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 ".

Upon learning the truth Sydney offers her services to the CIA as a double agent with the intention of destroying SD-6 from within.

In June 1951, DCI Bedell Smith ordered CIA acceptance of the Somoza and Trujillo offers, and the establishment of connections with Col. Castillo Armas and his anti-Communist supporters.

The CIA offers a certification program called ProChef, a three-tiered system that will take the chef through ProChef I, ProChef II and ProChef III, each step recognizing skills attained in the kitchen and academically, and familiarity with business practices.

Located in Downtown San Antonio's historic Pearl Brewery, the CIA San Antonio offers an associate degree program in culinary arts, a Latin Cuisines Certificate Program, and programs for industry professionals and food enthusiasts.

The Texas campus is home to the CIA Bakery Café, which offers light café fare and classic pastries made with specialty items from Latin America and Mexico.

" In the book, Baer offers an analysis of the Middle East through the lens of his experiences as a CIA operative.

In recent years CIA added majors in animation, game design, and video bringing the total number of majors the school offers to 19.

The CIA also accelerated the development of the Lockheed A-12 OXCART supersonic spyplane that first flew in 1962 and later began developing the Lockheed D-21 unmanned drone.

Journalist Michael Ruhlman, in his first book about the CIA, The Making of a Chef, documents his experiences as an " undercover student " as he passes through the classes at an accelerated rate.

The Culinary Institute of America ( CIA ) is a non-profit culinary college located in Hyde Park ( Dutchess County, New York ) USA, founded in 1946.

The CIA's California and Texas campuses feature numerous continuing education classes for culinary professionals, and the CIA at Greystone also has programs for wine professionals.

* 1953 – CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program MKULTRA.

* 2001 – The CIA declassifies the paragraph 39 of the report about the Iraqi nuclear program from January 1991 in the Gulf War.

* MKULTRA ( a covert CIA research program )

Project MKUltra, or MK-Ultra, was a covert, illegal human research program into behavioral modification run by the Central Intelligence Agency's ( CIA ) Office of Scientific Intelligence.

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 Deputy Director of the CIA revealed that over thirty universities and institutions were involved in an " extensive testing and experimentation " program which included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens " at all social levels, high and low, native Americans and foreign.

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.

" A secret joint program between the Mexico City CIA station and the Mexican secret police to wiretap the Soviet and Cuban embassies was code-named ENVOY.

* ZR: Intelligence intercept program of CIA Staff D ops, the group that worked directly with the NSA ( National Security Agency ).

A highly classified program of covert actions against North Vietnam known as Operation Plan 34-Alpha, in conjunction with the DESOTO operations, had begun under the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) in 1961.

The US viewed the conflict in Afghanistan as an integral Cold War struggle, and the CIA provided assistance to anti-Soviet forces through the Pakistani intelligence services, in a program called Operation Cyclone.

The CIA provided assistance to the fundamentalist insurgents through the Pakistani secret services, Inter-Services Intelligence ( ISI ), in a program called Operation Cyclone.

* In The Recruit, the secret CIA program was called Ice-9 after the material found in the book.

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.

During the global war on terror, SIS accepted information from the CIA that was obtained through torture, including the extraordinary rendition program.

Around 1962, Hunter was an early volunteer test subject ( along with Ken Kesey ) for psychedelic chemicals at Stanford University's research covertly sponsored by the CIA in their MKULTRA program.

The CIA taught its refined techniques of torture through police and military training to American-supported regimes in the Middle East, in Southeast Asia during the bloody Phoenix program, and throughout Latin America during Operation Condor.

Within two months, the story of military-developed remote viewing broke nationally in the Washington Post after the CIA revealed the program.

" Based upon both of their collected findings, which recommended a higher level of critical research and tighter controls, the CIA terminated the 20 million dollar project, citing a lack of documented evidence that the program had any value to the intelligence community.

* Operation Bloodstone, a CIA recruitment program for former German officers and diplomats who could be used in the covert war against the Soviet Union.

He may have been recruited by Ted Shackley, joining his Secret Team that had been involved with Edwin Wilson, Thomas Clines, Carl Jenkins, Rafael Quintero, Felix Rodriguez and Luis Posada Carriles, in the CIA “ assassination ” program.

# The CIA Director should emphasize ( a ) rebuilding the CIA ’ s analytic capabilities ; ( b ) transforming the clandestine service by building its human intelligence capabilities ; ( c ) developing a stronger language program, with high standards and sufficient financial incentives ; ( d ) renewing emphasis on recruiting diversity among operations officers so they can blend more easily in foreign cities ;( e ) ensuring a seamless relationship between human source collection and signals collection at the operational level ; and ( f ) stressing a better balance between unilateral and liaison operations.

A series of articles published on June 23, 2006, by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Los Angeles Times revealed that the United States government, specifically the US Treasury Department and the CIA, had a program to access the SWIFT transaction database after the September 11th attacks ( see the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program ) rendering offshore banking for privacy severely compromised.

* F-6, a counterinsurgency program designed, coordinated, and executed by the United States Central Intelligence Agency CIA, United States special operations forces, and the Republic of Vietnam's ( South Vietnam ) security apparatus during the Vietnam War, similar in nature to the Phoenix Program which was phased out due to negative publicity