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 A Short History of Canadian Military Intelligence

 

        There is this saying in the Intelligence Community that "Intelligence is the second oldest of the worlds professions and is only slightly more respectable..."  One of the earliest examples of Intelligence comes from the Bible.  In Numbers XIII: 2-19, Moses sent a leader from each of the tribes of Israel to spy out the land of Canaan.  These spies succeeded, but misinterpretation of the findings started the Israelites on a 40 year tour of the Sinai.
 

    The Canadian Intelligence Community traces its origins to those British and French officers who were employed at various times in the early history of the country as scouts, guides, agents, liaison officers and on other duties.  The British Army of the 19th Century, which included such colonial militias as the Canadian, owed much of its organization and procedures to principles laid down by the Duke of Wellington.  In his campaigns, Wellington had been his own intelligence officer, however, he created an intelligence organization on 02 June 1809 based on the scout or guide.  Guide units were composed of irregular, light horsemen, normally recruited in the country and employed solely to collect information, either by observing, or by conversation with the local inhabitants.  The guides were under the control of a "Captain of Guides", an officer whose services Wellington called "most essential, there being no map of country and no person capable of giving information of a topographical nature."
 

    Wellingtons guides disappeared at the end of the Napoleonic Wars only to be reformed on 14 December 1846 in India.  They were a rough bunch of men, recruited from every warlike tribe on the frontier and commanded by a "European officer".  They were the first unit to wear Khaki uniforms; and in 1878, they also became the first to wear the Sam Browne belt, named after  their one-armed  commander, who invented it.
 

    The first Guides unit in Canada was the "4th Troop of Volunteer Cavalry of Montreal (or Guides)", formed on 07 February 1862 during the reign of Queen Victoria.  On 17 April 1863, the units name was changed to "The Royal Guides" or the Governor General's Bodyguard.  The title conflicted with that of a Toronto unit and political pressure forced a third name change on 13 April 1866 to "The Royal Guides or Governor General's Bodyguard for lower Canada"; its short title being "The Royal Guides".  In 1866 the Guides were called out to help with the Fenian raiders attacking Canada from the United States.  They took part in an action near St-Armand, Quebec on 09 June that saw the enemy withdraw across the border.  There being no further need, the unit was disbanded on 13 August 1869.
 

    In 1884, Louis Riel returned to Canadian Northwest from the United States.  On 26 March 1885, fighting broke out between  the Mounted Police and Riel's forces.  Major General Frederick Middleton, GOC,  Canadian Militia, was ordered to go at once and restore law and order.  Middleton who was in the West at the time raised a field force from local Militia units and asked Ottawa for further reinforcements.   Among the units sent were Scouts.
 

    One such unit was formed from the Dominion Land Survey and had a strength of three officers and 30 men.  Militia orders called the unit  the "Intelligence Corps", the first such identification in the British Empire.   It became known as "The Dominion Land Surveyor's Intelligence Corps".  Other scout units performed a light cavalry function as well as their more normal role of long-range patrol reconnaissance, locating and reporting on parties of Indians.  They may have been undisciplined, untrained, and unused to war, but they were tough, self-reliant outdoors men who were much less costly to raise and maintain than regular cavalry would have been.  The units were all disbanded by 18 September 1885 and with two exceptions, vanished from the Canadian Militia scene.  The unit from Winnipeg has been perpetuated in the Fort Garry Horse and the Qu'Appelle in the North Saskatchewan Regiment.
 

    During the South African (BOER) war, many Canadians served in all contingents, both official and irregular forces, raised for the war.  Many of these Canadians served with different British scout units and with the wholly Canadian unit, the Lord Strathcona's Horse.  The British Army at the time fielded a large intelligence organization.  This organization was really the forerunner of the intelligence as we know it today.  Several Canadians trained and served in this British system during the war.
 

    On 6 February 1901, the Canadian Militia appointed its first Intelligence Staff Officer (ISO) LCol VB Rivers, RCA.  This officers work culminated in the authority which created the Corps of Guides in the Canadian Army, General Order 61 of 01 Apr 1903.  This order directed that in each of the 12 Military Districts across Canada there would be a District Intelligence Officer (IO), whose duties included command of the Corps of Guides in his District.  (These Districts were numbered from 1 to 13, with the number 9 deleted).  Each Military District was sub-divided into regimental areas and further sub-divided into local Guide areas.  The head of this organization was the Director General of Military Intelligence (DGMI), under the control of the General Officer Commanding (GOC).  The first DGMI was LCol WAC Denny, RASC, a veteran of South Africa.  This was the basic organization for Intelligence with which Canada entered World War I.
 

