The Cold War: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

The NSA (National Security Agency) is an organization of people who collect information throughout the world. It is most commonly used to collect information from foreign suspects and to monitor social

     The CIA is one of the U.S. foreign inteligency agencies, responsible for getting and analyzing information about foreign government, corporations, individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. government. The State Department's Bureau or inteligence and reserch and theDefense Department'sdefense inteligence agency comprise the other two. Its headquarters is inLangley, Virginia, across the Potomac River from D.C. The Agency, created in 1947 by President Harry S. Trueman, is a descendant of the Office of stratigic Services(OSS) of World War 2. The OSS was dissolved in October 1945 but

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.

The CIA's original job was primarily intelligence gathering, but when Communism started to spread, the National Security Council directed that the agency take part in political, covert, paramilitary, and economic operations. When the Korean War broke out, the CIA performed these operations, it also had additional requirements to support the combat forces.

Counterintelligence is one of the most vital areas of the United States intelligence system, and is heavily intertwined with our history, laws and ethics. According to the National Security Act of 1947, counterintelligence (CI) is defined as “information gathered and activities conducted to protect against espionage, other intelligence activities, sabotage, or assassinations conducted by or on behalf of foreign governments or elements thereof, foreign organizations or foreign persons, or international terrorist activities.” It consists of five activities and functions: operations, investigations, collection, analysis and production, and functional services. In this aspect, CI is unique in that it is both an activity and its product. U.S. intelligence agencies, including the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) collect and analyze both CI information and foreign intelligence. There are many counterintelligence activities that the United States is involved in, as both CI and foreign intelligence play an important role in countering threats to our country’s national security. Among these most controversial and misunderstood activities are counterespionage and disinformation.

Based on information from osu.edu, CIA have no law enforcement functions within the U.S., however, the FBI has rights for them to enforce laws within the U.S. Within the U.S., the CIA is prohibited from collecting information on “U.S. Personal”, which include U.S. citizens, resident aliens, legal immigrants, U.S. corporations, no matter where they are located.The CIA enforces foreign policies in other countries, such as CIA passing on useful information to the U.S. military leaders during combat. The FBI is aloud to handle things within the U.S.. Things like kidnapping, tax evasions, and bank robberies. The FBI and CIA has boundaries for a reason and they would be punished if they break them.

The Cold War was a significant time for the United States and the Soviet Union, while the rest of the world watched intently. Although no actual war took place, both of these powerful countries did their best to promote their political and ideological ideas while trying to gain some ground in the seemingly never ending arms race. This war was driven by both fear and the strive to become the strongest and most powerful country. During the time of the Cold War, the United States proved to be a strong influence over Canada. Given its location, it was obvious as to which side Canada was on. While Canada believed in the same ideologies as the US, this nation was still reluctant to fully emerge themselves into the hysteria that had been emerging in the US. However, even though Canada had just received world recognition for its contribution during the Second World War, this large yet acutely populated country had much still to prove. During this time, Canada just recently became a founding member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). But while Canada was making huge steps in their peacekeeping and military growth, there were still rumours of espionage circling the country.

The other two main intelligence agencies are the FBI and NSA. The FBI is more concerned with domestic for the United States issues, whereas the NSA is more specialized in the gathering and analysis of information, which was exemplified with the surveillance scandal couple of years ago.

Since 1947, when the Central Intelligence Agency was created, the United States has had an organization that has the sole purpose of conducting covert operations, collecting information, and providing that same information to the respective personnel. Although, this, by some, has been considered conflictual as the CIA is handling those three actions. It is considered that this may be a conflict of interest in a means of, the same people that are collecting information, creating a bias opinion, are conducting the covert action being carried out. This could create a bias work environment. Due to the professionalism and 60 years of success to show for it, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and National Clandestine Service (NCS) conducting

Providing for the common defense means that the United States government must preserve the rights, freedom, and safety of the nation as a whole. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) fulfills this goal, as the agency collects, analyzes, and processes information at an international level and utilizes the data to further bolster our nation’s intelligence and security against foreign countries. Without the CIA, we would not be able to be one of the strongest nations on the planet.

The CIA used to interfere with internal politics and it would also plan coups and also assassinations. In 1953, the CIA was responsible of removing Mohamed Mossadegh, who was then elected prime minister of Iran .The US then put in a dictator who would rule ruthlessly and was responsible for the bad bleed that came up between Iran and the US (Weiner, 2007). CIA was also responsible for destruction of democracy around the globe and many people died as a result of CIA

While this may be without shame, it is certainly not without peril. The glue that binds the conservative movement together is an external factor over which the conservatives themselves have no control. Conservatives have found a new adhesive in the current Global War on Terror (the “GWOT). Though the threat of terrorism shows no signs of abating any time soon, it could end in much the same way as the Cold War ended. 9/11 and the subsequent War on Terror have created a new conservative alignment that provides the framework for modern approaches to national security and foreign policy.

The CIA, the elite intelligence agency for the United States of America. Formed by President Truman on September 18, 1947 for security of the nation. Although, they were created in order to protect the nation, this agency has actually created several downfalls and incidents that were quite unneeded during times of tension. In April of 1961, the CIA launched a special operation that was a plotted coup of Cuba. In the years leading up to these three days, the CIA had been training Cuban Americans in order to fight and retake Cuba as a democratic government. Instead, the coup was a total disaster and therefore in typical CIA fashion the President was blamed for this disaster. Another disappointment by the CIA was the “containment” of communism in Southern Asia.

In October of 1962, the world cautiously observed the emotional standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States of America amid the discovery of Soviet nuclear-armed ballistic and tactical missiles on the island of Cuba. Just how close the world came to a nuclear disaster over this confrontation is still debated to this day, but the escalation of this crisis to the levels that it reached could have caused “the deaths of 100 million Americans and over 100 million Russians” (Allison 2012). The one side of this story that often gets left untold is just how the situation got to where it did and what mistakes, if any, did the American Intelligence Community make in the days, weeks, and months leading up to it. After 50 years of study

The National Security Agency or NSA is the government organization that is responsible for government surveillance. This government organization collects data ranging from