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People killed in Central Intelligence Agency operations (1 C, 5 P) M. Project MKUltra (1 C, 21 P) Pages in category "Central Intelligence Agency operations"
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.
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 CIA now officially describes the 1953 coup it backed in Iran that overthrew its prime minister and cemented the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as undemocratic. Other American officials ...
During the Cold War period, counterintelligence and counterterrorism took on an increasingly important role in United States foreign policy, especially through covert CIA operations. One of the earliest examples of successful counterintelligence work occurred in the Philippines after World War II, when the CIA assisted the Philippine government ...
In 2008, CIA operative Stephen Stanek faced a decision: cancel the operation he was running or go forward with it — as a tropical storm barreled through the Philippines with a projection to veer ...
In 2003, the CIA began to covertly arm and finance Somali warlords opposed to the Islamic Courts Union (ICU). [7] From the CIA station in Nairobi, Kenya CIA agents would make frequent trips to Mogadishu by plane where they would pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to the warlords. The CIAs policy was evaluated as a failure, due to the ICU ...
Editor’s Note: Douglas London served 34 years as a CIA operations officer, multiple times as a Chief of Station and ended his career as the agency’s counterterrorism chief for South and ...