The civil rights lawyers want a federal judge to appoint an outside monitor to oversee the NYPD's intelligence-gathering operations, which the police department is strongly resisting.

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Having been deployed in the Gulf and Falkland's War, as well as the Balkans, elite forces such as the SAS are considered ideal for intelligence-gathering operations within Afghanistan.

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Among other things, the inquiry led to the creation of a behind-the-lines intelligence-gathering organizer of anti-Nazi operations, the Office of Strategic Services, which was the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency.

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