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While the CIA Factbook in 2006 stated that the " US is the only industrialized nation that does not mainly use the metric system ", ( in addition to non-industrialised Burma / Myanmar, Liberia ), the actual situation, however, is more complicated than the CIA Factbook would suggest-in the United Kingdom, for example, although metric is the official system for most regulated trading by weight or measure purposes, the pint is the official unit for milk in returnable bottles and for draught beer and cider in British pubs, and miles, yards and feet remain the official units for road signage.
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While the CIA and MI6 and the People's Liberation Army of China financed the operation along with the Pakistan government against the Soviet Union Eventually the Soviet Union began looking for a withdrawal route and in 1988 Geneva Accords were signed between Communist-Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ; under the terms Soviet troops were to withdraw.
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.
While interference is apparently against Time Lord policy, there are occasions when they do intervene, albeit indirectly through their CIA or Celestial Intervention Agency.
While several such as the CIA and KGB became synonymous with Cold War espionage, many other organizations played key roles in the collection and protection of the secction concerning detection of spying, and analysis of a wide host of intelligence disciplines.
While spending nine years working in CIA counter-intelligence, he declared an annual income of $ 60, 000 but his plastic spending of up to $ 30, 000 a month funded a lifestyle that included a new Jaguar and a $ 540, 000 house ( 2011 value: $) paid for in cash.
While the coup is commonly referred to as Operation Ajax after its CIA cryptonym, in Iran it is referred to as the 28 Mordad 1332 coup, after its date on the Iranian calendar.
While in Cuba, Khadr worked to obtain information from his fellow inmates before spending five additional months at the Camp X-Ray prison, where he claims to have been given training as an undercover CIA operative.
While at the USIE, according to a Justice Department memo from an assistant U. S. attorney in the Rosenberg Trial, Bradlee was helping the CIA manage European propaganda regarding the spying conviction and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on June 19, 1953.
While declassified documents related to the military coup have shown that the CIA " probably appeared to condone " the 1973 coup, there is no evidence that the US actually participated in it ..
While SD-6 is on a wild goose chase to Switzerland, Sark actually returns to Los Angeles and kidnaps Will Tippin from a CIA safehouse.
While not only disliking Blackford's chosen profession because it so often spoils their plans, Sally also disapproves of many of the ideals she believes the CIA represents.
While all U. S customary units have been redefined in terms of SI units, the United States does not commonly mandate the use of SI, making it, according to the CIA Factbook, one of three countries that has not adopted the International System of Units ( SI ) metric system as their official system of weights and measures, along with Burma ( Myanmar ) and Liberia.
While traveling in Europe in the spring of 1969, he spent several weeks in Yugoslavia and there wrote Revolt in Socialist Yugoslavia, which was suppressed by the authorities, who called it a CIA plot.
While attempting to resolve her conflicted feelings about her past, Baltimore discovers that her former boss at the CIA, Leland Perkins ( Patrick Malahide ), has allied with a psychological-operations specialist named Timothy ( Craig Bierko ), who is a former lover of Charly, in a false flag plot to detonate a chemical bomb in downtown Niagara Falls, New York, frame " Islamic " terrorists for the crime, and thus secure more funding.
While Deputy Director for Intelligence from 1997 to 2000, he created the Senior Analytic Service, a CIA career track that enables analysts to rise to very senior rank without branching out into management.
While CIA was just one part of MAC-V SOG, it did have operational control of some of the programs.
While the popular insurgency was eventually crushed by the US-trained Bolivian military troops under American CIA command, Guevara was captured and executed in October 1967.
While many claim that Major General William Joseph Donovan ( known as ' Wild Bill Donovan ') was the " founder " of the CIA, official CIA history shows that these three men ( Beatle Smith, Bill Jackson, and Allen Dulles ) were the principals who actually put the CIA organization together as we know it, during its formative years from 1950-1961.
While we pay the bills, In-Q-Tel is independent of CIA.
While McCone was DCI, the CIA was involved in many covert plots, including ones involving Laos ( with the Hmong ), Ecuador, Brazil, and Cuba.
While Agee claimed that the CIA was " very pleased with his work ", offered him " another promotion " and his superior " was startled " when Agee told him about his plans to resign, the anti-communist journalist John Barron claims that Agee's resignation was forced " for a variety of reasons, including his irresponsible drinking, continuous and vulgar propositioning of embassy wives, and inability to manage his finances ".
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While the early explorers used horses to cross the outback, the first woman to make the journey riding a horse was Anna Hingley, who rode from Broome to Cairns in 2006.
