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military intelligence
military intelligence, in the shape of the army's intelligence directorate, has intermittently played an important role in Irish national affairs, while also serving the army's own operational needs. During the Civil War the army assumed responsibility not only for intelligence regarding its armed opponents but also for monitoring the political activities of republican, revolutionary, and pro‐British groups, and for counter‐espionage. These functions were ceded to the Gárda Special Branch in 1926, but army intelligence resumed counter‐espionage work in 1938 to deal with German activities in Ireland directed against Britain. During the Second World War army intelligence controlled telephone tapping, postal interception and censorship, and other forms of overt and covert state intrusion into citizens' affairs. In 1945 it lost most of its investigative functions, although it retained responsibility for counter‐espionage. Army intelligence has since played only a limited role in internal security questions, while continuing to perform its conventional military intelligence functions, although an officer was involved in the ‘arms crisis’ which convulsed Irish politics in 1970.
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"military intelligence." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "military intelligence." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O245-militaryintelligence.html "military intelligence." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O245-militaryintelligence.html |
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military intelligence
military intelligence intelligence on any foreign military or military-related situation or activity which is significant to military policy-making or the planning and conduct of military operations and activities.
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"military intelligence." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "military intelligence." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O63-militaryintelligence.html "military intelligence." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O63-militaryintelligence.html |
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