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united states department of state
Bureau of Diplomatic Security
diplomatic security
investigates
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Introduction ..................................................................................... 1
Passport and Visa Fraud .................................................................. 2
Terrorism and Espionage ................................................................. 3
Personnel Background and Employee Misconduct ........................ 4
Transnational Crimes ....................................................................... 5
DS Investigates With You ................................................................ 6
DS Case File: Most Wanted Captured ............................................. 7
DS Case File: Operation Triple X ...................................................... 8
DS Case File: Operation Death Match ............................................. 9
DS Case File: Operation Eagle Strike ............................................. 10
Legal Authorities ............................................................................ 11
Contact Us ...................................................................................... 12
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diplomatic securityinvestigates
A Guide for United States Law Enforcement
Introduction
The Bureau o Diplomatic Security is the security and law
enorcement arm o the United States Department o State.
As a ederal law enorcement agency, Diplomatic Security
is unique. Special Agents are posted in 25 cities in the
United States and 160 oreign nations by ar the
most geographically widespread o any agency with
ederal law enorcement responsibilities.
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Through its unique overseas presence, Diplomatic Security
has strong relationships with oreign and international
law enorcement organizations. These relationships allow
Diplomatic Security to assist United States law enorcement
agencies in joint investigations. Special Agents are available
to work with ederal, state, and local government law
enorcement ocials to ght certain transnational crimes
that, regardless o where they are committed, violate the
laws o the United States.
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Passport and Visa Fraud
Travel document raud represents a serious and growing
threat to the national security o the United States.
Criminals who obtain a raudulent travel document otenuse it to commit other crimes, including terrorism, nancial
raud, narcotics tracking, alien smuggling, and identity
thet. Fugitives oten seek to change their identities and
travel internationally as part o their criminal activities.
Diplomatic Security Special Agents have conducted
international document raud investigations or
more than 80 years and have the authority to make
arrests or passport and visa raudboth ederal
eloniesand other criminal acts committed in conjunctionwith travel document raud. These investigations are
critical to Americas homeland security.
A United States passport is the most valuable identity
document in the world. It allows the bearer unlimitedaccess to the United States and virtually every country in
the world. Diplomatic Security investigates the raudulent
issuance, acquisition, and use o United States passports.
Working with other ederal government agencies and
state and local law enorcement on passport raudinvestigations, Special Agents arrest more than 600
individuals each year.
Countless people attempt to obtain United States
visas illegally each year. Special Agents investigate andcoordinate international visa raud cases, including the
raudulent issuance, procurement, countereiting, and
orgery o United States visas. Diplomatic Security
works with the State Departments
Bureau o Consular Aairs on casesinvolving allegations o corruption
by American and locally employed
sta o United States embassies,
raudulent-document vendors, bribery,
alien smuggling, and tracking in U.S.
visas. Diplomatic Security has investigated
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thousands o individuals who have attempted to obtain
raudulent visas through criminal organizations or bribery.
Terrorism and Espionage
Special Agents investigate terrorist incidents and
threats made against the Secretary o State, other State
Department employees and acilities, United States
Government employees abroad, oreign embassies
and missions in the United States, and the dignitaries
Diplomatic Security protects. Each year, Special Agents
monitor more than 1,200 threat-related incidents. Agents
share inormation with other ederal and local agencies
to ensure that every threat is thoroughly investigated and
appropriate countermeasures taken.
Diplomatic Security conducts counterintelligenceinquiries and aggressive counterespionage
investigations with other United States Government
agencies.
A robust counterintelligence program is designed to
deter, detect, and neutralize the eorts o oreign
intelligence services targeting Department o State
personnel, acilities, and diplomatic missions worldwide.
At our overseas embassies, Diplomatic Security manages
counterintelligence programs or all United StatesGovernment agencies under the authority o the United
States ambassador.
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When classied materials are compromised at the State
Department, Diplomatic Security initiates the investigation.
Working with other government investigators and
counterintelligence agencies, Special Agents conduct
damage assessments to determine the impact on national
security. Espionage cases are reerred to the United
States Department o Justice or joint investigation and
prosecution.
Personnel Background and Employee Misconduct
All personnel hired by the Department o State, including
ambassadors and other appointees, are investigated to
determine their suitability or employment and to ensure
that granting them access to classied inormation is in the
best interests o our national security. Periodic background
investigations are conducted on incumbent employees
every 5 years. Diplomatic Security conducts around 25,000personnel background investigations each year.
D I P L O MA T I C S E C UR I T Y C A P T U R E S
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Special Agents conduct investigations into
alleged misconduct by employees and investigate
unauthorized disclosure and compromise o
classifed or sensitive inormation. Allegations mayinclude abuse o authority and privileges, discharge o a
rearm, workplace violence, substance abuse, nancial
misconduct, child abuse, and domestic violence. These
investigations could lead to reprimand, suspension,
termination, or criminal charges.
Transnational Crimes
Diplomatic Security plays a leading role in assisting
local, state, and ederal law enorcement agencies with
thousands o investigations overseas each year. Assigned
to United States embassies around the world, Special
Agents (also known as regional security ocers) work with
host country police to pursue investigative leads on United
States ugitives wanted or crimes such as homicide,pedophilia, narcotics tracking, parental kidnapping, and
nancial raud.
As a result o our close working relationship with oreign
police, Diplomatic Security has successully located
United States ugitives all over the world. Each year, this
cooperative eort leads to the arrest and return o dozens
o ugitives rom American justice.
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With the passage o the PROTECT Act in 2003, which
makes it a crime or United States citizens to sexually
exploit or abuse children in a oreign country, Diplomatic
Securitys investigative assistance is in greater demand as
United States law enorcement seeks to apprehend United
States pedophiles who prey on children around the globe.
