dinista regime. The ceasefire of 23 March 1988, under Costa Rican
leadership, effectively brought the Contra War to an end. See also
BOLAND AMENDMENTS; IRAN-CONTRA AFFAIR; NICARA-
GUA V. UNITED STATES.COORDINATION. Coordination is the process of acquiring intera-
gency agreement on judgments, assessments, and other intelligence
products intended for policymakers. Virtually all intelligence agen-
cies coordinate their judgments and evaluations internally. The Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency (CIA) is required by law to coordinate its
analytic products with select members of the intelligence commu-
nity (IC) as well. In addition, all estimative products undergo a coor-
dination process overseen by national intelligence officers (NIOs).
The theoretical basis for coordination is that the director of national
intelligence (DNI) must present a unified and common judgment to
senior officials.COPELAND, MILES (1913–1991).A former Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) covert operative in the Middle East, who in 1949 or-
chestrated a coup d’etat in Damascus, Syria, that was supposedly to
bring democracy to Syrian politics. Copeland later claimed to have
planned a deception operation during the Suez Crisis of 1956, but his
claim of involvement is in dispute. However, he was an advisor to
President Gamel Abdul Nasser in Egypt before leaving the CIAfor
good in 1957 to become an oil company executive. He is now better
known for his many books, most of which extol his own exploits as
a CIAoperative. See also RAINBOW(OPERATION).CORONA (SYSTEM). CORONArefers to the first operational space
photo reconnaissance satellite, approved by President Dwight D.
Eisenhowerin February 1958. CORONAsatellites were designed to
take pictures in space of the SovietBloc countries and return the pho-
tographic film to earth for processing. The intelligence community
(IC) used the designator Keyhole(KH), followed by a number—
KH-1, KH-2, KH-3, KH-4, KH-4A, and KH-4B—to indicate the
specific CORONAversion.
CORONAspacecraft were built from 1959 to 1972 by Lockheed
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