In June 2009, the US National Public Radio ( NPR ), relying on information obtained from the CIA World Factbook, put the number of Israeli Jews living in settlements in the West Bank and Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem at 250, 000.

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.

You seek to control a predetermined number of Groups ( such as the Boy Scouts, the Men in Black, the CIA, etc.

The CIA broke into his hotel room and photocopied his passport, which gave them his full name, birth information and passport number for the first time, and alerted them that he held an entry visa to the United States.

At the CIA, the number of manuscripts submitted for pre-publication vetting doubled between 1998 and 2005.

The CIA factbook estimates the number to be between 25 – 30 million ..

Investigative efforts were hampered by the fact that CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MKUltra files destroyed in 1973 ; the Church Committee and Rockefeller Commission investigations relied on the sworn testimony of direct participants and on the relatively small number of documents that survived Helms ' destruction order.

The revelations about the CIA and the Army prompted a number of subjects or their survivors to file lawsuits against the federal government for conducting experiments without informed consent.

As of March 2010, the telephone communications system was described by the CIA factbook as " seriously inadequate " with " the number of main lines is still deficient ", but with growing cell phone service and available email and internet.

One explanation for this discrepancy given inside Bhutan is that the higher CIA numbers ultimately trace back to an inflated population number the Bhutanese government supplied to the United Nations in the early 1970s in order to gain entry into that body ( the UN reportedly had a cutoff population of one million at that time ).

According to this theory the CIA population experts have retained this original inflated number year after year while adjusting it each year for normal population growth.

The CIA World Fact book number has since been adjusted with a note of former inconstancies, and explains the difference on the old numbers from the government not including the " first modern census of Bhutan, conducted in 2005 ".

The first military adviser deaths in Vietnam occurred in 1957 or 59 under the Eisenhower Administration, which had infiltrated Vietnam, through the efforts of Stanley Sheinbaum, with an unknown number of CIA operatives and other special forces in addition to almost 700 advisers.

However, several top Democratic lawmakers in the House signed a letter on June 26, 2009, alleging that CIA Director Leon Panetta had asserted that the CIA misled Congress for a " number of years " spanning back to 2001, casting more clouds on the controversy.

* The CIA station dubbed " Cynthia " by number station monitors has also been the target of the same type of jamming as the above example.

It came from the graphic novel Brought to Light by Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz, in which the CIA measures its killings through state-sponsored terrorism by the equivalent number of 50-gallon swimming pools filled with human blood.

Ames could have faced the death penalty because his betrayal had resulted in the deaths of a number of CIA assets.

In a 1987 book, Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987, Washington Post, reporter, and biographer, Bob Woodward, who had interviewed Casey on a number of occasions for the biography, said that he had gained entry into Casey's hospital room for a final, four-minute encounter — a claim which was met with disbelief in many quarters as well as an adamant denial from Casey's wife, Sofia.

Provided with an enemy intelligence windfall accrued during Operations Cedar Falls and Junction City, the CIA members of the group believed that the number of communist guerrillas, irregulars, and cadre within the South could be as high as 430, 000.

Meanwhile, a then-secret 1983 CIA cable noted a rise in " suspect right-wing violence " and an increasing number of bodies " appearing in ditches and gullies.

A number of conspiracy theories have been published, based on CIA and FBI surveillance of Lennon due to his left-wing activism, and on the actions of Mark Chapman in the murder or subsequent legal proceedings.

In the course of the investigation, it was revealed that the CIA, going back to the Kennedy administration, had plotted the assassination of a number of foreign leaders, including Cuba's Fidel Castro.

CIA Factbook gives a number of 89. 8 % belonging to the Roman Catholic Church and about 75 % as practicing Catholics.

It was about that time, a board member said later, that Dr. Thomas G. Pullen, Jr., State superintendent of schools, told Dr. Jenkins and a number of other education officials that he would not talk to them with a recording machine sitting in front of him.

The scope of its labour, as well as the number of its officials, has varied with the times.

Turnpike officials also stated that the number of leaks being investigated was down from 1, 000 to 500.

The system has resulted in successful investigation and prosecution of a number of corrupt cadre including some very powerful party officials.

The actual numbers of officials and ratios per inhabitant varied, of course, per diocese depending on the number of provinces and population within a diocese.

Diocletian's reforms also increased the number of financial officials in the provinces: more rationales and magistri privatae are attested under Diocletian's reign than before.

* 2008 – The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for a number of crimes including attempting to sell the United States Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama's election to the Presidency.

Hitler continued to refer to corporatism in propaganda, but it was not put into place, even though a number of Nazi officials such as Walther Darré, Gottfried Feder, Alfred Rosenburg, and Gregor Strasser were in favour of a neo-medievalist form of corporatism, since corporations had been influential in German history in the medieval era.

A corps of apparitores ( subordinate officials ) called ' lictors ' each carried fasces as a sort of staff of office before a magistrate, in a number corresponding to his rank, in public ceremonies and inspections.

As a result, on February 24, 1966, a small number of army officers and senior police officials, led by Colonel Emmanuel Kotoka, commander of the Second Army Brigade at Kumasi, Major Akwasi Afrifa, staff officer in charge of army training and operations, Lieutenant General ( retired ) Joseph Ankrah, and J. W. K.

Initially, however, Telemann encountered a number of problems: some church officials found opera and collegium musicum performances to be objectionable ( for " inciting lasciviousness "), and the city printer was displeased with Telemann publishing printed texts for his yearly Passions.

The ceremony includes speeches by senior Israeli officials, an artistic presentation, a ritual march of flag-carrying soldiers forming elaborate structures ( such as a Menorah, a Magen David and the number which represents the age of the State of Israel ) and the lighting of twelve beacons ( one for each of the Tribes of Israel ).

For a number of years French officials had been unsuccessful in dealing with the squalor of the growing Parisian slums, and Le Corbusier sought efficient ways to house large numbers of people in response to the urban housing crisis.

A number of government officials were detained after the coup including the head of the Supreme Court, Mahfoud Ould Lemrabott, and the Secretary of State for Women's Affairs, Mintata Mint Hedeid.

In order for MLB officials to continue the existing schedule, where teams play almost every day and where interleague play is limited to a few days per year, both leagues would need to carry an even number of teams.

An unknown number of copies of it were sent out to officials, such as royal sheriffs and bishops.

While the Manchus followed the governmental structure of the preceding Ming dynasty, their ethnic policy dictated that appointments were split between Manchu noblemen and Han Chinese officials who had passed the highest levels of the state examinations, and because of the small number of Manchus, this insured that a large fraction of them would be government officials.

Freedom of Information Act inquiries by the National Security Archive and other investigators unearthed a number of documents showing that White House officials, including Oliver North, knew about and supported using money raised via drug trafficking to fund the Contras.

Maine has the highest per capita number of Green elected officials in the country, and the largest Green registration percentage with more than 29, 273 greens comprising 2. 95 % of the electorate as of November 2006.

The amendment also includes a number of clauses dealing with the Confederacy and its officials.

Ministers and officials from 192 countries took part in the Copenhagen meeting and in addition there were participants from a large number of civil society organizations.

The general public has paid respect to a number of individuals lying in state at the Capitol, including numerous former presidents, senators, and other officials.

This combines both the legislative and executive functions in one group of officials, usually three or more in number, elected city-wide.

At the imperial new year he and a number of former Jin officials are poisoned.