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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 18/10/2001

IPSA Looks South of Rio Grande

The private investigative and risk management company IPSA International has just set up shop in Mexico by acquiring the up-market [...]

UNITED STATES 04/10/2001

Christina Rocca

Colin Powell ’s leading adviser on issues related to Pakistan and Afghanistan, Christina Rocca knows the region well from [...]

CENTRAL ASIAUNITED STATES 04/10/2001

Washington Divided Over Future Alliances

A tug of war has developed in the U.S. capital over what alliances Washington should forge in Afghanistan. Some are arguing the case for a ?reformed? Taliban regime while others champion king Mohamed Zahir Shah or the Northern Alliance. [...]

UNITED STATESEUROPE 04/10/2001

Analyzing the Language on Passports

Terrorists and criminals have long taken advantage of variations in the way names can be transliterated from one alphabet to another. [...]

UNITED STATES 04/10/2001

Boost for Economic Counter-Espionage

The executive staff of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee appears persuaded that counter-espionage organizations will be handed far wider duties [...]

Spotlight SAUDI ARABIA 20/09/2001

Bin Laden Network Under Magnifying Glass

For some days anti-terrorist experts in Washington and Paris have been talking about the existence of a report in French that details all of the financial organizations which back the operations of Osama Bin Laden . IntelligenceOnline has obtained a [...]

PAKISTAN 20/09/2001

ISI Was Negotiating with Washington

According to our correspondent in Washington who spoke with State Department officials, the head of Pakistan’s ISI secret service, Mamood [...]

UNITED STATES 20/09/2001

Dust-Up at State Department

A particularly acrimonious meeting was held at the State Department on Sept. 12, the day after the lethal attacks. The [...]

MIDDLE EAST 20/09/2001

Al-Qaeda’s Military Doctrine

A political movement that acts through guerilla strikes and terrorist operations, Al Qaeda initiates its disciples in military action while dispensing ideological training. [...]

AFGHANISTANUNITED STATES 20/09/2001

A Rundown of U.S.-Taliban Relations

More than any article, a rundown of relations between Washington and the Taliban over the past 12 months provides strong insight into the standoff [...]

UNITED STATES 20/09/2001

Charles Waterman

The few investigative and lobbying firms in Washington which specialize in the Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have won [...]

EUROPE 20/09/2001

Interface Between Pentagon & Industry

The European military industry is pleased about Evan Galbraith ’s appointment as U.S. defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld ’s Representative in [...]

UNITED STATES 20/09/2001

Phoenix Takes a Dive

The identity of the company that botched an operation commissioned by Procter & Gamble against its rival Unilever is now [...]

UNITED STATES 06/09/2001

Donald Kerr

A man who strongly champions close surveillance of the Internet has moved into a key post at the CIA. On [...]

SAUDI ARABIA 06/09/2001

Secret Service Boss Fired

IntelligenceOnline has learned that the boss of Saudi Arabia’s secret service, prince Turki Al Faycal, was fired on Aug. 30 [...]

UNITED STATES 06/09/2001

Will DEA Agent’s lawsuit against CIA be Heard?

A former official of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), Richard [...]

UNITED STATES 06/09/2001

Will the Taliban be Outcasts in Washington for Long?

Contacts are increasing between the Kabul regime and the U.S. [...]

UNITED STATES 06/09/2001

Highly Political Contract for Open Source Inc.

After spending years persuading corporate decision-makers about the virtues of processing open source information, Robert Steele is now out to [...]

MACEDONIA 23/08/2001

Doubts Over Essential Harvest

Slavs in Macedonia live in fear of a Bosnia-type conflict in their country even as NATO starts deploying 3,500 men [...]

UNITED STATES 23/08/2001

Great and the Good in Conclave

From July 29 to Aug. 10 the U.S. intelligence community’s leading officials met in discreet conclave to examine the steepest [...]