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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA / ˌ s iː. aɪ ˈ eɪ /) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with advancing national security through collecting and analyzing intelligence from around the world and conducting covert operations.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a United States intelligence agency that "provides objective intelligence on foreign countries." [1] The CIA is also informally known as the Agency, or historically informally referred to simply as "the Company". [2] The CIA is part of the United States Intelligence Community, is
Pages in category "Central Intelligence Agency operations" The following 103 pages are in this category, out of 103 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Science & Technology; Central Intelligence Group; CIA and the Cultural Cold War; CIA influence on public opinion; 2005 CIA interrogation videotapes destruction; CIA invert; CIA involvement in Contra cocaine trafficking; CIA Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory; CIA Memorial Wall; CIA Officers ...
The Directorate of Operations (DO), less formally called the Clandestine Service, [2] is a component of the US Central Intelligence Agency. [2] It was known as the Directorate of Plans from 1951 to 1973; as the Directorate of Operations from 1973 to 2004; and as the National Clandestine Service (NCS) from 2004 to 2015.
Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency is a 2003 book by W. Thomas Smith Jr. It is an encyclopedic work on the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the only independent agency of the United States federal government that is tasked with intelligence-gathering .
WHAT WAS THE CIA MISSION? The secret mission was called “Project Azorian.” News stories in 1975 told of the mission. But Washington didn’t confirm the basic facts until 2010, when the CIA released a partially redacted report that lacked many of the juicy details.
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.