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CIA was successful in limiting native Communist influence in France and Italy, notably in the 1948 Italian election.
The CIA had been aware of the location of some high-profile Nazi war criminals, including the whereabouts of Adolf Eichmann two years before he was captured by Israeli agents, but the agency did not publicize this information, as it did not have a policy of pursuing Nazi war criminals at the time.
The executive summary of a report which was released by the office of CIA Inspector General John Helgerson on August 21, 2007 concluded that former DCI George Tenet failed to adequately prepare the agency to deal with the danger posed by Al Qaeda prior to the attacks of September 11, 2001.
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  Central Intelligence Agency - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In the early 1980s, the CIA funded and armed the Contras in Nicaragua, forces opposed to the Sandinista government in that country, until the Boland Amendment forbade the agency from continuing their support.
Often cited as one of the American intelligence community's biggest blunders is the CIA involvement in equipping and training Mujahedeen fighters in Afghanistan in response to the Soviet invasion of the country.
The CIA facilitated the so-called Reagan Doctrine, channelling weapons and other support (in addition to the Mujahedeen and the Contras) to Jonas Savimbi's UNITA rebel movement in Angola in response to Cuban military support for the MPLA, thus turning an otherwise low-profile African civil war into one of the larger battlegrounds of the Cold War.
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 Central Intelligence Agency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A third function of the CIA is to act as the "hidden hand" of the government by engaging in covert operations, some of notably questionable intelligence, at the direction of the President.
The operation failed when a CIA operative, Allen Lawrence Pope, was captured after his plane was shot down by an Indonesian Air Force fighter and an anti-aircraft gun of the Indonesian Navy ship, and was found to have on his possession his actual identification as a CIA agent.
Former CIA Director Porter Goss, himself a former CIA officer, denies this has had a diminishing effect on morale, in favor of promoting his singular mission to reform the CIA into the lean and agile counter-terrorism focused force he believes it should be.
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 CIA: cia prison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
A third function of the CIA is to act as the "hidden hand" of the government by engaging in covert operations, many of questionable intelligence, at the direction of the President.
The Office of the General Counsel[6]advises the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency on all legal matters relating to his role as CIA director and is the principal source of legal counsel for the CIA.
The Office of Public Affairs[7] advises the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency on all media, public policy, and employee communications issues relating to his role as CIA director and is the CIA’s principal communications focal point for the media, the general public and Agency employees.
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 Central Intelligence Agency - Gurupedia
In 1949, the Central Intelligence Agency Act was passed, permitting the agency to use confidential fiscal and administrative procedures and exempting it from many of the usual limitations on the use of federal funds.
Michael Spann, a CIA officer killed in November 2001 during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, was one such individual.
Washington Post, says that the CIA was authorized to undertake a covert operation, if necessary with help of the Special Forces, that could serve as a preparation for a full-scale military attack of Iraq.
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 Wikinfo | Central Intelligence Agency   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Often cited as one of the American intelligence community's biggest blunders is the CIA involvement in equipping and training Mujahedeen fighters in Afghanistan, a group of radical Islamists who would later form the core of the Al-Qaida network.
The CIA facilitated the so-called Reagan Doctrine, channelling weapons and other support (in addition to the Mujahedeen and the Contras) to Jonas Savimbi's UNITA rebel movement in Angola, thus turning an otherwise low-profile African civil war into one of the larger battlegrounds of the Cold War.
The head of the CIA is given the title Director of Central Intelligence (DCI); ODCI means Office of the Director of Central Intelligence.
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 CIA (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
CIA is an abbreviation, it can be used to refer to:
CIA triad, three widely accepted elements of information security (confidentiality, integrity, and availability)
This page disambiguates a three-character combination which might be any or all of an abbreviation, an acronym, an initialism, a word in English, or a word in another language.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Main Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Shakespeare wrote tragedies from the beginning of his career: one of his earliest plays was the Roman tragedy Titus Andronicus, and he followed it a few years later with Romeo and Juliet.
