until World War I. The United States used the system of COMINT to code and decode messages (Ameringer 89).Germany had high hopes and ambitions in WWI. In a telegraph dubbed the Zimmerman Note, they boasted a little to hard. In a transmission sent to Mexico, Germany asked Mexico to attack America. In return, Germany would help Mexico get back the land lost in the Mexican-American War. Fortunately, the British intercepted this message and sent it to America. This was one of the main reasons for America entering WWI. It was also a good counter-intelligence move for America in a long time (Ameringer 107-108).After the Bolshevik Revolution, the American people became a little uneasy. It also didn’t help the America had just entered WWI. The Espionage Jaynes 8Act of 1917 tried to protect against espionage and to initiate a higher degree of counter espionage. This act also helped to curtail the influence of Germans and Communism. This act arrested former Presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs, a critic of WWI and many others (Ameringer 107-108).The idealism of America after WWI said that it was “The War to End All Wars.” America, after the war, turned inward and sheltered itself from the rest of the world. This caused the dismantling of most intelligence offices. The two sections that did survive however were G-2 and parts of ONI (Ameringer 116-127). America did however create the FBI, or Federal Bureau of Investigation. This office was designed for counter-espionage and internal affairs. It was founded by J. Edgar Hoover (Ameringer 124). In the 1930’s, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party took over war-torn Germany. Hitler breathed a new aggressive life back into Germany. Germany made efforts to take over Europe again. Germany also had a very powerful ally, Ja...
