Create a notification for free on this topic CIA

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was the successor to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) after the Second World War. Its heyday was during the Cold War. CIA considers itself as the senior intelligence service among the US Intelligence Community. Before the establishment of the Defense Clandestine Service (DCS), it was the only agency able to carry out clandestine operations, through its National Clandestine Service (NCS).

UNITED STATES 26/03/2008

Reporters vs Analysts 

The Rand Corp has just devoted a long report to [...]

UNITED STATES 12/03/2008

Defense Group, Leading Intelligence Consultancy 

The highly discreet firm Defense Group. (DGI) conducted an important study on the use of commercial satellites by the American [...]

Spotlight MIDDLE EAST 27/02/2008

Mughniyeh's "Ghost" Haunts the Region 

The assassination of Hezbollah's external security chief Imad Mughniyeh, nicknamed the "ghost", in Damascus on Feb 12 drove a wedge into the hitherto solid alliance between Damascus, Tehran and the Shi'ite movement. Each camp is conducting its own inquiry into [. [...]

UNITED STATES 27/02/2008

Virtual World to Break Down Walls Between Agencies?  Free

The new research programs of the director of national intelligence (DNI) in the U.S. have begun to integrate virtual reality technologies. The DNI sees this as a way to get analysts from different agencies working together. [...]

UNITED STATES 27/02/2008

Bart Johnson 

Michael Tiffany, the highly discreet boss of the unit in [...]

UNITED STATES 27/02/2008

Making Tamper-Proof Electricity “Islands” 

Despite the presence of former CIA director James Woolsey, a fervent champion of renewable energy, the Defense Science Board’s Task [...]

UNITED STATES 27/02/2008

GAO Turns to Intelligence Oversight? 

In several recent sessions in Congress, Hawaii senator Daniel Akaka has tried to get the Congressional watchdog GAO to conduct an audit of the intelligence community. [...]

UNITED STATES 27/02/2008

ExecutiveAction Switch into Security? 

Neil Livingstone’s new company, ExecutiveAction, is already thinking of diversifying into other fields and of offering private security services. [...]

BELGIUM 13/02/2008

Farewell to a Legend 

Dying last week at the age of 93, Andre Moyen, alias "Captain Freddy" groomed hundreds of intelligence agents in Belgium [...]

UNITED STATES 13/02/2008

A Bank More Secretive than CIA 

A former CIA director is going to take up work with a small New York investment bank whose influence is as big as its footprint is small. [...]

UNITED STATES 13/02/2008

James Stark 

Successively commander of NATO's Standing Naval Force Atlantic and vice [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 13/02/2008

Edmund Giambastiani 

Now a private company going by the name of Qinetiq, [...]

UNITED STATES 13/02/2008

Private Firm to Keep Watch on Radical Groups 

Since it was set up in 2002, the Search for International Terrorist Entities (SITE) Institute has functioned as a non-profit [...]

UNITED STATES 30/01/2008

Alan Wade 

Serving successively as the CIA's director of communications, director of [...]

UNITED STATES 30/01/2008

Booz Allen’s Intelligence Business Up for Sale 

The Booz Allen Hamilton firm owned by its 300 partners is thinking of selling off its governmental consultancy business that [...]

Spotlight UNITED STATES 03/01/2008

Conflicting Concepts of Intelligence 

The first intelligence budget drafted by the Democrat majority in Congress, the Intelligence Authorization Act for 2008, was approved by the House of Representatives on Dec. 13. Without waiting for the Senate to vote on the draft bill in its [. [...]

UNITED STATES 03/01/2008

DNI To Move Home 

Already located far from the centers of power in Washington, the offices of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) are [...]

UNITED STATES 03/01/2008

Broader Remit for NGA 

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency could soon take an interest in photographs and video films taken on the ground rather than exclusively in space imagery. [...]

UNITED STATES 03/01/2008

Qinetiq Fishes for Recruits in Agencies 

The American affiliate of the former British military research center Qinetiq, which has become a private company named Qinetiq North [...]

UNITED STATES 03/01/2008

Founders of GlobalSource Part Company 

Both former employees of Terry Lenzner’s Investigative Group International (IGI) [...]