Defense Intelligence Agency in popular culture

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is a military espionage organization of the United States and one of the country's national-level intelligence agencies under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Less known than its non-DoD equivalent or its cryptologic counterpart,[1] the DIA and its personnel have at times been portrayed in works of American popular culture. As with other U.S. foreign intelligence organizations, the agency's role has occasionally been confused with those of law enforcement agencies.

Television
  • Embassy Row – Annie Walker runs into Ryan McQuaid at the Russian Embassy Ball, where he is secretly trying to buy Russian helicopters for DIA, which the agency intends to use in areas where American-made helicopters would attract too much attention.
  • "Better Angels" – the episode revolves around an investigation into the death of Michael Dawson, an employee of Defense Clandestine Service (DCS), and whether DCS had anything to do with the incident.
  • "Tell-All" – commander Patrick Casey is discovered dead, along with his DIA ID and a codeword written in his own blood. The NCIS investigation is hampered by DIA's secrecy and attempts to conceal national security information.
  • "Need To Know" – a DIA operative George Roca comes in conflict with investigators from NCIS, who are not let on a sensitive DIA operation.
  • "Ex-File" – a DIA employee working on highly classified project finds her husband killed; the DIA sends a team to accompany the NCIS investigators due to the possibility that they may come in contact with classified information.
  • NCIS Los Angeles – Hetty Lange, played by Linda Hunt, the operations manager at the NCIS office in Los Angeles, formerly served with DIA and earned an Award of Merit at the agency
  • Burn Notice
  • Season 5 – involves a rogue DIA psychiatrist Anson Fullerton (Jere Burns), who turns out to be a murderer and a spy bent on blackmailing Michael Westen into doing his dirty work. Fullerton is responsible for burning Westen and is the founder of the Organization which serves as the main villainous group in the series.
  • Intelligence
  • "The Event Horizon" – Alexander Hatcher is a former DIA field operative who, during his service with the agency in 1980s, began research on a secret Iranian sleeper agent project titled "The Flood". He is murdered, placing "The Flood" under spotlight.
  • Lost – Kelvin Inman, a member of the Dharma Initiative, is a former DIA officer
  • 24 (season 8) – Jason Pillar, a former DIA deputy director, serves as Charles Logan's executive assistant in season 8 of 24.
  • E-Ring – DIA was often featured as the provider of intelligence to senior DoD decision-makers who are housed in the E-ring of the Pentagon
  • The Brave - A DIA analytical team featured as one of two teams (alongside United States special operations forces) in defending the United States. DIA provides intelligence support to the special forces in covert missions in hostile environments.

Film

Video games
  • Metal Gear – two characters in the Metal Gear franchise, Nastasha Romanenko and Richard Ames, served as DIA operatives.
  • Fallout 4 - an abandoned fictional DIA facility is featured in the game as a former base of the Railroad one of the factions. Furthermore, a robot, programmed originally by the DIA and taken from the aforementioned facility, is using mathematical calculations to predict the outcome of situations said faction is involved in.

Tabletop roleplaying games
  • Delta Green - the DIA is one of the government agencies player characters can be part of DIA, characters are Intelligence analysts, military attachés or instructors for the defense intelligence college. The 2019 sourcebook The Complex also adds the options of members of the Defense Clandestine Service.
  • Twilight 2000 – a World War III role-playing game that features the US government after a nuclear strike. This causes the Continuity of Operations (COOP) to collapse with no clearly legitimate US government in powers. Regions and military units divide between a Civilian-led government (Civgov) of questionable authority and a Military-led government (Milgov) with no civilian control over them. Likewise the CIA pledges allegiance to the Civgov while the DIA becomes the Milgov's equivalent to the CIA.

In writing
  • Area 7 – A cryptanalyst working for the DIA foils two plans in the novel, involving a vaccine against a highly-lethal biological weapon known as the Sinovirus.
  • Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon – DIA recruits a Chinese official, who is eventually exposed and killed in a staged robbery before the DIA extracts him.
  • Brotherhood of War – features a talented commander of a covert unit during World War II, who rises to become the Director of the DIA.
  • The Pitt – features a DIA officer who investigates the accidental destruction of the city of Pittsburgh.

See also

References
  1. Editor's Note : History of the Defense Intelligence Agency Archived 2013-10-04 at the Wayback Machine. The Intelligencer. Association of Former Intelligence Officers, 2011.
  2. Season 2: Episode 1 - The Show Must Go On, CBS, Retrieved: 3/23/2016
  3. Bradley Cooper's Dramatic Transformation to Play a Navy SEAL: He's Gained 40 Pounds!
  4. Dargis, Manohla. Mission Mind Control in Defense of America, New York Times, November 5, 2009
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