United States Army Counterintelligence
| United States Army Counterintelligence | |
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| Abbreviation | CI |
U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command Seal
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Counterintelligence Special Agent Badge
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| Agency overview | |
| Formed | October 1, 1977 |
| Preceding agencies | |
| Employees | Classified |
| Annual budget | Classified |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
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Federal agency (Operations jurisdiction) |
United States |
| Legal jurisdiction | National Security Crimes and Foreign Intelligence Collection |
| Governing body | Department of the Army |
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| Headquarters | Intelligence and Security Command, Fort Belvoir, VA |
| Parent agency | G-2, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence (ODCSINT) |
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United States Army Counterintelligence is the component of United States Army Military Intelligence which conducts counterintelligence activities to detect, identify, assess, counter, exploit and/or neutralize adversarial, foreign intelligence services, international terrorist organizations, and insider threats to the United States Army and U.S. Department of Defense.
Military and civilian personnel trained and appointed to conduct counterintelligence investigations and operations are credentialed and titled as Counterintelligence Special Agents (occasionally referred to simply as "CI" or "Army Intelligence Agents"), and carry badge and credentials identifying their status as federal law enforcement officers. Within the Army, these agents have arrest powers (aka apprehension authority) and jurisdiction in the investigation of national security crimes such as treason, spying, espionage, sedition, subversion, sabotage with intent to damage national defense, and support to international terrorism, while other criminal matters are investigated by the United States Army Criminal Investigation Command aka Army CID. In other branches of the U.S. military, the counterintelligence mission is performed by the Office of Special Investigations for the Air Force, and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service for the Navy and Marine Corps, which also conduct general criminal investigations for their respective services. The Army continues to keep these two investigative channels separate via Army CI and Army CID, even though parallel investigations do happen periodically.
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