Historical Dictionary of United States Intelligence

ety.” This new program became Johnson’s centerpiece for Congress in January 1965, with new initiatives in education, urban renew ...

armed forces and replaces the chairman in his absence or disability. Although the vice chairman was not originally included as a ...

The JIC’s wartime charter called for it to furnish current intelligence for use by the JCS, but it did succeed in producing nati ...

providing professional military education in intelligence, national se- curity, and regional issues. First established in 1962 a ...

– K – KENNAN, GEORGE F. (1904– ).Renowned American diplomat and historian, George F. Kennan was the architect of the containment ...

however, were more tumultuous than his more successful domestic programs. He assumed a confrontational approach with the Soviet ...

KGB (Komitet Gosdarstvennoi Bezopasnotsi/Committee on State Security).The political and security police of the former Soviet Uni ...

relations—the downing of Francis Gary Powers’s U-2spy craft in May 1960, the building of the Berlin wall in 1961, and the Cuban ...

North Vietnam, the incursion into Cambodia, and the peace negotia- tions in Paris. He also authorized various controversial cove ...

(DCI) George H. W. Bush. This effort led to the successful test of the INDIGO prototype imaging radar satellite in January 1982. ...

headed until leaving government in 1952. Langer served a brief period as a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Adviso ...

into the Columbia River basin until it reached the Pacific coast in De- cember 1805. On the way, Lewis and Clark recorded their ...

saw the need for intelligence during the Civil Warbut did not seek to establish it within the federal government. The Confederat ...

– M – MAGIC.SeePURPLE. MARINE CORPS INTELLIGENCE. According to the Marine Corps, its intelligence mission is to provide commande ...

wounded. The Cambodian Khmer Rouge government, possibly on appeal by the government of the People’s Republic of China(PRC), rele ...

2 December 1954, after which McCarthy lost his power base and his podium for his anticommunist harangues. McCONE, JOHN ALEX (190 ...

SIGINT area to the National Security Agency (NSA); and elimi- nated the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). The intelligence c ...

staff established on 26 August 1918 to oversee intelligence production and counterintelligenceactivities. Prior to that date, th ...

ducting experiments on witting and unwitting participants. The pro- gram originated in 1950 and was motivated by Soviet, Chinese ...

operation in November 1961 under the policy direction of the 5412 Special Groupof the National Security Council (NSC). President ...