Editing Strategic Support Branch (section)

{{Short description|Former U.S. intelligence organization}}
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The''' Strategic Support Branch''' ('''SSB''') was a [[United States]] [[intelligence agency|intelligence organization]] created by the [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] (DoD) with support from the [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] (DIA) and the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA). The SSB's mission was to provide an intelligence capability for field operation units, and [[U.S. Special Operations Forces]] (SOF), in support of anti-terrorism and [[counter-terrorism]] missions in war zones and beyond. The SSB has been dissolved with many of its activities and capabilities transferred to DIA's [[Defense Clandestine Service]].<ref name=NYTrep>
{{cite news 
  | last = Jehl
  | first = Douglas
  |author2=Eric Schmitt
   | title =  Reports on Pentagon's New Spy Units Set Off Questions in Congress
  | work = [[The New York Times]]
  | date = January 25, 2005
  | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/25/politics/25intel.html
  | accessdate = 2008-04-17}}</ref><ref>
{{cite news 
  | last = Starr
  | first = Barbara 
  |author2=David Ensor |author3=Joe Johns
   | title = Congress eyes once-secret Pentagon unit
  | publisher = [[CNN]]
  | date = January 24, 2005
  | url = http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/24/pentagon.intel/index.html
  | accessdate = 2008-04-17}}</ref>