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  2. CIA activities in Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    On May 11, 1961, President Kennedy gave the authorization to begin "a program for covert actions to be carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency which would precede and remain in force after any commitment of U.S. forces to South Vietnam." [24] Kennedy was giving the CIA the job of preparing for the eventual landing of U.S. troops. Later ...

  3. CIA activities by country - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Central Intelligence Agency - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Rifampicin - Wikipedia

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    In August 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) became aware of nitrosamine impurities in certain samples of rifampin. [61] The FDA and manufacturers are investigating the origin of these impurities in rifampin, and the agency is developing testing methods for regulators and industry to detect the 1-methyl-4-nitrosopiperazine (MNP ...

  6. Raven Forward Air Controllers - Wikipedia

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    Ravens with a T-28D Trojan at Long Tieng, Laos, 1970. The Raven Forward Air Controllers, also known as The Ravens, were fighter pilots (special operations capable) unit used as forward air controllers (FACs) in a clandestine and covert operation in conjunction with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Laos during America's Vietnam War.

  7. Viet Cong order of battle controversy - Wikipedia

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    A memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers (New York: Viking Penguin 2002, 2003). Harold P. Ford, CIA and the Vietnam Policymakers: Three episodes 1962–1968 (CIA: Center for the Study of Intelligence 1998). Richard Helms, A Look over my Shoulder. A life in the Central Intelligence Agency (New York: Random House 2003).

  8. Jerry Daniels - Wikipedia

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    Jerrold B. Daniels or Jerry Daniels (June 11, 1941 - April 29, 1982) was a CIA Paramilitary Operations Officer (PMOO) in their Special Activities Center who worked in Laos and Thailand from the early 1960s to the early 1980s.

  9. History of the Central Intelligence Agency - Wikipedia

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    The three-way division lasted only a few months. The first public mention of the "Central Intelligence Agency" concept and term appeared on a U.S. Army and Navy command-restructuring proposal presented by James Forrestal and Arthur Radford to the U.S. Senate Military Affairs Committee at the end of 1945. [9]