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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA / ˌ s iː. aɪ ˈ eɪ /), known informally as the Agency, [6] metonymously as Langley [7] and historically as the Company, [8] is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human ...
Many of Los Angeles’ federal offices are located in this building. [3] The building actually is not located on municipal Los Angeles land, but in a small (0.90-square-mile (2.3 km 2)), unincorporated area of Los Angeles County enclosed by the city, known as unincorporated Sawtelle.
Horse-drawn streetcar in front of the first Los Angeles federal courthouse and post office, c. 1892 James C. Corman Federal Building at Van Nuys Government Center. This is a list of Los Angeles federal buildings, meaning past or present United States federal buildings located within the city of Los Angeles.
Before its current name, the CIA headquarters was formally unnamed. [3] On April 26, 1999, [4] the complex was officially named in the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 for George H. W. Bush, [2] who had served as the Director of Central Intelligence for 357 days (between January 30, 1976, and January 20, 1977) and later as the 41st president of the United States.
The CIA operation came in response to years of aggressive covert efforts by China aimed at increasing its global influence, the sources said. During his presidency, Trump pushed a tougher response ...
Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) U.S. Navy: Defense: 1882 Coast Guard Intelligence (CGI) U.S. Coast Guard: Homeland Security: 1915 Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) United States Department of State: State: 1945 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Executive Office of the President of the United States: Independent agency: 1947
Soon after 9/11, The New York Times released a story stating that the CIA's New York field office was destroyed in the wake of the attacks. According to unnamed CIA sources, while first responders were conducting rescue efforts, a special CIA team was searching the rubble for both digital and paper copies of classified documents.
The station chief, also called chief of station (COS), is the top U.S. Central Intelligence Agency official stationed in a foreign country, equivalent to a KGB Resident. Often the COS has an office in the American Embassy. The station chief is the senior U.S. intelligence representative with his or her respective foreign government. [1]