CIA Columbia Oficina Asuntos Regionales Challenge Coin

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NEVER SEEN BEFORE! This auction is for an AUTHENTIC and INCREDIBLY RARE CIA Columbia Oficina de Asuntos Regionales (office of regional matters) Challenge Coin . Thiscoin is incredibly hard to find and I have never seen another like iton Ebay. The coin has incredible 3D detail. This is an amazing coin and would be the focal point of any collection. This is an AUTHENTIC coin; it is not a reproduction or commemorative coin . It has great color and detail and would make a great addition to any collection. All of my coins are 100% authentic and were either presented to me by an individual within the organization or by the person on the coin (upper echelon individual command coins). These coins are the real deal as circulated within the military community. They are not for sale to the civilian community. I have served in the Army, Air Force, and Joint communities in assignments around the world. This is my retirement sale, and I'm scaling down many military items, please check back frequently for additional items. I do accept emailed offers as well. ------- The United States has carried on foreign intelligence activities since the days of George Washington, but only since World War II have they been coordinated on a government-wide basis. Even before Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was concerned about American intelligence deficiencies. He asked New York lawyer William J. Donovan to draft a plan for an intelligence service. The Office of Strategic Services was established in June 1942 with a mandate to collect and analyze strategic information required by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and to conduct special operations not assigned to other agencies. During the War, the OSS supplied policy makers with essential facts and intelligence estimates and often played an important role in directly aiding military campaigns. But the OSS never received complete jurisdiction over all foreign intelligence activities. Since the early 1930s the FBI had been responsible for intelligence work in Latin America, and the military services protected their areas of responsibility. In October 1945, the OSS was abolished and its functions transferred to the State and War Departments. But the need for a postwar centralized intelligence system was clearly recognized. Eleven months earlier, Donovan, by then a major general, had submitted to President Roosevelt a proposal calling for the separation of OSS from the Joint Chiefs of Staff with the new organization having direct Presidential supervision. Donovan proposed an "organization which will procure intelligence both by overt and covert methods and will at the same time provide intelligence guidance, determine national intelligence objectives, and correlate the intelligence material collected by all government agencies." Under his plan, a powerful, centralized civilian agency would have coordinated all the intelligence services. He also proposed that this agency have authority to conduct "subversive operations abroad," but "no police or law enforcement functions, either at home or abroad." Donovan's plan drew heavy fire. The military services generally opposed a complete merger. The State Department thought it should supervise all peacetime operations affecting foreign relations. The FBI supported a system wby military intelligence worldwide would be handled by the armed services, and all civilian activities would be under FBI's own jurisdiction. In response to this policy debate, President Harry S. Truman established the Central Intelligence Group in January 1946, directing it to coordinate existing departmental intelligence, supplementing but not supplanting their services. This was all to be done under the direction of a National Intelligence Authority composed of a Presidential representative and the Secretaries of State, War and Navy. Rear Admiral Sidney W. Souers, USNR, who was the Deputy Chief of Naval Intelligence, was appointed the first Director of Central Intelligence. Twenty months later, the National Intelligence Authority and its oper... read more

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