Office of Intelligence Liaison

Office of Intelligence Liaison

The Office of Intelligence Liaison was an office of the United States Government. It was created on May 5, 1977 by the CIA, the NSA and the Department of Commerce. Its task was to handle foreign intelligence of interest to the Department of Commerce. In 1993, the existence of the office was revealed by a British television program and in 1996 the name was changed to the Office for Executive Support.

Further reading

  • Keefe, Patrick Radden Chatter: Dispatches From the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping; Random House Publishing, New York, NY; ISBN 1-4000-6034-6; 2005.

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