Story by Erin Thompson | U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence | 02.23.2024
On 1 March 1970, the Department of Defense established the Defense Investigative Review Council to take a supervisory role over all counterintelligence activities in the U.S. armed forces. The creation of this council led to the centralization of military background checks and CI investigations under civilian leadership and ultimately to the dissolution of the U.S. Army Intelligence Command....
Story by Lori Stewart | U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence | 02.08.2024
On 12 February 1973, the first American prisoners of war held by North Vietnam were released as part of a peace agreement between the U.S. and the communist country. Initially called EGRESS RECAP, the phased process of repatriation became better known as Operation HOMECOMING. It included an intelligence debriefing conducted by counterintelligence agents of the U.S. Army Intelligence Command....
