CIA

The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence. As one of the principal members of the United States Intelligence Community, the CIA reports to the Director of National Intelligence and is primarily focused on providing intelligence for the President and Cabinet of the United States. Unlike the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which is a domestic security service, the CIA has no law enforcement function and is mainly focused on overseas intelligence gathering, with only limited domestic intelligence collection. Though it is not the only agency of the federal government of the United States specializing in HUMINT, the CIA serves as the national manager for coordination of HUMINT activities across the U.S. intelligence community.

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'Lunik Heist:' A real-life CIA rocket kidnapping goes to Hollywood

How the CIA 'kidnapped' a Soviet moon probe during the space race

A huge crane with a CIA history helps with the Baltimore bridge cleanup

Lead Space Launch System Avionics Engineer Ales-Cia Winsley

Hundreds of Ancient Roman Forts Found in Old CIA Spy Surveillance

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The CIA Is Funding a Mission to Reincarnate the Dodo Bird

Joseph V. Charyk, Ukrainian who became the founder of the geosynchronous communications satellite industry and consolidated CIA, US Air Force and Navy space programs into the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)

CIA Financial Support for Earth Satellite Project (1955-1957), interesting tidbit of history from a declassified Sputnik collection

The CIA wants to bring woolly mammoths back from extinction

Helium-3: The secret ‘mining war’ in space - 'Outer space holds virtually limitless amounts of energy and raw materials,' says former CIA space analyst

CIA's hunt for Osama bin Laden fuelled vaccine hesitancy in Pakistan

CIA’s Misleading Inoculation Drive to Catch Osama Bin Laden Led to Vaccine Decline in Pakistan

CIA's misleading inoculation drive led to vaccine decline in Pakistan

Private startup Capella Space releases new SAR images – a type of satellite imagery which can capture through clouds or at night – as it aims to tap $60 billion intelligence market through an expanded partnership with the CIA-funded VC firm In-Q-Tel

The CIA's Appalling Human Experiments With Mind Control.

Wild Theory Links Lost CIA Nuclear Device To Fatal Floods In India’s Himalayas