    The guides were a mounted unit and wore a white standard pattern helmet, khaki tunic with lancer front and a scarlet collar and cuffs, khaki trousers with a 1 3/4 inch scarlet stripe, black boots, box spurs, cavalry pattern sword, and greatcoat.  The khaki and scarlet in the uniform were the same as those worn by the Guides of India.
 
 

    Their badges were in silver or white metal, 'the true and magnetic north points' entwined in a scroll inscribed: GUIDES, CANADA.  Below , a scroll bearing the motto VIRTUE ET LABORE meaning 'By Valour and Exertion', the whole enclosed within a wreathe of maple leaves surmounted by the Tudor Crown.  In 1917, a green band replaced the scarlet band on the DIO's cap, hence the origin of the green colour identified with the Intelligence Branch of current.
 

    Canada was still only a subordinate member of the British Empire when war was declared on the 4th of August 1914.  The machinery of strategic intelligence was therefore located in, responsible to, and managed by Whitehall.  Though the Canadian Director General of Military Intelligence had been required since 1903 "to gather information on foreign armies, militia, military engineering" and to prepare reports for any army in the field, Militia Headquarters in Ottawa had no direct access to official foreign sources (there were no Canadian offices abroad).  In the First World War, Canadian Army personnel were attached to the British Intelligence Corps for employment in intelligence duties such as liaison and counter intelligence.  Others were concentrated in the Canadian Corps of Guides and carried out similar functions in Canada and overseas with the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CHEF).
 

    At this time, the Corps of Guides numbered 499 all ranks, but there was no establishment for Guides in the British organization on which the Canadian Expeditionary Force was based.  Those guides who volunteered had to be assigned to other units and many went into the Canadian Corps of Cyclists.
 

    In September of 1914 a cyclist company was authorized for each Canadian Division, leading to the formation of five cyclist companies.  In 1916, the first three companies were absorbed by the Canadian Cyclist Battalions, the two other companies being broken up for reinforcements for these Battalions.
 


    The Battalions were further reinforced by the cyclists draft.  Up until 1918, however, the Cyclist Battalions had no scope as cyclists and were employed for a wide variety of duties, including spells as infantry in the front line trenches.  During the great advance of 1918 they came into their own as liaison and reconnaissance units and suffered heavy casualties in keeping the Canadian Command in touch with the rapidly changing disposition of both sides.
 

    Many other Guides officers however, became Intelligence staff officers and NCO's in various other units including the Canadian Corps Headquarters (HQ).  The Corps HQ Intelligence Staff included a GSO2 responsible for Corps Intelligence policy and for overseeing the exploitation of all sources of  information.  The staff conducted interrogations and issued an Intelligence Summary at regular intervals, which contained all known enemy information, including translations from enemy documents.
 

    A counter espionage section of the Corps establishment was also created in 1918 and was known as Intelligence (b). I(b) was mainly composed of Canadians who had trained and served as linguists or policemen in the various British armies.  They successfully identified and arrested hundreds of enemy agents involved in clandestine activity.
 

    In the field, the Canadian Expeditionary Force fought as a subordinate formation within the British Command structure.  As such, even in the later stages of the war, it had no direct access to senior sources and agencies, but had instead, to conform to the GHQ assessments.  Because of the much more rigid and immobile character of the war, this lack of direct access was less restrictive than it would have been in the Second World War.  In fact, most of the Corps in the line were quite adequately served by the intelligence facilities within their control.
 

    After the war, the Corps of Guides units in Canada were also converted to cyclist companies.  The cyclists were originally intended to be used to protect the main force from surprise, much like the armoured reconnaissance of today.  However, the years between the wars were lean ones for Intelligence.  The Guides lost their appeal and due to costs were disbanded on 31 March 1929.  This left only a small staff in Ottawa and some districts to carry out intelligence functions.
 

    On 4 April 1932, the Air Force Intelligence Staffs of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) were amalgamated with the remaining Military Intelligence Staffs of the Canadian Army.
 

