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4 days ago · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), principal foreign intelligence and counterintelligence agency of the U.S. government. Its creation in 1947 was intended to address problems of duplication, competition, and lack of coordination that had characterized previous U.S. intelligence and counterintelligence efforts.
17 hours ago · The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) / ˌ s iː. aɪ ˈ eɪ /, known 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 (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its ...
4 days ago · Richard McGarrah Helms (March 30, 1913 – October 23, 2002) was an American government official and diplomat who served as Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from 1966 to 1973. Helms began intelligence work with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II.
17 hours ago · It’s a good guess that the CIA, America’s central intelligence agency, would have been the oldest IC agency… I thought the same thing! However, according to our historians, the oldest agency within the IC is the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), which dates back to 1882! In that year, Secretary of the Navy William Hunt issued General ...
5 days ago · The KGB dissolved on December 3, 1991. Its immediate successor agencies were the Federal Security Agency of the RSFSR (AFB), the Inter-Republican Security Service (MSB), the Central Intelligence Service (TsSR), and the Committee for the Protection of the State Border (KOGG).
17 hours ago · Former CIA officer pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit espionage. Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 71, of Honolulu, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to gather and deliver national defense information to the People’s Republic of China (PRC). According to court documents, Ma and a blood relative of ...
