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created: 2025-07-22
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updated: 2025-07-22
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title: Operations Security Group
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- organization
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- military
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- intelligence
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- USA
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description: The Operations Security Group (Opsec) was a U.S. Army unit focused on protecting sensitive operations from foreign espionage.
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The [[Operations Security Group]] (Opsec) was a [[U.S. Army]] unit based at [[Fort Meade]], Maryland, whose primary task was to protect sensitive operations from foreign espionage. This involved acting as a "Red-Team," literally spying on U.S. military facilities to identify and correct security lapses.[^1]
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[[Mel Riley]] was posted to the Opsec Group in 1976, where his specific job was to analyze photographic intelligence on these installations. The Opsec Group later became part of the [[Systems Exploitation Detachment]] (SED), which in turn was attached to the office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence (ACSI).[^1]
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[[Frederick Atwater|Skip Atwater]] initially proposed the formation of a small remote-viewing team to the head of SED, Colonel [[Robert Keenan]], arguing that remote viewing represented a potential security threat that Opsec teams should study. The early remote viewing activities under [[STARGATE PROJECT|Gondola Wish]] were initially envisioned to support opsec missions, though the unit later transitioned to an offensive spying role under [[STARGATE PROJECT|Grill Flame]].[^1]
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[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997. |