    Following Canada's declaration of war on 10 September 1939, the Canadian Intelligence Corps was one of the several military establishments which the pressing necessities of war brought into being.  However, while many of its personnel were active as early as 1939, it was not until 29 October 1942 that it was officially recognized as a Corps.  Unlike its British counterpart (formed 25 June 1940), it had none of the experience on which a firm foundation could be built.  Like so many other military departments of comparatively recent origin, it was forced to suffer the consequences of hasty improvisation.  Once it had achieved organic structure, it developed an orderliness and flexibility that compared favourably to that of the older and more rigid organizations.
 

    During the first year of the war, the field of military intelligence in Canada was virtually non-existent.  There was no pre-war structure on which to build, and considerable doubt existed as to where the jurisdiction of the civil authorities left off and the military began.  The result was weakness in certain aspects.  The basic need for an intelligence organization of a purely military nature was early recognized as a natural consequence of the Army's rapid expansion and the degree to which military research was being developed.
 

    Canada, long isolated from physical contact with the turmoil of European affairs, awakened suddenly to the realization that her very isolation, with her untold wealth in natural resources, her proximity to the only Great Power in the western hemisphere, and her military unpreparedness, were threats to her security.  With her four thousand miles of unprotected frontier to the south affording few obstacles to enemy sympathizers, her congested industrial area, and her strategic importance to the Commonwealth efforts in the event of war, the country might prove a great temptation to a resourceful enemy.
 

    The realization that Canada was once again to become embroiled in another war, far from her native shores, did not come overnight; but the magnitude of what was meant by the term - total war - did.  Canada, with vast numbers of nations of foreign extraction or birth, spread from coast to coast, could prove fertile ground for the few who might profess sympathy for the axis, although the large majority were loyal to their country of adoption.  It was a natural supposition that the civil authorities, already well aware of the danger of such a situation arising, could not be expected to cope with the added burden of ensuring the security of the Army, its personnel and its material.  It was natural too, that the rapid mobilization programme could prove an easy entry into an Army for an enemy agent or sympathizer, and thus afford him the opportunity to do damage where it could harm the country the most.  Such was the situation which faced those who were to carry the work of the Corps at the outbreak of war.
 

    At the start, the Corps was small, embracing only those whose specialized knowledge and skill in civilian life were adaptable to meet the situation as it then existed.  As time went on, the ramifications of the Corps grew with the assumption of more and more duties until towards the close of the war, the Corps had an amazing variety of personnel working on an equally amazing variety  of tasks, all of them having a direct association with intelligence.  Men from all walks of life, many of whom were leading figures in our universities and colleges, our business and industries, and including nationals of almost every country on the globe, made up its numbers.  It is perhaps the more striking that their combined efforts were so attuned as to effect a harmony of purpose in achieving the common goal of defeating the enemy.
 

    In operations, military intelligence evaluates and interprets information which indicates the capacity, ability and will of a foreign army, in whole or in part, to wage war.  It is also comprises the denial to an enemy of similar information concerning our own situation, capabilities and intentions.  The application of this principle in Canada throughout the war necessitated the employment of the Corps on such vital tasks as instilling security habits into the Army and training selected personnel for appointments within the Corps, either in Canada or abroad.  Canadian Intelligence staff officers in this country worked in close collaboration with the censorship authorities and prepared instructive material on security requirements for the confidential information of the press.  Later, when the flow of captured prisoners of war commenced to arrive in Canada, personnel from the Corps were instrumental in uncovering some sinister Nazi organizations and pressure groups operating in the camps and in promoting the segregation and re-education of those prisoners of war whom it was possible to retrieve.
 

