''The History of the Counter Intelligence Corps'' was a
classified 30 volume book prepared in the late 1950s by Major Ann Bray and others at the
United States Army Intelligence Center
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and printed in 1959. The document contains the history of the US Army's
Counter Intelligence Corps
The Counter Intelligence Corps (Army CIC) was a World War II and early Cold War intelligence agency within the United States Army consisting of highly trained special agents. Its role was taken over by the U.S. Army Intelligence Corps in 1961 and ...
(CIC) until 1950. A
declassified
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(sanitized) version of the official history is now available to researchers at the
National Archives and Records Administration
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(NARA).
Volume XXX of the book has been published by
Hanlim University,
Korea
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as ''US Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC - Korea) Archives''
An 18-part series of declassified documents edited by John Mendelsohn and titled ''
Covert Warfare (book), Covert Warfare: Intelligence, counterintelligence, and military deception during the World War II era'' was published in 1989. Part 11 was also named ''The History of the Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC)''.
In December 2005 a single-volume condensed history based on declassified CIC documents was published by the army as
In the Shadow of the Sphynx: A History of Army Counterintelligence'.
References
* ''Covert warfare : Intelligence, counterintelligence, and military deception during the World War II era'
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Further reading
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*Gilbert, James L., John P. Finnegan and Ann Bray.
In the Shadow of the Sphynx: A History of Army Counterintelligence', History Office, Office of Strategic Management and Information, US Army Intelligence and Security Command, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, Dec 2005. (This file might take time to load.)
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Ian Sayer, Sayer, Ian, and
Douglas Botting
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. ''America's Secret Army: The Untold Story of the Counter Intelligence Corps.'' Grafton Books, 1989.
External links
CSI bulletin no. 11at the
CIA
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sit
cia.govExtract from the History of the Counter Intelligence Corps, Volume XX concerning the activities of
Michel Thomas
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Classified documents
Non-fiction books about espionage