The Special Intelligence Service or SIS was the Manticoran equivalent to the Havenite Foreign Intelligence Service, responsible for foreign intelligence and espionage. (CS1) While the Office of Naval Intelligence focused on military intelligence, the SIS focused on diplomatic, political, and economic information, using espionage as needed. It was a civilian agency, unlike ONI. (HH7)
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| - The Special Intelligence Service or SIS was the Manticoran equivalent to the Havenite Foreign Intelligence Service, responsible for foreign intelligence and espionage. (CS1) While the Office of Naval Intelligence focused on military intelligence, the SIS focused on diplomatic, political, and economic information, using espionage as needed. It was a civilian agency, unlike ONI. (HH7)
- The Special Intelligence Service was a covert counterintelligence branch of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) located in South America during World War II. It was established during the term of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to monitor Axis activities in Central and South America. The SIS allied with the BIS (Basque Intelligence Service) in Latin America. Following the war the SIS was disbanded, having been in operation in 1940-1946. After it was disbanded, its region of operation was incorporated in those of the newly formed Central Intelligence Agency.
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| - The Special Intelligence Service or SIS was the Manticoran equivalent to the Havenite Foreign Intelligence Service, responsible for foreign intelligence and espionage. (CS1) While the Office of Naval Intelligence focused on military intelligence, the SIS focused on diplomatic, political, and economic information, using espionage as needed. It was a civilian agency, unlike ONI. (HH7)
- The Special Intelligence Service was a covert counterintelligence branch of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) located in South America during World War II. It was established during the term of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to monitor Axis activities in Central and South America. In 1934, President Roosevelt began to grow concerned about activities of Nazi groups within the United States. The FBI was ordered to begin investigating these groups operating within the country. The goal of this work was to determine if foreign agents were working within these American Nazi groups. In 1940, the government decided to expand the scope of this mission. There were more than 1.5 million expatriate Germans living in South America, including Argentina and Brazil. As a result this area had become an active area of Axis espionage, propaganda and sabotage. In June 1940, President Roosevelt ordered the formation of the Special Intelligence Service to monitor these activities. The SIS allied with the BIS (Basque Intelligence Service) in Latin America. It is presumptive that Assistant Director Percy E. "Sam" Foxworth was the first chief of the SIS. He died in a plane crash on 15 January 1943 with agent Harold Dennis Haberfeld. The second chief appears to have been Jerome Doyle. The headquarters of this organization was located on the 44th floor of the International Building, in the Rockefeller Center plaza in New York City. The front for the organization was actually an operating law firm. It took some time to become fully operational, due to language and cultural differences, but within a year the SIS had a number of agents in place under various covers. This organization placed more than 340 undercover agents in regions of Latin America. They operated for seven years, and by 1946 a total of 887 axis spies had been discovered. Also found were 281 agents of axis propaganda, 222 smugglers shipping important war materials, and more than 100 saboteurs and other operatives. It located 24 secret Axis radio stations and confiscated 40 radio transmitters and 18 receiving sets. Following the war the SIS was disbanded, having been in operation in 1940-1946. After it was disbanded, its region of operation was incorporated in those of the newly formed Central Intelligence Agency.
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