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2025-07-22	2026-10-08	Defense Intelligence Agency	Organization Intelligence Government USA Defense Military DarkAllianceInvestigation	U.S. Government	The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is a major intelligence agency of the United States, specializing in defense and military intelligence.	1961-10-01	Washington, D.C.	type with reverse role start end fn employed_by Bobby Ray Inman true vice director for plans, operations and support 1976 1977 7

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is a major intelligence agency of the United States, specializing in defense and military intelligence. The DIA played a significant role in the oversight and funding of the Stargate Project, particularly after the Army's initial involvement.¹

In March 1979, when Jimmy Carter decided to provide Israel with KH-11 satellite photographs, the images were picked up by Israeli military attachés at a special Pentagon office controlled by the DIA. Following the Israeli bombing of Osirak bombing in June 1981, a review found that Israel had significantly expanded the agreement, leading to anger within the Central Intelligence Agency and DIA over the "very lax" management of the liaison agreement.²

Director Daniel O. Graham

Daniel O. Graham directed the agency from September 1974. He declared his intention to retire on November 3, 1975, when the dismissal of Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger and Director of Central Intelligence William Colby was announced, and retired on January 1, 1976.³ He told the Senate Select Committee in 1987 that the DIA "coordinates all military intelligence activities."⁴ On June 23, 1975 he submitted a written statement to the House Appropriations Military Construction Subcommittee asking for $86.1 million in the fiscal 1976 budget for a new DIA building.⁵ The DIA report "Soviet and Czechoslovakian Parapsychology Research" was issued in September 1975, during his directorship, under the task number PT-1810-12-75.⁶

Vice director Bobby Ray Inman, 1976 to 1977

Bobby Ray Inman, who had been Director of Naval Intelligence in 1974, became vice director of the agency in 1976. His title in that post was "Vice Director for Plans, Operations and Support." He became director of the NSA in July 1977.⁷⁸

Involvement in Psi Research

The DIA's interest in psi research was driven by concerns over perceived Soviet advancements. A 1972 DIA report, Controlled Offensive Behavior - USSR, highlighted the potential threat of Soviet psi capabilities.¹ Jack Vorona, head of the DIA's Scientific and Technical Intelligence Directorate, was the overall manager of the Grill Flame program. The DIA continued to oversee the program even after the Army's funding was initially terminated in 1985.¹

Dark Alliance Investigation

Historian Roger Morris wrote that Barry Seal worked for the DIA "where coded records reportedly showed him on the payroll beginning in 1982." Arms manufacturer Tim LaFrance told journalist Nick Schou that the DIA was involved in Ronald Lister's weapons manufacturing plant in El Salvador, and that meetings Lister had with death squad commander Roberto D'Aubuisson "happened because the DIA wanted them to happen." Records found in Lister's house in the 1986 raid disclosed connections between Lister and "a DIA subcontractor."⁹

Role in Modern UAP Investigation

The DIA was the original home of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AAWSAP), the precursor to the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). The program was led by James Lacatski and initially enjoyed the support of DIA leadership. According to Luis Elizondo, new leadership was hostile to the investigation of paranormal aspects of the UAP phenomenon.¹⁰

The DIA is also central to the events described in the Wilson-Davis Memo, in which Admiral Thomas R. Wilson, then Director of the DIA, described his discovery of and subsequent denial of access to a secret UAP reverse-engineering program.¹⁰

Footnotes

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1. Schnabel, Jim. Remote Viewers. Dell, 1997. ↩︎

2. Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. ↩︎

3. Daniel O. Graham, "U.S. Intelligence at the Crossroads," United States Strategic Institute, USSI Report 76-1 (1976), author note, CIA-RDP91M00696R000900060007-5. ↩︎

4. Deposition of Daniel O. Graham, May 26, 1987, Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition, Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair, Appendix B, vol. 12 (Internet Archive item micro_IA41152840_0234), pp. 976-978. ↩︎

5. Statement of Lieutenant General Daniel O. Graham, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency, before the Military Construction Subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations, June 1975, CIA-RDP80B01495R000300020008-2. https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp80b01495r000300020008-2 ↩︎

6. Louis F. Maire III and J. D. LaMothe, "Soviet and Czechoslovakian Parapsychology Research," Defense Intelligence Agency, DST-1810S-387-75, September 1975, CIA-RDP96-00792R000600350001-3, cover page. ↩︎

7. White House, Office of the Press Secretary, "Biography of Bobby Ray Inman," December 16, 1993. https://clintonwhitehouse6.archives.gov/1993/12/1993-12-16-biography-of-bobby-ray-inman.html ↩︎

8. U.S. Senate, Select Committee on Intelligence, Nomination of Admiral B. R. Inman to Be Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, hearing of February 3, 1981, prepared statement. https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hearings/97inman.pdf ↩︎

9. Webb, Gary. Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. Seven Stories Press, 1998. Chapter 6: "They were doing their patriotic duty" ↩︎

10. Elizondo, Luis. Imminent. William Morrow, 2024. ↩︎