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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).

CHINA 05/10/2006

A “Multi-Polar” Military Strategy 

General Zhang Qinsheng, deputy chief of staff of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), is having an ever-increasing say in Chinese strategy. [...]

CHINA 05/10/2006

Ex-CIA Station Chief in Private Move 

A long-serving CIA station chief in China, Keith Riggin has just set up a business intelligence and security firm specializing in Asia. [...]

CAMBODIA 21/09/2006

Sleeper Cell in Europe? 

According to our sources, Cambodian intelligence agencies recently identified a new terrorist sleeper cell in Europe. They began their probe [...]

UNITED STATES 21/09/2006

Hayden Seeks to Break Down Walls Within CIA 

Four months after taking over as head of the CIA, Michael Hayden has underlined his determination to have the agency [...]

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 [...]

CHINA CUBA 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. [...]