    Abroad, with the arrival in England of the 1st Canadian Division, and later the 2nd Canadian Division, Canadian Intelligence Corps (C INT C) personnel were withdrawn and despatched to British Intelligence Schools for more advanced training.  On conclusion of their course they were attached to the intelligence staffs of the 'more seasoned' British formations, while their places in the Canadian Forces were filled temporarily by British intelligence officers who had served in France and Belgium prior to Dunkirk.  Gradually, as the Canadians became more proficient, they replaced their British colleagues until, finally, there emerged within the Corps the permanent framework which it was to maintain throughout the hostilities.  The First Canadian Division began to see action in Sicily, Italy, following the landings at Dieppe by the Second Division, where the C INT C took its first casualties of the war.  Captain TM Insinger was killed when his LCT was blown up, Captain F Morgan was killed shortly after he came ashore.  In the Field Security Group, Company Sergeant Major (CSM) JS Milne and Sergeants J Holt and W Corson were killed and five others captured for a total of ten C INT C casualties at Dieppe.  Later, in the Mediterranean Theatre, Corporal AD Yaritch was killed while on duty in the Adriatic, and in North West Europe Sergeants GA Osipoff and F Dummer were killed while on operations in France.
 

    The establishment in the winter of 1942-43 of the First Canadian Army Headquarters brought a periods of tremendous expansion to the Corps, for it involved the creation of a multitude of new establishments.  To provide sufficient interrogators, document teams, photo interpreters, field press censors and the like, that were now required, the Army overseas was thoroughly combed.  Personnel who had previously been dispatched to gain valuable experience with the renowned British Eighth Army, then in North Africa, to the American Headquarters in Casablanca and to the Middle East Headquarters in Cairo, were recalled to the United Kingdom to help in the re-organization.  In Canada, suitably trained intelligence reinforcements were dispatched overseas as fast as training facilities permitted.  On their arrival in the United Kingdom, their cycle of training completed by attending 'finishing schools' operated jointly by Canadian and British Intelligence Corps staffs.  Finally, for the first time in the history of the Canadian Army, intelligence requirements for all formations and units within the Canadian Army were filled by Canadian personnel.  then began that long period of preparation for that historic day, June 6th 1944 when the allies unleashed their might and power against that of the Axis.
 

    Once firmly established on French soil, Canadian Intelligence Corps personnel began to put into practice the principles they had learned in England, North Africa, Sicily and Italy.  As the Allied armies advanced eastwards through France, groups of "stay behind" enemy agents were rapidly ferreted from their places of concealment and, if of French nationality, turned over to the French for examination and trial.  Caches of explosives, to destroy key points, personnel and equipment, were retrieved from underground storage vaults and rendered harmless.  So effective were these efforts that instances of sabotage were few and isolated.   Other branches of intelligence were similarly active.  Captured enemy personnel and material were subjected to the most thorough examination to keep pace with the ever changing enemy order of battle (ORBAT) and improvements in weapons and equipment.  Indications of changes in the identity of formations along the enemy front were gleaned from interception and decoding of this wireless activity, reports from Canadian reconnaissance patrols, tactical air reconnaissance, photographs and captured documents.  All such information was carefully scrutinized, evaluated and passed to those charged with planning.
 

    The same activity and effective results were experienced during the Canadian Army's  drive through Belgium and South Holland.  In December 1944, the German offensive in the Ardennes, with the object of seizing the River Meuse and the capture of Liege to prevent the Allies from mounting an attack in the Aachen sector, was the one occasion when the Canadian Army found itself on the defensive.  Scattered along the length of the Lower Maas, from Nijmegan in the East to Walcheren Island in the West, elements of the Canadian Army were disposed to guard the Allies northern flank.  Threat of attack from this quarter became more apparent hourly as evidenced by reports reaching Canadian Intelligence.  Enemy activity along the north bank of the lower Mass involving mass movement of formations, the erection of rafting sites and barges and vast numbers of recently positioned gun emplacements were clear indications to Intelligence that an attack from this direction, combined with the one already in progress in the Ardennes, was imminent.  As a result, formations of the Canadian units were redeployed to meet the attack which was later revealed to have been directed at Antwerp but cancelled due to the failure of the German forces in the Ardennes to reach their objectives.
 

    In Germany, after the defeat of the German Armies, personnel of the Canadian Intelligence Corps, in keeping with previously laid intelligence plans, assisted in the liquidation of German Intelligence Services, the disbandment of the Nazi party in all its ramifications, and the de-Nazification of German institutions.  Similar procedures were adopted in Holland, where large German forces, their escape to the homeland cut off by the Canadians, were "screened" and those whose names appeared on specially prepared "lists" arrested and held to await trial.
 

    At the end of the war, the Canadian Intelligence Corps was several hundred strong and its personnel were scattered throughout the world.  Many of its members had been seconded to British and American organizations and were employed in a wide variety of activities including clandestine operations in Europe and Asia.  Corps specialists also assisted in interrogation and document research during and after the surrender of Japan.
 

