Secret Service Bureau organization
also: Baker's spy service
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Lafayette Baker founded
Secret Service Bureau documented
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“Establishing offices at 217 Pennsylvania Avenue in close proximity to both the White House and the War Department Baker began gathering recruits and organizing his unit Operating without official status the group was generally referred to a…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.44
Secret Service Bureau operated_in
Washington, D.C. documented
document
“Establishing offices at 217 Pennsylvania Avenue in close proximity to both the White House and the War Department Baker began gathering recruits and organizing his unit…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.44
Secret Service Bureau operated_in
New York City documented
document
“By the summer of 1863 a branch office had been set up in New York City…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.45
Secret Service Bureau spied_on
Confederate States of America documented
document
“kept a close watch on Confederate activities in Canada…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.45
Secret Service Bureau spied_on
George B. McClellan documented
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“Baker's personal penetration of the Confederate forces at Manassas resulted in the discovery that the fortifications and artillery which were supposedly keeping McClellan's army at bay were actually earthen and wooden fakes and later Lincol…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.45
Abraham Lincoln recruited
Secret Service Bureau documented
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“later Lincoln utilized the services of one of Baker's agents to secretly observe McClellan's conduct on the battlefield…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.45