d the General Staff, thus putting the Military Intelligence
Division on a par with similar services of general staffs of other
nations of the world.

The duties of the Military Intelligence Division consist, in general, in
the organization of the intelligence service, positive and negative,
including the collection and coordination of military information; the
supervision of the department intelligence officers and intelligence
officers at posts, stations, camps, and with commands in the field, in
matters relating to military intelligence; the direction of
counter-espionage work; the preparation of instruction in military
intelligence work for the use of our forces; the consideration of
questions of policy promulgated by the General Staff in all matters of
military intelligence; the co-operation with intelligence branches of
the general staffs of other countries; the supervision of the training
of officers for intelligence duty, the obtaining and issuing of maps:
and the disbursement of and accounting for intelligence funds.

One of the important functions of the Director of the Military
Intelligence Division is that of coordinating the work of this service
with other intelligence agencies. Possible duplications of work and
investigation by the State Department, Treasury Department, Department
of Justice, Navy Department, War Trade Board, and the War Department are
avoided or adjusted at weekly conferences held at the Department of
Justice and attended by representatives of these departments who
consider matters of common interest. For a similar purpose, the Director
of Military Intelligence is a member of the Fire Prevention Committee,
the War Industries Board, and the National Research Council.

For the purpose of securing close co-operation between the military
intelligence services of the nations associated in the war, the British
and French Governments were requested by the United States to send
officers to this country for liaison duty. These officers have been of
great assistance in accomplishing this end, because of their knowledge
of the details of intelligence work in Europe.

For the performance of the service for which the Military Intelligence
Division was developed, eight sections have been established, each
dealing with its peculiar problems, and working in close liaison with
its fellows....

It may not be amiss to call attention to the enthusiastic co-operation
which this division has consistently r