Pre-WW2 US Intelligence Agency

I was thinking about how in the show Band of Brothers, the allied troops meet a German soldier from the USA, who emigrated to Germany due to Hitler's call to return to the fatherland. As this did occur to an extent IOTL, I also was thinking how easily the USA could have infiltrated the German army by sending a few spies back to the fatherland. The problem is the USA lacked an inteligence agency before WW2 that would have embarked upon such a project. So what POD could we have a pre-WW2 US intelligence agency, and what effect would that have on the lead up to WW2?
 

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I was thinking about how in the show Band of Brothers, the allied troops meet a German soldier from the USA, who emigrated to Germany due to Hitler's call to return to the fatherland. As this did occur to an extent IOTL, I also was thinking how easily the USA could have infiltrated the German army by sending a few spies back to the fatherland. The problem is the USA lacked an inteligence agency before WW2 that would have embarked upon such a project. So what POD could we have a pre-WW2 US intelligence agency, and what effect would that have on the lead up to WW2?

Start with the Black Chamber.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Chamber

Find a way to change the US tenor from Stimson's "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail" to something more realpolitik. Major spy scandal involving the young USSR might be the most plausible.
 
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