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US Secret Service is created (1865)
June 23, 2019
US Secret Service is created
July 5, 1865
one of the oldest federal law enforcement agencies in the USA
end of the American Civil War, the Secret Service was originally founded to combat the then-widespread counterfeiting of U.S. currency
1901, the agency was asked to begin its protective mission after the assassination of President William McKinley