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Parent topics
- United States intelligence community [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Unitary executive theory [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Special operations [r]: Military or paramilitary operations that differ from conventional operations in degree of physical and political risk, operational techniques, mode of employment, independence from friendly support, and dependence on detailed operational intelligence and indigenous assets; they are often controlled at a national or strategic level of command [e]
- Classified information [r]: Material collected or created by a government that is subject to limitations on its release to the general public and may have penalties for its unauthorized release. [e]
- Covert operation [r]: Military, intelligence, or political activity carried out in such a way that the identity of the sponsors of the operation is concealed or kept secret, although the existence of the operation is known [e]
Subtopics
- National Security Council [r]: Both the senior foreign policy committee of principal officers of the executive branch of the United States of America, chaired by the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, and, by extension, the professional staff reporting to the Assistant [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]
- Senate Select Committee on Intelligence [r]: Oversees the United States intelligence community for the Senate, submitting legislation and reports on the proper conduct of the program; Dianne Feinstein is chair and Christopher Bond is Ranking Minority Member; the four highest Senate leaders, of both parties, are ex officio members [e]
- House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence [r]: That committee in the U.S. House of Representatives with oversight over the United States intelligence community [e]
- Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [r]: Add brief definition or description
- President's Intelligence Advisory Board [r]: A long-standing, nonpartisan committee that gives direct advice to the President of the United States, outside the chain of command of the United States intelligence community [e]
- Joint Special Operations Command [r]: A major subordinate unit of the U.S. Special Operations Command, which takes on the most sensitive covert military operations, usually working unacknowledged within the geographic area of a Unified Combatant Command [e]
- U-2 Incident [r]: On 1 May 1960, an American U-2 reconnaissance aircraft was shot down over the Soviet Union. This led to an international furor, in which President Dwight D. Eisenhower took personal responsibility, and General Secretary Nikita Khrushchev cancelled an upcoming summit meeting. [e]
- Iran-Contra Affair [r]: After the U.S. Congress barred funding the Contras through official channels the Ronald Reagan Presidency got caught funding them, "off the books", through illegal arms sales [e]
- Office of Special Plans [r]: Add brief definition or description