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 Secretary General of the Council is head of the General Secretariat, Uwe Corsepius since June 2011 ; previously the post holder was also the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, President of the European Defence Agency and the Western European Union.

Cadillac is also home to two superfund sites according to the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Franklin also wrote that " the Deity sometimes interferes by his particular Providence, and sets aside the Events which would otherwise have been produc'd in the Course of Nature, or by the Free Agency of Man.

It is also hinted that the Celestial Intervention Agency will evolve into the beings of pure thought known as the Celestis, who observe the war from outside this dimension ( the Last Parliament in which they sit resembles the Panopticon on Gallifrey and the closest anyone gets to describing them is similar to the Time Lords ' robes ).

ANNA also functions as the ISO 6166 Maintenance Agency ( MA ).

Drafted by a treaty and a bill of sale, and constituted between 1820 and 1858, the Princely State of Kashmir and Jammu ( as it was first called ) combined disparate regions, religions, and ethnicities: to the east, Ladakh was ethnically and culturally Tibetan and its inhabitants practised Buddhism ; to the south, Jammu had a mixed population of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs ; in the heavily populated central Kashmir valley, the population was overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, however, there was also a small but influential Hindu minority, the Kashmiri brahmins or pandits ; to the northeast, sparsely populated Baltistan had a population ethnically related to Ladakh, but which practised Shi ' a Islam ; to the north, also sparsely populated, Gilgit Agency, was an area of diverse, mostly Shi ' a groups ; and, to the west, Punch was Muslim, but of different ethnicity than the Kashmir valley.

It was also used by many American federal agencies, such as Naval Research Laboratory, the National Security Agency, the Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Reconnaissance Office.

A 1992 Central Intelligence Agency report " acknowledged that the FARC had become increasingly involved in drugs through their ' taxing ' of the trade in areas under their geographical control and that in some cases the insurgents protected trafficking infrastructure to further fund their insurgency ," but also described the relationship between the FARC and the drug traffickers as one " characterized by both cooperation and friction " and concluded that " we do not believe that the drug industry Colombia would be substantially disrupted in the short term by attacks against guerrillas.

The Puntland Intelligence Agency ( PIA ), a covert organization supported and trained by U. S. counter-terrorism agencies based in Djibouti, also indicated that over 70 salaried Somaliland soldiers had fought alongside Atom's militiamen during the Galgala operation, including one known Somaliland intelligence official who died in the ensuing battle.

The Sontarans also briefly appear in The Eight Doctors, sent to the Eye of Orion by an agent of the Celestial Intervention Agency to kill the Fifth and Eighth Doctors.

The Bush Administration also invoked 9 / 11 as the reason to have the National Security Agency initiate a secret operation, " to eavesdrop on telephone and e-mail communications between the United States and people overseas without a warrant.

It has also supported an active program by the U. S. Department of Defense Defense Threat Reduction Agency in western Uzbekistan ( Nukus and the biological warfare test laboratory on Vozrozhdeniye Island ).

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ), also known as The UN Refugee Agency is a United Nations agency mandated to protect and support refugees at the request of a government or the UN itself and assists in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country.

The Department also supports the foreign affairs activities of other U. S. Government entities including the Department of Defense, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Homeland Security, the Central Intelligence Agency ( specifically, the Special Activities Division ), and the U. S. Agency for International Development.

Since the 1996 reorganization, this Undersecretary also oversees the functions of the formerly independent Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.

Since the 1996 reorganization, the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development ( USAID ), while leading an independent agency, has also reported to the Secretary of State, as does the United States Ambassador to the United Nations ( also known as the Permanent Representative ).

The local Environment Agency office, located in Newcastle Business Park, also uses the term Northumbria to describe its patch.

He also provided voices for the British satirical puppet show Spitting Image, and starred as Dirk Gently in the BBC Radio adaptations of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.

U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower also ordered the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) to overthrow him, which they unsuccessfully tried through multiple assassination attempts and the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961.

The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor ( abbreviated NSA, or sometimes APNSA or ANSA to avoid confusion with the abbreviation of the National Security Agency ), is a senior official in the Executive Office of the President who serves as the chief advisor, stationed in the White House, to the President of the United States on national security issues.

