The Guard was then built into a counter revolutionary force by the CIA and Argentine trainers.

It reversed ex-President Jimmy Carter's official condemnation of the Argentine junta for human rights abuses and allowed the CIA to collaborate with Argentine intelligence in funding the Contras.

In 1982 the CIA, with assistance from the Argentine national intelligence agency, organized and financed right-wing paramilitaries in Nicaragua, known as the Contras.

Prior to joining the CIA, she worked for the Argentine Intelligence.

Attempts to accuse anthropologists of complicity with the CIA and government intelligence activities during the Vietnam War years have turned up surprisingly little ( although anthropologist Hugo Nutini was active in the stillborn Project Camelot ).

" The U. S. intelligence community uses many code names ( see, for example, CIA cryptonym ).

The January 2003 CIA paper Iraqi Support for Terrorism states that al-Libi told a foreign intelligence service that " Iraq — acting on the request of al-Qa ' ida militant Abu Abdullah, who was Muhammad Atif's emissary — agreed to provide unspecified chemical or biological weapons training for two al-Qa ' ida associates beginning in December 2000.

The CIA was aware of Mihdhar and Hazmi's involvement with al-Qaeda, having been informed by Saudi intelligence during a 1999 meeting in Riyadh.

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.

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.

Golitsyn offered the CIA revelations of Soviet agents within American and British intelligence services.

It was the wartime intelligence agency, and it was a predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ).

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.

As a result, Filitov has been passing political, technical, and military intelligence to the CIA for the past thirty years.

Meanwhile, CIA officers John Clark and Domingo Chavez are sent to Japan to reactivate a former KGB spy network in order to gain intelligence.

According to former CIA intelligence officer Robert Finke, the blast appeared to be caused by explosives molded into a shaped charge against the hull of the boat.

One former US intelligence officer has described this as the " highlight of the job " for the London CIA chief.

The White House and Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) later declared that American intelligence indicated the site was a nuclear facility with a military purpose, though Syria denies this.

* June 10 – In Washington, DC, the Rockefeller Commission issues its report on CIA abuses, recommending a joint congressional oversight committee on intelligence.

* In the upcoming film Prince of Malacca, a Wall Street billionaire hedge fund manager, after seeking nadi astrology in India, is getting into a double deal by becoming a CIA ’ s intelligence officer with a special directive from the President of the United States of America to detect a drug cartel in Southeast Asia, in an exchange for using space and satellite technology to locate an island in the Strait of Malacca where in a tribal community his lover of previous birth is born as a beautiful dancer.

While at Camp Rhino, the CIA passed on intelligence from a predator drone operating in the Paktia province that Taliban Mullah Khirullah Said Wali Khairkhwa was spotted leaving a building by vehicle convoy.

Bondurant and Boyd ultimately collaborate with the CIA, the " Outfit " ( seeking to retake its now nationalized Havana casinos ), and far right Cuban refugees plotting to overthrow the new communist regime.

It is claimed that the CIA was seeking a funding route for the mujahideen in Afghanistan, similar to the Investors Overseas Service and the Nugen Hand Bank in the 1960s.

Mustafa Barzani, following his return to Iraq in 1958, would engage in numerous independence struggles against Baghdad, often seeking and gaining support from the KGB, CIA, Mossad, MI6, and SAVAK, as well as support from Syria and Jordan depending on which country was opposed to the government in Baghdad at the time, taking advantage of the complexities of the Cold War in the Middle-East.

The novel also carries a number of subplots, including an old Russian sniper credited with the initial discovery of gold in Siberia, a Russian Army general ( who led the defense of the Bright Star facility in The Cardinal of the Kremlin ) seeking to fully retrain his forces in time for the Chinese invasion, and a Japanese-American CIA agent who seduces Fang Gan's secretary into installing a computer program that collects sensitive government information.

From the third mission on, John Clark recruits the team to work for the CIA and has the operatives work on seeking out and killing the conspirators behind the incident in Baltimore, Maryland, in which a nuclear bomb was detonated during an American football game, killing a large number of people.

One example cited is an incident where CIA agents, seeking to assassinate Castro, provided a Cuban official, Rolando Cubela Secades, with a ballpoint pen rigged with a poisonous hypodermic needle.

" US President Barack Obama has signed a secret order allowing the CIA and other American agencies to support rebels seeking to overthrow the Assad regime, a US government source told Reuters.

His administration authorized the CIA to begin financing, arming and training rebels, most of whom were the remnants of Somoza's National Guard, as anti-Sandinista guerrillas that were branded " counter-revolutionary " by leftists ( in Spanish ).

* November 23: The U. S. Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) begins to support anti-Sandinista Contras.

