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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Name Class year Notability References Horace Webster: 1818 Lieutenant; mathematics professor at the Academy (1818–1825); professor of mathematics, professor of intellectual philosophy, and president at Geneva College (1828–1830, 1835–1836); president Free Academy of New York (1848–1869)
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.
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.
An active-duty United States Army intelligence officer has been accused of selling sensitive information on Taiwan to China for around $42,000.. Korbein Schultz, 24, was arrested at Fort Campbell ...
Warrenton Training Center was established on June 1, 1951, as part of a "Federal Relocation Arc" of hardened underground bunkers built to support continuity of government in the event of a nuclear attack on Washington, D.C. [1] [2] The center was ostensibly designated a Department of Defense Communication Training Activity and served as a communications training school. [1]