CIA
From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Date: 2008
CIA see Central Intelligence Agency .
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The CIA's darkest secrets. (Special Report; includes related articles and glossary)
U.S. News & World Report; 7/4/1994; Walcott, John Duffy, Brian; 6994 words;
... defense. Another veteran operations officer puts it more simply: The DO, he says, is having a meltdown. A U.S. News investigation, based on interviews with more than 40 intelligence officials in the United States and elsewhere ... but many of those interviewed for this article cannot be cited by name because they ...
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CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons; Debate Is Growing Within Agency About Legality and Morality of Overseas System Set Up After 9/ 11
The Washington Post; 11/2/2005; Dana Priest; 2683 words;
The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its ... part of a covert prison system set up by the CIA nearly four years ago that at various times ... internment network is a central element in the CIA's unconventional war on terrorism. It depends ...
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CIA Widens Scrutiny of Employees; Director Takes Steps To Improve Security
The Washington Post; 3/16/1994; R. Jeffrey Smith; 915 words;
CIA Director R. James Woolsey said yesterday he would compel all ... also said the agency was reviewing past polygraph exams of CIA employees as well as its "overreliance" on the polygraph as ... pledges in an unusual hour-long interview with reporters at his CIA headquarters office. In the interview, he ...
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As Woolsey Struggles, CIA Suffers; Director Finds Himself at Odds With Capitol Hill, White House Series: CIA-RESTRUCTURE Series Number: 2/2
The Washington Post; 5/10/1994; R. Jeffrey Smith; 2567 words;
... Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) to eliminate the CIA and parcel out its responsibilities to other departments ... trimming $300 million from the budget last year. Some of the CIA director's colleagues blame his political troubles on ... say that because Clinton usually does not attend the CIA's morning ...
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Foreign Network at Front of CIA's Terror Fight; Joint Facilities in Two Dozen Countries Account for Bulk of Agency's Post-9/11 Successes
The Washington Post; 11/18/2005; Dana Priest; 2713 words;
The CIA has established joint operation centers in more than ... employ some of the best espionage technology the CIA has to offer, including secure communications gear, computers linked to the CIA's central databases, and access to highly classified ...
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Worried CIA Officers Buy Legal Insurance; Plans Fund Defense In Anti-Terror Cases
The Washington Post; 9/11/2006; R. Jeffrey Smith - Washington Post Staff Writer; 1340 words;
CIA counterterrorism officers have signed up in growing numbers ... program. The new enrollments reflect heightened anxiety at the CIA that officers may be vulnerable to accusations they were involved ... stem partly from public controversy about a system of secret CIA prisons in which detainees were subjected ...
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Casey's CIA: new clout, new danger. (William J. Casey)
U.S. News & World Report; 6/16/1986; Manning, Robert A.; 3222 words;
... century ago. Along the way, he has not only revived the CIA but made it a formidable player in American policy overseas ... expanding even more rapidly than the Pentagon's share. The CIA is erecting a massive new office building that will double the size of its headquarters in Langley, Va. Many old CIA ...
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CIA to Air Decades of Its Dirty Laundry; Assassination Attempts Among Abuses Detailed [Correction 6/27/07]
The Washington Post; 6/22/2007; Karen DeYoung; Walter Pincus - Washington Post Staff Writers; 1402 words;
The CIA will declassify hundreds of pages of long-secret records ... infiltration of leftist groups from the 1950s to the 1970s, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said yesterday. The documents ... use of drugs. "Most of it is unflattering, but it is CIA's history," Hayden said in a speech to a conference ...
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Bad Intelligence; Two new books on the evolution of the CIA help explain the agency's current black eyes.
The Washington Post; 11/27/2005; Reviewed by Michael F. Scheuer; 1647 words;
... moving, as Turner notes, Helms's portrait from the CIA's gallery of past chiefs into his office and referring ... not only lied to Congress but -- more damaging to the CIA as an institution -- willingly manipulated intelligence ... Adviser Henry A. Kissinger. Helms, for example, withheld a CIA report ...
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Fired Officer Believed CIA Lied to Congress; Friends Say McCarthy Learned of Denials About Detainees' Treatment
The Washington Post; 5/14/2006; R. Jeffrey Smith; 2273 words;
A senior CIA official, meeting with Senate staff in a secure ... the Middle East and elsewhere. But another CIA officer -- the agency's deputy inspector general ... allegations of criminal mistreatment by the CIA and its contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan ...
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CIA Chief Fires 2 Over Scandal In Guatemala
The Washington Post; 9/30/1995; R. Jeffrey Smith; 1096 words;
CIA Director John M. Deutch said yesterday that the spy agency ... to two murders, and announced that he had fired two senior CIA officers and disciplined eight others for their involvement ... Committee on Intelligence that he agreed with the panel that CIA employees had "deliberately withheld" information ...
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No Links to Drug Dealers Turn Up in CIA Records
The Washington Post; 11/6/1996; Walter Pincus; 906 words;
The CIA said in a court document filed Monday that an extensive ... cocaine in the United States in the early 1980s to finance CIA-supported Nicaraguan contra rebels. The recent CIA search reaffirmed the results of a one-day check of internal records that the CIA did in 1986 at the FBI's request, ...
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CIA Stalled In BNL Probe, U.S. Aides Say; Agency Role in Loans To Iraq Is Questioned
The Washington Post; 11/6/1992; R. Jeffrey Smith; 1623 words;
The CIA responded slowly and incompletely to repeated Justice ... Iraq, wanted to know not only what intelligence the CIA might have gathered about BNL's banking activities but also whether the CIA itself has had any dealings with BNL or those who ...
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Human Sources: Risk and Reward; Covert Aid Programs Put Casey's Teams in the Palace to Recruit Series: Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987 Series Number: 5/6
The Washington Post; 9/30/1987; Bob Woodward; 3188 words;
... history. In 1980, after Casey had agreed to take the CIA directorship, he had consulted William E. Colby, who ... few losses." Any penetration of the Soviet Union by the CIA could turn out to be a double agent, Colby said. "If ... Eastern Bloc official to want to assist the West. Sure, the CIA had to be ...
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CIA Again Eyes Abuses in Honduras; Probe Focuses on Agents' Failure to Report Torture Charges
The Washington Post; 12/23/1996; Walter Pincus; 960 words;
CIA Inspector General Frederick P. Hitz has reopened an investigation ... clandestine officers to report allegations of torture by a CIA-supported Honduran military intelligence unit in the mid-1980s ... officers for conduct in Central America. Last year, two senior CIA clandestine officers were fired and eight ...
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Teflon CIA has spooky record of failure. (includes a related article on CIA involvement with Guatemalan assassins)
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Working with the CIA.(Central Intelligence Agency and United States Army communications)
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On CIA, once more: 'abolish the damned thing.'(U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)(Editorial)
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