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After the 1901 assassination of President William McKinley, Congress also directed the Secret Service to protect the president of the United States. The Secret Service investigates thousands of incidents each year of individuals threatening the president of the United States.
We are one of America’s oldest federal law enforcement agencies, originally created in 1865 to stamp out rampant counterfeiting in order to stabilize America's young financial system. By the end of the Civil War, nearly one-third of all currency in circulation was counterfeit.
United States Secret Service, USSS (ang. Tajna Służba Stanów Zjednoczonych) – jeden z najstarszych federalnych organów ścigania w Stanach Zjednoczonych, utworzony 5 lipca 1865, zajmujący się ochroną najważniejszych osób w państwie oraz ich rodzin, a także prowadzeniem śledztw w sprawie oszustw.
21 godz. temu · The U.S. Secret Service was created in 1865 as a specialized branch of the Department of the Treasury to combat the economic threat of counterfeit currency, which in the final days of the American Civil War was estimated to constitute as much as half of circulating U.S. currency.
The Secret Service Division was formed on July 5, 1865 as part of the Department of the Treasury. Chief William P. Wood was sworn in as the first Secret Service chief (now known as “director”) by Secretary of the Treasury Hugh McCulloch.
11 mar 2024 · Considered one of the oldest federal law enforcement agencies, the Secret Service has a storied history that stretches back to the end of the Civil War. Initially established in 1865 as part of the Treasury Department, its primary mission was to combat the widespread counterfeiting of U.S. currency, a significant threat to the nation’s ...
16 wrz 2024 · The Secret Service didn’t start protecting presidents until 1894, and only part time, after agents probing a group of gamblers discovered an assassination plot aimed at then-President Grover ...
