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[27] [28] According to John Dinges, author of The Condor Years (The New Press 2003), documents released in 2015 revealed a CIA report dated April 28, 1978 that showed the agency by then had knowledge that U.S.-backed Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet ordered the assassination of Orlando Letelier, a leading political opponent living in exile in ...
The CIA has been involved in the support and training of military and paramilitary units that defend against enemies of US-backed governments in Latin America. Florencio Caballero, a former Honduran Army interrogator, said that he had been trained by the Central Intelligence Agency, which The New York Times confirmed with US and Honduran ...
The task force concluded that the system of the day led to an adversarial relationship, with little effective coordination, among the CIA, the military, and the State Department. "In the opinion of the task force, this produced duplication on one hand, and, on the other, departmental intelligence estimates that "have often been subjective and ...
The CIA must be the central organization of the national intelligence system. Within the CIA, at the top echelon, a board should be created with the responsibility of conducting intelligence evaluation. A civilian DCI with a long office term is favorable. All clandestine operations should be integrated into one CIA office under NSC supervision.
Blowback is the unintended consequences and unwanted side-effects of a covert operation.To the civilians suffering the blowback of covert operations, the effect typically manifests itself as "random" acts of political violence without a discernible, direct cause; because the public—in whose name the intelligence agency acted—are unaware of the effected secret attacks that provoked revenge ...
Two years into office, President Donald Trump authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to launch a clandestine campaign on Chinese social media aimed at turning public opinion in China against ...
In a new interview with Esquire, John Krasinski defends some of his recent acting roles against criticism that he’s propping up conservative values.. in the 2016 Michael Bay-directed military ...
Office of Military Affairs. 1992 - Created by CIA after problems during the Gulf War [8] 1995/1996 - Moved out of the Directorate of Operations by ADCI/MS Dennis C. Blair, to be directly under his office, which reported directly to the Director [9] OMA is staffed by CIA and military personnel.