DS Investigates With You
Diplomatic Security Special Agents are some o the mostversatile and highly skilled law enorcement ocers in the
world. International investigations can be complex. Special
Agents stand ready to work with you. Our investigative
expertise may be o particular assistance in the ollowing
circumstances:
A suspect on a local warrant may have fed the United:States with an assumed identity,
An individual is arrested with documents, especially:passports, in multiple identities, or
A local investigation has developed signicant:inormation on a suspects criminal activity thatdoes not quite provide probable cause, but itis believed that the suspect is using or hasprocured a alse identity or internationaltravel.
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DS Case File:
Most Wanted Captured
The United States Marshals Service contacted Diplomatic
Security at the United States Consulate in Chennai, India to
assist with the location and apprehension o an Americas
Most Wanted ugitive. The subject was wanted on multiple
counts o sexual assaults against minors. Diplomatic Security
conducted surveillance, secured a provisional arrest warrant,and devised an arrest plan. Ater local police arrested the
suspect, Diplomatic Security worked with United States and
Indian ocials to return the ugitive to the United States.
Diplomatic Security returns more than 100 ugitives to the
United States each year to ace justice.
CAPTURED
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DS Case File:
Operation Triple X
In Operation Triple X, Diplomatic Security Special Agents
and the Indonesian National Police (INP) target criminalsyndicates involved in extensive United States visa raud
activities, illegal immigration, production o countereit
Indonesian passports, pedophile operations,
tracking in persons, drug and gun tracking,
and money laundering. The undercover
investigation has also revealed that a ew o these
criminal Indonesian syndicates had a relationship
with the terrorist networks Jemaah Islamiyah
and other Muslim extremist groups operating
in Southeast Asia. Thirty-three subsequent
raids by the INP have resulted in 130 arrests,
including an Indonesian immigration ocial.
The Indonesian prosecutors oce charged
and convicted 126 suspects under Indonesian
raud statutes. Evidence collected consisted
o more than 4,800 raudulent documents,
including Indonesian and United States
passports; United States visas; Indonesian
national identication cards; marriage,birth, and amily records; and vehicle
registrations and drivers licenses. The INP
also seized numerous computers, names
o United States businesses hiring illegal
immigrants, Indonesian and third-countryocial stamps, original and unused blank
Indonesian passport booklet covers
with biographical data pages, refective
security laminates, and passport pages.
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DS Case File:
Operation Death Match
DS Special Agents in San Francisco cross-check death
identities rom state vital records oces against issued U.S.passports. This ongoing DS eort thus ar has resulted in
the opening o more than 250 raud investigations, with
115 arrests and 91 convictions.
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DS Case File:
Operation Eagle Strike
In Operation Eagle Strike, Diplomatic Security Special
Agents investigated the illegal issuance o United States
visas to more than 70 unqualied recipients at the
United States Embassy in Doha, Qatar. Possible terrorist
connections o some o the known visa recipients
prompted a nationwide manhunt by Diplomatic Security,
United States Customs and Immigration Enorcement, and
the Federal Bureau o Investigation, resulting in the arrest
o 49 individuals in the United States and overseas. It was
determined that the remaining 21 recipients never entered
the United States nor used their visas.
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Legal Authorities
The Omnibus Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism Act o
1986 established the Diplomatic Security Service. The State
Department Basic Authorities Act o 1956, Section 37 (22United States Code Section 2709) authorizes Diplomatic
Security Special Agents to:
Conduct investigations concerning illegal passport or:visa issuance or use.
Provide protection and perorm protective unctions:related to the security and saety o
heads o a oreign state, ocial representatives o a5oreign government, and other distinguished visitorsto the United States while in the United States,
and o the Secretary o State, Deputy Secretary5o State, and ocial representatives o the U.S.Government, in the United States or abroad.
In carrying out these duties, Special Agents may carry:
rearms, execute ederal arrest and search warrants,
and serve summonses and subpoenas. In 2002,
Congress expanded the arrest authority o Special
Agents to include ederal oenses committed in their
presence or or any ederal elony.
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Contact Us
To request investigative assistance, contact the Diplomatic
Security Command Center in Washington, DC, or one o
the eld oces located throughout the United States.
Diplomatic Security Command Center: 1-866-217-2089
(Staffed 24 hours daily)
Diplomatic Security Oices in the United States
Atlanta, GA 4043313521
Boston, MA 6175658200
Bridgeport, CT 2035795701
Charleston, SC 8437461906
Chicago, IL 3123536163
Dallas, TX 2147670700
Denver, CO 3032362781
Greensboro, NC 3365474292
Honolulu, HI 8085228020
Houston, TX 7132093483
Los Angeles, CA 2138943290
West Los Angeles, CA 3102357937
Miami, FL 3055365781
New Orleans, LA 5045892010
New York, NY 2013468100
Philadelphia, PA 2158613370
Phoenix, AZ 6023647842
Portsmouth, NH 6033340519
St. Louis, MO 3145392721
San Diego, CA 6195576194
San Francisco, CA 4157051176
San Juan, PR 7877665704
Seattle, WA 2062207721
Washington, DC 5712269300
Visit us online at: www.diplomaticsecurity.state.gov
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Photo Credits
Page 7: poster, United States Marshals Service
All other photos: U.S. Department of State
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Public Affairs
Bureau of Diplomatic Security
U.S. Department of State
Washington, DC 20522-2008
571-345-2502
www.diplomaticsecurity.state.gov
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Publication 11187
Bureau of Diplomatic Security
Revised February 2008