Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence

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The Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence is now the intelligence department of the Department of Energy , the US Department of Energy . This intelligence service used to belong to the Atomic Energy Commission , which was responsible for the manufacture of atomic bombs and later hydrogen bombs as well as the development of nuclear reactors and the manufacture of nuclear fuels as well as the disposal of nuclear waste .

Mission and organization

The Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence is subordinate to the Deputy. Energy Minister ( United States Deputy Secretary of Energy ).

The authority's responsibility comprises four core areas:

The Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence is designed to provide the Department of Energy, the US government, and the Intelligence Community with timely, accurate, and high-level analysis of overseas activity in these areas. The counterintelligence , the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive (ONCIX) and the care of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).

The Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence is intended to rapidly make the technical, analytical and scientific knowledge as well as the special technological skills and possibilities of the Department of Energy available to the US intelligence community , the US police and judicial authorities and US special forces .

history

The Department of Energy's intelligence activities go back to the time of the Manhattan Project , the program to build the atomic bomb. At that time, the Atomic Energy Commission (Atomic Energy Commission) was commissioned to prepare special analyzes of the emerging nuclear weapons program of the Soviet Union . The program and the tasks of the Atomic Energy Commission were later transferred to the Department of Energy.

When Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks published their exposé book "CIA" about this and the US secret services in 1974, the Atomic Energy Commission's intelligence department had 300 employees with a budget of $ 20 million.

The tasks were expanded in the 1973 energy crisis , when concerns arose over the security of energy supplies in the USA and because of concerns about the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in recent years.

literature

  • 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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