Though the name Area 51 is used in official Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) documentation, other names used for the facility include Dreamland, Paradise Ranch, Home Base, Watertown Strip, Groom Lake, and most recently Homey Airport.

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One of the purposes the CIA hoped to achieve by these operations was an aggressive and violent response from the Sandinista government which in turn could be used as a pretext for proper military actions.

The CIA manual, " Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare " ( Operaciones sicológicas en guerra de guerrillas ), had been written in 1983 to be used by the contras.

It includes a newer DOS, version 3. 1, replaces the MOS Technology CIA interface chip, of which only a few features were used by the 1571 DOS, with a very much simplified chip called 5710, and has some compatibility issues with the stand-alone drive.

A paraphrased extract from Howard Carter's diary of 26 November 1922 is used as the plaintext for Part 3 of the encrypted Kryptos sculpture at the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

It has been claimed ultra-nationalist Grey Wolves were being used by the CIA.

Truth drugs have been used by the Central Intelligence Agency as seen in the U. S. Army and CIA interrogation manuals declassified by the Pentagon in 1996.

The project's intentionally oblique CIA cryptonym is made up of the digraph MK, meaning that the project was sponsored by the agency's Technical Services Staff, followed by the word Ultra ( which had previously been used to designate the most secret classification of World War II intelligence ).

In some cases, academic researchers being funded through grants from CIA front organizations were unaware that their work was being used for these purposes.

In 1977, during a hearing held by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, to look further into MKUltra, Admiral Stansfield Turner, then Director of Central Intelligence, revealed that the CIA had found a set of records, consisting of about 20, 000 pages, that had survived the 1973 destruction orders because they had been stored at a records center not usually used for such documents.

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.

He reportedly shared with a surprised George H. W. Bush, at the time the Director of the CIA, his fear that some of the portraits in 10 Downing Street ( specifically including Gladstone's portrait in the Cabinet Room ) concealed listening devices being used to bug his discussions.

* In the book The Ends of Power, Nixon's chief of staff H. R. Haldeman claimed that the term " Bay of Pigs ", mentioned by Nixon in a tape-recorded White House conversation as the reason the CIA should put a stop to the Watergate investigations, was used by Nixon as a coded reference to a CIA plot to assassinate Fidel Castro during the John F. Kennedy administration.

During American involvement in World War II, the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS, predecessor to the CIA ) used facilities and staff at St. Elizabeths hospital to test " truth serums ".

CIA cryptonyms are code names or code words used by the CIA ( U. S. Central Intelligence Agency ) to reference projects, operations, persons, agencies, etc.

The term " code word " was used by the CIA during the 1960s as a partial designation for a Top Secret report on a highly classified and sensitive intelligence topic, and for compartmenting information.

In the context of discussing code words used in the President's Daily Brief ( PDB ) during the Johnson and Nixon administrations, former CIA Director Richard Helms wrote:

CIA communications were used for his " back channel " messages so that the Department of State was kept in the dark.

The group's deliberations were sensitive and highly secret, dealing as they did with the highly classified fact that there was a covert side to the Marshall Plan, where the CIA used certain funds to aid anti-communist groups in France and Italy.

Former CIA operative who in 2007 was the first to admit that the agency used waterboarding as a form of interrogation

CIA agents or " pathfinders " from the Special Activities Division were to be infiltrated into Cuba to carry out sabotage and organization, including radio broadcasts.

The direct descendant of the paramilitary component of the OSS is the Special Activities Division of the CIA.

After his first tour of duty, Kelly retired from the service, but is later re-hired by the Central Intelligence Agency's ( CIA ) Special Activities Division ( Special Operations Group ) for another mission in Vietnam.

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.

In 1969, Nico was recruited into the CIA by CIA Special Agent Nelson Fox ( Chelcie Ross ) and served a tour with a CIA Special Ops.

The OCB met regularly on Wednesday afternoons at the Department of State, and was composed of the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Deputy Secretary of Defense, the Directors of the CIA, the United States Information Agency, and ICA, and the Special Assistants to the President for National Security Affairs and Security Operations Coordination.

Gordon Gray assumed the chairmanship of the " 5412 Committee " as it was called, and all succeeding National Security Advisers have chaired similar successor committees, variously named " 303 ", " 40 ", " Special Coordinating Committee ," which, in later Presidential administrations, were charged with the review of CIA covert operations.

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.

When members of the VCI were assassinated, CIA and Special Forces operatives placed playing cards in the mouth of the deceased as a calling card.

* Armed units of US national intelligence services such as the Special Activities Division of the CIA or the Hostage Rescue Team of the FBI

In 1951, Walter Bedell Smith, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ), appointed Truscott as " Special Consultant to the United States Commissioner " in Frankfurt, Germany.

Perle ’ s reasoning for implementing the Office of Special Plans was essentially to “ bring in people with fresh eyes to review the intelligence that the CIA and other agencies had collected .” In an interview with CNN on September 16, 2001 Perle announced " Even if we cannot prove to the standards that we enjoy in our own civil society that they were involved, we do know, for example, that Saddam Hussein has ties to Osama Bin Laden ..." Flynt Leverett, a senior staff member of the Bush National Security Council states: “ There were constant efforts to pressure the intelligence community to provide assessments that would support their views.

It was aided by 9 CIA agents, 9 Special Forces augmenters, and 99 Thai Special Forces troopers from the Police Aerial Resupply Unit.

Air America was an American passenger and cargo airline established in 1950 and covertly owned and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency's ( CIA ) Special Activities Division from 1950 to 1976.

In September, members of the MACV intelligence services and the CIA met to prepare a Special National Intelligence Estimate that would be utilized by the administration as a gauge of U. S. success in the conflict.

Finally, it should also not be confused with the appointment in 2003 of Patrick Fitzgerald (" United States Department of Justice Office of the Special Counsel ") regarding the investigation into the public naming of CIA spy Valerie Plame.

In July 2009, Mr Taylor himself told at his trial, at the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in the Hague, that US CIA agents had helped him escape from the maximum security prison in Boston in 1985.

* CIA Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare.

The CIA claimed that the purpose of the Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare manual was to " moderate " the existing Contra activities.

A CIA manual for training the Nicaraguan Contras in psychological operations, leaked to the media in 1984, entitled " Psychological Operations in Guerrilla War ".