Category: CIA activities in the Near East, North Africa, South and Southwest Asia

However, the CIA World Fact Book estimated that North Korea's annual population growth rate was 1. 0 % in 1991 and that it has since declined to 0. 4 % by 2009.

The SEALs were involved in the CIA sponsored Phoenix Program where it targeted key North Vietnamese Army personnel and Vietcong sympathizers for capture and assassination.

Headed by Sidney Gottlieb, the MKUltra project was started on the order of CIA director Allen Welsh Dulles on April 13, 1953 .< ref > Church Committee ; p. 390 " MKUltra was approved by the DCI < nowiki > of Central Intelligence on April 13, 1953 "</ ref > Its remit was to develop mind-controlling drugs for use against the Soviet bloc, largely in response to alleged Soviet, Chinese, and North Korean use of mind control techniques on U. S. prisoners of war in Korea.

Operation Anaconda took place in early March 2002 in which the United States military and CIA Paramilitary Officers, working with allied Afghan military forces, and other North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) and non-NATO forces attempted to destroy al-Qaeda and Taliban forces.

In the early 1960s, the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency's ( CIA ) Special Activities Division began to recruit, train and lead the indigenous Hmong people in Laos to fight against North Vietnamese Army intruders into Laos during the Vietnam War.

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.

In 2007 reports emanating from Washington suggested that the 2002 CIA reports that North Korea was developing uranium enrichment technology had overstated or misread the intelligence.

He also pointed out that the CIA had not claimed North Korea had nuclear weapons, but that they had enough material to create such weapons should they choose to do so.

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With his CIA background, he was terribly dismayed when he learned in 1964 of the history of French and U. S. involvement in South Vietnam and how it differed from what the U. S government public position was, especially regarding broken promises to hold a referendum in the south about unification with North Vietnam.

On 7 May a CIA air raid attacked Ambon airstrip, seriously damaging a Douglas C-47 Skytrain and an Indonesian Air Force North American P-51 Mustang and setting fire to a number of fuel drums.

The CIA, Taiwan and the Philippines had provided the Permesta rebels in North Sulawesi with an insurgent air force, the Angkatan Udara Revolusioner ( AUREV ).

Frank Warren Snepp ( born May 3, 1943 in Kinston, North Carolina ) is a journalist and former chief analyst of North Vietnamese strategy for the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) in Saigon during the Vietnam War.

Snepp, in his capacity as a CIA analyst, was on hand for the Fall of Saigon and was one of the last Americans to leave the US Embassy, Saigon before the city fell to the North Vietnamese on April 30, 1975.

During the same time frame, the CIA estimated that only 6, 000 trucks existed in the entire North Vietnamese inventory.

Pastora was reviled by John Hull, Oliver North, the CIA, and other Reagan-era insiders for his refusal to subordinate to the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Democratic Force.

* North Korean Government, CIA World Factbook

This initiative included inserting South Korean commandos and CIA Paramilitary Operations Officers prior to the two major amphibious assaults on North Korea, including the landing at Inchon.

The plot is adapted from Christopher Robbins ' 1979 non-fiction book, chronicling the CIA financed airline during the Vietnam War to transport weapons and supplies within Laos and other areas of Indochina subsequent to the North Vietnamese invasion of Laos.

On 8 April 2012, José Esteves received from Fernando Farinha Simões an 18 page confession which asserts that the CIA and Oliver North were behind the plot to place the bomb on the plane.

CIA officers say the captives were relocated to the North African desert.

These CIA figures can be set against IISS data, which reports that at the end of 2004, the number of contracts being signed in the Moscow Military District was only 17 percent of the target figure ; in the North Caucasus, 45 percent ; and in the Volga-Ural, 25 percent.

* CIA The World Factbook – Korea, South

All of these Paramilitary Operations Officers operated through a CIA front organization called the Joint Advisory Commission, Korea ( JACK ), headquartered at Tongnae, a village near Pusan, on the peninsula's southeast coast.

After graduating from San Jose State University in 1950, he joined the CIA and worked in Korea during the Korean War, training refugees for sabotage missions behind enemy lines.

" Buffett was also " one of the major voices in Congress opposed to the Korean adventure ," and " was convinced that the United States was largely responsible for the eruption of conflict in Korea ; for the rest of his life he tried unsuccessfully to get the Senate Armed Services Committee to declassify the testimony of CIA head Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, which Buffett told established American responsibility for the Korean outbreak.

The labor unions criticized the film's production, saying that it was influenced by Moon and his Unification Church, in addition to the Korean CIA and was part of an effort to support the president of South Korea.

There are five warring factions: the Allied Nations, South Korea ( in cahoots with the CIA ), the Russian Mafia " Merchants of Death ", China and Song's North Korean army.

Following a personal letter from the French prime minister, Joseph Laniel, Eisenhower authorized the loan of aircraft with French markings painted on them and flown by crews from Civil Air Transport ( CAT ), a commercial airline, which had been started in 1946 by then-retired Major General Chennault, the famous commander of the American Volunteer Group ( AVG ), better known as the “ Flying Tigers ”, in China during World War II, and then purchased by the CIA in the year war broke out in Korea.

According to the CIA, China is the country that hosts the most users, Japan the third, India the fourth, and South Korea as the tenth as of 2008.

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 ".