Under US law, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) must lead covert operations unless the president finds that another agency should do so and informs Congress. [2] The CIA's authority to conduct covert action comes from the National Security Act of 1947. [3]

The Pentagon commissioned a study to determine whether the CIA or the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) should conduct covert action paramilitary operations. Their study determined that the CIA should maintain this capability and be the …

2024年12月10日 · Among the subjects addressed are CIA covert operations in Africa, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Bosnia, Guatemala, Peru, radio broadcasting, and the war on terror, and official views on these activities as well as the management of U.S. intelligence.

Washington, DC, March 4, 2019 – The covert operations of the Central Intelligence Agency are one element of the forward edge of power in U.S. foreign policy. But the CIA is not a lone ranger, shooting up saloons on its own account.

2024年12月17日 · In this article, we will delve into 12 significant CIA covert operations, highlighting their objectives, outcomes, and the lessons learned from these missions. 1. Operation Ajax (1953) Operation Ajax was a covert operation aimed at overthrowing the democratically elected government of Iran, led by Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. The ...

Paramilitary Operations Officers lead and manage Covert Action programs and collect foreign intelligence vital to national security policymakers. In this section, you’ll get a behind-the-scenes look at real-life spy capers, as well as learn how intelligence has helped shape some of history’s biggest moments.

From 1960 to 1968, CIA conduct-ed a series of fast-paced, multifaceted covert action (CA) operations in the newly independent Republic of the Congo (the Democratic Republic of the Congo today) to stabilize the government and minimize communist influence in a strategically vital, re-source-rich location in central Africa.

CIA COVERT OPERATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL LAW BY RICHARD A. FALK. Title. Subject. Keywords. (See RAF chapter.) (Id.,p. Why is this? Is this true? (p. (Quoted in Marchetti and Marks, 111-112). (See RAF on laws of war.) Respect for International Law.

Washington, D.C., September 9, 2024 – Fifty years ago, as the New York Times prepared to break a major exposé on CIA covert operations in Chile, the architect of those operations, Henry Kissinger, misled President Gerald Ford about clandestine U.S. efforts to undermine the elected government of Socialist Party leader Salvador Allende ...

Executive oversight of United States covert operations has been carried out by a series of sub-committees of the National Security Council (NSC). At the beginning of the Cold War, it was not inevitable that covert operations would become the dominion of …