Not only was George Washington the first president of the United States, he was also America’s first “intelligence chief”, according to the Defense Intelligence Agency in an article posted on its website, dated April 20, 2014.
During the revolutionary war, Gen. George Washington spent more than “10 percent of military funding on intelligence-related activities.” These activities included managing individual spies, running spy rings, and establishing special units for the collection of military intelligence. Washington himself established agent networks in Boston, New York and Philadelphia.
The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is a United States federal agency that serves as the country’s main foreign military espionage organization under the jurisdiction of Department of Defense. As one of the principal member of the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC), DIA informs national civilian and defense policymakers about the military intentions and capabilities of foreign governments and non-state actors, while also providing department-level intelligence assistance and coordination to individual military service intelligence components and the warfighter.
Today the DIA primarily “specializes” in collection and analysis of human-source intelligence (HUMINT), has its own Clandestine Service and is in charge of American military-diplomatic efforts overseas.
Source: DIA sending hundreds more spies overseas http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/dia-to-send-hundreds-more-spies-overseas/2012/12/01/97463e4e-399b-11e2-b01f-5f55b193f58f_story.html
According to the DIA- Washington “personally supervised the recruitment, training, and running of intelligence agents”,during the Revolutionary War (source: http://www.dia.mil/News/Articles/tabid/3092/Article/8690/george-washington-more-than-a-general-and-a-president.aspx).
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