United States Special Collections Service

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The Special Collections Service is a group within the United States Central Security Service agency that is not officially recognized.

The Central Security Service was established by Presidential Directive in 1972 to promote full partnership between the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Service Cryptologic Elements (SCE) of the United States Armed Forces.

The specialized intelligence gathering capabilities of the Special Collections Service include:

Clandestine operations involving surveillance and penetration of target facilities, including "black bag" style operations.
Cryptographic side channel and key recovery attacks involving EMSEC and COMSEC specialties.
Covert communication capture and relay of target information.
Operation of Unmanned aerial vehicles for surveillance and perimeter penetration.

The combination of Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency resources are used to cover the requisite specialty skills tasked of this agency into a single clandestine intelligence organization that falls under director of NSA and secretary of defense oversight. Given the nature of post 9/11 counter terrorism strategies employed by the United States of America the operations of the Special Collections Service have experienced significant growth in scale and complexity.