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  2. Special Activities Center - Wikipedia

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    Although the CIA in general, and a Texas congressman named Charlie Wilson in particular, have received most of the attention, the key architect of this strategy was Michael G. Vickers. Vickers was a young Paramilitary Operations Officer from SAD/SOG. The CIA's efforts have been given credit for assisting in ending the Soviet involvement in ...

  3. Central Intelligence Agency - Wikipedia

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    The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA / ˌ s iː. aɪ ˈ eɪ /), known informally as the Agency, [6] metonymously as Langley [7] and historically as the Company, [8] is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human ...

  4. Intelligence Identities Protection Act - Wikipedia

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    In a court filing related to Libby's sentencing, the CIA stated that Plame was a covert agent at the time of the leak. [16] In addition, the leak enabled the identification of Plame as an employee of the CIA front company, Brewster Jennings & Associates, and in doing so enabled the identification of other CIA agents who were "employed" there. [17]

  5. List of militaries that recruit foreigners - Wikipedia

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    Overseas: A serving member of another military can join the New Zealand Defence Force. The requirements are to be a current or recently serving (within 6–12 months) member of the UK, Australian, US or Canadian Armed Forces, have been a citizen of either the UK, Australia, US, or Canada for a minimum period of 10 years, or have been living in ...

  6. The tattooed Secretary of Defense: Here is all of Pete ... - AOL

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    Join, or Die” snake Hegseth’s American Revolution tattoos also include a “Join, or Die” snake inked on his inside forearm. Pete Hegseth shows off the “Join, Or Die” snake cartoon.

  7. Central Intelligence Agency Act - Wikipedia

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    The Central Intelligence Agency Act, Pub. L. 81–110, is a United States federal law enacted in 1949.. The Act, also called the "CIA Act of 1949" or "Public Law 110" permitted the Central Intelligence Agency to use confidential fiscal and administrative procedures and exempting it from many of the usual limitations on the use of federal funds.

  8. The spy who fed CIA secrets to Russia – then betrayed ... - AOL

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    Harold James “Jim” Nicholson, a 16-year veteran of the CIA, was sentenced to more than 23 years in prison in 1997 for espionage – but he kept up the treason from behind bars, enlisting his ...

  9. Identification of inmates in Nazi concentration camps

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    A practice was established to tattoo the inmates with identification numbers. Prisoners sent straight to gas chambers didn't receive anything. Initially, in Auschwitz, the camp numbers were sewn on the clothes; with the increased death rate, it became difficult to identify corpses, since clothes were removed from corpses.