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US officials were worried that one of the Cuban or Soviet SAMs in Cuba might shoot down a CIA U-2, initiating another international incident.

These deliberate acts of violence against civilians were acknowledged by the CIA as early as late 1983, when Duane Clarridge, Latin America division chief of the CIA ’ s Directorate for Operations, reported in a secret briefing to the Senate subcommittee that his contras had murdered " civilians and Sandinista officials in the provinces, as well as heads of cooperatives, nurses, doctors and judges.

" What CIA officials did not realize was that the plane crashed almost fully intact, and the Soviets recovered its equipment.

In 2010, CIA documents were released indicating that " top US officials never believed Powers ’ account of his fateful flight because it appeared to be directly contradicted by a report from the National Security Agency, the clandestine US network of codebreakers and listening posts.

Then came an even more shocking confession: according to the CIA document, al-Faruq said two senior al-Qaeda officials, Abu Zubaydah and Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, had ordered him to ' plan large-scale attacks against U. S. interests in Indonesia, Malaysia, ( the ) Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam and Cambodia.

The Inspector General of the CIA conducted an internal review of the CIA's performance prior to 9 / 11, and was harshly critical of senior CIA officials for not doing everything possible to confront terrorism, including failing to stop two of the 9 / 11 hijackers, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, as they entered the United States and failing to share information on the two men with the FBI.

George Tenet, then-Director of the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ), later described intelligence reports of his meeting with Al Qaeda as “ frustratingly vague .” He, however, told the FIA intelligence officials in very clear terms that he had nothing to do with the Al-Qaeda or any other terrorist organization and he was only working on humanitarian issues like food, health and education.

On his way back to the U. S., he passed through the UAE, according to that country ’ s officials, where he was initially reported as having been interviewed by authorities on January 30, 2001, at the request of the CIA.

The CIA would operate through these institutions using front organizations, although sometimes top officials at these institutions would be aware of the CIA's involvement.

Almost immediately after his election, Nixon directed CIA and U. S. State Department officials to " put pressure " on the Allende government.

Prior to the release of this tape, President Nixon had denied political motivations in his instructions to the CIA, and claimed he had no knowledge prior to March 21, 1973 of any involvement by senior campaign officials such as John Mitchell.

* AMTRUNK: A CIA plan by New York Times journalist Tad Szulc initiated in February 1963, also called the " Leonardo Plan ," that was " an attempt to find disgruntled military officials in Cuba who might be willing to recruit higher military officials in a plot to overthrow Castro ", as well as to overthrow the Cuban government " by means of a conspiracy among high-level ... leaders of the government culminating in a coup d ' etat ".

The State Department also highlighted the fact that, in the case of Richard Welch, " Grivas bizarrely accuses the CIA of playing a role in the assassination of one of its own senior officials " as well as the Greek government's statements to the effect that the " stay behind " network had been dismantled in 1988.

Laird paid special attention to two important interdepartmental bodies: the Washington Special Action Group ( WSAG ), composed of senior Defense, State, and CIA officials, which gathered information necessary for presidential decisions on the crisis use of U. S. military forces ; and the Defense Program Review Committee ( DPRC ), which brought together representatives from many agencies, including DoD, State, the Council of Economic Advisers, and the Office of Management and Budget, to analyze defense budget issues as a basis for advising the president, placing, as Laird commented, " national security needs in proper relationship to non-defense requirements.

A number of CIA officials, including John N. McMahon ( then the head of the Office of Technical Service and later the Agency's deputy director ), became strong supporters of the program.

In a report to the Deputy Attorney General of the United States, CIA officials described the agency as having " no active part " in the assassination and only a " faint connection " with the groups that planned the killing.

Ames routinely assisted another CIA office that assessed Soviet embassy officials as potential intelligence assets.

In 1970 he also requested and participated in a high level meeting of Chilean businessman and publisher Augustin Edwards Eastman with high Nixon administration officials, after which President Nixon met with then-National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger and CIA Director Richard Helms and, in the words of a 1976 New York Times article, said " that Chile was to be saved from Allende and he didn't care much how.