    In Ottawa the first Canadian Director of Military Intelligence was Colonel "Jock" Murray, who was generally regarded as the "founder of the Corps".  It was he who pointed out the need for a Corps Badge and who recommended that the badge should be distinctively Canadian.
 
 

    The rose which appears in the intelligence badges of other countries was not considered sufficiently Canadian.  A variation of the Corps of Guides badge was adopted.  The main features which were retained in the Canadian Intelligence Corps badge are the true and magnetic north points.  These are surrounded by a wreathe of maple leaves.
 

    Prior to this new badge, officers wore the General List badge which comprised of the Royal Coat of Arms, while NCO's wore the Maple Leaf badge with the King's crown superimposed on it.
 

    Canada's world position in 1946 was vastly different from that which pertained in 1919.  the requirement for intelligence and security was recognized and the Canadian Intelligence Corps (C INT C) was included in the post war regular army.  It was one of the  first such Corps to be included in the regular forces of any nation and referred to by both British and United States authorities when they eventually created their regular Intelligence Corps some years later.  Curiously, in the immediate post-war period, the Canadian Intelligence Corps was largely concerned with security duties and could almost  have been called a counter intelligence (CI) corps.  The Gouznko spy case undoubtedly had some influence on this.
 

    The end of the war also led to a great reduction in the size of the regular forces in order to conform to peacetime requirements.  The officers and men of the active component of the C INT C were either employed in intelligence duties or served tours of duty with other branches of the army in order to acquire a broader knowledge of military affairs.
 

    As early as 1947 the Corps operated an intelligence training school at Camp Petawawa where courses were conducted for both active and later reserve force personnel of all Corps.  In 1948, the Canadian Militia was authorized six Intelligence Training Companies, No. 1 in Montreal; No. 2 in Toronto; No. 3 in Halifax; No.4 in Vancouver; No.5 in Winnipeg and No.6 in Edmonton.  The basic aim of these companies was to provide a pool of trained manpower to augment the Regular Force in the 1950's with the onset of the Korean War.  It was during this same period that Field Security Sections and other Corps representatives were dispatched to both Korea and Germany.
 

    The contribution of the Canadian Intelligence Corps to the United Nations Force in Korea was expressed by the inclusion of No.1 Field Security Section within 24 Canadian Infantry Brigade.  This section was recruited throughout Quebec and Central Commands and included representatives of both active and reserve forces.  With the formation of the 27 Canadian Infantry Brigade, for duty with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), came the mobilization of No. 1 Reserve Force Intelligence Training Company of Montreal to form the No.2 Field Security Section for operations in Europe.  This section was perpetuated in recent years by the Headquarters 4 Canadian Mechanized Brigade group (HQ 4 CMBG) Field Security Section, located in Lahr, Germany until 1993, when the Canadian Army were withdrawn from Europe.
 

    The other intelligence staffs/sections that were also formed at approximately the same time were apart of the Headquarters of Canadian Forces, 27 Brigade and the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) 1st Air Division/ Air Group.   These sections remained until 1993, when al Canadian Forces were withdrawn from Central Europe (Germany).
 

    In 1952 training activities were moved to Camp Borden where the Canadian School of  Military Intelligence opened.  The school was the centre for training Corps members of both the Regular and Militia Forces, as well as personnel from other Corps services.  The school was regarded as the home of the Corps and was the Only regular establishment which flew the Corps flag made of dark green rayon with the Corps badge centre, embroidered in silver bouillon.  During the 1950's and 60's, members of the Corps were engaged in a variety of intelligence functions.  Officers held a number of intelligence and other staff appointments throughout Canada.  A small counter intelligence (CI) detachment was located in Germany and officers and men were located in the United Kingdom, United States and Cyprus.  A number of Corps officers and men remained engaged in security details but an increasing number were involved in imagery interpretation and strategic and combat intelligence duties.
 