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 R. V. Jones Intelligence Award was created by the CIA in 1993 to honour those whose accomplishments mirror in substance and style those of R. V. Jones, to wit: " Scientific acumen applied with art in the cause of freedom ".

It also puts him in the position to organize the collaboration between Cosa Nostra and the CIA in the Cuban cause.

" Ralph Nader surmised that the information had not been released because of the reluctance of the CIA to highlight a nuclear accident in the USSR, that could cause concern among people living near nuclear facilities in the USA.

There is Robina, a woman skilled in creating robotic miniature explosives, and Emily, who as the result of CIA experiments, emits constant pheromones that cause almost animalistic fear and revulsion in people around her ( save Jones, because of the Desolation Test ).

: On February 28, 2008, the CIA added an entry for Kosovo ; before this, Kosovo was excluded in the Factbook.

Born in Germany before WWII of a German mother and an American father, Christopher joins the CIA after the war and becomes one of its most effective spies.

After being debriefed extensively by the CIA, Lockheed, and the Air Force, on March 6, 1962, Powers appeared before a Senate Armed Services Select Committee hearing chaired by Senator Richard Russell and including Senators Prescott Bush and Barry Goldwater Sr.

General Donovan might have copied the papers before returning them the following January, but there is no record of Arlington Hall's receiving them, and CIA and NSA archives have no surviving copies.

Armed opposition to the Sandinista Government eventually divided into two main groups: The Fuerza Democrática Nicaragüense ( FDN ), a U. S. supported army formed in 1981 by the CIA, U. S. State Department, and former members of the widely condemned Somoza-era Nicaraguan National Guard ; and the Alianza Revolucionaria Democratica ( ARDE ) Democratic Revolutionary Alliance, a group that had existed since before the FSLN and was led by Sandinista founder and former FSLN supreme commander, Edén Pastora, a. k. a. " Commander Zero ".

One contra leader was dragged from his bed at two a. m., handed a press release by a CIA contact, and told to read it over the contra radio before the Sandinistas broke the news .”

** The CIA admits that there was no imminent threat from weapons of mass destruction before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Documents released in 2000 by the CIA confirmed that before the elections of 1970, ITT gave $ 700, 000 to Allende's conservative opponent, Jorge Alessandri, with help from the CIA on how to channel the money safely.

Recent documents declassified under the Clinton administration's Chile Declassification Project show that the United States government and the CIA sought the overthrow of Allende in 1970 immediately before he took office (" Project FUBELT ").

* DBROCKSTARS: Iraqi spy ring recruited by the CIA shortly before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The Bush administration therefore decided in August 2008 to abandon the practice of obtaining Pakistani government permission before launching missiles from drones, and in the next six months the CIA carried out at least 38 Predator strikes in northwest Pakistan, compared with 10 in 2006 and 2007 combined.

Because of the 20-year statute of limitations, crimes committed before 1984 ( such as the killing of the CIA station chief ) could not be tried by the court.

" However, press reports about possible CIA involvement in Haitian politics before the coup sparked Congressional hearings in the United States.

Nairn's claims are confirmed in part by revelations of Emmanuel Constant regarding the ties of his FRAPH organization to the CIA before and during the coup government.

Six days before the massacre at Tlatelolco, both Echeverría and head of Federal Security ( DFS ) Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios told the CIA that " the situation will be under complete control very shortly ".

In the Second Gulf War, before U. S. troops had entered Baghdad and according to information, the CIA agents infiltrated through the initiative of volunteers.

No additional air strikes against Cuban airfields and aircraft were specifically planned before 17 April, because B-26 pilots ' exaggerated claims gave the CIA false confidence in the success of the 15 April attacks, until U-2 reconnaissance photos on 16 April showed otherwise.

Polyakov was a CIA informant for more than 20 years before his retirement in 1980, and passed enormous amounts of information to American intelligence while he rose to the rank of General in the Soviet Army.

Casey oversaw the re-expansion of the Intelligence Community to funding and human resource levels greater than those existing before the preceding Carter Administration ; in particular, he increased levels within the CIA.

The CIA altered its position radically in the late 1990s and cited Halabja frequently in its evidence of weapons of mass destruction before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

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.

Shortly before leaving office in January 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized the creation of the National Photographic Interpretation Center, headed by Arthur C. Lundahl, combining Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ), Army, Navy, and Air Force assets to solve national intelligence problems.

In his deposition, Woodward also said that he had conversations with Scooter Libby after the June 2003 conversation with his confidential Administration source, and testified that it is possible that he might have asked Libby further questions about Joe Wilson ’ s wife before her employment at the CIA and her identity were publicly known.