Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an intelligence agency of the United States government.
Its primary function is obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and persons, and reporting such information to the branches of the Government. Its secondary function is propaganda or public relations, overt and covert information dissemination, both true and false, and influencing others to decide in favor of the United States Government.
The third function of the CIA is as the hidden hand of the U.S. government, by engaging in covert operations at the direction of the President.[1] This last function has caused most controversy for the CIA, raising questions about the legality, morality, effectiveness, and intelligence of such operations.
2007-04-07
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