You probably know about the Central Intelligence Agency, commonly known as the CIA. And you might have even heard of its WWII predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services, or the OSS. But did you know that, to the disdain of American President Woodrow Wilson, the United States had created its first structured intelligence agency in World War I, the MI-8—code-named the "Black Chamber"?

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