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  CIA proprietary company - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about CIA proprietary company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
From 1980 all covert activity by the CIA had by law to be reported to Congress, preferably beforehand, and to be authorized by the president.
John M Deutsch became CIA director in 1995 after the Agency's standing was diminished by a scandal involving Aldrich Ames, a CIA agent who had been a longtime mole for the KGB.
It was involved in, for example, the restoration of the Shah of Iran in 1953, South Vietnam (during the Vietnam War), Chile (the coup against President Allende), and Cuba (the Bay of Pigs).
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 Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is the United States of America's foreign intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analysing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the US government.
The act also exempted the CIA from having to disclose its "organization, functions, officials, titles, salaries, or numbers of personnel employed." Some critics have charged that this violates a provision of the U.S. Constitution that the federal budget be openly published.
Michael Spann, the CIA officer killed in November 2001 during the Afghanistan conflict, was one such individual.
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 Central Intelligence Agency   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Micheal Spann, a CIA officer killed in November 2001 during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, was one such individual.
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.
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.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Central Intelligence Agency
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.
Some successes for the CIA include the U-2 and SR-71 programs, anti-Soviet operations in Afghanistan in the mid-1980s (though with the serious downsides noted earlier, the ultimate worth of these operations is open to considerable debate), and perhaps others which may not come to light for some time.
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 Wikipedia: Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is the United States' foreign intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analysing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the US government.
A small number of other CIA officers are confirmed to be working in similar roles in Afghanistan, but the extent of paramilitary action by the CIA since the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion is largely unknown.
According to some sources [1] [1] [1] [1] the CIA appears to have supported the 1963 military coup in Iraq and the subsequent Saddam Hussein led government up until the point of the 1991 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
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 CIA - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
CIA collaborators were involved in preparing an initial overall economic plan which has served as the basis for the Junta's most important economic decisions.
Current 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.
One of the CIA's publications, the CIA World Factbook, is unclassified and is indeed made freely available without copyright restrictions because it is a work of the United States federal government.
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 CIA cryptonym - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
CIA cryptonyms are code words seen in declassified documents of the US Central Intelligence Agency.
The rest is either an arbitrary dictionary word, or occasionally the digraph and the cryptonym combine to form a dictionary word (e.g.: AEROPLANE).
PBFORTUNE: CIA project to supply forces opposed to Guatemala's President Arbenz with weapons, supplies, and funding; predecessor to PBSUCCESS.
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 Wikinfo | Central Intelligence Agency   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
CIA operations became less ambitious after the Bay of Pigs, and shifted to being closely linked to aiding the U.S. military operation in Vietnam.
Between 1962 and 1975, the CIA organized a Laotian group known as the Secret Army and ran a fleet of aircraft known as Air America to take part in the Secret War in Laos, part of the Vietnam War.
One very successful 1982 CIA operation was made public on February 2, 2004 by William Safire of the New York Times, and was detailed in the book At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War, by Thomas C. Reed.
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 Code name - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A code name or cryptonym is a word or name used clandestinely to refer to another name or word.
The American CIA uses alphabetical prefixes to designate the part of the agency supporting an operation.
In many cases with US the first word of the name has to do with the intent of the program, programs with HAVE as the first word, such as HAVE BLUE for the stealth fighter development, are developmental programs, not meant to produce a production aircraft.
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 washingtonpost.com: Penetrating Terrorist Networks
As the United States prepares for war against a shadowy enemy, politicians are understandably insisting that the CIA improve the quality of its information.
What the CIA did back then was to open a secret channel with the PLO's chief of intelligence, a charismatic operative named Ali Hassan Salameh.
He supplied the CIA with extensive information about terrorist groups, and on several occasions he intervened directly to halt planned attacks.
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 The Gentlemanly Planner of Assassinations - The nasty career of CIA Director Richard Helms. By Jefferson Morley
CIA files uncovered by a civilian watchdog panel in 1998 revealed what Helms sought to hide.
When Kennedy was killed three months later, these same students, using CIA funds from Joannides, published a special edition of their newspaper, proclaiming that accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald had acted at Castro's behest.
As the Senate Intelligence Committee later determined, the CIA reported that Chilean Gen. Rene Schneider was seen as a linchpin of the fledgling government, a respected military leader whose fidelity to constitutional principles was blocking a right-wing military coup.
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 Findings -- Volume I: The California Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Further, CIA records indicate that the CIA independent contractor who used the alias "Ivan Gomez" was in the United States and not in Costa Rica during April or May 1982 when the meeting that Cabezas describes allegedly occurred.
