United States Embassies and Consulates (Worldwide)

A global network of U.S. diplomatic missions that collects, secures, and transmits real‑time local intelligence, audiovisual feeds, and incident metadata into the State Department’s secure communications center. Staffed by security, communications, and reporting units, the network supplies situational awareness used by senior policymakers and crisis managers; in the current material embassy feeds provide the surveillance imagery, verified timestamps, and geolocation that convert rumor into actionable diplomatic, humanitarian, and operational response, linking field activity (e.g., Serbian Special Police operations) to Washington decision‑makers.