Historical Dictionary of United States Intelligence

key offices, and by murdering his opponents. Trujillo served offi- cially as president from 1930 to 1938 and from 1942 to 1952. ...

death on 12 April 1945, he was sworn in as the nation’s 33rd president. In 1948, President Truman won reelection despite widespr ...

Poland, Finland, and other anticommunist countries channeled funds to the association, unaware the money was going to the Kremli ...

would fly at altitudes beyond the reach of Soviet missiles. Lockheed Aircraft Corporation won the contract to manufacture the U- ...

parts abroad. In addition, the USIA’s goals were to increase under- standing and acceptance of U.S. policies and American societ ...

can fly independently and are capable of carrying lethal and nonlethal payloads. Initially, they were designed to replace manned ...

thorities for Congress. Consequently, the provisions of the law have been subject to a great deal of criticism, particularly tho ...

national intelligence estimate (NIE), produced on 23 July 1946, judging that Josef Stalinhad neither the capabilities nor the de ...

diplomatic communications. By doing so, the United States could discern Soviet intentions toward the U.S. and the West. However, ...

puppet regimes had cast further doubt on the legitimacy of the South Vietnamese government. President Lyndon B. Johnsonused the ...

languages—Albanian, Arabic, Bosnian, English, Indonesian, Man- darin, Persian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, and Ukrainian. VOAalso ...

several problems associated with employing walk-ins as spies. For one thing, determining the bona fides of a walk-in is difficul ...

troducing military forces. It also requires the president to report to Congress any introduction of forces into hostilities or i ...

do their utmost to gather intelligence and urged those employed for in- telligence purposes to have integrity and be loyal. He w ...

gence. During the early 1980s, DCI William J. Caseyhad infused the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with resources that had gre ...

The team brought sophisticated equipment and specially outfitted helicopters and was subsequently successful in tracking the Red ...

WOOLSEY, R. JAMES, JR. (1941– ).The 16th director of central in- telligence (DCI), serving between 5 February 1993 and 10 Januar ...

acquire territories in Europe and elsewhere. The war officially began with Germany’s attack on Poland on 1 September 1939 and en ...

for use by the American army. Yardley accompanied the American mis- sion to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 as chief cryptolo ...

and redefected to the Soviet Embassy in Washington. There he claimed to have been kidnapped and drugged by CIAagents, and four d ...