#Intelligence-Founding
Events indexed under #Intelligence-Founding — 14 entries in the record.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952-11-04 | Truman Creates National Security Agency by Classified Directive, Existence Classified for 23 Years Harry S. Truman · Ralph Canine · National Security Agency · Armed Forces Security Agency | confirmed | |
| 1947-12-19 | NSC 4-A Secretly Authorizes CIA Covert Action Using "Fifth Function" Elastic Clause of 1947 Act Harry S. Truman · National Security Council · Central Intelligence Agency · George Kennan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1947-09-18 | Central Intelligence Agency Begins Operations Under 1947 National Security Act Harry S. Truman · Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter · Central Intelligence Agency · Allen Dulles · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1943-02-01 | Army Signal Intelligence Service Begins VENONA Soviet Cable Decryption, Foundation for Post-War Counterintelligence Gene Grabeel · Meredith Gardner · Army Signal Intelligence Service · Carter Clarke · +2 | 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |