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2 unusual facts about Defense Intelligence Agency


Fred V. Cherry

After returning home, Cherry attended the National War College, and was assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency, retiring from the Air Force with over 30 years of service on 1 September 1981.

Ronald Montaperto

Ronald N. Montaperto is a former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst who admitted to leaking classified defense information to China.


Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haïti

According to Constant, shortly after Aristide's ouster, Colonel Patrick Collins, a U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), attache who was stationed in Haiti from 1989 to 1992, pressured him to organize a front that could oppose the Aristide movement and do intelligence work against it.

Plato Cacheris

Defense of Ana Montes, analyst of the Defense Intelligence Agency who pled guilty to conspiracy to commit espionage for the Intelligence Directorate of Cuba

Strategy of Technology

In 1983, The US Defense Intelligence Agency established a classified program, Project Socrates, to develop a national technology strategy policy.

United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations

He appointed Special Agent Joseph Carroll, a senior FBI official and assistant to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, as the first AFOSI commander and charged him with providing independent, unbiased and centrally directed investigations of criminal activity in the Air Force who later became the first director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.


see also

Michael Flynn

Michael T. Flynn, U.S. lieutenant general, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency

Patrick Hughes

Patrick M. Hughes (born 1942), director of the Defense Intelligence Agency