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DKJaleel:
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joeaz58:
Do you watch Hollywood well enough?
Have you seen "White House Down" or "Olympus has fallen" or "London has Fallen"?
Okay maybe you are watching the latest 2017 series "Designated Survivor"?
These are movies that depicts activities in the White House and most especially the US President and most importantly some tough boys & girls known as THE SECRET SERVICE.
For those of you living in the US who have gotten a chance to see Barack Hussein Obama or Donald Junior Trump have you ever noticed some intimidating, rigid and stern looking men and women in black suits & overalls around the President?
Yeah, these people are the talk of our today's "AMAZING FACTS YOU DO NOT KNOW".
They are the United States Secret Service and their major duty isn't actually to protect the President, there is lot more that you will read below.
They do a whole lot from monitoring financial activities like the EFCC of Nigeria, to protecting the president, the Vice President & their immediate families, to monitoring the chefs that makes their(President & Co) meals, to actually dying for them.
The job of the secret service is so terrify that one of them actually stands pretty close to the President and ALWAYS holds a gas mask under his overall suit. No, not to protect himself from gas attack but in case of such he is to wear it for the president & he himself dies from the air poisoning. Yes, he better dies from it than the President.
Are those Sunglasses?
No, there is absolutely no room for fashion in the Secret Service although they can look super cool in their suits & all. Those glasses aren't fashionable ones, they are actually video camera glasses that sends live videos of their location back to the White House where every face in the crowd is scanned just in case there is a potential threat.
They communicate with sophisticated gadgets as well, you can see white curly cables about their ears as dissemination aids and you can always see them lifting there sleeves to their mouths.
The President is mostly referred to as "Phoenix". So if he steps out of his oval office the next Agent seeing him communicates to the rest like....
"Phoenix on his way up the Hallway".
They are ALWAYS watching him, he can't even go into the elevator without one of them with him. The ONLY place they DON'T go into with him is into the oval office & I will tell you this in the commentaries .
These guys are interesting & fascinating.
Here you go...
=Abraham Lincoln created the agency the day he was assassinated.
The 16th president of the U.S. created the Secret Service on April 14, 1865. Too bad John Wilkes Booth shot the president while attending the theater later that day.
=However, the original mission of the Secret Service was not to protect the president.
The agency was created as a division of the Treasury Department. Its mission? To crack down on the proliferation of counterfeit currency, an epidemic that threatened to destroy the American economy.
=Only after attacks on the president happened did the agents' duties expand.
Following the 1901 assassination of President William McKinley, Secret Service agents began watching over presidents full time. After Sirhan Sirhan shot and killed presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, agents took on the job of protecting presidential and vice-presidential candidates as well. In fact, the Service offered Barack Obama protection a year and a half before election day, the earliest of any candidate in history.
=Only one member of the Secret Service has died protecting the President.
Just one?
Since all these years? This shows you how highly trained these guys are.
On November 1st, 1950, two Puerto Rican nationalists stormed the house that President Harry Truman was living in while the White House underwent renovations. In their attempt to assassinate Truman, they shot Private Leslie Coffelt, a member of the Secret Service, three times. Before he died from his injuries, Coffelt returned fire, shooting one would-be assassin in the head.
=They've never had a traitor in the Secret Service.
Although the FBI, CIA, and NSA have all been infiltrated by foreign spies, the Secret Service has never discovered a spy or traitor in its ranks.
=Agents are more than bodyguards.
In addition to tracking nearly 1,500 presidential death threats per year, the Secret Service also investigates credit fraud, financial crimes, identity theft, counterfeiting, and computer fraud.
-They use quirky code names.
The United States Secret Service uses code names for U.S. presidents, first ladies, and other prominent people and places. John and Jackie Kennedy were known as "Lancer" and "Lace"; Ronald and Nancy Reagan went by "Rawhide" and "Rainbow." Agents call the Pentagon "Calico," and refer to The White House as "Castle." The Presidents son in "Olympus has fallen" was referred to as "Spark plug"
These code names are used for classified persons and under the security detail of the President. Himself, His Wife, Kids and those of the Vice President. This is to prevent linking to the real persons in case of communication compromise.
=The Secret Service has over 6,500 employees.
About 3,200 agents work in 150 offices in the U.S. and abroad, and around 1,300 of those agents are members of the Uniformed Division, responsible for offering protection to the White House.
= Wing men
More than body guards you say. Well, for someone like John F Kennedy who had a mistress , the Secret service were forced to come up with a code name for her. She was called "Contractor". So whenever the first lady was returning from a trip back to the white House, they tell the President
"Sir, begin to round up negotiations with Contractor, FLOTUS(First Lady of the United States) on her way up Sir".
You would ask "How do you know Ifelola?"
Well, because a retired agent confessed that.
If POTUS( President Of The United States) wants Pizza, an agent actually does the ordering, he goes into the shop and orders it, looking like a normal customer & not in his intimidating looks and disappears mysteriously to the White villa. Everything is monitored, even his food and clothes. So poisoning is the last thing that will kill POTUS.
So that is it for this morning.
Any questions?
On the next episode, I will be telling us what it takes to join the secret service. But that is if I get 10 comments that wants me to make the post. Else, I just hold up my pen.
So if you enjoyed this one. Say something in the commentaries, if you learnt anything

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