Defense Intelligence Agency

For information on the real-world agency, see Defense Intelligence Agency on Wikipedia.

Mentioned-only faction
Defense Intelligence Agency
Defence Intelligence Agency seal
Society
Members	LTC Deborah A. Finch Lt. Krumfolz Cpl. Jay T. Faraday Cpl. Michael F. Gelesky Colonel Johnson Dr. Mae Dr. Malcolm Dr. Ramarijan
Locations
Locations	Naval recruiting center The Switchboard Camp Liberty
Organizations
Parent	Department of Defense
Related	United States Armed Forces Operation Sleeping Giant
Credits
Appearances	Mentioned-only
Mentioned in	Point Lookout Fallout 4 Fallout 76

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) was a pre-War intelligence agency of the United States.

Background

The DIA was an external intelligence service specializing in defense and military intelligence. Monitoring foreign powers and non-state actors, the ostensibly military agency evolved to be a powerful intelligence organization of the Department of Defense, operating secret facilities across the United States, especially in high tech locales like Boston. The agency worked with and included members from various branches of the U.S. military, including the U.S. Navy.

Operations

As an intelligence agency, the DIA's activities were classified. More than that, many DIA facilities were black sites, never officially existing, with numerous field caches hidden across the continental United States to aid field operatives. The secrecy allowed the agency to maintain an extensive intelligence network abroad and on the domestic front, comprised of human intelligence, signals intelligence, data processing, and more. To maintain secrecy, the DIA had to go to great lengths at times, such as when Slocum's Joe #38, the cover operation for The Switchboard, had to deter Lexington customers. Ever increasing customer traffic buying overpriced coffee and donuts warranted increasingly drastic measures, such as halving cleaning, deliberately misleading customers, and even deploying hydrogen sulfide.

The DIA's technological capabilities were more advanced than many branches of the government. Much of its operations were classified and hidden even from other agencies. For example, black boxes installed across Appalachia were a mystery to the Navy's Sugar Grove SigInt before the War and the Appalachian Enclave after the War, which gained access to government archives after its coup.

P.A.M. Initiative

The P.A.M. Initiative was one of the most ambitious, daring, and successful projects, resulting in the creation of a data processing system that allowed the agency to predict the actions of foreign entities. By crunching the vast amounts of data provided, PAM could provide analyses or suggest corrective measures to achieve specific goals. Its first major success was stabilizing the situation in the Taiwan Strait, following the Pascale Incident. After tapping it into all the military and civilian agency intelligence databanks, combined with greatly increased funding, the PAM project carried out at The Switchboard black site, PAM provided a decided edge against China in terms of intelligence. As it developed, PAM was used not just to process data, but to determine the likelihood of various military scenarios playing out, such as determining the likelihood of a coordinated nuclear strike by China and the Soviet Union six months into the Chinese invasion of Alaska (June 2067).

One discovery made by PAM was determining (with a 91% likelihood) the possible existence of large-scale experiments with stealth technology in December 2075 and tying it to seemingly frivolous reports of the existence of a Chinese Ghost Fleet: Stealth submarines that guaranteed retaliatory capabilities to the communist power. Due to the absence of corroborating evidence, the conclusion was buried as fantasy.

CRYPTOS

Main article: CRYPTOS

While being one of the more technologically advanced government branches, the DIA still commissioned work to outside corporations, such as for the creation of the custom, multi-million dollar mainframe CRYPTOS created by RobCo. CRYPTOS was intended for use in "a top secret government project," but the DIA pulled the contract just as work was completed on the mainframe. Zack Hayes, a RobCo employee, was able to sell CRYPTOS to Frederick Rivers before the Great War to recover some of the money used to make it.

Project Seraph

The DIA also contracted the Vault-Tec Corporation for the development of Project SERAPH. SERAPH would have been an experimental Class-IV hypergenetic virus intended to penetrate high-security defense and intelligence mainframes. The Great War occurred before the project progressed past the prototype stage, but the overseer of Vault 96, Erik DeMarcos, held onto the holotape with work on the virus. He hoped to use it to disable the vault's mainframe and let everyone escape the vault. Erik worked on the virus for almost three years, and after its completion, the group attempted to leave the vault. However, a superseding protocol not on the vault mainframe activated just when they thought they would actually make it out, and every remaining member of Vault 96 was killed by the vault's automated security.

Human experiments

Main article: Operation Sleeping Giant

As human rights eroded, the DIA became involved in social experiments. Operation Sleeping Giant was launched in 2076-2077, to demonstrate the viability of brainwashing on American citizens, to obtain additional funding and counteract any attempt by communist states to do the same. They experimented on children, Pioneer Scouts sent to Camp Liberty, who were conditioned to be hardline communists and turned into sleeper agents. The agency slated any deprogramming efforts for the conclusion of the experiment (assuming funding was secured), and due to the Great War, inadvertently created an undisclosed number of communist sleeper agents in Appalachia.

Locations

Domestic

• Camp Liberty, West Virginia: A Pioneer Scouts summer camp used for Operation Sleeping Giant.
• Naval recruiting center, Maryland: Field office established to apprehend Wan Yang.
• The Switchboard, Massachusetts: A black site below the Lexington Slocum's Joe shop in New England, used to create the Predictive Analytic Machine. The facility was repurposed into the headquarters of the Railroad until the Institute attacked and put the facility out of action. Further Railroad missions have the Sole Survivor seek caches left around the Commonwealth by the DIA.

Foreign

• Monitoring stations A-31 and B-19

Notable cases

• Apprehension of Wan Yang, a Chinese field agent, in Maryland.

Appearances

The Defense Intelligence Agency is mentioned in the Fallout 3 add-on Point Lookout, Fallout 4, and Fallout 76.

Behind the scenes

• The Defense Intelligence Agency is a real-world agency and division of the United States Department of Defense. It was founded on October 1, 1961, during the Cold War, under President John F. Kennedy.
• Cut content in Fallout 76 includes Event: The Black Box: The DIA deployed a series of mysterious "black boxes" throughout Appalachia, used as surveillance equipment for unknown purposes. Systems attached to these black boxes could conscript civilians to act as special DIA couriers who would send the black boxes to specific transceiver locations.