United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations
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State level | Federal authority | ||
Supervisory authority (s) |
SECAF currently: Barbara Barrett |
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Consist | since August 1, 1948 | ||
Headquarters |
MCB Quantico , Quantico , Virginia |
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Authority management |
Commander AFOSI Brigadier General Terry L. Bullard Deputy Commander AFOSI vacant
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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
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Spiegel Online from February 21, 2014: Spy at the military university: The sex trap