The National Background Investigations Bureau (NBIB) was a
semi-autonomous
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U.S. Government agency that was housed within the United States
Office of Personnel Management
An office is a space where an organization's employees perform administrative work in order to support and realize objects and goals of the organization. The word "office" may also denote a position within an organization with specific duti ...
. In September 2019, background investigations were transferred from OPM's NBIB to
Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency.
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USIS
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Edward Snowden
Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is an American and naturalized Russian former computer intelligence consultant who leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013, when he was an employee and su ...
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Blake Percival
Blake Percival was the Director of Fieldwork Services, Western Pennsylvania,(WPA), for USIS. He became a whistleblower in July 2011, when he filed a ''qui tam'' suit saying he was fired from USIS, for not ordering his subordinates to submit case ...
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2016 establishments in the United States
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