High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Intelligence Battalion 3-16 or Battalion 316 (various names: Group of 14 (1979–1981),Special Investigations Branch (DIES) (1982–1983),Intelligence Battalion 3-16 (from 1982 or 1984 to 1986),Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence Branch (since 1987)) was the name of a Honduran army unit responsible for carrying out political assassinations and torture of suspected political opponents of the government during the 1980s.