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.

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 ".

While working at the Russia desk of MI5, he took a large number of secret documents home with him from the office, before trying to turn over some selected highlights to Second Secretary of the Soviet Embassy, KGB officer Oleg Gordievsky, who happened to be an MI6 agent infiltrating the Russians and subsequently turned Bettaney over to British authorities.

While some anti-imperialist narratives notably those of historians within the People's Republic of China as well as Western Marxist histories incorporate anti-imperialist narratives in their histories, many anti-imperialist narratives are non-Marxist or as in the case of the Kuomintang in the 1960s, actively anti-Marxist.

While Djibouti ’ s President Ismail Omar Guelleh has close ties with Ethiopia ’ s ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF ), he has tried to maintain an even hand, developing relations with Eritrea.

While Deng never held office as the head of state, head of government or General Secretary of the Communist Party of China ( the highest position in Communist China ), he nonetheless served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 to 1992.

While some in the legal sector advocated that the National People's Congress ( NPC ) should be asked to amend the part of the Basic Law to redress the problem, the HKSAR Government decided to seek an interpretation to, rather than an amendment of, the relevant Basic Law provisions from the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress ( NPCSC ).

While Baum was in South Dakota, he sang in a quartet that included a man who would become one of the first Populist ( People's Party ) Senators in the U. S., James Kyle.

While most of the graves seem to be the result of summary executions by members of the Sandinista People's Army or the State Security, some contain the bodies of individuals executed by the Nicaraguan Resistance.

While originally a civil war, it quickly escalated into a war between the western powers under the United Nations Command led by the United States and its allies and the communist powers of the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union.

While the United States and the Soviet Union each developed robust first-and second-strike capabilities during the Cold War, the People's Republic of China pursued a doctrine of minimal nuclear deterrence.

While all of these People's Republics did not " officially " take power until after World War II ended, they all have roots in pro-Communist war-time governments.

" While the Soviet Union had already annexed several occupied countries as ( or into ) Soviet Socialist Republics, other countries in eastern Europe that it occupied were converted into Soviet-controlled satellite states, such as the People's Republic of Poland, the People's Republic of Hungary, the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, the People's Republic of Romania, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, the People's Republic of Albania, and later East Germany from the Soviet zone of German occupation.

While the composition of these satellite Chinatowns are as varied as the original, the political turmoils in the Manhattan Chinatown ( Tongs vs. Republic of China loyalists vs. People's Republic of China loyalists vs. Americanized ) have led to some factionalization in the other satellites.

While this was the common stated goal of both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China ( ROC ) before 1991, both sides differed sharply on the form of reunification.

While he was chairman of the presidency, he was also chairman of the Non-Aligned Movement and the commander of the Yugoslav People's Army.

While the security apparatus were operating, they supported the Hungarian Working People's Party ( MDP ) directly, with little reference made to Government norms.

While in exile, Vang Pao assembled other Lao and Hmong leaders from around the world to create the United Lao National Liberation Front ( ULNF ), also known as Lao National Liberation Movement or simply the Neo Hom, to bring attention to atrocities happening in Laos and to support the political and military resistance to the government of the Lao People's Democratic Republic.

While initially allied with the Swedish Social Democratic Party in the struggle for democracy ( achieved in 1921 ) and social reform, the People's Party came to be part of the opposition from the thirties and onwards, opposing Social Democrat demands for nationalization of private businesses.

" While the term radical center or similar expressions have been used in various ways since at least the 1970s ( like " rigorously center " by the French Giscardian movement or the Portuguese Democratic and Social Centre – People's Party during its foundation ), its use became more common due to the Reform Party and Ross Perot, who were frequently described as representing the radical middle due to their attempts to partisanize those portions of the American electorate.

While leadership changes in the government usually occur at the National People's Congress sessions, now held every March, leadership changes in the party occur at the Party's National Congress.

While the Soviet Union was boycotting the Security Council and China's seat was represented by U. S .- friendly Republic of China ( instead of the communist People's Republic of China which would replace the ROC in the UN in 1971 ), the U. S. and UN jointly condemned the invasion of South Korea by North Korean troops, leading to the UN sanctioned Korean War.