However, since the contras failed to win widespread popular support or military victories within Nicaragua, since opinion polls indicated that a majority of the U. S. public was not supportive of the contras, since the Reagan administration lost much of its support regarding its contra policy within Congress after disclosure of CIA mining of Nicaraguan ports, and since a report of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research commissioned by the State Department found Reagan's allegations about Soviet influence in Nicaragua " exaggerated ", Congress cut off all funds for the contras in 1985 by the third Boland Amendment.

Angleton, later chief of the Central Intelligence Agency's ( CIA ) counter-intelligence staff, became suspicious of Philby when he failed to pass on information relating to a British agent executed by the Gestapo in Germany.

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.

American attempts to overthrow the Castro regime with the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion by Cuban exiles supported by the CIA failed.

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 had tried and failed to assassinate him prior to the events of the film.

Aside from some districts in the Mekong Delta, the Viet Cong failed to create a governing apparatus in South Vietnam following Tet, according to an assessment of captured documents by the U. S. CIA.

One example of a failed effort to create a new NSC organ in the hopes of improving interagency coordination and reducing friction among the Departments of State and Defense, the CIA, and the NSC, was President Reagan's order on March 24, 1981, naming then Vice President George Bush as chair of a proposed administration crisis management team.

That year, two days prior to the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion organized by the CIA with the participation of Cuban exiles, Douglas A-26 Invader aircraft from Brigade 2506 bombarded José Martí Airport and Antonio Maceo Airport in Santiago de Cuba.

By 31 October 1960, most guerrilla infiltrations and supply drops directed by the CIA into Cuba had failed, and developments of further guerrilla strategies were replaced by plans to mount an initial amphibious assault, with a minimum of 1, 500 men.

CIA planners had failed to discover that the US-supplied T-33 jets had long been armed with M-3 machine guns.

Dutch is enraged when Dillon confesses the rescue mission had been a ploy to get his group to attack the camp and that the men they found earlier had disappeared in a failed rescue of two CIA agents.

But as with Bernardo Leighton, who was shot in Rome in 1975 after a meeting the same year in Madrid between Stefano Delle Chiaie, former CIA agent Michael Townley and anti-Castrist Virgilio Paz Romero, the plan ultimately failed.

* " The Cell: Inside the 9 / 11 Plot, and why the FBI and CIA failed to stop it " John Miller, Michael Stone and Chris Mitchell

" However, the 2000 report also stated that: " The major CIA effort against Allende came earlier in 1970 in the failed attempt to block his election and accession to the Presidency.

Just because FBI and CIA have failed to find the linkages does not mean they don't exist.

In the event, the CIA document-analysis team of Operation PBHISTORY failed, because they found no government or communist documents that supported the mistaken, ideologic assumption, by the US, that the Árbenz Government had been infiltrated by Guatemalan Communists controlled from the Soviet Union.

Fortuitously for the CIA, that failed scouting trip coincided with the first US state visit of Anastasio Somoza García, the President of Nicaragua ( 1937 – 47, 1950 – 56 ), who told the Truman Administration ( 1945 – 53 ) of the existence of a small, Guatemalan rebel-group commanded by Col. Castillo Armas.

Besides the military defeat and the jailing of the seditious rebels, the failed invasion provoked the political response most feared by CIA — the Árbenz Government repressed and jailed the anti-Communists connected with the exiled rebels, and all other potentially treasonous right-wing politicians.

The 1949 Intelligence Survey Group had produced the Dulles-Jackson-Correa Report, which found that the CIA had failed in its responsibilities in both the coordination and production of intelligence.

In 1961, after the failed CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba, these assassination attempts, which included hit teams of snipers, trained on Roselli's secret CIA base in the Florida Keys, continued with a vengeance, now with CIA legend William " Wild Bill " King Harvey, taking charge of Roselli's efforts.

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

Still, given that the sources of this data has remained the same for the past 15 years, we can at least see a trend of unemployment staying high throughout this period, but rising sharply in the mid to late 90's peaking at 70 % in 1999 ( 2000 CIA World Factbook is the source for that number ), and then decreasing to the usual rates of around 50 % in recent years.

Telephones-main lines in use: ( see CIA World Factbook https :// www. cia. gov / library / publications / the-world-factbook / geos / wa. html )

* August 19 – Cold War: The CIA helps to overthrow the government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran, and retain Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on the throne ( see Operation Ajax ).

Passengers seated on the right side can see CIA headquarters, Arlington National Cemetery, the Pentagon, and the United States Air Force Memorial.

The MQ-1 Predator drone was when " CIA officers began to see the first practical returns on their decade-old fantasy of using aerial robots to collect intelligence ".

For the fictional CIA agent, see Malko Linge.

The US Department of State states that 98 percent of the Austrian population is ethnically German, while the CIA World Factbook contradicts this assertion by saying Austrians are a separate group ( see Various terms used for Germans ).

The CIA sent him to New York to see one of their psychiatrists, who recommended that Olson be placed into a mental institution for recovery.

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.

In the early scenes one can see a book being scanned by a beam and presumably digitized for storage in the computer of the CIA substation research office.

For example, the CIA plots to overthrow the governments of Iran ( see: Operation Ajax ) and Guatemala ( see: Operation PBSUCCESS ).

( see: CIA cryptonyms )

Mitterrand came to suspect that Vetrov had been a CIA plant set up to test him to see if the material would be handed over to the Americans or kept by the French.

In DeLillo's version of events, the assassination attempt on Kennedy is in fact intended to fail ; the plot is instigated by disgruntled former CIA operatives who see it as the only way to guide the government to war on Cuba.

In the 1985 edition of " Studies in Intelligence ", the CIA's in-house journal that outsiders rarely get to see, the CIA describes the " staggering expense and improbable engineering feats " that culminated in the August 1974 mission.

Unable to stop the leftist insurgency, CIA paramilitary teams and U. S. Army Special Forces set up and trained counterinsurgency units ( some commentators contend these were patterned after the " Phoenix Program " in Vietnam ; see Death Squad ) to combat FMLN members and sympathizers.

The head of the CIA, Sheldon Kaufman, decides to have tests run on them to see if they are truly defecting.

After the test, it's obvious to everyone that they should be deported, but a CIA worker, Willie, points out they hadn't had any defects in awhile, and thinks they should play along and in the meantime spy on them to see what they are after.

For other countries see the CIA World Factbook.

None of the names or aliases in this case match those of the 26 alleged CIA agents prosecuted by Italy ( see Imam Rapito affair below ), although the Los Angeles Times reported one of the pilots may have been involved in both incidents.

Leary was informed that the CIA was monitoring his research ( see Government experiments below ).