Ames routinely assisted another CIA office that assessed Soviet embassy officials as potential intelligence assets.

A CIA study of the events in Indonesia assessed that " In terms of the numbers killed the anti-PKI massacres in Indonesia rank as one of the worst mass murders of the 20th century ...".

After examining all the intelligence, the Senate committee concluded that the CIA had accurately assessed that contacts between Saddam Hussein's regime and members of al-Qaeda " did not add up to an established formal relationship.

The CIA reasonably and objectively assessed in Iraqi Support for Terrorism that the most problematic area of contact between Iraq and al-Qaeda were the reports of training in the use of non-conventional weapons, specifically chemical and biological weapons.

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.

Regarding Pinochet's rise to power, the CIA concluded in a report issued in 2000 that :" The CIA actively supported the military junta after the overthrow of Allende but did not assist Pinochet to assume the Presidency.

Regarding the botched attempted-kidnapping and manslaughter of Chilean Army Commander René Schneider on October 22, 1970 ( Schneider was a constitutionalist opposed to the idea of a coup preventing Allende from taking office or removing him after the fact ), the Church Committee observed: " The CIA attempted, directly, to foment a military coup in Chile.

Although the relationship did not become contractual until 1967, Noriega worked with the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) from the late 1950s until the 1980s.

In the 1988 U. S. presidential election, Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis highlighted this history in a campaign commercial attacking his opponent, Vice President ( and former CIA Director ) George H. W. Bush for his close relationship with " Panamanian drug lord Noriega.

In that same year, due to his relationship with his brother Allen Dulles, the Director of CIA and a former member of the Board Of Directors of the United Fruit Company, based in Guatemala, Foster Dulles was pivotal in promoting and executing the CIA-led Operation PBSUCCESS that overthrew the democratically elected Guatemalan government of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán.

Laird paid special attention to two important interdepartmental bodies: the Washington Special Action Group ( WSAG ), composed of senior Defense, State, and CIA officials, which gathered information necessary for presidential decisions on the crisis use of U. S. military forces ; and the Defense Program Review Committee ( DPRC ), which brought together representatives from many agencies, including DoD, State, the Council of Economic Advisers, and the Office of Management and Budget, to analyze defense budget issues as a basis for advising the president, placing, as Laird commented, " national security needs in proper relationship to non-defense requirements.

John J. McCloy, the foundation's chairman from 1958 – 1965, knowingly employed numerous agents and, based on the premise that a relationship with the CIA was inevitable, set up a three-person committee responsible for dealing with its requests.

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.

In October he formally separated from his wife, and in November, he submitted an " outside activity " report to the CIA noting his romantic relationship to Rosario.

When Wolfowitz was considered for head of the CIA after the 2000 election, Clare Wolfowitz wrote President-elect George Bush a letter telling him that her husband's relationship with a foreign national — Riza — posed a national security risk.

An ally of the United States during the Vietnam War, Ouane developed a close relationship with William H. Sullivan, the US ambassador, and Ted Shackley, the CIA station chief in Vientiane.

The massacre led the CIA to terminate its relationship with Hobeika and gave Hezbollah a lasting grudge against him.

Bernstein left the Washington Post in 1977 and began investigating a secret relationship between the CIA and American media during the Cold War.

She states that she knew and admired that fact that he had been an accomplished OSS officer ( precursor to the CIA ) and that the protagonist of the novel that Kennedy wrote ( during their three year relationship ), " The Chairman " was a CIA agent tasked with ' traveling to China to kill Chairman Mao Tse Tung, the then Chinese Communist leader.

# 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.

Burnside consequently goes to great lengths to preserve the " special relationship " between the CIA and SIS — most notably in the episode of the same name.

The relationship between the CIA and SIS ( in which the CIA has more resources, but the SIS has more freedom of action ) is considered a special one and serves as the subject of multiple episodes.

By objecting to the UK's acceptance of CIA torture-obtained information, he was interfering with the secret rendition program as well as threatening the MI6's relationship with the CIA.

For much of the 20th century, agencies such as the CIA and the FBI enjoyed a close relationship with American universities.

Tasked by CIA with supporting the Diem government, Colby established a relationship with President Diem's family and with Ngo Dinh Nhu, the president's brother, with whom Colby's family became close.

In February 1976, George H. W. Bush, the recently appointed Director of the CIA, announced a new policy: " Effective immediately, the CIA will not enter into any paid or contract relationship with any full-time or part-time news correspondent accredited by any U. S. news service, newspaper, periodical, radio or television network or station.

