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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 STATESMIDDLE 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 STATESIRAN 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 [...]

UNITED STATESFRANCE 14/02/2002

A Push for Purple Yogi

Staff at France's Alcatel who look into knowledge management solutions [...]

UNITED STATES 31/01/2002

David Cohen

Head of the CIA's operations directorate between 1995-97, David Cohen will shortly become New York city's first-ever intelligence chief. While [...]

ARGENTINA 31/01/2002

The Riddle of the Argentine Ring

An ex-terrorist who became a businessman in Argentina, president Carlos Menem and a prosecutor have all been linked to an arms trafficking ring. Their money is stashed away in Switzerland. [...]

UNITED STATES 31/01/2002

Who Bugged Jiang Zemin's Boeing?

Nearly two weeks after the Financial Times revealed that Chinese president Jiang Zemin's Boeing 767-300ER airliner had been bugged, Intelligence [...]

Spotlight UNITED STATES 17/01/2002

A Closer Look at Enron's Collapse

Information gleaned by Intelligence Online from several due diligence experts casts a fresh light on the collapse of the Enron and challenges the viability of results presented by the energy group to watchdog bodies, and primarily the Securities Exchange Commission, [...]

UNITED STATES 17/01/2002

Return of "an Irangate Man

The U.S. diplomat of Cuban origin, Otto Reich, has landed on his feet again at the U.S. state department. On [...]

UNITED STATES 17/01/2002

Who Will Win Tug of War Between Pentagon and CIA?

The Pentagon, which is strongly influenced by the reputedly pro-Israeli [...]

UNITED STATES 17/01/2002

CIA Calls Increasingly on Private Sector

The time has long passed when the CIA spent government [...]

UNITED STATES 03/01/2002

Dale Watson

A shakeup in the FBI announced last Dec. 3 has led to Dale Watson emerging as the real boss of [...]

UNITED STATES 03/01/2002

Tel Aviv Gets Better of Fox News?

The American television channel Fox News controlled by Rupert Murdoch may have gotten the worse of a political standoff between [...]

UNITED STATESIRAQ 03/01/2002

Assault of Iraq Shaping Up

Military and Turkish military sources have confirmed to Intelligence Online that preparations for military operations against Iraq have reached an "advanced" stage. Elsewhere, Ankara and Tehran are stepping up contacts. [...]

UNITED STATES 03/01/2002

Thomas Overby

After a one-year running in period, Thomas Overeby, former president of the private investigative company Parvus International, has managed to [...]

PALESTINE 13/12/2001

Who Will Win the Fight to Succeed Arafat?

The turmoil in recent weeks in Israel is increasingly undermining [...]

AFGHANISTANSAUDI ARABIA 29/11/2001

Saudi Regime Again Betrayed by its Own

Prince Abdallah is working to get ulemas in Saudi Arabia to tone down their sometimes loud support for Ossama Bin Laden, even after the events of Sept. 11. [...]

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. [...]