In August 1950, the CIA secretly purchased the assets of Civil Air Transport ( CAT ), an airline that had been started in China in 1946 by Gen. Claire Lee Chennault ( of Flying Tigers fame ) and Whiting Willauer.

Civil Air Transport ( CAT ) ( 民航空運公司 ) was a Nationalist Chinese airline, later owned by the CIA, that supported United States covert operations throughout East and Southeast Asia.

The CIA formed a private Delaware corporation called Airdale Corporation, which formed a subsidiary called CAT, Inc.

Following a personal letter from the French prime minister, Joseph Laniel, Eisenhower authorized the loan of aircraft with French markings painted on them and flown by crews from Civil Air Transport ( CAT ), a commercial airline, which had been started in 1946 by then-retired Major General Chennault, the famous commander of the American Volunteer Group ( AVG ), better known as the “ Flying Tigers ”, in China during World War II, and then purchased by the CIA in the year war broke out in Korea.

However, much of the nation's homeland security activity remains outside of DHS ; for example, the FBI and CIA are not part of the Department, and other executive departments such as the Department of Defense and Department of Health and Human Services play a significant role in certain aspects of homeland security.

According to former CIA Director Richard M. Helms: " The code names for most Agency operations are picked in sequence from a sterile list, with care taken not to use any word that might give a clue to the activity it covers.

In a lecture in 1993, Bruce Cumings asserted that based on information gathered by the CIA, the activity around the Yongbyon facility may have been done expressly to draw the attention of U. S. satellites.

In October he formally separated from his wife, and in November, he submitted an " outside activity " report to the CIA noting his romantic relationship to Rosario.

During his tenure at the CIA, Casey played a large part in the shaping of Reagan's foreign policy, particularly Reagan's approach to Soviet international activity.

Based on the book, The Terror Network, Casey believed that the Soviet Union was the source of most worldwide, terrorist activity in spite of CIA analysts providing evidence that this was in fact black propaganda by the CIA itself.

Frank Wisner, a well-known CIA operations executive said of the autobiography of Director of Central Intelligence Allen W. Dulles, that Dulles " disposes of the popular misconception that counterintelligence is essentially a negative and responsive activity, that it moves only or chiefly in reaction to situations thrust upon it and in counter to initiatives mounted by the opposition " Rather, he sees that can be most effective, both in information gathering and protecting friendly intelligence services, when it creatively but vigorously attacks the " structure and personnel of hostile intelligence services.

The CIA names human trafficking, widespread crime and underground economic activity among major crime issues of Moldova.

Security sources estimate 40 per cent of CIA activity to prevent a terrorist attack in the United States involves operations inside the United Kingdom.

He is said to have been influenced in his counterespionage activity by James Jesus Angleton, the US Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) counterintelligence chief from 1954 to 1975.

His tenure is also noted for corruption, and the high level of military repression, including the startling leap of activity attributable to Battalion 316, a secret right-wing paramilitary death squad trained by the CIA.

Khalid El-Masri alleged that he was falsely held by the CIA for several months ( which the CIA acknowledges ) and was beaten, drugged, and subjected to various other inhumane activity while in captivity.

Stefano delle Chiaie was described by the CIA as being the most wanted rightist terrorist in 1983, was suspected of a lot of irregular activity, but without any evidence against him he was always acquitted.

The proposals called for the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ), or other operatives, to commit acts of terrorism in U. S. cities and elsewhere.

The proposals called for the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ), or other operatives, to commit acts of terrorism in U. S. cities and elsewhere.

Although this exact scenario never came to pass in the US, where the Socialist Party remained small and marginal, events closely followed London's script elsewhere – for example in Chile in 1973, where the government of Socialist president Salvador Allende was overthrown by a CIA backed coup and forces led by General Augusto Pinochet, prompting later publishers of London's book to use a cover illustration depicting a poster of Allende being ground beneath the heel of a boot.

The report did not examine the science of brain fingerprinting ; the published research at the FBI, the CIA, the US Navy, and elsewhere ; the successful application of brain fingerprinting in criminal cases ; or the success of brain fingerprinting in being ruled admissible in court.

We CIA decided to use our limited dollars to leverage technology developed elsewhere.

Besides continuing Carters ' policy of supporting the Islamic opponents of the Soviet Union and the Soviet-backed PDPA government in Afghanistan, the CIA also sought to weaken the Soviet Union itself by promoting political Islam in the majority-Muslim Central Asian Soviet Union.

On May 10, 2002, the CIA ’ s Office of Near Eastern and South Asian Analysis ( NESA ) in the Directorate of Intelligence ( DI ) prepared a Principals Committee briefing book updating the status of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction ( WMD ) programs.

Many of Vialls ' investigations blamed significant world events-such as the 2004 Asian Tsunami-on joint CIA / Mossad operations, and Vialls maintained in disclaimers on his site that his reports were written in the interest of public safety.

Though the name Area 51 is used in official Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) documentation, other names used for the facility include Dreamland, Paradise Ranch, Home Base, Watertown Strip, Groom Lake, and most recently Homey Airport.

Much of the material in this article is adapted from the CIA World Factbook.

The World Factbook ( ISSN ; also known as the CIA World Factbook ) is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States with almanac-style information about the countries of the world.

The World Factbook is prepared by the CIA for the use of U. S. government officials, and its style, format, coverage, and content are primarily designed to meet their requirements.

Because the Factbook is in the public domain, people are free to redistribute and modify it in any way that they like, without permission of the CIA.

However, the CIA requests that it be cited when the Factbook is used.

Chuck Holmes, foreign editor for NPR Digitial, said, “ I ’ m surprised and displeased, and it makes me wonder what other information is out-of-date or incorrect in the CIA World Factbook .”

According to the CIA World Factbook, Costa Rica's GDP per capita is US $ 10, 900 ( 2009 ); however, there is a lack of maintenance and new investment in infrastructure, 21. 3 % of the people living below the poverty line and 7. 8 % ( 2009 ) unemployed.

* Much of the material in this article is adapted from the CIA World Factbook.

This article is partly based on the relevant entry in the CIA World Factbook, edition.

" That is a standard technique in attempting to destabilize and overthrow a government, is to demonstrate to the citizens that it's government cannot provide security for them ," observes David MacMichael, a former CIA analyst on Nicaragua.

This is based on 1989 to 2009 data, estimated by CIA.

According to the article cited, the still classified NSA report is incorrect based on the CIA documents that were declassified which show that Powers ' account of being shot down at altitude was accurate.

Still, given that the sources of this data has remained the same for the past 15 years, we can at least see a trend of unemployment staying high throughout this period, but rising sharply in the mid to late 90's peaking at 70 % in 1999 ( 2000 CIA World Factbook is the source for that number ), and then decreasing to the usual rates of around 50 % in recent years.

A paraphrased extract from Howard Carter's diary of 26 November 1922 is used as the plaintext for Part 3 of the encrypted Kryptos sculpture at the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

Research into hypnosis in military applications is further verified by the MKULTRA experiments, also conducted by the CIA.

The CIA triad ( confidentiality, integrity and availability ) is one of the core principles of information security.

* 2003 – In an effort to discredit U. S. Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, who had written an article critical of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Washington Post columnist Robert Novak reveals that Wilson's wife Valerie Plame is a CIA " operative ".

Much of the information in this article is adapted from the CIA World Factbook.

Much of the content of this article is adapted from the CIA World Factbook.

* 1996 – The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.

* 1984 – William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later died in captivity.

* Rufus " Super Midnight " Carter is an African-American kickboxing champion and antiques dealer who secretly works for the CIA.