Intelligence Penetration
The Intelligence Penetration capture lane traces 916 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
Top 10 actors in this lane
10 actors · 1850–2026
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1941-12-07 | FBI Pre-Pearl-Harbor Japanese-American Dossier System Provides Internment Target Lists
3 src J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Office of Naval Intelligence · Munson Report · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1939-09-06 | Roosevelt Proclamation Consolidates All Domestic Intelligence Under FBI, Creating Peacetime Intelligence Monopoly
2 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Office of Naval Intelligence · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1936-08-24 | Roosevelt Secret Oral Directive Authorizes FBI General Intelligence Without Statutory Basis
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · J. Edgar Hoover · Cordell Hull · Federal Bureau of Investigation | confirmed | |
| 1935-07-01 | Bureau of Investigation Formally Renamed Federal Bureau of Investigation, Professionalization Era Begins
2 src J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Homer Cummings | confirmed | |
| 1930-04-30 | Army Signal Intelligence Service Founded Under Friedman, Institutional Ancestor of NSA
3 src William F. Friedman · U.S. Army Signal Corps · Signal Intelligence Service · War Department | confirmed | |
| 1929-10-31 | Stimson Closes Yardley's Black Chamber, Briefly Interrupting U.S. Peacetime Signals Intelligence
3 src Henry L. Stimson · Herbert O. Yardley · State Department · War Department · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1924-05-10 | Hoover Named Acting Director of Bureau of Investigation, Begins 48-Year Tenure
3 src J. Edgar Hoover · Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone · Bureau of Investigation · Calvin Coolidge | confirmed | |
| 1920-05-28 | 'Report Upon the Illegal Practices of the United States Department of Justice' Repudiates Palmer Raids
2 src Felix Frankfurter · Roscoe Pound · Zechariah Chafee · National Popular Government League · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1919-08-01 | Hoover Named to Lead Justice Department Radical Division, Origin of Permanent Political Dossier System
3 src J. Edgar Hoover · A. Mitchell Palmer · Department of Justice · General Intelligence Division | confirmed | |
| 1917-04-20 | Justice Department Authorizes American Protective League, 250,000-Member Vigilante Surveillance Network
3 src Thomas Gregory · A. M. Briggs · Bureau of Investigation · American Protective League · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1917-01-16 | British Intercept Zimmermann Telegram, Demonstrating Value of Signals Intelligence to U.S. Policy
2 src Arthur Zimmermann · British Admiralty Room 40 · Woodrow Wilson · Walter Hines Page · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1916-07-30 | German Sabotage Destroys Black Tom Munitions Depot, Exposes U.S. Counterintelligence Vacuum
2 src German Imperial Government · Franz von Papen · Franz von Rintelen · Bureau of Investigation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1908-07-26 | Bonaparte Creates Bureau of Investigation Inside DOJ, Bypassing Congressional Opposition
3 src Attorney General Charles Bonaparte · President Theodore Roosevelt · Stanley Finch · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1892-01-01 | Pinkerton Detective Agency Operates as Private Corporate Army Against Unions
3 src Pinkerton National Detective Agency · Allan Pinkerton · Corporate employers · State Governments · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1861-04-21 | Pinkerton Heads Union Intelligence Service for McClellan, First Federal Use of Private Intelligence Personnel
2 src Allan Pinkerton · George B. McClellan · Pinkerton National Detective Agency · Army of the Potomac · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1850-08-22 | Allan Pinkerton Founds North-Western Police Agency, Precursor to Private Intelligence State
2 src Allan Pinkerton · Edward Rucker · Pinkerton National Detective Agency · Illinois Central Railroad | confirmed |