CIA

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"CIA" can refer to the US' overseas seekrit police, or Christians In Action. This article is about the spooks.

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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 September 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. The CIA was pissed about this.

[edit] 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.)

Actions known to have been done by the CIA:

  • Distribution of propaganda in Italy and Eastern Europe.
  • Ouster of Mossadegh in Iran
  • Attempts on Fidel Castro's life
  • Supplying weapons to militants in Laos
  • Holding Nosenko (a Soviet defector) in solitary confinement for years.
  • Supplying weapons to militants in Afghanistan, including some asshole named Osama.
  • The ouster of Salvador Allende in Chile.
  • Following and spying on American citizens, including a journalist
  • Fucking about in Guatemala in order to secure a coup in 1957
  • Helping the assassination Trujillo (though this could arguably be considered a good thing)
  • Helping to cover up death squads in Honduras
  • Helping Reagan with his sordid Contra affairs

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