Appendix B

Selected Chronology of OTS

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.

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