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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).

IRAN 22/02/2007

Pakistan Springboard Against Iran 

The CIA has launched operations to destabilize Iran in the east (Sistan and Baluchistan) with the help of Pakistan's ISI and in the west (Khuzestan) with MI6. [...]

UNITED STATES 22/02/2007

Cofer Black In Major Consultancy Move 

A former director of the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center, Joseph Cofer Black has just merged his firm, the Black Group, with [...]

GERMANY 08/02/2007

What BND Was Up To In Middle East 

Despite his legal wrangles with the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) last year, the journalist and historian Erich Schmidt-Eenboom went onto the offensive [...]

UNITED STATES 08/02/2007

IPOC Calls for Help Against Alfa 

The IPOC equity fund recently enrolled two new business intelligence concerns in its battle against Mikhail Friedman’s Alfa group for control of the Russian mobile telephone operator Megafon. [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 08/02/2007

MoD's Suppliers Target American Market 

The British military services company Detica that specializes in intelligence technologies (interception, data management) has taken a further step towards [...]

UNITED STATES 25/01/2007

Blackbird: How to Locate Enemies - and Friends 

The $13.2 million contract (with an option for a further $15 million) that the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center [...]

SAUDI ARABIA 25/01/2007

Three Generals to Govern Iraq? 

According to Intelligence Online sources, king Abdallah suggested to Robert Gates that Iraq’s prime minister be replaced by a troika of generals. [...]

UNITED STATES 25/01/2007

CIA Spokesperson Hired by Apco 

CIA Spokesperson Hired by Apco. The public relations and lobbying [...]

UNITED STATES 11/01/2007

James Clapper 

Ex-general James Clapper’s most recent venture into the private sector [...]

UNITED STATES 11/01/2007

A Five Year Plan for the CIA 

Eight months after his arrival at the CIA, the agency’s new director, Michael Hayden, presented his staff on Jan. 4 [...]

UNITED STATES 11/01/2007

Tough Grind Ahead for New DNI 

The change at the top in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence sheds light on a number of structural weaknesses. [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 11/01/2007

Firm Probing EADS Deal in Libya 

Intelligence Online understands an unidentified British business intelligence firm is actively examining contracts under negotiation between EADS and Libya. [...]

UNITED STATES 11/01/2007

Investigators Turn Into Investors 

CIA veteran Mike Baker, co-founder of Diligence, has opened a new dual firm that will do investigative work but also manage funds. [...]

UNITED STATES 11/01/2007

Judges Switch to Consulting 

A number of former federal judges, some of whom once headed American intelligence agencies, have formed the Gavel Group to offer their expertise to U.S. multinationals. [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 11/01/2007

ArmorGroup Takes New Tack 

Anxious to diversify its sources of income, Britain's ArmorGroup has just laid out GBP 1 million to acquire the small [...]

Spotlight UNITED STATES 21/12/2006

Pentagon Mulls Shift in Oil Policy 

The leading consumer of gasoline in the United States, the Department of Defense, is desperately seeking ways to reduce its energy bill and limit its dependency on oil and gas. But that operational objective could shortly take a more political [. [...]

TAIWAN 21/12/2006

Taiwan Updates PSYOPS 

Taiwan is planning to upgrade one of the most renowned weapons in its secret war against China, the GPWD. [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 21/12/2006

U.S. Firms Seek Intelligence Market 

Several American consultancies that work regularly under contract for American intelligence agencies are seeking to export their services to Europe by winning work in Britain. [...]

Spotlight SAUDI ARABIA 07/12/2006

The princes who want to take on Iran & Iraq 

Although it has cautiously kept its distance from the Iraqi conflict, Saudi Arabia now strands the risk of being drawn into the cauldron - faced with Iran's increasing activism and Washington's temptation to withdraw its forces, Riyadh is ringing with [. [...]

UNITED STATES 07/12/2006

CIA's Private Network to Carry its Prisoners  Free

In a report published on Nov. 16, the European Parliament shed light on a huge network of private companies allegedly employed by the CIA to covertly transport its prisoners. [...]