Hamlet and Horatio in the cemetery by Eugène Delacroix For other uses, see Hamlet (disambiguation).
King Lear and the Fool in the Storm by William Dyce (1806-1864) King Lear is a play by William Shakespeare, considered one of his greatest tragedies, based on the legend of King Lear of Britain.
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 Central Intelligence Agency   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The activities of the CIA are largely It undoubtedly makes use of the surveillance satellites of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the signal interception capabilities the NSA including the Echelon system and the surveillance aircraft of various branches of the US armed forces.
Between 1962 and 1975 the CIA organized a Laotian army known as the Secret Army and ran a fleet of aircraft as Air America to take part in the Secret War in Laos part of the Vietnam War.
In the early 1980s the CIA funded and armed the Contras in Nicaragua forces opposed to the Sandinista government in that country until the Boland Amendment forbade the agency from continuing their This support resulted in a World Court decision in the case Nicaragua v.
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 CIA World Factbook - Wikipedia
The World Factbook is prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency for the use of US Government officials, and the style, format, coverage, and content are designed to meet their specific requirements.
The official seal of the CIA, however, may NOT be copied without permission as required by the CIA Act of 1949 (50 U.S.C. section 403m).
Misuse of the official seal of the CIA could result in civil and criminal penalties.
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 Koyaanis Qatsi - Wikipedia
In the future, newer revision of the CIA data can be substituted mechanically.
As it stands now, you will have a hard time doing the upgrade when other authors mixed their writings into the CIA data segment.
Even the PG discussion of Algeria from 90 years ago is largely inaccurate due to changing borders, so I think it's a more general problem than the CIA bits.
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 Cia Training
CIA cryptonyms are code words seen in declassified documents of the US Central Intelligence Agency.
Each CIA cryptonym in these documents contains a two character prefix called a digraph, which designates a geographical or functional area.
Certain digraphs were changed at times, for example the digraph for the Soviet Union changed at least twice.
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 cia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
CIA World Factbook CIA World Factbook This site, updated every year, is one of the most authoritative sites on the numerous countries of the world.
CIA Awards 2005 UK chemical companies were awarded for their outstanding achievements at the CIA Awards Dinner on 7 July 2005...
Cia Piemonte: chiesto un incontro con l'assessore regionale...
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 KGB
The KGB's domain was roughly comparable to that of the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) combined with the counterintelligence and internal security divisions of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
This still achieved notable succeses, such as CIA mole Aldrich Ames and FBI mole Robert Hanssen, but far fewer than earlier.
James Jesus Angleton, head of CIA counter-intelligence, reportedly lived in deathly fear that the KGB had moles in two key places: CIA counter-intelligence and FBI counter-intelligence.
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 American Mayflower Life Insurance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The CIA World Factbook  (http: www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2110.html) lists "American" as both thenoun and adjective forms of nationality for a citizen of the United States, although it is perhaps germane to point out that the Factbook is itself a U.S. government publication and thus hardly unbiased towards the controversy.
As many people from the various nations throughout the New World considerthemselves to be "Americans", some think the common usage of "American" to refer to only people from the United States should beavoided in international contexts where it might cause confusion.
Life is a multi-faceted concept with no simple definition; this article is confined to the primary meanings in biology ; articles on life in other senses are included in the article life (disambiguation).
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 KGB   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In March 1953, Lavrenty Beria consolidated the MVD and the MGB into one body--the MVD; within a year, Beria was executed and MVD was split.
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were NKVD spies executed by the United States upon their conviction for conspiring to steal technical secrets from the US's atomic programs.
James Jesus Angleton, the CIA's counter-intelligence chief, feared that the KGB had moles in two, key places: (i) CIA's counter-intelligence section, and (ii) the FBI's counter-intelligence department.
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 United Nations - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
This article is about the United Nations, for other uses of UN see UN (disambiguation)
The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization made up of 191 statesestablished in 1945.
