Ci The Most Secretive Government Agency

The CIA, otherwise known as the Central Intelligence Agency, is a federal agency that is independent and has the responsibilities of providing the country of the United States with national security intelligence. The CIA is in charge of gathering information that is going on from other countries in order to help our own national security to become stronger, and to be able to protect the citizens of the United States better. However, what happens when the CIA tries to protect it’s citizens by screwing over other countries? What happens when the CIA is responsible for destroying other countries’ governments or placing leaders where we do not belong as a country to try and control politics that we should not even be involving ourselves in. While the CIA is meant to have good intentions for providing our country with national security, a lot of times the United States is responsible for meddling in affairs we never belonged in which cause harm, devastation, or death to the countries we force ourselves upon.

In 1950 and 1953, the CIA went through several changes. An Office of National Estimates was given the mission of projecting future developments. Overseas operations were placed in one directorate. Another directorate was in charge of all intelligence production and a third directorate included all support activities. During this period, up until 1961, the CIA was at the height of its cold war activity. It carried out continuous foreign intelligence, counterintelligence, political action, and propaganda.3 In 1955, Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill granting $46 million for the construction of a CIA Headquarters Building. The cornerstone of the

The Central Intelligence Agency, hereafter referred to as the CIA, is one of the most well-known and fascinating intelligence agencies throughout the world. For the most part, when the CIA comes up in the news, it is to report that the agency failed in doing something. This paper will analyze different successes and failures of well-known operations of the CIA. The successes that will be analyzed are Operation Argo and the killing of Osama Bin Ladin. Operation Argo has recently become well known due to a movie being released about the operation. The killing of Osama Bin Ladin is probably the most popular case that the CIA had completed due to its significance in a time when the United States was quite vulnerable. This paper will review these two successes of the agency and analyze how these missions were successful and why. The two failures that will be discussed are the attacks on September 11, 2001 and the Bay of Pigs Invasion. The attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001 are crucial to the American people and to the Intelligence Community. It is important to analyze these attacks in order to figure out what, if anything, could have been done differently that may have prevented these attacks from occurring. The Bay of Pigs Invasion is an infamous failure of the United States as well as the CIA in which many mistakes were made. The CIA plays an essential role in the safety of the United States and its people. Due to its high importance, it is crucial to

The Central Intelligence Agency is the President’s independent foreign intelligence arm, responsible to him through the Director of National Intelligence and the National Security Council, and accountable to the people of the United States by interaction with the intelligence oversight committees of Congress. The CIA has many duties within those boundaries and performs a variety of functions through many forms of intelligence. They employ people from all backgrounds of academic study, from linguists to economists, along with people from varied ethnic backgrounds to work as specialists. It is a large agency with many responsibilities, but most importantly they perform critical work for the President regarding

In 2004, through the Intelligence Reform and Terrorist Prevention Act (IRTPA), Congress outlined specific duties and authorities for the DNI. These duties include: providing timely intelligence to the President and other senior level decision makers, developing and executing the National Intelligence Program Budget, and numerous other duties and authorities, but perhaps the most relevant to this discussion is the intelligence information sharing section. “The Director of National Intelligence shall have principal authority to ensure maximum availability of and access to intelligence information within the intelligence community consistent with national security requirements” (IRTPA, 2004). If we break this statue further, we will see that Congress identifies even more specific tasks which will enable better communication flow and collaboration between agencies within the IC; however, some of those will take years to institute and will requires organizational and cultural changes.

It replaced the Central Intelligence Group, which had been established in 1946 to coordinate the intelligence gathering actives of various military branches and departments of state. Prior to the creation of the CIA there were only small post war intelligence organizations and the office of strategic affairs. The CIA first served as the primary civilian intelligence gathering organization in the government. In later time the DIA was formed to take sole responsible as the main Military intelligence body. The roles established by the Act of 1947 for the new CIA would be an independent agency under the supervision of the NSC and would conduct both analysis and clandestine activates, but have no role in policy making and no law enforcement powers. The DCI would be confirmed by the Sensate and could be wither civilian or an officer on detail from his home service. The CIA also was to be much more- it was a separate agency designed not only to gather intelligence but also to carry out Covert operation in foreign

The CIA has played a prominent role combating radical Islamic groups in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Middle East since 1979. After the soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, the CIA even funded some of these groups in order to embarrass their main enemy at the time, the Soviet Union. They did not, however, account for the fallout that would occur after the Soviets left. To a certain extent, the terrorist attacks on 9/11 were a blowback from CIA policies in that region, and the attacks, arguably, could have been prevented.

