For as long as warfare has existed, city-states, nations and empires have employed people to gather as much valuable intelligence on their enemies as possible, to process and analyse this intelligence, and to feed their enemies false information. In this regard, ONI is currently humanity's oldest continuous intelligence agency, originally founded by the United States Navy in 1882 and being incorporated into the UNSC, along with a considerable amount of former US and other world military assets, in 2164. Part of the larger Military Intelligence Division, with counterparts run by the UNSC Army and Air Force, the Office of Naval Intelligence is nevertheless the largest, best funded, and most well known (some would say feared) branch of the UNSC's intelligence community, and encompasses a wide