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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.^[2]

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.^[3]

The front for the organization was actually an operating law firm, called the "Importers and Exporters Service Company." It operated out of room 4332 of the International Building at 30 Rockefeller Center--the RCA Building--beginning in August 1940.^[4] The organization 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.^[5]

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.

Ties in with the "oops, went too far" series of Q drops a few months ago.

950 posted on 05/16/2018 2:19:27 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

Frankly, that Q member must not have seen Captain America because that film red-pilled everybody about Hydra (Op PaperClip) 5yrs ago.


972 posted on 05/16/2018 2:37:31 PM PDT by txhurl (World War Q)
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To: Cboldt
Very informative. Thanks for that post.


1,028 posted on 05/16/2018 3:27:12 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Francis is a Nincompope.)
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To: Cboldt

I found a different group that represents SIS. Wasn’t sure if anyone had posted this one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Intelligence_Service

The Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) was the United States Army codebreaking division, headquartered at Arlington Hall (former campus of Arlington Hall Junior College for Women, founded 1927 to 1942, on Arlington Boulevard in Arlington, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.). It was a part of the U.S. Army Signal Corps so secret that outside the office of the Chief Signal officer, it did not officially exist. SIS was an early predecessor to the modern National Security Agency (NSA) and later appropriated by the National Security Council who reappointed the resources into the modern NSA.


1,094 posted on 05/16/2018 4:30:48 PM PDT by truthluva (MAGA)
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To: Cboldt

Thank you, really good information.


1,099 posted on 05/16/2018 4:35:38 PM PDT by StormFlag (May the Light shine and darkness remove, MAGA)
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