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Article: Special Collection Service, United States
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- Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, andSecurity
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Special Collection Service, United States
The National Security Agency (NSA) has a reputation as the most secretive major component of the United States intelligence community, but it is a veritable open book in comparison to one of its subsidiary organizations, the Special Collection Service (SCS). The latter is known to be engaged in communications intelligence (COMINT), primarily in hostile countries, and its personnel appears to include both NSA and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operatives.
So secretive that it is sometimes jokingly called "No Such Agency," NSA is home to an even more obscure group, the Central Security Service (CSS). Established in 1972 to provide ...