Office of Intelligence and Analysis (US Treasury Department)

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The Office of Intelligence and Analysis ( OIA ; German Office for Intelligence Information and Analysis ) is the intelligence service of the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) of the USA . The OIA is part of the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI), (Office of the Intelligence Service for Terrorism and Finance).

assignment

The current legal basis of the OIA is the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004 . Thereafter, the OIA is responsible for receiving, analyzing, reviewing, and distributing intelligence information necessary for the work and responsibilities of the US Treasury Department. The OIA is intended to support the Department of the Treasury in the formulation and implementation of its policies.

The main objective is to maintain the security of the US financial system and to avert threats to national security through financial activities. Priorities are information on the financing of terrorism, the proliferation of ABC weapons, the finances of unjust regimes and information on money laundering and drug money .

Another goal is the timely, precise and targeted support with news material in the entire field of economy, politics and security, as far as financial issues are concerned.

history

When Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks published their investigative book "CIA" in 1974, the Office of Intelligence was the smallest US secret service with 300 agents from the Treasury Department and a budget of 10 million dollars. (Overview in the article Air Intelligence Agency , the largest US intelligence agency at the time).

News sources and engagement

As a co-sponsor of important international financial institutions, the Department of Treasury has direct access to a lot of information that the OIA can use for analysis, such as: B. on SWIFT . In view of the importance of the US market, there is also strong pressure on foreign banks not to withhold requested information. Among the other intelligence services in the USA , the most important news provider is the National Security Agency (NSA), which is responsible for the worldwide surveillance and decryption of electronic communications.

source

  • Victor Marchetti, John D. Marks: CIA . Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-453-00548-1 , p. 118–129 ( Heyne books. 7016 Heyne non-fiction book ).

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