While gun safety in different forms has existed since the creation of firearms, Jeff Cooper ( 1920 – 2006 ), an influential figure in modern firearms training, formalized and popularized the above-listed " Four Rules " of safe firearm handling.
While strips in this vein can be found online as early as 2006, the 2008 site Garfield Minus Garfield by Dan Walsh received enough online attention to be covered by news media.
While his direction of an ensemble cast and parallel fiction was recognized as astonishing in He is in the Army now ( 2002 ), his last film Shattered Soul ( 2005 ) has taken its well-earned place in Turkish Cinema History as being the first psychological thriller ever, and was awarded with a " Bronze Gryphone " at 2006 in International St. Petersburg Film Festival.
While in Toronto, Lifeson and Lee began the songwriting process in January 2006.
While the Singapore Department of Statistics reports overall population figures for Singapore ( 4. 48 million in 2006 ), as a matter of policy, it only provides more detailed demographic breakdown analysis for the approximately 80 % of the population who are Singapore citizens and Permanent Residents ( collectively termed ' residents ').
While attending the 17th ICMI Study conference in Hanoi, Papert ( 78 ) was struck by a motorcycle while crossing a road near his hotel on Tuesday December 5, 2006.
While not technically a squat until 14 December 2006, it was a social center used by squatters and people involved in alternative culture more generally.
While he was in New York for a meeting of the UN, Army Commander-in-Chief Lieutenant General Sonthi Boonyaratglin launched the bloodless September 2006 Thailand military coup d ' état supported by anti-Thaksin elements in civil society and among the Democrat Party.
While early efforts to employ these viruses in the therapy of cancer failed, there have been reports in 2005 and 2006 of encouraging preliminary results.
** While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh confirms the existence of Pluto, a heavenly body considered a planet until 2006, when the term " planet " was officially defined.
“ While there had been sound economic growth in years prior to 2008, there were still sizable fund balance drawdowns in both 2006 and 2007 ,” Fitch wrote.
While diversity in degree of decentralization across the world is a fact yet there is no consensus in the empirical literature over the questions like ‘ which country is more decentralized ?’ This is because decentralization is defined and measured differently in different studies ( Sharma, 2006 ).
While the official groundbreaking of the tunnel took place in 2006 ( with survey tunnels drilled in the same year ), substantial work was not slated to begin until 2011, and the tunnel's planned date of completion is in 2025.
While in 2006 Rolling Stone writer Brian Hiatt described Pearl Jam as having " spent much of the past decade deliberately tearing apart their own fame ," he noted the band developed a loyal concert following akin to that of the Grateful Dead.
While Cisco denied all allegations in the suit, on August 18, 2006, Cisco's liability insurers, its directors, and officers paid the plaintiffs US $ 91. 75 million to settle the suit.
In 2006, Martin inadvertently strengthened his image as the " fifth Beatle " by contributing the only piece of new music on the LOVE soundtrack: a string arrangement on top of George Harrison's solo acoustic demo of " While My Guitar Gently Weeps " from Anthology 3.
While flooding has been common with Binghamton sitting at the confluence of two rivers, a major flood was able to overcome the city's flood walls and wreak havoc in June 2006, causing millions of dollars in damage.
While Blackstone saw an opportunity to streamline the company and push Hilton's expansion overseas when Blackstone pursued Hilton in 2006 and 2007, the buyout saddled the company with $ 20 billion of debt just as the economy was turning down.
While an off-air recording of this performance was heavily bootlegged on video for decades, the master tape was later located and subsequently released on DVD as Circa 72 2006.
While apparently living modestly in exile, Duvalier does have supporters, who founded the François Duvalier Foundation in 2006 to promote positive aspects of the Duvalier presidency, including the creation of most of Haiti's state institutions and improved access to education for the country's black majority.
While the slower growth preserved the quality of life for most residents and prevented the urban sprawl notorious in the Los Angeles basin, housing in the Santa Barbara area was in short supply, and prices soared: in 2006, only six percent of residents could afford a median-value house.
While there have been many strong storms since 1962, extensive rock jetty construction on Townsends Inlet ( as recent as Summer 2006 ) has mostly succeeded in protecting the inlet-side homes.
While the future of the Sunbury Generation facility seemed to be in good hands with its purchase by Corona Power in 2006, in October 2007 Corona Power, LLC working with Merrill Lynch started the process of seeking buyers for the 400 megawatt Sunbury Generation facility.
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