G-2 (War Department) organization
also: AC/S G 2, Assistant Chief of Staff G 2, G 2, G-2, G 2 section of the War Department
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Frank Murphy proposed
G-2 (War Department) documented
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“Endorsing this view Attorney General Murphy wrote the President to urge 'abandonment of this interdepartmental committee and 'a concentration of investigation of all espionage counterespionage and sabotage matters in the FBI the G 2 section…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.408
Military Intelligence Division member_of
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“The War Department's G 2 had been cognizant for some time of the incompetency of the personnel in his Intelligence Branch to maintain digests of aviation information…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.175
Ennis C. Whitehead worked_for
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“The Air Section apparently was not formally established until March 1940 when Maj Ennis C Whitehead who was Chief of the Southern European Section of the Intelligence Branch and the only Air Corps officer on duty with G 2 was named Chief of…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.175
United States Army Air Forces did_business_with
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“Attempts were made to enlarge the Section by acquiring more airmen but the AAF itself had an urgent need for personnel to fill its numerous vacancies and made a counteroffer for the removal of G 2's Air Section to the Intelligence Division …”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.176
Military Intelligence Division headed
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“The MID as coordinating agency for such an exchange desired all requests for military information from abroad to be specifically worded and routed through G 2 channels…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.183
G-2 (War Department) worked_for
Chief of the Air Corps Intelligence Division documented
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“Sending officers to England was considered by G 2 and the Chief of the Air Corps Intelligence Division as the best means for gaining information…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.183
Homer Case member_of
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“Lt Col Homer Case SPOBS G 2 for example conferred with the British Ministry on methods of training photo interpreters…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.184
G-2 (War Department) worked_for
Air Corps documented
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“In matters of aeronautical equipment and technical information the Air Corps in the fall of 1940 was authorized by G 2 to divulge data to authorized representatives of the British Empire…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.184
General Scanlon worked_for
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“General Scanlon on the day before Pearl Harbor told G 2 that the proposal was modest in the extreme…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.185
G-2 (War Department) founded
Military Intelligence Service documented
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“G 2's newly established Military Intelligence Service (MIS)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.186
G-2 (War Department) headed
Foreign Liaison Office documented
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“but later was placed under the G-2…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.209
G-2 (War Department) acquired
Signal Security Agency documented
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“operational control of the agency passed on December 15 1944 to G 2 the military intelligence section of the War Department General Staff…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.220