The CIA's elite Special Activities Division ( SAD ) units were the first U. S. forces to enter Afghanistan ( noting that many different countries intelligence agencies were on the ground or operating within theatre before SAD, and that SAD are not technically military forces, but civilian paramilitaries ).

The CIA's highly secretive Special Activities Division ( SAD ) and more specifically its elite Special Operations Group ( SOG ) recruits operators from the SEAL Teams.

The operation was composed of elements of the United States 10th Mountain Division, 101st Airborne Division, TF Rakkasan, B Co. 159th Avn Rgt, 75th Ranger Regiment, the US Special Operation Forces groups to include elements of forces from USSOCOM, JSOC and CIA's Special Activities Division, TF 11, TF Bowie, and TF Dagger, British Royal Marines, Canada's 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and Joint Task Force 2, the Afghan National Army, the German KSK, the Turkish Maroon Berets, the Norwegian FSK and Marinejegerkommandoen, and elements of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment, the New Zealand Special Air Service and Danish special forces from Jægerkorpset and the Danish Frogman Corps.

US " Paramilitary Officers " from the CIA's Special Activities Division were instrumental in equipping Mujihadeen forces against the Soviet Army.

Bin al-Shibh was captured in Pakistan on September 11, 2002, after a gun battle in Karachi with the Pakistani ISI and the CIA's Special Activities Division.

* Vympel ( or Vega, also known under other names ) was formed in 1981 from a merge of two elite Cold War-era KGB units Cascade ( Kaskad ) and Zenith ( Zenit ) that were similar to the CIA's Special Activities Division ( responsible for covert operations involving sabotage, assassination, etc.

This term is used to refer to the Navy SEALs, operatives of the CIA's Special Activities Division, elements of Marine Recon, Army Ranger RRD members, Army Special Forces divers, Air Force Pararescue, and the Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal ( EOD ) units.

However, USSOCOM has a close relationship with the CIA's elite Special Activities Division and the two forces often operate together, with significant positive results according to several sources.

The CIA's Special Activities Division's Special Operations Group exclusively selects their recruits to become Paramilitary Operations Officers from the ranks of USSOCOM and primarily JSOC's Tier One Special Mission Units.

Spann joined the CIA in June 1999 and went on to serve in the Special Operations Group of the CIA's Special Activities Division.

The Special Activities Division ( SAD ) is a division of the CIA's National Clandestine Service, responsible for Covert Action and " Special Activities ".

The direct descendant of the OSS ' Special Operations is the CIA's Special Activities Division.

In early January 1951 he made Allen Dulles the first Deputy Director for Plans ( DDP ), to supervise both OPC and the CIA's separate espionage organization, the Office of Special Operations ( OSO ).

He is then recruited into the CIA's famed Special Activities Division.

The Peshmerga linked up with the CIA's Special Activities Division ( SAD ) and the U. S. Military's 10th Special Forces Group and prepared the battle space for conventional U. S. Military forces throughout Iraq.

The CIA's Special Activities Division ( SAD ) teams were the first U. S. forces to enter Iraq in July 2002, prior to the US Invasion.

* CIA's Special Activities Division

The CIA's Special Activities Division ( SAD ) is the premiere United States unit for creating or combating irregular military forces.

He was selected from the elite to become a Paramilitary Operations Officer in the CIA's famed Special Activities Division in 1960.

The spearhead of the force is a forty-man team made up of operators from the U. S. Army's 75th Ranger Regiment, U. S. Army's Delta Force, U. S. Army's INSCOM intelligence unit, the U. S. Navy's DEVGRU, the CIA's Special Activities Division, and the U. S. Army's 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment ( a. k. a. SOAR, Nightstalkers.

On October 25, 2003, paramilitary officers Christopher Mueller and William " Chief " Carlson from the CIA's Special Activities Division were killed while conducting an operation to kill / capture high level al-Qa ' ida leaders.

JSOC has an excellent relationship with the CIA's elite Special Activities Division ( SAD ) and the two forces often operate together.

* February 11 – The CIA's Domestic Operations Division is created.

Hunt told the Senate Watergate Committee in 1973 that he had served as the first Chief of Covert Action for the CIA's Domestic Operations Division.

The CIA's Chief of Western Hemisphere Division, J. C. King, recommended that funds for the campaign " be provided in a fashion causing ( Eduardo Frei Montalva president of Chile ) to infer United States origin of funds and yet permitting plausible denial "

Before and during the Vietnam War, Colby served as Chief of Station in Saigon, Chief of the CIA's Far East Division, and head of the Civil Operations and Rural Development effort, as well as overseeing the Phoenix Program.

" In 1962 he returned to Washington to become the Deputy and then Chief of CIA's Far East Division.

He was a recruited asset under control of the Cuban Task Force under command and control of the CIA's Latin America Division.

These operations were often conducted by the CIA's Division D, a subsection of the agency's Directorate of Operations.

The purpose was to establish a robust arsenal within the CIA's Technical Services Division ( TSD ) and of which was to consist of various lethal and incapacitating materials.

" Ultimately, the organization was created to balance CIA's espionage operations which primarily targeted Soviet KGB / GRU officers, but ignored and were dismissive of Third World targets in areas of potential military conflict.

The Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) was created by Truman's National Security Act of 1947, an act which also created the Department of Defense ( DOD ) with its Joint Chiefs of Staff ( JCS ), as well as the National Security Council ( NSC ) to which the CIA's Director ( DCI ) reported.

