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*Oppressing the people of [[Greece]] by planting a military [[junta]] and a former [[Nazi]] captain-turned-CIA-agent as its head. The junta tortured citizens, made church attendance compulsory, and banned miniskirts.  
 
*Oppressing the people of [[Greece]] by planting a military [[junta]] and a former [[Nazi]] captain-turned-CIA-agent as its head. The junta tortured citizens, made church attendance compulsory, and banned miniskirts.  
 
*Overthrowing the Goulart government of [[Brazil]] and using the pro-US regime to enrich pro-US officials and corporations.  
 
*Overthrowing the Goulart government of [[Brazil]] and using the pro-US regime to enrich pro-US officials and corporations.  
*Assisting in the crushing a popular uprising in the [[Dominican Republic]].
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*Assisting in the crushing of a popular uprising in the [[Dominican Republic]].
 
*Helping Maximilliano Hernandez Martinez to rule as general of [[El Salvador]].
 
*Helping Maximilliano Hernandez Martinez to rule as general of [[El Salvador]].
 
*Installing General Suharto as [[dictator]] of [[Indonesia]].
 
*Installing General Suharto as [[dictator]] of [[Indonesia]].

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"CIA" can also refer to Christians In Action. This article is about the spooks.
Oh, so very threatening.

The CIA, or Central Intelligence Agency is the arm of the United States government in charge of Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. assisting with the rest of the world's movement towards fully transparent democratic governments and thriving free market economies.

Shhhh!!!

Piece of advice: Never refer to a CIA employee as an "agent." They are an "officer." The agents are the ones giving information to the officers.

The CIA is charged with providing all decision makers in the US with the intelligence needed to do so. It was set up to be the foreign intelligence agency for the United States; however, due to the fragmentary nature of the US political system, there were soon many, many others. Today, the CIA is just one of many intelligence services vying for resources and the attention of policy makers. Until this decade, however, the DCI (Director of Central Intelligence) was still considered the top figure in the intelligence field; after 9/11, Congress passed a law creating a new post above the DCI, the "Director of National Intelligence." In theory, the DNI is above all intelligence agencies, but is instead a (slightly) more glorified and (vastly) more removed Director of Central Intelligence, one more beholden to the White House than the actual CIA; the latter was pissed about this.

CIA and dirty tricks

The CIA admits that they have done some horrible things in the past; however, as justification, they can point to the fact that every covert action they've ever taken was approved by the President and that key members of Congress were always notified. (Some of those members of Congress dispute this.)

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