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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 10/06/2004

Spotfire Software for CIA 

A publisher of data visualization software, Spotfire, has just signed [...]

UNITED STATES 10/06/2004

Stephen Kappes 

Ever since June, 2002, 52-year-old Stephen Kappes, who joined the [...]

UNITED STATES 10/06/2004

David Gordon 

A specialist in Third World issues, David Gordon, has been [...]

UNITED STATES 27/05/2004

Headway and Delays in Anti-Terrorist Fight 

Speaking before the Senate's Judiciary Committee last week, FBI director Robert Mueller revealed that lists of terrorists established by various [...]

UNITED STATES 14/05/2004

CCAT, Pentagon's Breeding Ground for Security Technology  Free

This year is being marked by an infatuation of venture capital funds for Homeland Security technologies. Alongside the sector's a seed capital fund stands out for being exclusively financed by the Pentagon: its acronym is CCAT. [...]

IRAQ 22/04/2004

Bremer's Last Mission 

Violence and confusion are mounting day by day in Iraq as Paul Bremer prepares to quit Baghdad at the end of June. The turmoil will make it even harder for him to fulfil his final mission. [...]

UNITED STATES 22/04/2004

Industry Day at NGA 

The new National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), formerly NIMA, is organizing [...]

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 [...]