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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).

BAHRAIN 09/03/2006

Khalifa bin Ali al Khalifa

Director of the National Security Department, Bahrain’s foreign intelligence and [...]

UNITED STATES 09/03/2006

New Counter-Insurgency Methods

A new American field manual – entitled Field Manual 3-24 - outlining fresh tactics, techniques and procedures for counter-insurgency operations [...]

JAPAN 09/03/2006

The Last Red Army Fugitive

In late February the founder of Japan’s Red Army was jailed for 20 years. Now the hunt has picked up for the last person still on the run following a hostage-taking episode at the French embassy in The Hague over 30 years. [...]

UNITED STATES 09/03/2006

Two Old CIA Hands Join Forces

Mike Baker and Jack Devine, who both served for the CIA's Directorate of Operations in the past, are now working together in a private intelligence firm. [...]

GERMANYIRAN 23/02/2006

Massoud Rajavi in Germany?

Diplomatic sources in the Gulf say Massoud Rajavi, head of the Mujahideen e Khalq (People’s Mujahideen) movement has left the Ashraf camp in Iraq for Germany. [...]

UNITED STATES 23/02/2006

Diligence Founder Starts New Firm

Early last spring CIA veteran Mike Baker left the Diligence company that he co-founded in 2000 with former MI5 operative [...]

UNITED STATES 23/02/2006

Extra High Tech

After assessing the needs of a wide range of American [...]

UNITED STATES 09/02/2006

Robert Grenier

Has the CIA become unmanageable? After the unexpected resignation in [...]

IRAN 09/02/2006

Tehran Lost the Battle of Vienna

Over the past six months, Iran has hardened its intelligence stance relative to its nuclear program but has lost ground on the diplomatic level. [...]

UNITED STATES 09/02/2006

GlobalOptions Buys Out SafirRosetti

Founded in 2001 by the former New York police commissioner Howard Safir and the ex-vice chairman of Kroll, Joseph Rosetti, [...]

UNITED STATES 09/02/2006

Intelcon 2006 in May

Organized by the private concern E.J. Krause & Associates, the [...]

UNITED STATES 26/01/2006

CIA Sets its Technology Priorities for 2006 Free

A research organization under the CIA’s authority, the Intelligence Technology Innovation Center (ITIC) is paying priority this year to technologies aimed at improving the sharing of intelligence. [...]

UNITED STATES 26/01/2006

The DNI’s Four Managers

John Negroponte has just named two “mission managers” for North Korea and Iran. Two others have already been appointed for counter-proliferation and counter-terrorism. [...]

UNITED STATES 26/01/2006

GlobalOptions Wins Big Names With Takeover

The U.S. investigative and security firm GlobalOptions has just bought out James Lee Witt Associates, a company founded by the [...]

UNITED STATES 26/01/2006

Changes at the Top at Booz Allen

One of the U.S. intelligence community's leading sub-contractors, the Booz [...]

Spotlight FRANCE 12/01/2006

Sharp slap on wrist for armaments industry

French arms suppliers have been told firmly by the government to "hunt in packs" in future instead of operating on their own. A number of sharp setbacks in recent months, many of them due to quarrels between the French themselves, [...]

UNITED STATES 12/01/2006

Washington Develops Facial Recognition Technology Free

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is to kick off a major round of tests of commercial facial recognition technology in conjunction with various government agencies concerned by the issue. [...]

UNITED STATES 12/01/2006

Viisage Seeks Lead in Biometrics

A pioneer in facial recognition, Viisage, is intent on becoming an integrated biometrics company under the leadership of its new stakeholder, the L1 Investment Partners equity fund. [...]

Spotlight UNITED STATESSYRIA 22/12/2005

Back-Door Diplomacy Starts the Ball Rolling

The American administration and the Syrian government have been relying in recent weeks on back-door diplomacy deployed by powerful political and financial networks to help them negotiate an agreement on Iraq that bypasses the crisis over the assassination of former [...]

TURKEY 22/12/2005

Thaw with Washington

Visits by FBI director Robert Mueller and CIA chief Porter Goss to Turkey in the space of 48 hours this [...]