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38 unusual facts about Central Intelligence Agency


Alpha, Queensland

In a March 20, 2012 press conference Waratah coal CEO Clive Palmer accused environmental groups and the films producers of being funded by the Central Intelligence Agency.

Americana series

An invert error of the $1 lamp stamp, it was so named because the original sheet was bought by a CIA employee who had gone to the post office to buy some stamps.

Celestial Intervention Agency

The name, an obvious parody of the real-world Central Intelligence Agency, has led many fans to assume that the CIA is a clandestine organisation which carries out covert operations.

David Chavchavadze

He spent more than two decades of his career as a CIA officer in the Soviet Union Division.

David Chavchavadze (born May 20, 1924) is an American author and a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer of Georgian-Russian origin.

Doctors of the Dark Side

The movie tells the story of four detainees, and how healthcare professionals working for the United States Army and the Central Intelligence Agency implemented enhanced interrogation techniques, and covered up signs of torture at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp and Abu Ghraib Prison.

E. Pendleton Herring

He was the chief intellectual architect of the National Security Act of 1947, which culminated in the reorganization the military and intelligence branches of the federal government, including the creation of the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency.

Edmund Giambastiani

Giambastiani's other shore and staff assignments include duties as an enlisted program manager at the Navy Recruiting Command Headquarters, Washington, D.C., in the early days of the all volunteer force; Special Assistant to the Deputy Director for Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency; and, a fellowship with the Chief of Naval Operations' Strategic Studies Group.

Executive Order 13440

Executive Order 13440 is an Executive Order issued by United States President George W. Bush on July 20, 2007 ordering limited compliance with the Geneva Conventions in the treatment of captives held in extrajudicial detention by the Central Intelligence Agency.

Financial intelligence

International financial activity comes primarily from the Department of the Treasury and the Central Intelligence Agency.

Genevieve O'Reilly

She played CIA liaison officer Sarah Caulfield in the eighth series of BBC drama Spooks.

Gross domestic product per barrel

The fact that many of the numbers from the CIA are mere guesses (see notes), figures are from differing years, and that many do not reflect the use of oil consumed in the process of making refined products makes this list even less meaningful.

Many of the numbers from the CIA are mere guesses (some are absolutely ridiculous) and may not reflect the use of oil consumed in the process of making refined products.

HTTP cookie

In 2002, privacy activist Daniel Brandt found that the CIA had been leaving persistent cookies on computers which had visited its website.

Jeanne Vertefeuille

Jeanne Vertefeuille (23 December 1932 - 29 December 2012) was a CIA operative whose investigation uncovered the actions of Aldrich Ames, a notorious Cold War spy.

José Napoleón Duarte

His regime is noted for large-scale human rights abuses and massacres amongst the civilian population, backed by the Reagan Administration and the Central Intelligence Agency.

Krunoslav Draganović

Draganović was a controversial and mysterious figure, who is central to many allegations involving the Vatican Bank, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Nazi Party.

Lawrence Olson

After the end of the war, Olson worked at the Central Intelligence Agency in Washington DC between 1948 and 1950, and he served as cultural attaché at the American embassy in Manila, Philippines from 1951 to 1952, before finishing his PhD at Harvard.

Lesser of two evils principle

In 1963, the Kennedy administration backed a coup against Abdul-Karim Qassem who had deposed the Western-allied Iraqi monarchy, and then the Central Intelligence Agency both covertly and overtly helped the new Ba'ath Party government of Abdul Salam Arif in ridding the country of suspected leftists and communists.

Lewis E. Welshofer Jr.

General Mowhoush had eight broken ribs from an earlier beating, allegedly carried out by CIA contractors under Welshofer's direction.

Military disc-shaped aircraft

In the US, a number of experimental saucer shaped craft were apparently developed as black projects by Lockheed Corporation for the USAF, and by Convair for the CIA.

