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313th Military Intelligence Battalion (United States)
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The 313th Military Intelligence Battalion was an active duty Airborne Military Intelligence Battalion of the United States Army.
Before World War II, the United States Intelligence Community was fragmented and ad hoc, comprising numerous government and military entities who were reluctant to share information with each other. President Roosevelt directed the Joint Board to form the Office of the Coordinator of Information (COI) in mid-1941 and the attack on Pearl Harbor later that year prompted the War Department to expand the Army's existing entities into the Military Intelligence Service, the Counterintelligence Corps, and the Signal Security Agency. The Joint board also formed Office of Strategic Services from elements of the COI as America entered World War II.
During the first decades of the Cold War, Army intelligence departments maintained compartmentalization by discipline for security purposes. Their missions and assignments were classified, organizations utilized deception, while personnel operated in and out of cover to protect their missions first and themselves second. Seemingly divergent organizations like the Army Security Agency, the Army Intelligence Agency, and numerous intelligence production units would eventually merge forming the Intelligence and Security Command. During the decades leading up to the formation of the modern Military Intelligence Corps, these agencies and their personnel were laying the groundwork for what would become "The Army's Most Decorated MI Battalion."
The lineage of the 313th Military Intelligence Battalion is traced to the 215th Signal Depot Company, which was activated on 25 September 1942 at Camp Livingston, Louisiana. The 215th, composed of approximately 190 personnel, arrived in Liverpool, England in October 1943 and moved en masse by train to Taunton, Somerset. From there, the unit detached to perform various support activities, mostly repairing, maintaining, and issuing communications equipment to field units marshaled there.
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