SPECIAL COLLECTION SERVICE/F6 - (CIA/NSA) Joint CIA/NSA clandestine eavesdropping program using surveillance and eavesdropping equipment. Due to advances in communications encryptions, the NSA needed a more aggressive approach than their traditional, passive listening role. With experience of clandestine infiltration operations worldwide, the CIA was the obvious partner of choice. Headquartered in Beltsville, Maryland the SCS nickname is the "Mission Impossible force". The headquarters contains a testing and engineering centre for espionage equipment, including a 'live room' where devices are tested in an environment simulating target insertion areas. SCS staff deploy to Embassies and Diplomatic Missions Worldwide to install, operate and service, then remove devices. Operations have ranged from the Cold War to the War on Terror. Code-name F6. Part of STATEROOM.
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