Army Counterintelligence Command (ACIC) (@Real

Army Counterintelligence Command (ACIC)

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Army Counterintelligence Command (ACIC)

@Real_ArmyCI

Official account of Army Counterintelligence Command. Following, RTs and links ≠ endorsement. Have information that might interest ACIC? Dial 800-CALLSPY

Fort Meade, MD

Joined July 2019

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Army Counterintelligence Command (ACIC)
@Real_ArmyCI
Feb 18
See something suspicious? Get as many details as you can. Then:  • Contact your local Army counterintelligence covering agent • Report through iSalute • Call 1-800-CALLSPY • Contact your security manager or commander  Imminent threats to life or property? Call 911 or MPs
Army Counterintelligence Command (ACIC)
@Real_ArmyCI
Jul 6
Report immediately. It's 100% confidential. • Contact your local Army counterintelligence covering agent • Call 1-800-CALLSPY • Report through iSalute • Contact your security manager or commander Imminent threats to life or property? Call 911 or Military Police.
Army Counterintelligence Command (ACIC)
@Real_ArmyCI
Jul 4
Since the Nation’s founding, the U.S. Army has been pivotal in protecting our independence and our union. From the Culper Spy Ring to the CIP, the CIC, and today’s CI agents, our Army CI personnel have played a critical role in the fight for our new nation and its preservation.
Army Counterintelligence Command (ACIC)
@Real_ArmyCI
Jul 2
Army Counterintelligence Command (ACIC)
@Real_ArmyCI
Jul 2
On July 2, 1992, the Military Intelligence Corps March was played for the first time publicly during the annual MI Hall of Fame induction ceremony. It remains the official song of the MI Corps.
Army Counterintelligence Command (ACIC)
@Real_ArmyCI
Jul 2
In 1990, CW2 Kenneth D. Allen, the 18th Army Band bandmaster, wrote his version of the MI Corps March. Lt. Col. Porfirio Montes, then 306th MI Battalion commander, and Maj. David Bilyeu, the 112th MI Brigade XO, both at the Army Intel School at Fort Devens, provided lyrics.
Army Counterintelligence Command (ACIC)
@Real_ArmyCI
Jul 2
Onward to victory! Our silent warriors to the fight. Onward to victory! Trained and ready day or night. Peace through intelligence! Here’s to your health and to our Corps. Strength through intelligence! Toujours Avant (Forever Forward) for ever more.
Army Counterintelligence Command (ACIC)
@Real_ArmyCI
Jul 1
Happy birthday, Military Intelligence Corps! On July 1, 1962, the @USArmy formally created the Intelligence and Security Branch. In July 1967, the branch was redesignated the Military Intelligence Branch. On July 1, 1987, the MI Corps activated under the Army Regimental System.
Army Counterintelligence Command (ACIC)
@Real_ArmyCI
Jun 30
See it? Report immediately. It's 100% confidential. • Contact your local Army counterintelligence covering agent • Call 1-800-CALLSPY • Report through iSalute • Contact your security manager or commander Imminent threats to life or property? Call 911 or Military Police.
Army Counterintelligence Command (ACIC)
@Real_ArmyCI
Jun 28
On June 28, 1776, Sgt. Thomas Hickey was executed by the Continental Army for mutiny, sedition, and treachery. He served as one of General Washington's bodyguards until John Jay's investigation exposed Hickey's involvement in a plot to capture or kill the general.
Army Counterintelligence Command (ACIC)
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Jun 28
GW said, "The unhappy fate of Thomas Hickey [...], the General hopes will be a warning to every soldier in the Army to avoid those crimes, and all others, so disgraceful to the character of a soldier, and pernicious to his country, whose pay he receives and bread he eats."
Army Counterintelligence Command (ACIC)
@Real_ArmyCI
Jun 27
Today, we remember and honor Sgt. 1st Class Charlie W. Payne. On June 27, 1951, Payne, an agent with the 442d Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) Detachment, was killed in action while leading four agents behind enemy lines near Kaachil-li, North Korea.
Army Counterintelligence Command (ACIC)
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Jun 26
On June 26, 2000, retired U.S. Army Col. George Trofimoff was found guilty of passing secret documents from a military base in Germany to the Soviet KGB, and later to Russia's foreign espionage service. He was later sentenced to life imprisonment.
Army Counterintelligence Command (ACIC)
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Jun 24
On June 24, 1994, Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Eugene Gregory and Sgt. Jeffrey Stephen Rondeau were sentenced to 18 years in prison. Both were members of the spy ring operating out of Germany in the mid-1980s that sold U.S. and NATO military secrets to Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
Army Counterintelligence Command (ACIC)
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Jun 24
On June 24, 2022, Ethan Phelan Melzer, aka Etil Reggad, pled guilty to attempting to murder U.S. service members, providing and attempting to provide material support to terrorists, and illegally transmitting national defense information. He was sentenced to 45 years in prison.
Army Counterintelligence Command (ACIC)
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Jun 23
June 23 is National Typewriter Day, the anniversary of the 1868 patent granted to American inventor Christopher Latham Sholes for the first commercially successful typewriter. Fun CI fact: Former Army CI Special Agent Leroy Anderson composed "The Typewriter" on October 9, 1950.
Army Counterintelligence Command (ACIC)
@Real_ArmyCI
Jun 23
On June 23, 2021, Mariam Thompson was sentenced to 23 years in prison for delivering classified national defense information to aid a foreign government. She admitted believing the info she passed would be provided to Lebanese Hezbollah, a designated foreign terrorist org.