Intelligence Penetration
The Intelligence Penetration capture lane traces 915 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1939-09-06 | Roosevelt Proclamation Consolidates All Domestic Intelligence Under FBI, Creating Peacetime Intelligence Monopoly 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Allan Pinkerton · Edward Rucker · Pinkerton National Detective Agency · Illinois Central Railroad | confirmed |