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Houston also drafted in part, the 1949 law that permitted the agency to spend funds covertly, the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949. [ 1 ] Beginning in 1950, he developed a network of front companies to provide cover for CIA operations abroad, including the well-known Air America , whose true ownership was concealed through multiple ...
Lawrence Houston, the CIA general counsel, became involved, and Helms wrote an office memorandum to justify the Chaos operation to CIA officers and agents. [ 219 ] [ 218 ] Meanwhile, the FBI was reporting a steady stream of data on domestic anti-war and other 'subversive' activity, but the FBI obstinately refused to provide any context or analysis.
In 1949, Lawrence Houston, along with his two assistant general counsels, helped draft the Central Intelligence Agency Act, (Public law 81-110) which authorized the agency to use confidential fiscal and administrative procedures and exempted it from most of the usual limitations on the use of Federal funds. It also exempted the CIA from having ...
As I've written before, this fact-free claim periodically receives a shot of life-extending plasma from credulous news organizations, congressional Republicans, and former and current Trump acolytes.
The discussion about the agency’s program was part of a broader review at the Trump White House of U.S. support for Kyiv — and what Moscow’s red lines might be, recalled the former official.
The CIA is overseeing a secret training program in the U.S. for elite Ukrainian special operations forces and other intelligence personnel. CIA-trained Ukrainian paramilitaries may take central ...
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 Sherman Kent School for Intelligence Analysis is a training school for Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) intelligence analysts located in Reston, Virginia. [1] Opened in May 2000, the school is housed on the second floor of a five-story structure of polished brick and smoked glass that is sheathed with special materials and contains sensors ...