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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 29/11/2001

Clinton’s Old Team Clubs Together

A company is gradually gathering a whole raft of major figures in the Clinton administration’s political and business intelligence communities under its roof. And its star cast ensures it will soon command huge influence. [...]

UNITED STATES 15/11/2001

Ashcroft's Gift to the CIA

What the CIA had long dreamed of has been achieved by the Justice Department. The USA Patriot Act that has [...]

PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES 15/11/2001

Power Struggle in Occupied West Bank

Citing the need to reorganize his security services, Yasser Arafat has changed his choice of likely successor and regained the [...]

Spotlight UNITED KINGDOMLIBYA Document 15/11/2001

Libya Back In Good Odor

The discovery of the first arrest warrant ever issued by Interpol against Osama Bin Laden on April 15, 1998 confirms the existence of strong ties between the terrorist chief and Libyan opponents of Muammar Kadhafi (document marked 1998/20232 available on [...]

UNITED STATESIRAN 31/10/2001

Tehran and Washington Inch Closer Together

The guardians of Iran’s revolution have taken an historic decision to dismantle most of their overseas networks. At the same time, the idea of forming an anti-terrorist partnership with Iran is gaining ground in the White House. [...]

UNITED STATES 31/10/2001

Akin Gump & Co’s Strange Connections

Since at least 1998, the lobbying and legal counseling firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauerr & Field has worked directly for [...]

Spotlight UNITED STATESEUROPE 18/10/2001

Looking at the Biological Threat

In an interview with Intelligence Online, the head of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), the U.N. unit that monitors the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, confirmed that Al Qaeda may very well have procured strains that [...]

UNITED STATESIRAN 18/10/2001

Iran and the U.S. Mending Fences

For the first time in 22 years, the U.S. administration and the Iranian regime are holding top-level talks. The two have a common aim: get rid of the Taliban's Sunni regime in Afghanistan and install a new government in Baghdad. [...]

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 [...]