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| central intelligence agency - an independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence under the supervision of the President and National Security Council | ||
| CIA | ||
| united states intelligence agency an intelligence service in the United States | ||
| independent agency an agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments | ||
| ic, intelligence community, national intelligence community, united states intelligence community a group of government agencies and organizations that carry out intelligence activities for the United States government; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence | ||
| counterterrorist center, ctc an agency that helps the Director of Central Intelligence coordinate counterterrorist efforts in order to preempt and disrupt and defeat terrorist activities at the earliest possible stage | ||
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central intelligence agency
A civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States federal government, tasked with gathering, processing and analyzing national security information from around the world.
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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a part of the United States government. The agency was formed after World War II.
The CIA is made up of four groups that each do different things. Their goal is to protect the US people.
Many people feel that the CIA does more bad than good. Some people feel that the CIA does good by finding out secret information about enemies of the United States. American law prohibits the CIA and other agencies from killing foreign leaders. In 1992, Saddam Hussein tried to kill former President George H.W. Bush, who used to be Director of the CIA, during a visit to Kuwait. The assassination plot was not successful. In retaliation, then President Clinton ordered cruise missiles to be fired at the building of the Iraqi equivalent to the CIA. This occurred at night so only the janitors were killed, not those who planned the assassination.
CIA has many clandestine, or secret, operations that people not working for the CIA will most likely never find out about. Some CIA employees have been killed while working but their identities are so secret that they are represented only by a star, not a name, at a CIA memorial.
The CIA also uses open sources to gather information. Analysts read foreign newspapers and watch foreign news broadcasts to learn information which can be pieced together to make a conclusion.
The CIA used to report to the President. After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, there was a reorganization so that the C