World Leaders, also known as Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments, is a weekly directory published by the CIA that lists four types of state officials: the head of state and / or head of government, the chief of the local central bank, the UN and American ambassadors from the country listed, and the foreign minister.

Both the mutineers and U. S. officials denied his charges, but the damage was done ; no Communist forces would shelter the mutineers after they were labeled as CIA stooges.

Angleton, later chief of the Central Intelligence Agency's ( CIA ) counter-intelligence staff, became suspicious of Philby when he failed to pass on information relating to a British agent executed by the Gestapo in Germany.

As the experimentation progressed, a point was reached where outsiders were drugged with no explanation whatsoever and surprise acid trips became something of an occupational hazard among CIA operatives.

The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.

Diệm became very unpopular during the Buddhist crisis of 1963 ; the U. S. informed the Vietnamese generals ( through the CIA ) that it would not object if Diệm were to be overthrown.

Democratic congressman Charlie Wilson became obsessed with the Afghan cause, and was able to leverage his position on the House Appropriations committees to encourage other Democratic congressmen to vote for CIA Afghan war money, with the tacit approval of Democratic party House leader Tip O ' Neill, even as the Democratic party lambasted Reagan for the CIA's secret war in Central America.

The CIG soon became transformed into the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ).

In December 1984, for fiscal year 1985, H. J. RES. 648, became public law 98-473, and prohibited funds available to the CIA and the DOD from being used in Nicaragua for military purposes.

While several such as the CIA and KGB became synonymous with Cold War espionage, many other organizations played key roles in the collection and protection of the secction concerning detection of spying, and analysis of a wide host of intelligence disciplines.

In 2001-2003 these concerns became relevant on the global diplomatic scene, as the reputed capture of recordings of Osama bin Laden boasting about the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and reputed intercepts of Iraqi Republican Guard officers conspiring to hide evidence of weapons of mass destruction from United Nations weapons inspectors, was challenged, especially in the Muslim world and especially Iraq, as being " well within the capabilities of the CIA to fabricate.

Many who fought for the CIA in the conflict remained loyal after the event ; some Bay of Pigs veterans became officers in the US Army in Vietnam, including six colonels, 19 lieutenant colonels, nine majors, and 29 captains.

In his later years, Thornley became convinced that Oswald had in truth been a CIA asset whose purpose was to ferret out suspected Communist sympathizers serving in the Corps.

Backed by the CIA and the Programs Evaluation Office, Phoumi, then a colonel, became a cabinet minister in the right-wing government of the Kingdom of Laos in February 1959 and a general several months later.

During World War II, he worked for the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) — the predecessor to the CIA — where he became head of its Secret Intelligence Branch in Europe.

Fleischer became an important figure in the CIA leak case ; he testified that Scooter Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former Chief of Staff, told him that Valerie Plame was a covert agent weeks before Libby had claimed to have been informed of Plame's status by a reporter.

It also became the site of a Voice of America relay station alleged to have been a CIA black site.

After leaving the CIA, Barr moved to Georgia, where he practiced law and became active in the Republican Party, serving as county chair.

After the defeat of the Fascists in World War II the CIA became both student and teacher of torture, propagating torture techniques worldwide to support anti-Communist regimes during the Cold War.

According to director Wolfgang Petersen, Gibbs was a former CIA agent who lost a lot after the end of the Cold War, and thus became angry with the American government.

Another EDA, Lawrence Miles ' Alien Bodies revealed that at some point in the future of the Time Lords, the CIA removed itself from history and became beings of pure thought known as the Celestis as part of the war between the Time Lords and " the Enemy ", the Celestis being almost completely destroyed as a result of the events of The Taking of Planet 5.

Eventually the CIA became aware of DINA's " possible " involvement in the assassination of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt in Washington, D. C., but they continued to maintain him as an asset.

Hunt became station chief in Mexico City in 1950, and supervised William F. Buckley, Jr., who worked for the CIA in Mexico during the period 1951 – 1952.

" After they began dating and became " close ," Plame revealed her employment with the CIA to Wilson.

Plausible deniability is a term coined by the CIA during the Kennedy administration to describe the withholding of information from senior officials in order to protect them from repercussions in the event that illegal or unpopular activities by the CIA became public knowledge.