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As such, unit members, called Paramilitary Operations Officers and Specialized Skills Officers, do not typically wear uniforms. [4] If they are compromised during a mission, the US government may deny all knowledge. [5] The group generally recruits personnel from special mission units within the U.S. Special Operations community. [6]
Specialized skills officers (SSO) consist of a diverse group of "information resource officers, language officers, paramilitary operations officers, programs and plans officers, and targeting officers—many of which are core collector certified." SSOs conduct and/or directly support CIA operations leveraging their language, media, technical ...
On October 22, 2015, 30 U.S. special operations forces consisting of members of Delta Force, aviators from the 160th SOAR, paramilitary officers from the CIA's Special Activities Center and along with members of the Kurdish Counter-terrorism unit Peshmerga, conducted a raid on an ISIS prison compound north of the town of Hawija in Iraq's Kirkuk ...
A viral social media claim suggests that attorney and former National Security Council staffer Kash Patel was appointed to lead the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Verdict: Misleading Attorney ...
The CIA board is made up of five distinct entitles called Directorates. [4] The CIA is overseen by the Director of Central Intelligence. Under the Director of Central Intelligence is the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence. [5] Under this the CIA is divided into four directorates. These directorates are as follows: [6]
The Intelligence Support Activity (ISA), also known at various times as Mission Support Activity (MSA), Office of Military Support (OMS), Field Operations Group (FOG), Studies and Analysis Activity (SAA), Tactical Concept Activity, Tactical Support Team, Tactical Coordination Detachment, [1] and also nicknamed "The Activity" and the "Army of Northern Virginia", [2] is a United States Army ...
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)'s Directorate of Intelligence (DI) is the most visible targeting analyst post in the Intelligence Community. The CIA identifies its Target Analyst position as one that analysts will “research, analyze, write, and brief using network analysis techniques and specialized tools to identify and detail key ...
The Office of Technical Service (OTS; formerly known as the Technical Services Division (TSD) and Technical Services Staff (TSS)) is a component of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, [1] responsible for supporting CIA's clandestine operations with gadgets, disguises, forgeries, secret writings, and weapons.