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  1. 1 day ago · The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) / ˌ s iː. aɪ ˈ eɪ /, known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, 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 intelligence ...

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    1 day ago · Their plans succeeded—by the end of 1941, 130,000 Jews had left Vienna, 30,000 of whom went to the United States. They left behind all of their property, but were forced to pay the Reich Flight Tax , a tax on all émigrés from Nazi Germany; some received financial support from international aid organisations so that they could pay this tax.

  3. 1 day ago · e. Muhammad Ali Jinnah [a] (born Mahomedali Jinnahbhai; 25 December 1876 – 11 September 1948) was a barrister, politician and the founder of Pakistan. Jinnah served as the leader of the All-India Muslim League from 1913 until the inception of Pakistan on 14 August 1947, and then as the Dominion of Pakistan 's first governor-general until his ...

  4. 1 day ago · t. e. Marxism–Leninism is a communist ideology that became the largest faction of the communist movement in the world in the years following the October Revolution. It was the predominant ideology of most communist governments throughout the 20th century. [1] It was developed by Joseph Stalin and drew on elements of Bolshevism, orthodox ...

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    1 day ago · The Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS ), commonly known as MI6 ( Military Intelligence, Section 6 ), is the foreign intelligence service of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the covert overseas collection and analysis of human intelligence on foreign nationals in support of its Five Eyes partners. SIS is one of the British intelligence ...

  6. 1 day ago · Ante Pavelić ( Croatian pronunciation: [ǎːnte pǎʋelit͡ɕ] ⓘ; 14 July 1889 – 28 December 1959) was a Croatian politician who founded and headed the fascist ultranationalist organization known as the Ustaše in 1929 and served as dictator of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a fascist puppet state built out of parts of occupied ...

  7. 1 day ago · Henry Morgenthau, the United States ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1913 to 1916, accused the "Turkish government" of a campaign of "outrageous terrorizing, cruel torturing, driving of women into harems, debauchery of innocent girls, the sale of many of them at 80 cents each, the murdering of hundreds of thousands and the deportation to ...