Historical Dictionary of United States Intelligence

PSEUDONYM.An internal designation used by an officer of the Cen- tral Intelligence Agency (CIA) to refer to himself in communica ...

82 crewmembers aboard and subjected them to 11 months of interro- gation and torture. After forced confessions and an apology fr ...

Admiral Raborn had the reputation for getting along with people dur- ing stressful situations and for his management abilities. ...

Polish Communist Party leaders and were instrumental in sustaining the Solidarity trade union in Poland when it was forced under ...

ruse. Copeland claimed that the plan was discarded when experts demonstrated that, even under the most optimistic scenarios, the ...

covert actionsin Africa and elsewhere, and launched a covert war in Nicaragua to unseat the Sandinistaregime that had come to po ...

feller Commission, headed by former Vice President Nelson A. Rock- efeller, was established by Executive Order 11828 on 4 Januar ...

ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D. (1882–1945).The 32nd president of the United States between 1933 and 1945. Awartime leader, Presi- dent R ...

tee, which in the mid-1970s investigated the activities of U.S. intel- ligence, particularly the Central Intelligence Agency (CI ...

would provide the power base from which unrepentant Germans might rebuild another Reich and spark another war. The Department of ...

when a truce brought the fighting to an end. The FSLN lost the elec- tions of 25 February 1990 and has remained the leading oppo ...

In his five-month term as DCI in 1973, Schlesinger sought to cut personnel and reduce costs. To coordinate the activities of the ...

It also authorized the director of the secret service to establish na- tionwide electronic task forces to assist law enforcement ...

committee’s staff did not develop the same cooperative relationship with CIAofficials as had its counterpart in the Senate, the ...

committee passed general authorization bills that provided little guid- ance for the annual funding decision of the Defense Subc ...

intelligence community (IC). The SASC, however, retained juris- diction over tactical intelligence with military applications. B ...

mittee lost that role when the Senate established the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) in May 1976. Since the terr ...

SENIOR EXECUTIVE INTELLIGENCE BRIEF (SEIB).ASEIB is a current intelligencepublication of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) d ...

SHOOTDOWN OF KAL 007. On 1 September 1983, Sovietair de- fense forces shot down Korean Air Line flight 007, a Boeing 747, in Sov ...

SIGNALS INTELLIGENCE CORPS. The Signals Intelligence Corps was the U.S. Army’s signals intelligence(SIGINT) operation in the int ...