Milton K. Cummings

Although Duckett left AMC in the mid-1960s for a leading position with the Central Intelligence Agency, their relationship continued until Cummings’ death.

National Front for the Salvation of Libya

According to various sources, the group was supported by the government of Saudi Arabia, and the United States' Central Intelligence Agency.

No. 79 Squadron RAAF

No air attacks were conducted against Thailand, however, and the unidentified aircraft that were intercepted almost always proved to be from the Central Intelligence Agency-controlled Air America.

Norman Holmes Pearson

Pearson recruited a former student of his at Yale, James Angleton, to head the successor to the OSS, the Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.).

On Mark Marksman

In April 1967, two On Mark Marksman were transferred from Intermountain Aviation, an air service related the US Central Intelligence Agency, to Air America, another air service connected to the Agency.

Robert Suettinger

While there, Suettinger oversaw the preparation of national intelligence estimates for the director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Sanzo Nosaka

After Nosaka went underground, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency reported that he had temporarily returned to China.

Schweizer RU-38 Twin Condor

In Central Intelligence Agency, US Army and US Coast Guard service these were designated RG-8A and B. The RG-8s were employed in border security and surveillance missions.

September Dossier

Subsequently, CIA director George Tenet stated that the remarks should not have been included in the US President's speech.

Spy Games

Harry (Bill Pullman) is a seasoned CIA agent who is looking to forget his past and become his cover identity—a jazz club owner in Helsinki, Finland.

Station chief

The Station Chief also called Chief of Station, is the top U.S. Central Intelligence Agency official stationed in a foreign country, equivalent to a KGB Resident.

Strike Back: Vengeance

Their first lead to a compound is sidetracked by a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) air strike.

The Apollo Affair

After investigations by the Atomic Energy Commission, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, other government agencies, and inquiring reporters, no charges were ever filed.

The Most Secret Place on Earth

The Most Secret Place on Earth is a 2008 film by German director Marc Eberle, dealing with the secret operation waged by the CIA throughout the sixties and early seventies against communist guerrillas in Laos, particularly in the city of Long Chen.

Toyon Bay

The Office of Strategic Services was the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency.

Turbina corymbosa

The psychedelic properties of Turbina corymbosa and comparison of the potency of different varieties were studied in the Central Intelligence Agency's MKULTRA Subproject 22 in 1956.

Who Is Simon Miller?

It marked the first time Baranski has portrayed a spy, and she did some reading about life in the Central Intelligence Agency to prepare, but otherwise had little time for research.


Amiriyah shelter bombing

Charles E. Allen, the CIA's National Intelligence Officer for Warning supported the selection of bomb targets during the Persian Gulf War.

An Assassin's Diary

Vidal's essay juxtaposes the arrival of CIA agent and hardboiled novelist E. Howard Hunt at Bremer's apartment within hours of Wallace's assassination to the "avant-garde" prose later found in Bremer's diary.

Ann Louise Bardach

Bardach is best known for her work on Cuba and Miami and was called "the go-to journalist on all things Cuban and Miami," by the Columbia Journalism Review having interviewed people such as Fidel Castro, Juanita Castro, Luis Posada Carriles, E. Howard Hunt, Orlando Bosch and Felix Rodriguez.

Brian Crozier

Crozier was the director of Forum World Features, set up in 1966 by the Congress for Cultural Freedom, which had ties to the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Carol Lam

Attorneys on Lam's staff, including Assistant United States Attorneys Jason Forge, Phillip Halpern and Valerie Chu, secured indictments against Central Intelligence Agency official Kyle "Dusty" Foggo and contractor Brent R. Wilkes.

Charles G. Boyd

He is a member of the board of directors at defense electronics firm, DRS Technologies; graphics software firm, Forterra Systems; and venture capitalists In-Q-Tel, who support the work of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Cleveland Cram

Cleveland C. Cram (December 21, 1917, Waterville, Minnesota - January 9, 1999) was a station chief and historian for the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Colonial Parkway Killer

Investigators have speculated that the suspect might be a law enforcement officer, someone impersonating one, or perhaps a rogue operative from the Central Intelligence Agency, which has a training facility nearby at Camp Peary in York County.

Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia

In the United States an organization with a similar name, the American Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia, was founded in the late 1940s, and became known for their CIA-run and later Congress-funded propaganda broadcaster Radio Liberty, which operated from Munich, in West Germany.

Damadola airstrike

The attack was carried out by four CIA-operated unmanned Predator drones which launched four Hellfire missiles at a mud-walled compound, destroying three houses several hundred yards apart.

Death by Degrees

Nina Williams, world-renowned assassin, has been hired by the CIA and MI6 to join a team which is attempting to infiltrate "Kometa," a notorious criminal organization.

Fazlollah Zahedi

The newly formed CIA, along with the British intelligence agency MI6, took an active role in the developments, terming their involvement Operation Ajax.

Fritz Springmeier

He has endorsed the plausibility of Project Monarch, a purported Central Intelligence Agency mind control project whose conjectured existence is based only on the testimony of Cathy O'Brien under hypnosis.

Guy Malary

According to the Center for Constitutional Rights, a CIA memo dated October 28, 1993 implicated FRAPH members Louis-Jodel Chamblain, Emmanuel Constant, and Gabriel Douzable.

Internment Serial Number

A ghost detainee originally known only as Triple X was not assigned an ISN because his secret imprisonment was requested by the Central Intelligence Agency.

Jalaluddin Haqqani

In the 1980s, Jalaluddin Haqqani was cultivated as a "unilateral" asset of the CIA and received tens of thousands of dollars in cash for his work in fighting the Soviet-led Afghan forces in Afghanistan, according to an account in The Bin Ladens, a 2008 book by Steve Coll.

Jason Wynn

Wynn is the director of the United States Security Group, an umbrella agency encompassing the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, and National Security Council.

Langley, Cheshire

Langley was mentioned in the first episode of the TV series Ashes to Ashes, in February 2008, when DI Alex Drake, played by Keeley Hawes mentions Langley, Virginia, most famous as home to the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Luigi Parrilli

Baron Luigi Parrilli was an Italian aristocrat a native of Genoa, who took part in the negotiations between SS leaders and the CIA's future director, Allen Dulles, during Operation Sunrise.

Mark Rossini

The Spy Factory, an episode of the PBS series Nova, included segments of interviews with Rossini, who described his experience serving as one of the two FBI liaisons to the CIA's Bin Laden Issue Station, an inter-agency team assigned to track Osama bin Laden and his associates.

Mercyhurst University Institute for Intelligence Studies

Current professors include retired or former members of the Los Angeles Police Department, the National Drug Intelligence Center, the US State Department, the United States Army, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Mohamed et al. v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc.

is a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of five victims of extraordinary renditions against Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc., which had provided services that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) used to perform renditions.

Old Naval Observatory

The Central Intelligence Agency's forerunner, the Office of Strategic Services was a tenant on the Hill during World War II, and the United States Public Health Service had a hospital there.

Pullach

The headquarters of the intelligence agency of the German government, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), is located in Pullach, making it a metonym for the BND just like Langley is for the CIA.

Qala-i-Jangi

It is known for being the site of a bloody 2001 Taliban uprising named the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi, in which at least 470 people were killed including CIA agent Johnny "Mike" Spann.

Tscherim Soobzokov

In 2006, declassified documents of the Central Intelligence Agency confirmed that Soobzokov had been a CIA agent in Jordan and that the agency had misled the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service on Soobzokov's Nazi past.

Winston M. Scott

Winston Mackinley Scott (1909 - 26 April 1971) was a Central Intelligence Agency officer who served as Mexico City station chief from 1956 to 1969, having joined the Office of Strategic Services in 1943 from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.