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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 22/04/2004

CIA a Loyal Backer of Text-Mining 

The Central Intelligence Agency's venture capital firm, In-Q-Tel, is continuing to invest largely in text mining and automatic translation companies. [...]

YEMEN 22/04/2004

Abdul Majid al Zindani 

The case of Abdul Majid al Zindani, head of the [...]

Spotlight UNITED STATES 08/04/2004

Kerry Largely in the Dark On Strategy 

Whoever he is, the next American president will have to adopt a completely new approach to the U.S. intelligence community. The intelligence blunders revealed during George W. Bush's years in office seem the upshot of a deterioration that took root [. [...]

PAKISTAN 08/04/2004

Ehsanul Gul 

The head of the all-powerful Pakistani military intelligence agency, Inter-Services [...]

CANADA 25/03/2004

CIA Invests in Bio-Security 

In a tangible sign of the emergence of technologies linked [...]

UNITED STATES 25/03/2004

Horizontal Integration at CIA 

Organized by the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCE), [...]

UNITED STATES 11/03/2004

More Analysts and Linguists 

CIA director George Tenet and the boss of DIA, rear [...]

CANADA 11/03/2004

Norex Case Against TNK Thrown Out 

The Canadian oil company Norex Petroleum, which had sought for some years to file suit against Russia's TNK, has seen [...]

ISRAEL PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES 26/02/2004

Handing the Gaza Strip to Hamas? 

Israel is making careful preparations to pull out of the Gaza strip and the Israelis and Americans seem intent on handing over power in the territory to Hamas. [...]

Spotlight FRANCE 12/02/2004

Paris Controls Foreign Investment 

The case may seem banal but it illustrates the new attitude of the French government which appears determined to keep a closer eye on foreign investment in fields that Paris deems to be strategic. Last November, a small high-tech company [. [...]

UNITED STATES 12/02/2004

A Hawk Alights on Energy Issue 

Several prominent Americans known for their hawkish views, such as former CIA director James Woolsey, are lobbying strongly for alternative forms of energy. [...]

UNITED STATES 12/02/2004

New Post of Director of National Intelligence ? 

The Democrat senator from California, Diane Feinstein, once again called on the Senate on Feb. 5 to overhaul the American [...]

UNITED STATES 12/02/2004

Olympic Security 

GlobalOptions, a firm founded and run by Neil Livingstone, author of nine books on terrorism (including Inside the PLO, with [...]

UNITED STATES 12/02/2004

An Internet for Government ? 

Sprint appears to be having a hard time selling its "governmental Internet" to the U.S. administration. It began pushing the system a year ago under the name "SprintLink Peerless IP." [...]

Spotlight UNITED STATES 29/01/2004

Can CIA Be Run Like a Private Company ? 

Would the "best practices" of big private corporations triumph over the huge bureaucratic machine of an intelligence agency like the CIA? Unquestionably, the executive director of the CIA, A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard, believes they could. This week a working group from [. [...]

UNITED STATES 29/01/2004

NSA and CIA Drop in on SCIP 

For the first time, the big annual conference of the [...]

SAUDI ARABIA 15/01/2004

The War in Saudi Arabia 

The target of several assassination attempts, general Abdelaziz al Huweirini, number three man in Saudi Arabia's interior ministry, has clearly become the priority target of Islamic terrorists. [...]

SAUDI ARABIA 15/01/2004

Torn Between Democracy and Jihad 

Saudi Arabia is facing the agonising question of how to fight anti-government fundamentalism riding increasingly in the country on the coat-tails of al Qaeda. Can Riyadh introduce reforms without provoking challenges to its rule? [...]

RUSSIA 15/01/2004

Moscow - BP "Black report" on TNK 

A lot of covetous eyes are now trained on a [...]

UNITED STATES 02/01/2004

Paladin, the Right Intelligence for Proper Investment  Free

The investment policy of the Paladin Capital Group can be summed up as choosing well-established companies that already generate significant [...]