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Pages in category "Central Intelligence Agency operations" The following 103 pages are in this category, out of 103 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Among these, for example, are nearly 200 National Intelligence Estimates on Southeast Asia, plus monthly summaries for Vietnam and specific studies relevant to military operations. Among these were Project SHAMROCK and Project MINARET , in which the NSA, upon request by the FBI and CIA, intercepted communications of American citizens.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA / ˌ s iː. aɪ ˈ eɪ /) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with advancing national security through collecting and analyzing intelligence from around the world and conducting covert operations.
The Directorate of Operations (DO), less formally called the Clandestine Service, [2] is a component of the US Central Intelligence Agency. [2] It was known as the Directorate of Plans from 1951 to 1973; as the Directorate of Operations from 1973 to 2004; and as the National Clandestine Service (NCS) from 2004 to 2015.
Córas Iompair Éireann (Irish for 'Irish Transport System'), or CIÉ, is a statutory corporation of Ireland, answerable to the Irish Government and responsible for most public transport within the Republic of Ireland and jointly with its Northern Ireland counterpart, the Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company (which trades as Translink), for the railway service between Dublin and Belfast ...
A cache of top secret documents leaked in 2013 by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who obtained them while working for Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the largest contractors for defense and intelligence in the United States., [6] revealed operational details about the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and its international partners' global surveillance [7] of foreign nationals and U.S. citizens.
The Special Activities Center (SAC) is a division of the Central Intelligence Agency's National Clandestine Service, responsible for covert action paramilitary operations, the collection of intelligence in hostile and/or denied areas and all high threat military and/or intelligence operations when the US government does not wish to be overtly ...
These include: Abu Zubaydah, [274] the chief of operations for al-Qaeda; Ramzi bin al-Shibh, [275] the so-called "20th hijacker"; [276] Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C.; [277] Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, alleged to be the mastermind of the USS Cole bombing and leader of ...