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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 21/09/2006

Biometry in Intelligence Link

The bio-metric identification concern L-1 has made its debut on the intelligence market by snapping up Spectral, one of the leading sub-contractors to the CIA and DIA. [...]

UNITED STATES 21/09/2006

Finding the Best Cover

Founded two years ago by a group of former CIA operatives (IOL 499), the private intelligence firm Abraxas has won [...]

Spotlight UNITED STATES 07/09/2006

The Coming Open Sources Revolution

When he began his campaign 18 years ago to promote the structured use of open sources by intelligence agencies, the former Marine Corp officer and ex-CIA operative Robert Steele was considered a dreamer at best and a dangerous troublemaker at [...]

UNITED STATES 07/09/2006

Stanley Sporkin

Legal director of the CIA in the 1980s and a [...]

UNITED STATES 07/09/2006

Christopher Darby

After its two last bosses stepped down one after the [...]

UNITED STATES 07/09/2006

Farming Out the Hunt for Ben Laden

A book soon to be published reveals that the CIA resorted to hiring private contractors to catch the Al Qaeda leader. [...]

UNITED STATES 07/09/2006

Intelligenxia Hires Ex- CIA Man

The CIA’s former chief information officer, Alan Wade, has just taken up work as a senior adviser to the small [...]

UNITED STATES 24/08/2006

Joanne Isham

After a lengthy career in American intelligence, Joanne Isham was [...]

CHINACUBA 24/08/2006

Chinese Fear Post-Castro Breakdown

Chinese intelligence is biting its fingernails over the prospect of Fidel Castro's demise in Cuba. [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 24/08/2006

ArmorGroup's Penchant for Hiring Spies

After employing CIA veteran Stephen Kappes for over a year - he finally returned to Langley as number two man [...]

Spotlight UNITED STATES 20/07/2006

U.S. "Information Dominance" Under Threat

American intelligence agencies are faced with a highly paradoxical situation. They have never had access to a greater mass of information coming from every corner of the world: tetrabytes of data pulled directly from the computers of airlines, banking systems, [...]

JAPAN 20/07/2006

Hideshi Mitani

The new flare-up in the Middle East and the launch [...]

UNITED STATES 20/07/2006

Michael Morell

The new CIA director, Michael Hayden, has been gradually hand-picking [...]

FRANCE 20/07/2006

French General in Key U

A senior French officer, general Gerard Martinez, has been named head of the Division of Regional Operations of the U.N.s [...]

UNITED STATES 20/07/2006

Viisage Buys Out Iridian

Viisage Buys Out Iridian. Headed by Robert laPenta, former financial [...]

UNITED STATES 06/07/2006

TAC, a Private CIA Outpost for Anti-Terrorism Fight Free

The history of The Analysis Corporation (TAC) is inextricably linked to that of the first American anti-terrorism data bases. Three former CIA heavyweights have just joined its board. [...]

PALESTINE 06/07/2006

Muhammad K. Isa Islim

Appointed head of Force 7 by Mahmud Abbas on July [...]

UNITED STATES 06/07/2006

Executives Jump Ship at In-Q-Tel

The former president of In-Q-Tel, Amit Yoran, lasted exactly four months as boss of the firm which acts as the [...]

UNITED STATES 06/07/2006

New Boss for NSB

. Willie Hulon has been named new director of the [...]

YEMEN 22/06/2006

Omar Saleh al Ahmar

Nephew of president Ali Abdallah Saleh, 37-year-old Omar Saleh al [...]