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CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)
Major
American intelligence agency created in 1947 under the National Security Act. Since its
inception, the CIA has performed three basic tasks: foreign intelligence gathering and
evaluation; overseas counterintelligence operations; and secret political operations and
psychological warfare in foreign countries.
The CIA is headed by a
director appointed by the president. It has four major divisions: intelligence, planning,
science and technology, and administration. The intelligence division is the largest and
is made up mostly of research analysts. The planning division is responsible for secret
operations abroad. The science and technology division deals with new techniques for
getting information and with foreign technological developments that could affect American
security. The administration division takes care of recruitment and training for the
agency, as well as information storage and retrieval and other necessary duties.
Allegedly, the CIA is
involved in hundreds of assassinations, conspiracies and illicit undertakings. So far,
nothing has ever been proved, and not a single one of its employees, operatives or
otherwise, has been successfully prosecuted.
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Spying.
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Secret Files Complete Set.
Conspiracy: The
CIA & Drugs.
Conspiracy Crumb
(Watergate).
Fall of a
President (Watergate).
Inside the CIA
vol.I: History.
Inside the CIA
vol.II: Assassination.
Inside the CIA
vol.III: Subversion.
Inside the Secret
Service.
Secrets of the
CIA.
The Secret
Service.
Watergate Series
Pack.
Watergate - The
Secret Story.
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books:
A Spy for All
Seasons: My Life in the CIA.
Battleground
Berlin: CIA Vs. KGB in the Cold War.
Bay of Pigs
Declassified: The Secret CIA Report on the Invasion of Cuba (National Security Archive
Documents Reader).
Challenging the
Secret Government: The Post-Watergate Investigations of the CIA and FBI.
Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America.
Dark Alliance:
The Cia, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.
Gassed in the
Gulf: The Inside Story of the Pentagon-CIA Cover-Up of Gulf War Syndrome.
Inside the
Cia/Revealing the Secrets of the World's Most Powerful Spy Agency.
Killing Hope: U.
S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II.
Presidents'
Secret Wars: CIA and Pentagon Covert Operations from World War II Through the Persian
Gulf (Elephant Paperbacks).
Secret and
Sanctioned: Covert Operations and the American Presidency.
Secrets: The Cia's War at Home.
Spymasters: Ten
CIA Officers in Their Own Words.
The CIA and
American Democracy.
The CIA Files:
Secrets of 'the Company'.
Click
here for more related
books.
Further
info:
CIA Covert Operations.
Covert Operations and the CIA's Hidden History in the Philippines.
Gestapu: The CIA's "Track Two" in Indonesia.
The CIA and
Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World.
The Contras, Cocaine,
and Covert Operations.
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