Historical Dictionary of United States Intelligence

before the gallows where he reportedly uttered his famous final words: “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my co ...

Harriman was one of the most influential public figures during the Cold War. Heir to the Union Pacific Railroad fortune, he join ...

and, falling into disfavor with the administration of President John F. Kennedy, was sent to Vietnam to oversee the overthrow of ...

New Deal programs. He also spent about a year working as special assistant to the attorney general in the Department of Justice. ...

HISTORY (OPERATION). Following the overthrow of Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz Guzman by the Central Intelligence Agency(CIA ...

commander that the American forces across the river in Pennsylvania were demoralized and in retreat from their defeat in New Yor ...

HOUSE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE.Established by the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, the House Armed Services Committee has ...

HOUSE PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLI- GENCE (HPSCI).The HPSCI is the intelligence oversightcommit- tee in the House of Re ...

each such operation was important to national security and submitted this “finding” to the appropriate congressional committees. ...

economic intelligence(different from industrial espionage), such as gathering information on a country’s industrial output, gros ...

velop technologies that enhance intelligence capabilities. Although In-Q-Tel is a private company that works exclusively for the ...

approving authority for covert action programs, that he so designates by signing a “finding,” and that he affirms that the progr ...

instrument for coordinatingand managing the intelligence commu- nity (IC). The ICS was reconstituted as the Community Manage- me ...

countries. These relationships serve several purposes, the most im- portant of which is to share intelligence information and th ...

intelligence. In response to past misdeeds, identified in the “Family Jewels” document and congressional investigations, Congres ...

activities and programs of U.S. intelligence agencies and assess their legality, efficiency, and effectiveness. Executive Order ...

the NSC’s Deputies Committee, IWGs are organized both along is- sues of national importance—for example, on proliferation issues ...

One of the more controversial provisions of the McCarran Act was its authorization of concentration camps “for emergency situa- ...

ITEK.Atechnical contractor for sophisticated satellite reconnaissance cameras employed in CORONAfrom 1957 until 1965. The Centra ...

sunken vessel. Henry A. Kissinger, national security advisor, ap- proved the plan to raise the wreckage. Aspecial ship, the Glom ...