrorists killed 11 Israeli Olympic athletes and a German policeman in Munich.
TRACKING BIN LADEN, SFC Elzie Golden, 2002. A US Army Hummer 

passes a local Afghan tribesman and his donkey in the mountains of Afghanistan during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. (Courtesy of the National Museum of the US Army, Army Art Collection)
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became 

en Leonard 

came 8th 

IA.

water–

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A created.

DIA Day

1780: British Major John André hanged by the Continental Army as spy.

1957: Soviets launched SPUTNIK I, beginning the “Space Race.”

1961: Director, DIA, added to United States Intelligence Board.

1973: Yom Kippur War in Middle East began.

1986: Cruise ship ACHILLE LAURO hijacked.2001: Operation ENDURING FREEDOM began with air strikes in Afghanistan.

Columbus

 Day

(Observed)

2000: Al-Qaida bombed the USS COLE in Aden, Yemen.

1860: First aerial photograph in the United States taken from a balloon in Boston.

1947: MAJ Chuck Yeager exceeded the speed of sound in a Bell X-1.

2002: VADM Lowell Jacoby became 14th Director, DIA.

1964: China detonated its fi rst nuclear weapon.

 CIA, and 

to interpret

d Soviet 

issiles in 

1989: Eric Honnecker’s 20-year rule in East Germany ended.

1981: President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) re-established.

1962: President Kennedy ordered blockade of Cuba after intelligence discovered Soviet offensive ballistic missiles on island.

1983: Terrorist destroyed the Marine compound in Beirut, killing 254.

1952: NSA established

1983: US forces landed on Grenada during Operation URGENT FURY.

1952: President Truman established the National Security Agency.2002: President Bush signed US Patriot Act anti-terrorism law. 

1962: SA-2 shot down an Air Force U-2 over Cuba during the Missile Crisis.

 War began; 

ce directed 

o develop 

RER,

nd MIDAS 

1952: US detonated the fi rst hydrogen bomb on Eniwetok Atoll.

1993: 12 Americans killed, 78 wounded in operation against Somali warlord Aidid in Mogadishu. 

1962: Krushchev agreed to dismantle missile sites in Cuba under UN supervision.
APOLLO-SOYUZ PROJECT, Brian W. McMullin, 1982. Project Apollo 

was the US space program that put a man on the moon in 1969. In the fi nal fl ight of the program, in July 1975, spacecraft from different nations docked in space for the fi rst time in history when a US Apollo spacecraft with a crew of three docked with a Russian Soyuz spacecraft with its crew of two. This was a fi rst in international space cooperation and an important step in the development of the International Space Station. (DIA Military Art Collection)
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Thanksgiving 

Day

Veterans

Day

1985: Vitaly Yurchenko defected back to the Soviets.

1971: Defense Secretary Laird established the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Intelligence).

1979: Iranian militants seized US Embassy in Tehran and took the staff hostage.

telligence 

B) reconsti

the chair

the DCI. 1970: US launched the 

fi rst TRW Defense Support Program satellite.

1805: Captains Merriwether Lewis and William Clark reached the Pacifi c Ocean and completed intelligence mission.

1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall began when authorities opened crossing points.

1918: WW I ended with the signing of the Armistice in Compiègne, France.

1979: President Carter froze Iranian assets following the seizure of the embassy in Tehran.

1979: Sir Anthony Blunt exposed as a former Soviet spy of the “Cambridge Spy Ring.”

1991: Lt Gen James Clapper became 10th Director, DIA.

1962: President Kennedy lifted the blockade of Cuba.

1970: US forces raided the empty Son Tay POW camp in Vietnam.

1963: President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

1985: Terrorists hijacked an Egyptian airliner, killing one American.

1954: President Eisenhower approved the development of the U-2 aircraft.2003: NIMA renamed NGA.

1950: Chinese Communist forces attacked UN troops in North Korea.

1775: Continental Congress established the Secret Correspondence Committee for intelligence operations.

1962: DIA established Directorate for Mapping, Charting, and Geodesy.

1962: DoD established Defense Intelligence School.

ecurity 

horized air 

erb targets 

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f mas

the 1993  WTC.
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ary 
2001: Anti-Taliban forces captured Osama bin Laden’s main base in the Tora Bora mountains in Afghanistan.

1995: The presidents of Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia signed the Dayton Peace Agreement in Paris.

1996: UN authorized the start of the “Oil for Food” program with Iraq.

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Day

1982: President Reagan signed EO 12333 on collecting intelligence.

1981: Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service established.

1941: Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a major intelligence failure, brought the US into WW II.

1987: President Reagan and Soviet leader Gorbachev signed the INF Treaty.

y of 

d, ending the 

merican War.

1962: DIA established the Counterintelligence Group.

1964: Defense Secretary McNamara established Defense Attaché System.1991: USSR ceased to exist.

1951: Brownwell Committee formed to investigate SIGINT failures in the Korean War.2003: Saddam Hussein captured.

1960: Joint Study Group report on creation of “Defense Intelligence Agency.”

1984: Thomas Cavanagh arrested for selling the KGB stealth technology.

1988: LTG Harry Soyster became 9th Director, DIA.

1989: US forces, supported by DIA, intervened in Panama in Operation JUST CAUSE.

1988: Terrorists sponsored by Libya blew up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

1968: North Korea released the crew of the intelligence collection ship USS PUEBLO.

2000: DIA’s William Bultmeier, USDAO in Niger, killed during a carjacking.

1776: General Washington defeated Hessians at Trenton, NJ with HUMINT.

1946: US Army Strategic Intelligence School established.

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hotos, and 

e would like to thank 

he National Museum 

he paintings. All 

me and date of the 

DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE HISTORY, 2006 was prepared by the DIA History Offi ce, 

with layout and design by the DIA Digital Production Division, Defense Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC 20340. Questions and comments on this publication should be directed to the History Offi ce at 202-231-4934. An electronic version is available on the DIA History Offi ce website at www.dia.mil/History.

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FEB 2007

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JAN 2007

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MAR 2007

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APR 2007

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JUN 2007

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MAY 2007

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JUL 2007

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AUG 2006

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SEP 2007

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OCT 2007

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NOV 2007

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DEC 2007

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