2 June 1954 and took sanctuary in the Mexican Embassy. Following
the coup, the CIAundertook a follow-up covert action, Operation
History, to gather and exploit the documents of the Guatemalan
Communist Party. Arbenz’s overthrow ushered in a decades-long pe-
riod of successive dictatorships and human rights abuses.SVRR (Sluzhba Vneshney Rasvedki Rossii).The SVRR is the exter-
nal intelligence service of the Russian Federation and a direct suc-
cessor of the Soviet KGB. The SVRR’s sister agency, the FSB, also
a direct successor of the KGB, focuses primarily on domestic intelli-
gence and security. The SVRR handled many of the American spies
in the 1990s, including Aldrich Amesand Robert Hanssen.– T –
TACTICAL INTELLIGENCE AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
(TIARA). One of the three intelligence budgets, TIARAprograms
are a diverse array of reconnaissance and target acquisition programs
that provide direct intelligence support to military operations. TIARA
actually includes both tactical intelligence programs and other intelli-
gence activities serving both tactical and national requirements.
TIARA evolved from the budget authorization category called
intelligence-related activities(IRA) to consolidate Department of
Defense(DOD) tactical intelligence activities, which, prior to 1982,
were outside the National Foreign Intelligence Program (NFIP).
Beginning with the fiscal year 1982 authorizations, IRAwas renamed
tactical intelligence and related activities to emphasize the tactical
nature of many of the programs in this category. See alsoJOINT
MILITARYINTELLIGENCE PROGRAM.TAGBOARD (OPERATION). TAGBOARD was a research and de-
velopment program initiated in 1963 to create a pilotless aircraft to
collect national-level intelligence. The resulting Lockheed D-21 was
a “drone” aircraft designed to fly over hostile territory at an altitude
of over 90,000 feet, at three time the speed of sound, and with a range
of over 3,400 nautical miles. TAGBOARD drones initially were de-
signed to be launched from aircraft based on carriers, but the programTAGBOARD (OPERATION)• 19705-398 (2) Dictionary.qxd 10/20/05 6:27 AM Page 197