Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), while on the surface appearing as dissimilar as the ideas of Karl Marx and the Founding Fathers, have at their heart a very similar idea behind them. Both of these federal bureaucracies are federal agencies, with the heads appointed by the President, and responsible to Congress. The CIA is a rather young federal agency, with its earliest predecessor dating back to only 1941 (Wallace 482). On July 11, 1941, the first

created the Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A) with the signing of the National Security Act. When this act was created it also created a head of the Central Intelligence Agency. This role was know as the Director of Central Intelligence (D.C.I.). Later, the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 provided a Director of National Intelligence who took on some of the roles done by the D.C.I. The Director of the C.I.A. reports to the Director of National Intelligence and acts as the

CIA Research Paper 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

Methods of Intelligence Collection and Analysis Intelligence is one of the first lines of defense used by the United States to protect the Country against both foreign and domestic threats (Johnson, 2010). There are many ways and methods of intelligence collections employed by the intelligence community such as “spies, eavesdropping, technical sources, and openly available materials” etc (Clark, 2013). Method used also depends on many factors such as available resources, time, agency involved, and

Uzbekistan Uzbekistan is a country located in central Asia. In the 19th century, the territory it is located on currently was conquered by Russia. By 1924, the people in the territory resisted the Red Army of Russia, but those efforts were suppressed. After that, it was established as a socialist republic. (Central Intelligence Agency) After the fall of the Soviet Union, Uzbekistan became an independent nation in 1991. The country is a republic, but it operates under authoritarian rule where

The Intelligence Community is a cooperative federation of sixteen separate United States government agencies that worked separately and together on matters of foreign relations and national security. One of these agencies is the Central Intelligence Agency which is to collect, analyze, evaluate, disseminate foreign intelligence to assist the President and senior US government policymakers in making decisions relating to national security. Therefore this paper will discuss Central Intelligence Agency

The National Security Act of 1947, signed by President Harry S Truman, is how the Central Intelligence Agency was formally created. The “office off director of central intelligence” was also created as a result of this Act. Anyone in this position served as head of the United States intelligence community and acts as the President’s principal advisor. He/She usually updates the President of any and all intelligence issues concerning national security (Wagner 13). Even before the National Security

between the intelligence-gatherer and the policy-maker. Since the 1970s the CIA has provided intelligence to Congress as well as to the executive, so that it now "finds itself in a remarkable position, involuntarily poised nearly equidistant" between them. It has not however abused this freedom of action, probably unique among world intelligence agencies, so as to 'cook ' intelligence. CIA deputy director. Robert M. Gates, a career intelligence officer, is Deputy Director of Central Intelligence. He served

In September of 1947 the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was realised and hatched, the eventuality of the intelligence reformation in the United States occurring after the Second World War. Less than a year before this date a Joint Congressional Investigation had come to the inevitable conclusion that the Pearl Harbour attack illustrated America’s need for a unified command structure and a more efficient centralised intelligence system. In an attempt to bring these conclusions into realisation

spying agencies in the post-WWII era: But J. Edgar Hoover was a more formidable foe [to Donovan and Roosevelt’s intelligence agency plan]. The FBI director wanted to be the spy czar, expanding his Latin American intelligence operation to the rest of the world. Hoover’s informants at the White House, pentagon, and Congress kept him posted on Donovan’s plan and every move he made to sell it to the administration. These power struggles were a mainstay in the vision of a future intelligence agency that