Ospina also explains the close ties Bacardí family members had to the US political elite as well as organizations of state such as the CIA.

He was also allegedly involved in a CIA plot to assassinate Fidel Castro ; documents uncovered during congressional investigations into John F Kennedy's death bring to light a message outlining how he had plans to assassinate Castro, his brother Raúl Castro, and Che Guevara.

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.

On September 7, 2006, the CIA also merged the entries for Bassas da India, Europa Island, the Glorioso Islands, Juan de Nova Island, and Tromelin Island into a new Iles Eparses entry.

It also received assistance from personnel from other government agencies, especially from CIA personnel in Central America.

The most notable human rights abuses of this period were the brutal slaying of Bishop Juan José Gerardi two days after he had publicly presented a major Catholic Church sponsored human rights report known as REMHI, and the disappearance of Efraín Bámaca Velásquez, also known as Comandante Everardo, who, it was later revealed, was tortured and assassinated in 1993 without trial by Guatemalan Army officers on the payroll of the CIA.

Research into hypnosis in military applications is further verified by the MKULTRA experiments, also conducted by the CIA.

Wright also speculates that the CIA may have been protecting intelligence operations overseas, and might have been eying Mihdhar and Hazmi as recruitment targets to obtain intelligence on al-Qaeda, although the CIA was not authorized to operate in the United States and might have been leaving them for Saudi intelligence to recruit.

Philby was also responsible for liaising with the CIA and promoting " more aggressive Anglo-American intelligence operations.

He also said that he revealed this to the CIA, saying " What we told them was these people were on our watch list from previous activities of al-Qaeda, in both the.

Among them were Michael Townley, a DINA U. S. expatriate who had once worked for the CIA ; General Manuel Contreras, former head of the DINA ; and Brigadier Pedro Espinoza, also formerly of DINA.

He is also the only former Major League Baseball player whose baseball card is displayed at CIA headquarters.

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 CIA was also interested in being able to manipulate foreign leaders with such techniques, and would later invent several schemes to drug Fidel Castro.

LSD was also administered to CIA employees, military personnel, doctors, other government agents, and members of the general public in order to study their reactions.

The intent was to ensure coordination and concurrence among the Navy, Marine Corps, Army, Air Force and other instruments of national security policy ( such as the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ), also created in the National Security Act ).

ITT president Harold Geneen also offered $ 1 million to the CIA to help defeat Allende in the elections.

Any such revelation would also expose CIA / Mafia connections that could lead to unwanted scrutiny of suspected CIA / Mafia participants in the assassination of the president.

According to the 2011 CIA World Factbook, countries with more than 110 males per 100 females at birth also include Albania and former Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Following this report, which also claimed that the CIA had been involved in the assassination of the Swedish Prime minister Olof Palme, then President Francesco Cossiga requested the opening of investigations while the CIA itself officially denied these allegations.

Brenneke's background was also investigated by a U. S. Senate subcommittee, which dismissed Brenneke's claims of CIA employment.

* 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 ".

He further asserted that for twenty years, starting in the early 1950s, the CIA and the Defense Department conducted secret research ( notably including Project MKULTRA ) in an attempt to develop practical brainwashing techniques, and that their attempt failed.

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.

In December 1974, The New York Times alleged that the CIA had conducted illegal domestic activities, including experiments on U. S. citizens, during the 1960s.

In the summer of 1975, congressional Church Committee reports and the presidential Rockefeller Commission report revealed to the public for the first time that the CIA and the Department of Defense had conducted experiments on both unwitting and cognizant human subjects as part of an extensive program to influence and control human behavior through the use of psychoactive drugs such as LSD and mescaline and other chemical, biological, and psychological means.

The CIA's own internal investigation concluded that the head of MK ULTRA, CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb, had conducted the LSD experiment with Olson's prior knowledge, although neither Olson nor the other men taking part in the experiment were informed as to the exact nature of the drug until some 20 minutes after its ingestion.

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 ".

This operation was conducted in combination with former CIA director Bill Colby.

An investigation conducted by the Workers ' League concluded that Fields did not have connections to the CIA and the two were requested to resume their membership.

Operation Gold ( also known as Operation Stopwatch by the British ) was a joint operation conducted by the American CIA and the British Secret Intelligence Service in the 1950s to tap into landline communication of the Soviet Army headquarters in Berlin using a tunnel into the Soviet-occupied zone.

Established by the National Security Act of 1947, the CIA conducted espionage in foreign lands, some of it visible, more of it secret.

I could not imagine any federal court in America agreeing that the entire CIA program could be conducted and it would not violate the American Constitution.

As directed by CIA case officers, from Florida, right-wing student groups successfully conducted internal propaganda, such as publishing El combate ( The Combat ), a weekly political pamphlet, covering walls and buses with the number 32 — referring to Article 32 of the Guatemalan Constitution, which forbade foreign-financed political parties ; the propaganda claims received much attention from the local and the national press.

The CIA exerted air power against the Árbenz Government with a “ Liberation Air Force ” of US military and mercenary personnel who conducted air raids against Guatemalan military targets and cities.

Like the International Union of Students ( IUS ) and other pro-Soviet organizations, the WFDY became a target and victim of CIA espionage as well as part of active measures conducted by the Soviet state security.

The ambassador ( with the full backing of the State Department and the CIA ) maintained a firm hold over all military operations conducted within the supposedly " neutral " Kingdom of Laos.

" Executive Action " operations conducted by the CIA ranged from an attempt to kill Fidel Castro using a cigar injected with Botulism toxin to an alleged plan to kill rebel leader Che Guevara.

They also provided a model, along with the other CIA-sponsored ground based paramilitary Korean operations, for the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam-Studies and Observations Group ( MACV-SOG ) activities conducted by the U. S. military and the CIA / SAD in Vietnam.

An investigation conducted by the Workers League concluded that Fields did not have connections to the CIA, and the two were requested to resume their membership.

According to the separate European Parliament report of February 2007, the CIA has conducted 1, 245 flights, many of them to destinations where suspects could face torture, in violation of article 3 of the United Nations Convention Against Torture.

In April 2006, MEPs leading the investigations expressed concerns that the CIA had conducted more than 1, 000 secret flights over European territory since 2001, some to transfer terror suspects to countries that used torture.

The CIA became interested in LSD when they read reports alleging that American prisoners during the Korean War were being brainwashed with the use of some sort of drug or “ lie serum .” LSD was the original centerpiece of the United States Central Intelligence Agency's top secret MK-ULTRA project, an ambitious undertaking conducted from the 1950s through the 1970s designed to explore the possibilities of pharmaceutical mind control.

He further asserted that for twenty years, starting in the early 1950s, the CIA and the Defense Department conducted secret research ( notably including Project MKULTRA ) in an attempt to develop practical brainwashing techniques, and that their attempt failed.