Historical Dictionary of United States Intelligence

failed, the Nixon White House authorized the CIAto oust Allende from office. General Augusto Pinochetoverthrew the Allende gover ...

Latin America. Run by the American defense attachés attached to U.S. embassies in the western hemisphere during World War II, AI ...

MI-6 officer and Sovietagent, during a stay in England in 1943. His personal and professional relationship with Philby continued ...

In addition, arms control efforts have focused on disarming vari- ous regions of the globe—Antartica, for example—and space, suc ...

Stateand elements of the White House, such as the National Secu- rity Council (NSC). ACIS remains the principal coordinating mec ...

Investigative Service (DIS) in 1971 absorbed USAINTC, abandoning some intelligence activities and focusing more on conducting pe ...

commander over the possible capture of West Point in New York. When American forces captured a courier—Major John Andre—with cor ...

is located in Arlington, Virginia, which has a small cadre of profes- sional staffers. Much of its work, however, is carried out ...

cially known as MI-8, for Military Intelligence–8, and was actually a joint operation between the army and the Department of Sta ...

BNL AFFAIR.The Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) affair in 1989 centered on charges that the Department of Justice and the Centra ...

BOLAND, EDWARD P. (1911–2001).Democratic congressional rep- resentative from Massachusetts, Congressman Boland was instru- menta ...

management system. Later on, a new Brilliant Pebbles design replaced space-based interceptors with an early warning and tracking ...

INR participates in the drafting and production of national intelli- gence estimates (NIEs). It also serves as the focal point w ...

of Texas, President Bush came into office vowing to support a stronger political and economic relationship with Latin America bu ...

President Carter championed human rights during his presidency, which frequently brought him into conflict with the Soviet Union ...

CASE OFFICER.Case officers are intelligence officials sent abroad under cover to recruit spies—foreign officials with access to ...

fered a stroke in 1986 and died the next year without revealing the details of his involvement in the events. CASTRO, FIDEL (192 ...

Agency (CIA), and other agencies; advise the secretary of defense and the director of central intelligence (DCI) regarding futur ...

(SEIB), the president’s daily brief (PDB), and national intelligence estimates (NIEs). The CIA’s counterintelligence activities ...

titles, salaries, or numbers of personnel employed.” The act also pro- vides that CIAfunds could be hidden in the budgets of oth ...