Randy Corman, Executive Director of the Sayreville Economic and Redevelopment Agency ( SERA ), has been heading up the development of the parcel of land commonly referred to as the National Lead Site / Amboy Cinemas lot since about 2000.

In March the International Atomic Energy Agency, when it finally obtained the documents referred to by Colin Powell to the United Nations Security Council alleging transactions between Niger and Iraq, concluded that they were obvious fakes.

* Michael D. Brown ( born 1954 ), head of Federal Emergency Management Agency referred to as " Brownie " by then-President Bush

After having referred the matter to Berlin, Münster consented to the drawing up of a note by the Havas Agency, which once more put all the embassies out of the case, and terminated the incident ( 9 January 1895 ).

With the increase in the practice of buyer brokerage in the United States, especially since the late 1990s in most states, agents ( acting under their brokers ) have been able to represent buyers in the transaction with a written " Buyer Agency Agreement " not unlike the " Listing Agreement " for sellers referred to above.

In the U. S., cadaver GH, also referred to as NPA growth hormone, was provided by the National Pituitary Agency, and by other national programs and commercial firms as well.

One analyst for the American Central Intelligence Agency explained it was " no semantic accident that observers of the Chinese political scene are more often called ' China-watchers ' than ' Sinologists ,' while analysts of the Soviet Union are frequently referred to as ' Kremlinologists.

Set in Italy, Gunslinger Girl follows the exploits of the Social Welfare Agency ( often referred to as simply " the Agency "), ostensibly a charitable institution sponsored by the Italian government.

The Tribune, often referred to as just " the Trib ," is owned by the Denver-based MediaNews Group, and operated in a joint operating agreement with the Deseret News through Newspaper Agency Corporation.

Often referred to as the ‘ Better Aid Bill ,’ its primary purpose is to mandate that the Canadian International Development Agency ( CIDA ) target Canada ’ s Official Development Assistance ( ODA ) to the specific goal of poverty reduction in developing nations.

Thus WWI or WWII veterans who served in Newfoundland ( with Royal Newfoundland Regiment and Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve ) are considered by Veterans Affairs to be " overseas veterans " ( and be referred to the British Service Personnel and Veterans Agency ).

* The Defense Intelligence Agency and National Geospatial Intelligence Agency both called their internal message traffic systems AMHS and it is referred to as AMHS by Jane's Military Communications.

Jones was raised in Jackson, Mississippi, the only child of Debra Martinson Pearsall and James Harrison Jones Junior, and the granddaughter of " Ageless Hero " Gloria Martinson, founder of the non-profit organization, Gleaners, and Mike Martinson, Founder and CEO of the Dobbs Maynard Advertising Agency, who was often referred to as " The King Maker " due to his strong political influence and clout.

Anini sits near the McMahon Line, the disputed northern boundary of Arunachal Pradesh, previously referred to as the North-East Frontier Agency.

) This new show also used the same basic formula as the original 1969 show: the gang ( referred to in this show as the " Scooby-Doo Detective Agency ") solved supernatural-based mysteries, where the villains ( the ghosts and monsters ) were always revealed as bad guys in masks and costumes.

This effort, referred to as We Are DLA, is the Agency plan to bring all DLA activities together, both in name and spirit.

In the UK and Ireland, Applicant Tracking Systems which are specifically for Agency Recruiters are often referred to as Recruitment Software and this is a term used mainly in the recruitment agency industry ( representative bodies include the REC in the UK and the NRF in Ireland ).

The series stars British actor Edward Woodward as Robert McCall, a former covert operations officer of an unnamed U. S. Government intelligence organization, which was often referred to simply as " The Agency " or " The Company " ( it is implied that it is the CIA ), who tries to atone for past sins by offering, free of charge, his services as a troubleshooter ( often literally ), a protector, and an investigator.

Badan Intelijen Negara, ( State Intelligence Agency ), commonly referred to as BIN, is Indonesia's primary intelligence agency.

The authority, whose Irish language name literally translates as " the Labour Facilities Foundation ", was the successor to An Chomhairle Oiliúna (" the training council ", commonly referred to as AnCO ), the National Manpower Service and the Youth Employment Agency.

This position is generally referred to as the director or administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency ( FEMA ).