United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations

	Air Force Office of Special Investigations; - AFOSI -
State level	Federal authority
Supervisory authority (s)	SECAF; currently: Barbara Barrett
Consist	since August 1, 1948
Headquarters	MCB Quantico , ; Quantico , Virginia
Authority management	Commander AFOSI Brigadier General Terry L. Bullard Deputy Commander AFOSI vacant ; ; ;
Employee	2738 (as of 2015)
Website	www.osi.af.mil

The United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations , the official abbreviation AFOSI , but also unofficially abbreviated OSI , is an authority that reports directly to the Secretary of the Air Force and is based in the Russel Knox Building on the Marine Corps Base in Quantico . The AFOSI commander is Brigadier General Terry L. Bullard.

aims

The goals of AFOSI are:

Protect sensitive technologies and information
Detecting or recognizing and mitigating dangers
Offer special services worldwide
Head of important criminal investigations
Offensive action against foreign opponents and threats

The cornerstones of AFOSI are to take action against crime, keep secrets, use intelligence services and act on the Internet.

construction

The AFOSI is divided into eight regions:

Region 1 at the Air Force Materiel Command
Region 2 at Air Combat Command
Region 3 at the Air Mobility Command
Region 4 at the Air Education and Training Command
Region 5 at the United States Air Forces in Europe
Region 6 with the Pacific Air Forces
Region 7 at the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force
Region 8 at Air Force Space Command

All of these regions, with the exception of Region 7, are major commands of the United States Air Force .

AFOSI in the media

In the 2008 film, Eagle Eye , Rosario Dawson plays AFOSI special agent Zoe Perez .

Controversy

The OSI is said to have sometimes blackmailed informers into their tasks, as in the case of Adam DeRito at the United States Air Force Academy .

Individual evidence

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↑ Spiegel Online from February 21, 2014: Spy at the military university: The sex trap

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[2] Spiegel Online from February 21, 2014: Spy at the military university: The sex trap