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A DSS agent stands watch as Secretary of State Kerry makes a telephone call. DSS is best identified with its protection assignments around the globe. The largest permanent dignitary protection detail carried out by DSS agents is on the United States secretary of state. The ambassador to the United Nations also has an ongoing protection detail.
The director of the DSS is the top-ranking, active special agent in the DSS and leads a force of special agents, diplomatic couriers, security engineering officers, and security technical specialists. Special agents are sometimes referred to as DS agents or DSS agents. Both terms are used interchangeably within the organization and other agencies.
Diplomatic Security Service seal. A regional security officer (RSO) is a special agent of the U.S. Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) in charge of a regional security office.The RSO is the principal security attaché and advisor to the U.S. ambassador at American embassies and consulates. [1]
Mobile Security Deployments (MSD) is a small specialized tactical unit within the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) of the United States Department of State. [1] The MSD provides U.S. embassies and consulates with security support, protects the Secretary of State and other U.S. officials, including domestically as well as visiting foreign officials, and also provides security training at U.S ...
DS Special Agents at the Olympics; CBS Evening News - DSS at the UN General Assembly 2009; CBS Evening News - Diplomatic Security Behind the Scenes; CBS NEWS 6 June 2011 - Keeping U.S. Officials Safe Overseas - DSS Archived 4 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine; CBS Evening News 22 Sept 2011 - DSS: Inside Hillary Clinton's Security Bubble
The agency was originally established as the Defense Investigative Service and was created on January 1, 1972. [2] In 1999, the agency changed its name to the Defense Security Service. [3]
DSS agents escort the Dalai Lama.Houston, Texas, May 1, 2007. Dignitary protection services are most often provided by either the United States Secret Service or the US Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service.
The Bureau of Secret Intelligence (Office of the Chief Special Agent) was founded in 1916. The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Secret Intelligence, later known as the Office of Security (SY) and now as the U.S. Diplomatic Security Service, was also known as U-1, an off-the-books adjunct to the Division of Information.