(entire article worth a read)
http:// foreignpolicy.com/2012/09/21/the-spies-next-door
The Spies Next Door
The top 10 Beltway intel centers hiding in plain sight
DEA Special Operations Division, Chantilly, Virginia
One of the more obscure and lesser known intelligence units based in the Washington area is the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Special Operations Division (SOD), which is located in a modest office building called Avion Mid-Rise IV Building at 14560 Avion Parkway in Chantilly, Virginia.
Formed in August 1995, the SOD is the DEA’s electronic eavesdropping unit, tracking illicit drug activity and the movements of narcotics kings in the United States and overseas through intercepted land-line and cellular telephone calls in cooperation with the Justice Department, FBI, Internal Revenue Service, and U.S. Customs Service. Prior to 9/11, most of the SOD’s activities were focused on cocaine trafficking in Mexico and Colombia. Today, much of the unit’s efforts are reportedly focused on heroin production and trafficking Afghanistan and Pakistan.