During mid-1970s, the disclosure of CIA misconducts had significantly damaged the agency. Agency’s focus had mainly shifted to passive intelligence collection and analysis. Covert operations were highly criticized and many intelligence officers were terminated. By 1980, Reagan’s transitional team and many conservatives believed that the agency had failed to do its job and was clearly ineffective in dealing with the Soviet Union (Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2010). In 1981, after Reagan took office, by selecting Casey as DCI, he pursued to rebuild the CIA’s capability to take political and military actions in foreign countries, particularly against the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc. Having the OSS experience during WWII, Casey had strong faith in the agency's purpose and the role it could play in support of the administrations’ policies. Casey reversed the CIA’s downfall by increasing the budget and the number of personnel; and sought to rebuild the agency’s morale. Under his leadership, the CIA expanded its support for several anticommunist insurgent organizations and significantly increased the number of covert operations in various developing countries such as Afghanistan, Angola, and several countries in Central America (Center for the Study of Intelligence, 2016). This increased the agency’s need for more money; therefore, Casey asked Congress to provide the agency with more funds to support the Afghan guerrilla fighters. Due to the success of Islamic revolution in Iran overthrowing one of the most important U.S. allies in the region, Tehran’s hostage crises, and the Soviet’s invasion of Afghanistan, Americans’ mood shifted from the post-Vietnam sentiment. Therefore, Congress tripled the amount of Casey's original fund request. By channeling massive amounts of aid to the anti-Soviet insurgents in Afghanistan, CIA started the largest covert operation

In light of the increased atmosphere of scrutiny that has attended CIA activities since the Iran-Contra scandal of the 1980s, the idea that the CIA maintains a government within the government, whereby it exerts its will independent of executive or legislative oversight, is tantamount to conspiracy theory (Wagner,43). The CIA began operation on September 18, 1947, with Rear Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter as its first DCI (Cia). In its first covert operation, began late that year, it influenced the general elections in Italy so as to prevent a Communist victory (Wagner,44). Despite this success, President Harry S. Truman blamed Hillenkoetter for failing to predict the coming of the Korean War, and replaced him with General Walter Bedell Smith in October 1950 (Hansen,18). Under Smith's leadership, the CIA helped bring about the overthrow of Iran's Premier Mohammed Mossadegh after the latter nationalized oil fields in his country (wikihow).

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Terrorism is the warfare of the future. The battlefield has changed and it will take professional intelligence agencies to gather information about these unorthodox combatants. To help fight the war on terror, intelligence corporations must be present. However, some of the agencies can be combined with others to make a “super agency”. Three agencies that currently play a major role in the battle on terrorism will be the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Discussion will be given on which

Authority: This CIA was created by the Act called "National Security Act" in 1947 by the president "Harry S. Truman".The publisher of CIA is DCI(Director of Central Intelligence ) which was created by this Act aims to serve the United States Intelligence Community.The Director of Central Intelligence Agency is Mike Pompeo and Deputy Director is Gina Haspel.It is currently active in 2017.

NIAD-5 represented perhaps the most expansive charter ever granted to a Director of Central Intelligence. It enabled CIG to “centralise” research and analysis in “fields of national security intelligence that are not being presently performed or are not being adequately performed.” NIAD-5 also directed the DCI to coordinate all US foreign intelligence activities “to ensure that the over-all policies and objectives established by this Authority are properly implemented and executed.”

Then President George W. Bush signed the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act that restructured the Intelligence Community by, abolishing the position of DCI and DDCI and by forming the position the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Director of National Intelligence in 2004. Today John O. Brennan is the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and James R. Clapper is the Director of National Intelligence. The CIA is divided into five components: the Directorate of operations(DO), the Directorate of Analysis(DIA), the Directorate of Science and Technology(DS&T), the Directorate of Support(DS), and the directorate of Digital Innovation(DDI). Each of these components has distinct jobs/missions that are assigned. For example, the Directorate of Operations collects actionable human intelligence (HUMINT) that informs the U.S. president, Senior policymakers, military, and law enforcement while, the Directorate of Analysis(DIA) transform partial and antithetical information into nonpareil insights that inform U.S. policy decisions.

17, 2007). With these approaches, the intelligence system of the government did things appoint an undersecretary for intelligence in the Defense Department, create The Terrorist Threat Integration Center, which integrates foreign and domestic counterterrorist intelligence analysis, and also create the Department of Homeland Security (Countering Terrorism, pg. 17-18, 2007). More importantly, in 2004, Congress implemented the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, as stated before (Countering Terrorism, pg. 18, 2007). The act split the job of the Director of Central Intelligence Agency into two jobs which created a new position known as the Director of Central Intelligence, which would be later called the Director of National Intelligence (Countering Terrorism, pg. 18, 2007). The DNI was system coordinator as well as the nation’s senior intelligence adviser (Countering Terrorism, pg. 18, 2007). Posner says that Congress created the Office of the Director of National Intelligence mainly to cover up the performance problems for the design faults within the FBI, Department of Defense and the splitting of the DCI and DNI (Countering Terrorism, pg. 21, 2007). Mainly, efforts were made in creating many things to try and reform or make a better intelligence system, but rather than improve the intelligence