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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 KINGDOM 30/05/2002

Eliza Manningham-Buller 

Aged 53, Eliza Manningham-Buller will shortly be named head of Britain's MI5 after working her way up through the ranks [...]

UNITED STATES 30/05/2002

Bickering in Congress Over Sept. 11 

Since it was set up in February to probe the activities of the U.S. intelligence community before, during and after [...]

PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES 30/05/2002

Strategic Overhaul of Palestinian Security 

A lot of round-trip journeys by officials between Cairo and Washington have sealed the fate of Yasser Arafat's security services. [...]

UNITED STATES 30/05/2002

More Money for Cyber Security 

The information security czar in the U.S., Richard Clark, has [...]

FRANCE 16/05/2002

Guisnel's Latest Book 

The French journalist Jean Guisnel who specializes in defense and intelligence issues will shortly publish a book criticizing the U.S. [...]

UNITED STATES 16/05/2002

Tenet to Assist in Palestinian Security Shuffle 

The forthcoming visit of CIA director George Tenet to Ramallah is aimed at helping to overhaul Yasser Arafat's security agencies [...]

UNITED STATES 16/05/2002

Private U.S. Intelligence Units in Venezuela? 

President Hugo Chavez's security staff has accused an American private business intelligence company of working on behalf of officers who briefly carried Pedro Carmona to power. [...]

UNITED STATES YEMEN 25/04/2002

Talks on U.S. Aid to Yemen 

A flurry of terrorist attacks in Sanaa has cast doubt over the relevance of U.S. military assistance to Yemen. Congressional [...]

UNITED STATES 25/04/2002

What the Vets Think 

The Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) is organizing a [...]

UNITED STATES 11/04/2002

What are the FBI's True Shortcomings? 

William Webster's hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on April [...]

UNITED STATES 11/04/2002

The Fourth Man 

A senior State Department aide has revealed the name of a fourth key player involved in UNOCAL's talks with the [...]

IRAQ 28/03/2002

Iraqi Oil: Between War and Peace 

Saddam Hussein is preparing for war by increasing clandestine oil deliveries to governments which could potentially back him. And there is speculation in oil circles over the future of the Majnun fields once operations are over. [...]

SERBIA 28/03/2002

For how long will compromising documents continue to be used to exert pressure in Yugoslavia? 

Momcilo Perisic, Yugoslav army chief-of-staff between 1994-98, was kept under [...]

UNITED STATES 14/03/2002

John Helgerson 

A member of the Old Guard who specialized in the Soviet Union in the past, John Helgerson, has been put [...]

SAUDI ARABIA 14/03/2002

What's Behind the Al Haramayne Foundation 

In November, 2001 Intelligence Online revealed the role of the Saudi Arabian Al Haramayne organization in financing Al Qaeda. [...]

UNITED STATES MIDDLE EAST 14/03/2002

Will the CIA Track Down Missing Computers? 

CIA officials at the U.S. embassy in Amman are doing [...]

UNITED STATES 14/03/2002

The Rendon Group's Customer List 

The Rendon Group has become the most controversial lobbying firm in Washington since revelations about its role with regard the [...]

MIDDLE EASTRUSSIA 28/02/2002

Red Mercury is Back in Business 

The so-called "red mercury" scam that caught a lot of people interested in radioactive substances in its net has been revived. Intelligence agencies see the rip-off as a way of tracing would-be buyers of nuclear materials. [...]

UNITED STATES IRAN 28/02/2002

Why U.S. Did a U-Turn on Iran 

For a number of weeks officials from the U.S. State Department conducted semi-official negotiations with Iranian moderates in offices lent to them by the Swiss embassy in Tehran. That was last October. [...]

UNITED STATES 14/02/2002

Ex-CIA Man Tells "How it Was 

A book that former CIA operative Robert Baer has just published in the U.S. is being examined closely by the [...]