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Parent topics
- National Security Act of 1947 [r]: Core of legislation that restructured the U.S. military from its traditional structure of a separate Army and Navy, creating the United States Air Force, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the predecessor to the U.S. Department of Defense [e]
- Director of National Intelligence [r]: Prior to the attacks of 9/11, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency was the nominal head of the United States Intelligence Community, following 9/11 a more senior position was created, with a measure of actual authority over those agencies [e]
Subtopics
- Director of Central Intelligence [r]: Formerly, the U.S. official that headed both the Central Intelligence Agency and the United States intelligence community ; the responsibility is now split between the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (currently Leon Panetta) and the Director of National Intelligence (currently Dennis Blair) [e]
- Director of the Central Intelligence Agency [r]: After the Director of National Intelligence was created to head the overall United States intelligence community , the official responsible for the remaining functions of the Central Intelligence Agency in intelligence analysis and research into intelligence methodology, clandestine human-source intelligence and some covert action [e]
past Directors
- William Colby [r]: A U.S. intelligence and special operations officer eventually becoming Director of Central Intelligence (1973-1976). [e]
Former staff
- Robert Ames [r]: National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and a Central Intelligence Agency employee killed in the 1983 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut [e]
- Richard Bissell [r]: Central Intelligence Agency official involved in a wide range of operations and high-technology projects; involved in the original creation of the National Reconnaissance Office; resigned over the Bay of Pigs [e]
- Raymond Garthoff [r]: Guest Scholar, Brookings Institution: specialist on arms control, the Cold War, the former Soviet Union and NATO; former U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria and has also advised the State Department on missile treaties; was Central Intelligence Agency analyst on weapons of mass destruction [e]
Covert action
- Bay of Pigs invasion [r]: Failed attempt to invade Cuba in April 1961, by Cuban exiles trained by the Central Intelligence Agency and approved by President John F. Kennedy; Joint Chiefs of Staff recommended against the plan but the U.S. military was not involved in its execution [e]
- Operation MONGOOSE [r]: Carried out under orders of President John F. Kennedy, an unsuccessful Central Intelligence Agency program to assassinate Fidel Castro. [e]
Staff now at ODNI
- Julie E. Cohen [r]: National Intelligence Officer for Transnational Threats (February 2009-); Central Intelligence Agency Senior Intelligence Service; previously Chair of the National SIGINT Analysis and Production Subcommittee of the National SIGINT Committee; Group Chief for two different groups in CIA's Counterterrorism Center; Office of the Inspector General [e]
Publications
- World Factbook [r]: A freely available publication of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), containing extensive basic data, including maps, on the countries of the world. [e]
Historians
- George Washington University [r]: Private, nonsectarian institution chartered by President James Monroe and Congress in 1821; the largest private co-educational institution in Washington, D.C. [e]
Intelligence community
- Intellipedia [r]: Wikis, of different security levels, which are used by individuals with appropriate clearances from the 16 agencies of the United States intelligence community; at least one more is accessible to trusted intelligence agencies of a small number of countries. [e]
Cooperating agencies
- Secret Intelligence Service [r]: Britain's national-level civilian organization for intelligence and covert action [e]
- Canadian Security Intelligence Service [r]: The civilian intelligence analysis and counterintelligence organization of Canada [e]
- Mossad [r]: The civilian foreign intelligence and covert action agency of Israel, roughly comparable to the British Secret Intelligence Service or U.S. Central Intelligence Agency [e]
Operations involving predecessors
- Intelligence on the Korean War [r]: The collection and analysis, primarily by the United States with South Korean help, of information that predicted the 1950 invasion of South Korea, and the plans and capabilities of the enemy once the war had started [e]
- U.S. intelligence involvement with World War II war criminals [r]: Choices by U.S. intelligence agencies, after the Second World War, not to seek prosecution of certain war criminals in return for perceived important intelligence information [e]
- U.S. intelligence involvement with World War II Japanese war criminals [r]: Actions by intelligence agencies, primarily in the U.S. Army, where Japanese strongly suspected of war crimes were not prosecuted in exchange for information, such as details of the biological weapons program [e]
- U.S. intelligence involvement with World War II Nazi war criminals [r]: Actions by intelligence agencies, primarily in the U.S. Army, where Nazi strongly suspected of war crimes were not prosecuted in exchange for information, such information on the Soviet Union [e]
- Defense Intelligence Agency [r]: One of the members of the United States intelligence community , charged with providing national-level analysis specifically relevant for military needs, and being the focal point for measurement and signature intelligence [e]