CIA Headquarters also asked two DO LA Division Stations and an FR Division Station on April 9, 1986 for any information in their files that might be pertinent to the newspaper allegations.
CIA files indicate that the April 11, 1986 Headquarters instruction that the LA Division Stations take no further action was based on information provided by one of the LA Division Stations that reportedly Aviles had changed his story.
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 Encyclopedia: Operation Northwoods   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The continuing push against the Cuban government by internal elements of the U.S. military and intelligence community (the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion, The Cuban Project, etc.) prompted President John F. Kennedy to attempt to rein in burgeoning hardline anti-Communist sentiment that was intent on proactive, aggressive action against communist movements around the globe.
After the Bay of Pigs, John F. Kennedy fired then CIA director Allen W. Dulles, Deputy Director Charles P. Cabell, as well as Deputy Director Richard Bissell, and turned his attention towards Vietnam.
The Cuban Project, also known as Operation Mongoose is the general name for CIA covert operations and plans initiated by President John F. Kennedy on November 30, 1961 which authorized aggressive covert assault on Communism in the Cuban Republic.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/CIA cryptonym
Staff D was where ZR/RIFLE, a Castro assassination plot, was buried.
CONDOR - 1970's CIA interference in Government of Latin America, some allege in the Coup and assasination of Salvador Allende in Chile
JMTIDE - CIA airbase in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua
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 Guest Contribution: Thom Hartmann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Officially declassified in 1999, “AMWORLD” is the cryptonym the CIA used for the plan in its classified internal documents.
Without telling the Kennedys, the CIA was continuing to work with the Mafia on plots against Castro in the fall of 1963, which helped to allow associates of Marcello, Trafficante, and Rosselli to infiltrate the plans for C-Day.
CIA cable to Director, 12-10-63, CIA 104-10076-10252, declassified 8-95; David Corn, Blond Ghost: Ted Shackley and the CIA’s Crusades (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994), p.
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The report by journalists Anthony and Robbyn Summers quoted CIA sources as saying that on November 22, 1963, a CIA officer was in Paris passing an assassination weapon -- a pen modified to be used as a poison syringe -- to Rolando Cubela, a close Castro aide.
The Vanity Fair story goes on to say that on the morning of Kennedy's death, the head of CIA Cuba operations Desmond Fitzgerald, was involved in a scheme to overthrow Castro that was promoted by Robert Kennedy.
He told Vanity Fair that a document he tracked down and statements by former CIA officials suggest Oswald was debriefed on his return from the Soviet Union.
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 CIA cryptonyms - The Education Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
I understand if the 1954 CIA Guatamela operation had failed the CIA would have had to change the cryptonym to PBFAILURE.
I have said before the CIA's attempted (and actual?) assassinations were immoral, illegal and criminal.
Consider, for instance, the CIA's discovery (or confirmation) of the missiles in Cuba.
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 CIA cryptonym
Each CIA cryptonym in these documents begins with a two-character prefix.
Prefixes appear to be organized in some way.
For example: 'KU' appears always to refer to a part of the CIA.
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 Central Intelligence Agency - Demopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The cardinal rule in planning all Psychological and Paramilitary operations [of the CIA] is 'plausible denial', only possible if care has been taken in the first place to ensure that someone other than the US government [or CIA] can be made to take the blame.
Interviewed for the ITV documentary, Cabezas said that he delivered cocaine proceeds to contra leaders in Miami and Costa Rica.
Cabezas told the journalists that in Costa Rica he met CIA agent Ivan Gomez, who was responsible for overseeing the transfer of drug profits to the contras.
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 CIA cryptonym - TheBestLinks.com - Czechoslovakia, Cuba, Central Intelligence Agency, Dictionary, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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JMMADD - CIA airbase near Retalhuleu city, Guatamala
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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: abbreviations used in cia world factbook, c cia, cia deputy director, cia director, cia director of operations, more...
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 CIA cryptonym - Art History Online Reference and Guide
CIA cryptonym - Art History Online Reference and Guide
CIA cryptonym - Your Art History Reference Guide!
2 Partial list of CIA cryptonyms and probable definitions
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 MKNAOMI - Art History Online Reference and Guide
The following assertions about MKNAOMI activities have been reported but not independently confirmed:
MKNAOMI was one of the CIA's mind control projects and sought to use biological agents to create a reliable "programmable" assassin
A prominent researcher for the project was drugged and then murdered when he began to have misgivings about his work
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