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By Greg Elder | October 27, 2016
During Virginia Hall’s time working for British Special Operations Executive (SOE) and U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS), she regularly radioed back to headquarters to provide troop movements and other critical updates. (Photo by Photo courtesy of The Smithsonian)
President Harry Truman received a memorandum offering the opportunity to present the Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) to Virginia Hall, May 12, 1945. She was the first civilian woman to win the award. (Photo by Photo courtesy of army.mil)
DIA is the nation’s premier all-source military intelligence organization.
It provides the nation’s most authoritative assessments of foreign military intentions and capabilities. The agency’s four core competencies -- human intelligence, all-source analysis, counterintelligence and technical intelligence -- enable military operations while also informing policy-makers at the defense and national levels.
DIA’s mission is unique and no other agency matches its military expertise across such a broad range of intelligence disciplines.