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TALON
(Threat and Local Observation Notice) was a
database
maintained by the
United States Air Force
after the
September 11th terrorist attacks
. It was authorized for creation in 2002 by Deputy Defense Secretary
Paul D. Wolfowitz
, in order to collect and evaluate information about possible threats to US servicemembers and civilian workers in the US and at overseas military installations.
[1]
The database included lists of
anti-war
groups and people who have attended anti-war rallies.
[2]
TALON reports are collected by various
US Defense Department
agencies including law enforcement, intelligence, counterintelligence and security, and were analyzed by a Pentagon agency, the
Counterintelligence Field Activity
. CIFA had existed since 2004, and its size and budget are secret.
[3]
On August 21, 2007, the US Defense Department announced that it would shut down the database, as the database had been criticized for gathering information on peace activists and other political activists who posed no credible threat, but who had been one topic of this database due to their political views.
[4]
The department is working on a new system which would replace TALON, but for the time being, information on force protection threats will be handled by the
FBI
’s
Guardian
reporting system.
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References
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b
Defense Department to Close TALON System
, by Sergeant Sara Wood, US Army, American Forces Press Service, 8/21/07.
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Pentagon to Shutter Anti-Terrorism Database
, npr.org
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Pentagon to suspend anti-terror database
, by Robert Burns, Associated Press, 8/21/07.
- ^
Criticized database to be shuttered
, by Jim Mannion, Agence France Presse, 8/21/07.
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