With the notable exception of the Holy See/Vatican City (who is the sole permanent observerstate), all countries recognized by the CIA as "first-level sovereign entities", are members.
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 OSS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Office of Strategic Services, forerunner of the CIA
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page.
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 GRU - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The rivalry between the GRU and KGB was even more intense than the rivalry between the FBI and CIA.
Baranov had been recruited by the CIA, but was betrayed by a mole in either the FBI or CIA and spent five years in prison before being released.
The identity of the mole remains unknown to this day, though some speculation mounted that it could have been Robert Hanssen.
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 Pia Knoeferle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The more specific goal is to extend current theories of sentence comprehension with a detailed processing account of language comprehension in rich visual contexts.
Three experimental studies have tested predictions of the CIA regarding the temporal coordination of the use of depicted events as a function of when the utterance identifies them as relevant, and regarding the greater relative priority of depicted events compared with stored thematic knowledge
A recent collaboration with Marty Mayberry and Matthew Crocker has provided a computational model of findings on the use of and the greater relative priority of depicted events.
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 CIA - OneLook Dictionary Search
CIA : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
CIA : DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations [home, info]
Phrases that include CIA: c cia, abbreviations used in cia world factbook, cia at greystone, cia deputy director, cia director of operations, more...
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 Korea - Encyclopedia Dramatica
Evildoer Korea, where they make nuclear warheads and missiles; and nobody plays Starcraft.
The CIA and Department of Homeland Security are monitoring this site.
This is a disambiguation page — we hope you feel less ambiguated.
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 Hendrix - Uncyclopedia
Hendrix, a planet existence is presently denied by the CIA.
Jimi Hendrix, rock legend and savior of mankind.
This is a disambiguation page, a navigational aid which links to unrelated pages.
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 Articles - CIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
"CIA" redirects here; for other uses, see CIA (disambiguation).
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an intelligence agency of the United States Government, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the Government.
A third function of the CIA is to act as the "hidden hand" of the government by engaging in covert operations, some of questionable legality, at the direction of the President.
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 Belarus Cia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is one of the three American foreign intelligence agencies,responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the variousbranches of the U.S. Government.
The State Department 's Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the Defense Department 's Defense Intelligence Agency comprise theother two.
History Original sign with seal from the CIA's first building on E Street in Washington, DC The Agency, created in 1947 by President Harry S. Truman, is a descendant of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) of WorldWar II.
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 Espionage - WikiMirror   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
For other uses, see Spy (disambiguation) and Secret agent (disambiguation).
Espionage is the practice of obtaining information about an organization or a society, in a way that is considered secret or confidential (spying) - thus without the permission of the holder of the information.
Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War (1997).
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 Bhutan Cia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Kingdom of Bhutan is a small, mountainous nation of south Asia, located inthe Himalaya Mountains between India and China.
Two years later, a formal Indo-Bhutanese accord returned the areas of Bhutanannexed by the Br...
2) " Cia" -- in the term Bhutan Cia
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 United Kingdom links at JEE 6   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
CIA - The World Factbook -- United Kingdom
Jump to: navigation, search For other meanings of the terms "United Kingdom" and "UK", see United Kingdom (disambiguation) and UK...
UK Patent Office UK Patent Office The Patent Office has a collection of more than four million documents including patents published by the United States, the European Patent Office and under the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
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 OSS - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
OSS may refer to any of the following:
This page concerning a three letter acronym is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/OSS   (162 words)

  
 Pia Knoeferle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Knoeferle, P., Crocker, M.W., Scheepers, C., & Pickering M.J. Actions and roles: using depicted events for disambiguation and reinterpretation in German and English.
Paper presented at the 12th Euopean Conference on Eye Movements, Dundee, Scotland, August, 20-24.
Knoeferle, P., Crocker, M.W., Scheepers, C., Pickering, M.J. Using depicted role-relations for rapid disambiguation and reinterpretation in online sentence comprehension.
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