Office of Intelligence and Analysis (Treasury Department)

The Office of Intelligence and Analysis ( OIA; German Office of Intelligence Information and Analysis ) is the news service of the Department of the Treasury ( Treasury, meant: Ministry of Finance ) of the United States. Shall maintain the OIA from Assistant Secretary ( as Secretary of State ) of the Treasury Department, as head of the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI ), ( Office of Intelligence for Terrorism and Financial).

Order

The current legal basis of the OIA is the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004. Thereafter, the OIA is responsible for receiving, analyzing, the synopsis and the distribution of intelligence information, the work and the responsibility of the U.S. Treasury are required for the. The OIA is the Department of the Treasury assist in the preparation and implementation of its policy.

Here, the main goal is to preserve the safety of the financial system of the United States and prevent threats to the national security through financial activities. Our priorities are information on the financing of terrorism, the proliferation of NBC weapons, the finances of unjust regimes and information on money laundering and drug money.

Another objective is the timely, accurate and targeted information with news material in the entire area of ​​the economy, politics and security, as far as financial matters are concerned.

History

When Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks in 1974 was to publish her ​​tell-all book "CIA", the Office of Intelligence with 300 agents of the Treasury and $ 10 million budget, the smallest U.S. intelligence. (Overview in the article Air Intelligence Agency, which was then the largest U.S. intelligence ).

News sources and integration

As a co-sponsor of major international financial institutions, the Department of Treasury immediate access to many information that can be used for analyzes of the OIA, such as SWIFT. In view of the importance of the U.S. market, there is also a strong pressure on foreign banks may not deny the desired information. Among the other intelligence services of the United States is primarily the National Security Agency ( NSA) ( German: National Security Agency ), which is responsible for the global monitoring and decryption of electronic communication, the most important news supplier.

Source

• Victor Marchetti, John D. Marks: CIA. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-453-00548-1, pp. 118-129 ( 7016 Heyne-Bücher. Heyne nonfiction ).