In 1973, AFL-CIO president George Meany discovered that Lovestone was still in contact with James Angleton of the CIA, who was conducting illegal domestic spying activities, despite being told seven years earlier to terminate this relationship.

" Ames soon identified more than ten top-level CIA and FBI sources who were reporting on Soviet activities.

The Iranian Revolution of 1979 caught the CIA and the US very much off guard ( as CIA reporting a mere month earlier predicted no imminent insurrectionary turbulence whatsoever for the Shah's regime ), and resulted in the overthrow of the Shah ( himself a non-democratic ruler ) by a fundamentalist, non-democratic faction opposed to the US, headed by Ayatollah Khomeini.

Curiously, about the time that Brown met Kennedy he was also reporting directly to the then CIA Domestic Security Branch on what were called ' Civil Rights Matters '.

As well as reporting CIA funding of the National Student Association it exposed the whole system of anti-Communist front organizations in Europe, Asia, and South America.

Clarke's book Against All Enemies is also a crucial complement to the September 11 panel's failure to condemn Mr. Clinton's failure to capture or kill bin Laden on any of the eight to 10 chances afforded by CIA reporting.

ABC News was subsequently criticized for reporting the secret operation, with presidential candidate Mitt Romney saying he was " shocked to see the ABC News report regarding covert action in Iran ," but ABC said the CIA and the Administration knew of their plans to publish the information and raised no objections.

In 1975 the Senate Church Committee on Government Operations and Intelligence was investigating CIA assassination attempts, in part due to reporting by Seymour Hersh in 1974.

From the IAC minutes of the 4th December and the earlier CIA documents it appears clear that the Robertson Panel was the outcome of recommendation ( a ) of the IAC decision but that this formed part of a wider intended programme of action aimed at enabling rapid positive identification of UFOs from an air defense perspective ( i. e. identifying actual Soviet aircraft from misidentified natural phenomena or other conventional objects ) and a desire to reduce reporting of UFOs, which were seen as clogging up air defense communication channels and created the risk of exploitation of this effect.

The CIA's report on Iraq's ties to terrorism noted in September 2002 that the CIA did not have " credible intelligence reporting " of operational collaboration between Iraq and al-Qaeda.

The CIA has since recalled and reissued all its intelligence reporting about al-Libi ’ s recanted claims.

The January 2003 CIA report Iraqi Support for Terrorism noted that " the most reliable reporting to date casts doubt on this possibility " that such a meeting occurred.

: Due to the limited amount and questionable quality of reporting on the leadership intentions of Saddam Hussein and Usama bin Ladin, the CIA was unable to make conclusive assessments in " Iraqi Support for Terrorism " regarding Iraq's relationship with al-Qaeda.

The CIA had no ( REDACTED ) sources on the ground in Iraq reporting specifically on terrorism.

" According to Newsweek, " The most recent CIA analysis is an update — based on fresh reporting from Iraq and interviews with former Saddam officials — of a classified report that analysts in the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence first produced more than a year ago.

: The CIA has not published a " fully researched, coordinated and approved position " on the postwar reporting on the former regime's links to al-Qa ' ida, but has published such a paper on the postwar reporting of Abu Mus ' ad al-Zarqawi and the former regime ( see above ).

The CIA told the Committee that regarding Iraq's links to terrorism, " the research the Counterterrorist Center has done on this issue has called into question some of the reports of contacts and training ... revealed other contacts of which we were unaware, and shed new light on some contacts that appeared in prewar reporting.

Both Kappes and Pavitt ( and others ) oversaw the CIA ’ s Directorate for Operations during the controversial Iraq WMD reporting.

However, a series of articles on the pre-war intelligence on Iraq and alleged illegal activities of the US Department of Defense and reporting on the CIA leak case and Iran gained Alexandrovna respect as an investigative journalist.

On September 6, 2006, David Corn published an article for The Nation titled " What Valerie Plame Really Did at the CIA ", reporting that Plame was placed in charge of the operations group within the Joint Task Force on Iraq in the spring of 2001 and that, " when the Novak column ran ," in July 2003: " Valerie Wilson was in the process of changing her clandestine status from NOC to official cover, as she prepared for a new job in personnel management.

As Bond contemplates the prospect of reporting his failure to M, CIA agent Felix Leiter helps Bond and gives him an envelope with thirty-two million francs and a note: " Marshall Aid.

Outwardly, a dedicated servant of the United Nations but covertly promoting the political aims of the USSR and, on top of that, secretly reporting the Soviets ’ hidden political agenda to the CIA.