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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 24/11/2005

Paper Mountain Defies Agencies

Two U.S. legislators have broken sharply with the traditional approach of U.S. intelligence agencies in a letter to the new [...]

UNITED STATES 24/11/2005

Lee Van Arsdale

Almost exclusively staffed by veterans of the U.S. Delta Force, [...]

UNITED STATES 24/11/2005

PR Couple Delivers for Chalabi

Ahmad Chalabi’s triumphant return to Washington as deputy Iraqi prime minister was largely the work of a man-and-wife lobbying team, Jeffrey Weiss and Juleanna Glover Weiss. [...]

Spotlight UNITED STATES 09/11/2005

Finely-Tuned Machine for Negroponte & Hayden

The high visibility of ambassador John Negroponte who took over in April as Director of National Intelligence (DNI) in the American media shouldn’t overshadow the powerful administrative service his principle deputy (DDNI), Air Force general Michael Hayden, is putting together. [...]

UNITED STATES 09/11/2005

Bush Overhauls PFIAB but Keeps Room for His Friends Free

James Langdon’s mandate as chairman of PFIAB was short by any standards. Named in February, 2005, Langdon, a lawyer specializing [...]

SAUDI ARABIA 09/11/2005

New Al Qaeda Offensive?

The head of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab Zarqawi, [...]

UNITED STATES 27/10/2005

CIA to Invest in Clean Energy

With one of its ex directors, James Woolsey, now a [...]

SAUDI ARABIA 13/10/2005

Keeping Grip on Shi’ites and Oil

Saudi Arabian king Abdallah has just been secretly handed a detailed report he commissioned on how Aramco functions in its job of managing the kingdom’s oil resources. [...]

BELGIUM 13/10/2005

Systran Takes on EU Commission

Systran, a world leader in translation software that supplies the US Air Force, the CIA and FBI has accused the European Union of theft. [...]

Spotlight EUROPE 29/09/2005

Atlantic Alliance to Protect Oil Reserves?

Looking ceaselessly for new missions since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is seeking to involve itself in securing energy supplies. The initiative has won applause from neo-conservative circles in the United States but also [...]

UNITED STATES 29/09/2005

Andrew Palowitch

After three years as chief of the CIA's systems engineering [...]

UNITED STATES 29/09/2005

Energy Independence the Latest Battle Cry Free

The Set America Free organization that fights in favor of America's energy independence from foreign suppliers is button-holing Congress on every occasion. [...]

UNITED STATES 29/09/2005

Geospatial Conclave

The Geoint 2005 conference that will be held between Oct. [...]

UNITED STATES 29/09/2005

Goals for the CIA

Still the object of criticism both within and outside of [...]

IRAN 15/09/2005

Iran Funnels Cash Through Gulf

Companies in the free trade zones of Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates are reportedly being used by Iran to bankroll extremist Palestinian movements. [...]

UNITED STATES 01/09/2005

Arab Fund Invests in Security

Run by an American-Pakistani businessman and funded by wealthy Gulf investors, Crescent Technology Ventures has just made its first investment in the security field. [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 01/09/2005

Qinetiq Pushes Ahead in U.S.

The British military's former research center that was sold to [...]

UNITED STATES 01/09/2005

Stephanie O'Sullivan

Number two official in the CIA's directorate of science and [...]

UNITED STATES 01/09/2005

Simplified Line-Up for FBI

At the behest of president George W. Bush, FBI director Robert Mueller has set up a National Security Branch. Some see it as a throwback to the early 1990s. [...]

UNITED STATES 01/09/2005

U.S. Policy Slammed

A report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) underscores U.S. shortcomings in the fight against the funding of terrorism. [...]