Appendix B
1942
Office of Strategic Services is established with William J. Donovan as Director. OSS establishes Research & Development Branch under Stanley P. Lovell.
1947
National Security Act establishes CIA.
1951 (September 7)
CIA Technical Services Staff (TSS) created under James H. “Trapper” Drum.
1956
First U-2 reconnaissance flight over Soviet Union.
1959
Cornerstone laid for CIA Original Headquarters Building at Langley, Virginia.
1960
First satellite photos of Soviet Union recovered. TSS renamed Technical Services Division (TSD). Three TSD audio techs arrested in Havana.
1961
Invasion of Cuba by CIA-supported Cuban exiles.
1962
Seymour Russell appointed Chief, TSD. Oleg Penkovsky arrested. Cuban Missile Crisis.
1963
TSD audio techs released from Cuban jail.
1966
Dr. Sidney Gottlieb appointed Chief, TSD. TSD relocated to former CIA Headquarters at 2430 E Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
1973 (May 4)
TSD renamed Office of Technical Service and transferred from the Directorate of Operations to the Directorate of Science and Technology.
1975
President Gerald Ford creates “Commission on CIA Activities within the United States” (Rockefeller Commission).
The Senate establishes a Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (Church Committee).
1978
OTS assigned responsibility for all CIA covert communications.
1985
Cornerstone laid for CIA’s New Headquarters Building.
1988
OTS moves from E Street to CIA’s New Headquarters Building.
1989
Berlin Wall destroyed.
1991
Collapse of Soviet Union; nation of Russia restored.
1996
Responsibility for clandestine audio operations transferred from OTS to the Clandestine Information Technology Office.
1997 (September 18)
CIA’s 50th anniversary. OTS officers honored as CIA Trailblazers.
2001 (September 7)
OTS’s fiftieth anniversary.
2001 (September 11)
Al-Qaeda hijacking of four commercial airliners and terrorist attack on United States.