In the CIA's analysis of the second exam, they were critical of their own failure to convey to their examiner the existing suspicions that were not addressed in the examination.

Allegedly, Lehder would be privy to secret information regarding the CIA's and his own involvement in the Iran-Contra affair.

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 ".

CIA's own analysts judged that Castro's popular support was strong and that he controlled the army and the security services.

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.

Golovko then escorts Ryan to the private dacha of General Secretary Narmonov, where the two men discuss the CIA's interest in his political position and the CIA's interference in their internal security.

Further investigation into the CIA's funding activities revealed its connection to both RFE and RL, sparking significant media outrage.

The Chief Counsel of the Committee later changed his views that the CIA was being cooperative and forthcoming with the investigation when he learned that the CIA's special liaison to the Committee researchers, George Joannides, was actually involved with some of the organizations that Lee Harvey Oswald was involved with in the months leading up to the assassination, including an anti-Castro group, the DRE, which was linked to the CIA, where the liaison, Joannides, worked in 1963.

The Justice Department closed its investigation of the CIA's use of severe interrogation methods, because investigators said they could not prove any agents crossed the lines authorized by the Bush administration in the " war on terror " program of detention and rendition.

* In March, it was revealed that CIA officials have opened an investigation into the CIA's No. 3 official, Kyle Foggo, and his relationship with Wilkes, " one of his closest friends ," according to the article.

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence reviewed the CIA's investigation and concluded that the CIA's conclusion that there was no evidence of operational collaboration was justified.

While Director of Central Intelligence Porter Goss has not submitted a formal damage assessment to Congressional oversight committees, the CIA's Directorate of Operations did conduct a serious and aggressive investigation.

Thomas Joscelyn quotes Daniel Benjamin, a former NSC staffer: " The report of the 9 / 11 Commission notes that the National Security staff reviewed the intelligence in April 2000 and concluded that the CIA's assessment of its intelligence on bin Laden and al-Shifa had been valid ; the memo to Clinton on this was cosigned by Richard Clarke and Mary McCarthy, the NSC senior director for intelligence programs, who opposed the bombing of al-Shifa in 1998.

By 1952, however, the official US government interest in UFOs began to fade as the USAF projects Sign and Grudge concluded, along with the CIA's Robertson Panel that UFO reports indicated no direct threat to national security.

CIA-" From their experiences with the developer's research between 1991 and 1993, CIA officials concluded that Brain Fingerprinting had limited applicability to CIA's operations.

He quickly gains rank as the head of the newly formed CIA's counterintelligence service.

" Former head of the CIA's counterintelligence unit, Vincent Cannistraro, said that MEMRI " are selective and act as propagandists for their political point of view, which is the extreme-right of Likud.

The Center absorbed the CIA's previously existing Foreign Broadcast Information Service ( FBIS ), originally established in 1941, with FBIS head Douglas Naquin named as director of the Center.

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.

His close ties with James Jesus Angleton, the head of the CIA's counter-intelligence branch, were reinforced by their shared interest in medieval history.

Langdon is then met by Trent Anderson, head of the Capitol police, and Inoue Sato, the head of the CIA's Office of Security.

Bryan was actually a former covert CIA agent who had served as founder and head of the CIA's psychological warfare division.

In addition, CIA Director George Tenet authorized Powers to posthumously receive the CIA's coveted Director's Medal for extreme fidelity and extraordinary courage in the line of duty.

Regarding the CIA's refusal to inform the FBI about Mihdhar and Hazmi, author Lawrence Wright suggests the CIA wanted to protect its turf and was concerned about giving sensitive intelligence to FBI Agent John P. O ' Neill, who Alec Station chief Michael Scheuer described as duplicitous.

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.

Among Olson's concerns were the development of assassination materials used by the CIA, the CIA's use of biological warfare materials in covert operations, experimentation with biological weapons in populated areas, collaboration with former Nazi scientists under Operation Paperclip, LSD mind-control research, the use of biological weapons ( including anthrax ) during the Korean War, and the use of psychoactive drugs during " terminal " interrogations under a program code-named Project ARTICHOKE.

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 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 CIA's relationship with the radio stations began to break down in 1967, when Ramparts magazine published an expose claiming that the CIA was channeling funds to civilian organizations.

President Kennedy was angered with the CIA's failure, and declared he wanted " to splinter the CIA in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.

In 1953, President Eisenhower approved CIA Director Allen Dulles ' recommendation that General Truscott be appointed the CIA's Deputy Director for Coordination.

Bobby Ray Inman, the CIA's deputy director in 1981 and 1982, said LaRouche and his wife had visited him offering information about the West German Green Party, and a CIA spokesman said LaRouche met Deputy Director John McMahon in 1983 to discuss one of LaRouche's trips overseas.

The next year, CIA officer Gust Avrakotos directly approached Wilson — breaking the CIA's policy against lobbying Congress for money — asking Wilson for $ 50 million more.

President Kennedy, unaware of Boyd's CIA connection, taps Boyd — now also working for Robert Kennedy's Justice Department civil rights task force — to investigate the Blessington operation and advise whether to implement the CIA's invasion strategy.

He grew increasingly disillusioned with the role of the CIA and the United States due to events including the CIA's involvement in overthrowing Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh of Iran in 1953, followed by the CIA's orchestration of the coup that removed President Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954.

Less known was an operation within the CIA's Phoenix Program in Vietnam where a team of CIA psychologists performed mind control experiments on NLF suspects being detained at Bien Hoa Prison outside of Saigon.

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.

At this time, she believed that SD-6 was affiliated with the CIA, that it was a black ops division of the CIA, funded by the CIA's black budget.

In connection with that work he cooperated closely with the CIA, feeding information about Communist labor-union activities to James Jesus Angleton, the CIA's counterintelligence chief, in order to undermine Communist influence in the international union movement and provide intelligence to the US government.

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

He had been assigned as a contact with the CIA's Technical Services Staff, run by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb and his deputy Robert Lashbruck regarding experiments with bioweapons, toxins, and mind control drugs.

Dr. Sidney Gottlieb played a role in the CIA's attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba of the Congo ; he took a vial of poison to the Congo with plans to place it on Lumumba's toothbrush in the summer of 1960.