Historical Dictionary of United States Intelligence

old Office of Strategic Services (OSS) espionageand counterintel- ligenceoperations that had been transferred to the War Departm ...

CHILE.SeeALLENDE, SALVADOR; NATIONALSECURITYDE- CISION MEMORANDUM 93; NIXON, RICHARD M.; PINOCHET, AUGUSTO. CHIN, LARRY WU-TAI ( ...

ship has continued unabated and now encompasses counterterrorism as a liaison issue. See alsoCHIN, LARRYWU-TAI. CHURCH COMMITTEE ...

opening, break-ins, surveillance, harassment of political dissidents, assassinationplots against foreign leaders, and campaigns ...

During the war, each side attempted to develop intelligence capa- bilities. Allan Pinkertontook it upon himself to try organizin ...

terrorist hideouts in Afghanistan, and conducted a coalition war against Serbian forces in Kosovo. He also became a global propo ...

programs directed against domestic groups from mid-1956 until In these programs, the FBI went beyond the collection of in- tell ...

At the time of his appointment as DCI in 1973, Colby was under pressure to make major changes in the Central Intelligence Agency ...

COLD WAR.Aterm coined by American journalist H. B. Swope and made popular by Walter Lippman, the Cold War refers to the state of ...

ary 2004, the presidential commission evaluated the performance of the U.S. intelligence community (IC) in forecasting threats t ...

efficacy and appropriateness” of U.S. intelligence activities in the global environment of the post–Cold Warperiod. The commissi ...

COMMITTEE ON IMAGERY REQUIREMENTS AND EX- PLOITATION (COMIREX).Established on 1 July 1967 as a sub- committee of the National Fo ...

grams or systems. Only individuals who have the need to know about the systems or programs and have received clearances for them ...

by agents of the Chilean secret police exploded under the car of Pinochet’s leading critic in the United States, Orlando Letelie ...

tural Freedom became publicly known in 1967, effectively ending this covert operation. CONTAINMENT POLICY. Containment refers to ...

dinista regime. The ceasefire of 23 March 1988, under Costa Rican leadership, effectively brought the Contra War to an end. See ...

force contracts spanning 145 launches. CORONAcameras were de- veloped by Itekand used Eastman Kodak film. Resolution in early fl ...

greater coherence to a specific intelligence activity. Housed within the Directorate of Operations (DO) of the Central Intellige ...

on Soviet targets. During the first 15 years of the Cold War, CIC units were dispersed throughout the world in America’s expandi ...

COVER. Cover refers to the guise employed by intelligence officers and installations to disassociate themselves from intelligenc ...