AFFILIATED ASSOCIATIONS
Military Intelligence Association of New England (MIANE)

President : R. Leo Coleman
Vice President: Roger Mandeville
Chairman of the Board: Henry Bagley
Secretary Emeritus/Historian: Isadore Zack
Secretary: Daniel Spiegel
Treasurer: Patricia Graham
Program: Nancy Spilman-Kelleher
Good & Welfare: Victor Barton
Scribe: David Bianchi

For Information re. MIANE and Membership, contact:
David Bianchi
72 Main Street,
Princeton, Ma 01541
or
W. Bradford Chase, Jr.,
24 Robinhood Rd.,
Natick, MA 01760
HISTORY

MIANE was founded in 1946. At WWII&rsquos end, there were over 300 former Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) agents living in New England with a large representation in the greater Boston area. The Corps of Intelligence Police, which would become the CIC, was a small operation in the New England area in the months before Pearl Harbor. 1942 was a year of marked expansion with the bulk of the detachment&rsquos members coming in between June and November and reaching maximum strength of about 325 agents and special agents in February 1943.

The agents operated out of Headquarters at 808 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, and a hide-away at 325 Harvard Street in Brookline MA. There were also seven sub-offices throughout New England in Providence, RI; New Haven, CT; Bridgeport, CT; Springfield, MA; Manchester, NH; and Augusta, ME.

The First Service Command detachment benefited from recruitment of many walk-in applicants from nearby Ivy League colleges (Harvard, Yale and M.I.T). It also benefited from the fact that the former G-2 of the Army, Major General Sherman Miles, became the commanding general of the First Service Command and was aware of the abilities of the CIC personnel and called for extensive use of their skills.

With excellent education backgrounds (CIC agents had to have a minimum lQ score of120 compared to an IQ score of 110 for officer candidates), the agents quickly learned the ropes through specialty schooling at Service Command level and advanced CIC training in Chicago. IL. Specialty squads were set up to deal with subversive activity, water front details, incident investigations, racial disturbances and labor relations.

Most of the agents spent several months at First Service Command before shipping out to Fort Holabird MD and from there to assignments all over the world. The first batch of agents to leave Boston went to North Africa and Egypt. The second big exodus was to the Pacific with Australia as the rallying point before agents moved to major fronts all the way to the Philippines and Japan. The third wave went to England and went into France and Germany after June 6, 1944. Only 30 CIC agents remained at First Service Command at the end of 1943. These 30 agents were joined by 30 Provost Marshal investigators and formed the Security and Intelligence Division (SIC) under the G-2.

Early in 1946 a move was made to organize the ex-agents and a meeting at 325 Harvard Street (CIC hide-away during the war) attracted more than 200 attendees. These attendees formed the nucleus of MIANE. John Todd appointed Izadore Zack as temporary secretary and Iz has held the post for more than 52 years. One meeting a year was held in the fall and dues in 1946 were $2.00. Twenty years after MIANE organized it became affiliated with the National CIC Association and it hosted its first national convention in 1968 (considered by many as the best national convention ever held thanks to the efforts of the late Jerry Alajajian of Arlington, MA).
Membership rose during the years 1946 through 1952 and reached a high of 300. Around 1970, when John McIntyre was President, monthly lunches were held on the first Wednesday of the month at the Boston Athletic Club and continued over the years even with a shrinking membership. Today MIANE meets monthly on the first Wednesday and we are proud to have members from all over New England.

Forty years after the war, with the appearance of book-length reports on the role played by the CIC during WWII, more members joined MIANE. A key source was &ldquoAmerica&rsquos Secret Army&rdquo whose authors appeared at a national CIC meeting held in Boston in 1985. As the years passed and the CIC ranks thinned, it was decided to open membership to all intelligence professionals and to allow military veterans who are associated with intelligence and also spouses or children of deceased members to join.
As hosts to several successful national conventions, with a solid program of monthly luncheons devoted to fellowship with veterans of various wars, an annual clambake and business meeting, MIANE also publishes a vibrant monthly newsletter and offers our members the best forum for former G-2 types in New England.

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