    Canadian photo interpreters had been trained in the UK during the war, but starting in 1948, a school was formed at Rivers, Manitoba called the JOINT AIR PHOTO INTERPRETATION SCHOOL (JAPIS).  In 1950, the AIR PHOTO INTERPRETATION CENTRE (APIC) was formed at Rockcliffe.  Three Lancaster's flown by 408 Squadron flew photo recce missions covering northern airfields and mapping the north.  In 1953, the Army Photo Interpretation (PI) Centre, called the Number One ARMY  PHOTO INTERPRETATION SECTION (APIS) was formed, and also located at Rockcliffe.  The APIS also covered Naval area of interest.  In 1960, the school at Rivers closed, APIC and APIS ceased to function and all three were amalgamated to form the JOINT PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION CENTRE (JAPIC) making it fully responsible for training PI's.
 

    In 1959, the Directorate of Air Intelligence (DAI) was located at Beaver Barracks in Ottawa, where it looked after photo analysis.  The C INT C staff and intelligence staff for  the Royal Canadian Navy were located in National Defence Headquarters under the Director General Intelligence (DGI).  In 1965 a further integration took place, JAPIC became the DEFENCE PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION CENTRE (DPIC).  Between then and 1974, DPIC changed to the CANADIAN FORCES PHOTO INTERPRETATION UNIT (CFPIU), although two groups of PI's were detached to DGI to work on special projects.  In 1975, these two groups  along with desk analysts formed DIRECTORATE DEFENCE INTELLIGENCE (DDI) 2-7 and were moved to Tunney's Pasture.  In 1978, CFPU also moved to the same location, and in 1980, on instruction from the CDS, CFPIU was disbanded and with DDI 2-7, formed DDI 6.  In 1986 an expansion of DDI 6 lead to the formation of the Directorate of Imagery Exploitation (DIE).
 

    It should be noted that the three separate arms of the Canadian Forces were integrated on the 1st of January 1968.  This in turn led to the formation of the CF Security Branch in 1969.  Until this time, the C INT C provided intelligence personnel; for the Canadian Army while the RCAF was served by the Clerk Intel trade and the RCN simply employed operational personnel on intelligence duties.
 
 

    On integration of these services into the Canadian Forces in 1968, members of the C INT C and the Clerk Intel trade of the RCAF were amalgamated, along with members of the Canadian Provost Corps and the Air Force Police, into the Security Branch of the Canadian Forces.  All members wore the "Thunderbird" as cap insignia.  Members of the Branch were designated Military Police (MP 811) or Intelligence Operators (IntOp 111) and as Security Officer (Sec MP 81B), or Intelligence Officer (Sec Int 81D).  The theory, at the time, was that personnel would be cross trained; ie, an officer with primary training and experience in intelligence duties could eventually be given training in and posted to security duties.  In practice, this seldom occurred.
 

    During the period 1968 to 1981, at least three formal studies were conducted to assess the efficiency and the effectiveness of grouping the security and intelligence functions into one branch.  Eventually, in late 1981, the CDS was convinced that sufficient disparity in duties existed - that  the functions should be separated, and concurred with a study recommending that the existing Security Branch be split into two separate Branches.  The security and Police functions were to remain in the Security Branch and a new Intelligence Branch was to be created.  Insignia were rapidly designed, received Royal assent and entered production.  Sir William Stephenson, CC, MC, DFC - " A Man Called Intrepid ", graciously accepted the appointment as first Colonel Commandant of the Intelligence Branch.  The official date designated by the CDS for the formation of the new Branch was 1 October 1982.  However, members of the new Branch successfully argued to have the actual re-badging held on 29 October 1982 -- the 40th Anniversary of the birth of the Canadian Intelligence Corps -- and on that date Canadian Intelligence personnel wore the new badge for the first time.
 

    Since that time, Sir William Stephenson has been succeeded by Brigadier General R.J.C Weeks, continuing the tradition of the Intelligence Branch that began with the appointment of General H.D.G. Crerar as the first Honorary Colonel Commandant of the Canadian Intelligence Corps.
 

    It should also be noted that the present Intelligence Branch badge continues the heritage of Military Intelligence in Canada:
 
 

    The Canadian Intelligence Corps Regimental march SILVER AND GREEN has also been superseded by the Intelligence Branch march - A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC by Mozart.  The Canadian Intelligence Corps motto: ACTION FROM KNOWLEDGE has been replaced by the Intelligence Branch motto, a latin translation of - OUT OF DARKNESS, LIGHT - E TENEBRIS LUX.
 


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