The Masters Collection is a line of high-end cookware, cutlery, bakeware, and culinary tools for use in the home kitchen which was created by the CIA's faculty of Certified Master Chefs and tested at its Hyde Park campus.

It was supported by the opinion of Jerrald Post, the man who created the CIA's Psychological Profile Unit.

A successful rollback was the CIA's Operation Ajax in August 1953, in collaboration with the British, which assisted the Iranian military in their restoration of the Shah.

In January 1952, officers in the CIA's Directorate of Plans compiled a list of " top flight Communists whom the new government would desire to eliminate immediately in the event of a successful anti-Communist coup.

Time magazine wrote that his organizational skills would be invaluable in a CIA that admitted it was in danger of being " drowned in data ", but his tenure was not successful: author David Barrett described Raborn as " incompetent at CIA, not understanding the agency or the intelligence business ", and even the CIA's own historians said " Raborn did not ' take ' to the DCI job ".

Its non-human passengers were even more bizarre on occasion ; part of the CIA's support operations in Laos, for instance, involved logistical support for local tribes fighting the North Vietnamese forces and the Pathet Lao, their local opponents.

The report chronicled gruesome details of the events in 1953: how, by spending a meager sum of $ 1 million, the CIA " stirred up considerable unrest in Iran, giving Iranians a clear choice between instability and supporting the shah "; how it brought " the largest mobs " into the street ; how it " began disseminating ' gray propaganda ' passing out anti-Mossadegh cartoons in the streets and planting unflattering articles in local press "; how the CIA's " Iranian operatives pretending to be Communists threatened Muslim leaders with ' savage punishment if they opposed Mossadegh '"; how the " house of at least one prominent Muslim was bombed by CIA agents posing as Communists "; how the CIA tried to " orchestrate a call for a holy war against Communism "; how on August 19 " a journalist who was one of the agency's most important Iranian agents led a crowd toward Parliament, inciting people to set fire to the offices of a newspaper owned by Dr. Mossadegh's foreign minister "; how American agents swung " security forces to the side of the demonstrators "; how the shah's disbanded " Imperial Guard seized trucks and drove through the street "; how by " 10: 15 there were pro-shah truckloads of military personnel at all main squares "; how the " pro-shah speakers went on the air, broadcasting the coups ' success and reading royal decrees "; how at the US embassy, " CIA officers were elated, and Mr. Roosevelt got General Zahedi out of hiding " and found him a tank that " drove him to the radio station, where he spoke to the nation "; and, finally, how " Dr. Mossadegh and other government officials were rounded up, while officers supporting General Zahedi placed ' unknown supports of TP-Ajax ' in command of all units of Tehran garrison.

Most of Riggs ' time in special forces was in Vietnam, where he served as an assassin under the CIA's " Phoenix Project " directive ; while his ability as a trained killer would later plague his conscience, he thought of it as "... the only thing I was ever really good at.

In addition, the CIA's website reports that the agency aided three different Chilean opposition groups during that time period and " sought to instigate a coup to prevent Allende from taking office ".

Powers received the CIA's Intelligence Star in 1963 after his return from the Soviet Union.

* Oman from the CIA's Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members list

In 1972, Puthoff tested remote viewer Ingo Swann at SRI, and the experiment led to a visit from two employees of the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology.

In 1971 the radio stations came under public spotlight once again when prominent U. S. Senator Clifford Case introduced Senate Bill 18, which would remove funding for RFE and RL from the CIA's budget, appropriate $ 30 million to pay for fiscal year 1972 activities, and have the Department of State temporarily oversee the radio stations.

Marty Miller, one of Unocal's top executives, conducted negotiations in several Central Asian countries from 1995, and voluntarily provided information gained on these trips to the CIA's Houston station.

The attack would involve a plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II, an air bombing of 11 airliners and their approximately 4, 000 passengers that would have flown from Asia to the United States, and Murad's proposal to crash a plane into the CIA's headquarters in Fairfax County, Virginia, in addition to the plan to bomb multiple aeroplanes.

The cipher on one side of Antipodes repeats the text from CIA's Kryptos.

Topics have ranged from the CIA's involvement with selling of narcotics (" Crack The CIA ", which won the 2003 Sundance Online Film Festival ), the trade in blood diamonds in Sierra Leone, the fall of Baghdad and many others.

Project ARTICHOKE ( also referred to as Operation ARTICHOKE ) was a CIA project that researched interrogation methods and arose from Project BLUEBIRD on August 20, 1951, run by the CIA's Office of Scientific Intelligence.

The CIA's authority to conduct covert action comes from the National Security Act of 1947.

Agee claimed that the CIA's funding in this manner prevented the Worker from having to cease publication.

* Robert Wallace and H. Keith Melton, with Henry R. Schlesinger, Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to al-Qaeda, New York, Dutton, 2008.

According to the DOJ memo, the IG Report observed that the CIA's Office of Medical Services ( OMS ) stated that " the experience of the SERE psychologist / interrogators on the waterboard was probably misrepresented at the time, as the SERE waterboard experience is so different from the subsequent Agency usage as to make it almost irrelevant " and that " onsequently, according to OMS, there was no a priori reason to believe that applying the waterboard with the frequency and intensity with which it was used by the psychologist / interrogators was either efficacious or medically safe.

* Robert Wallace and H. Keith Melton, with Henry R. Schlesinger, Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to al-Qaeda, New York, Dutton, 2008.

Burke assigns Clayton to spy on Layla, claiming the CIA has evidence she's a mole for a foreign intelligence service attempting to steal a top secret computer virus from the CIA's database.