Historical Dictionary of United States Intelligence

the proposed covert action finding and its implementation, the CAPG may stop covert action proposals if it deems them unfeasible ...

Among the more notable successes in this are were the Purple de- cryptions of Japanese communications in the late 1930s and the ...

tense diplomatic exchanges, Moscow backed down on 29 October 1962 and agreed to remove its missiles from Cuba, in exchange for a ...

Webster, the CNC is a fusion centerintended to monitor and pro- duce intelligence information about international trafficking in ...

was integrated into the DCI Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation, and Arms Control Center, housed in the CIA’s Directorate of ...

DEFENSE ATTACHE ́S.As military officers posted to U.S. embassies abroad, defense attachés have the responsibility of collecting ...

the interests of the DIAat the appropriate coordinationmeetings of na- tional intelligence estimates(NIEs) prepared by the NIC. ...

department, renamed it the Department of Defense, and withdrew the cabinet-level status of the three military secretaries. Five ...

In addition to the directorates, the DHS also incorporates several agencies that remain quasi-autonomous within the department, ...

DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE (DDCI). The DDCI was second in command of the intelligence community (IC) until 2005 and ...

seizure. The diplomatic bag need not be an actual bag. The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961) ensures that diploma ...

DIRECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE (DI). The DI is the analytic arm of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), processing and ana- lyzin ...

DIRECTORATE OF PLANS (DP).The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in August 1952 consolidated the activities of the Office of Pol- ...

of the intelligence community. This was especially so regarding the Pentagon’s intelligence units, over which the secretary of d ...

wound through the congressional process in the fall of 2004 but bogged down in conference committee. Ensuing recalcitrance by co ...

After the war, he resumed his law practice, becoming the U.S. at- torney for the western district of New York, and became famous ...

The DEAis not a member of the intelligence community (IC) but clearly has intelligence responsibilities in the counterdrug effor ...

– E – EAGLE CLAW (OPERATION). Operation Eagle Claw was a military operation to rescue the American hostages from the U.S. Embass ...

quire U.S. technology, and 57 of them had used covert methods against U.S. corporations. To counter the threat, the FBI listed a ...

Agency (CIA) overthrew Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953 and President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman of Guatemala in 1954 ...