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00:02:30 1 Purpose
00:03:26 2 Organizational structure
00:03:59 2.1 Executive Office
00:05:55 2.2 Directorate of Analysis
00:06:54 2.3 Directorate of Operations
00:08:06 2.4 Directorate of Science and Technology
00:09:25 2.5 Directorate of Support
00:09:53 3 Training
00:11:42 4 Budget
00:15:02 5 Employees
00:15:11 5.1 Polygraphing
00:15:34 6 Relationship with other intelligence agencies
00:16:15 6.1 U.S. agencies
00:16:55 6.2 Foreign intelligence services
00:19:23 7 History
00:20:00 7.1 Immediate predecessors
00:21:38 7.2 National Security Act
00:22:53 7.3 Intelligence vs. action
00:27:28 7.4 Korean War
00:30:07 7.5 1953 Iranian coup d'état
00:33:16 7.6 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état
00:36:01 7.7 Syria
00:37:25 7.8 Indonesia
00:41:21 7.9 Democratic republic of the Congo
00:42:03 7.10 Gary Powers U-2 shootdown
00:43:42 7.11 Dominican Republic
00:44:45 7.12 Bay of Pigs
00:48:27 7.13 Early Cold War, 1953–1966
00:49:15 7.14 Brazil
00:50:12 7.15 Indochina, Tibet and the Vietnam War (1954–1975)
00:51:35 7.15.1 Johnson
00:53:26 7.16 Nixon
00:59:43 7.17 Congressional Investigations
01:01:55 7.18 Chad
01:02:24 7.19 Afghanistan
01:03:00 7.20 Iran/Contra
01:04:26 7.20.1 Lebanon
01:07:03 7.21 Pakistan
01:07:47 7.22 India-Pakistan Geopolitical Tensions
01:08:45 7.23 Poland 1980–1989
01:11:58 7.24 Operation Desert Storm
01:13:39 7.25 Fall of the USSR
01:15:12 7.26 President Clinton
01:19:58 7.26.1 Aldrich Ames
01:21:27 7.27 Osama bin Laden
01:24:25 7.27.1 Al-Qaeda and the "Global War on Terrorism"
01:33:32 7.27.2 Use of vaccination program in hunt for Osama bin Laden
01:34:24 7.28 Failures in intelligence analysis
01:35:45 7.29 Abuses of CIA authority, 1970s–1990s
01:39:06 7.30 Iraq War
01:42:49 7.31 2004, DNI takes over CIA top-level functions
01:45:06 7.32 Operation Neptune Spear
01:46:20 7.33 Syrian Civil War
01:48:32 7.34 Reorganization
01:51:39 7.35 Drones
01:52:09 8 Open source intelligence
01:54:06 9 Outsourcing and privatization
01:59:09 10 Controversies
01:59:27 11 In fiction
02:01:00 12 See also



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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) 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 (HUMINT). As one of the principal members of the United States Intelligence Community (IC), 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 (FBI), 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. Moreover, the CIA is the only agency authorized by law to carry out and oversee covert action at the behest of the President. It exerts foreign political influence through its tactical divisions, such as the Special Activities Division.Before the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, the CIA Director concurrently served as the head of the Intelligence Community; today, the CIA is organized under the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). Despite transferring some of its powers to the DNI, the CIA has grown in size as a result of the September 11 attacks. In 2013, The Washington Post reported that in the fiscal year 2010, the CIA had the largest budget of all IC agencies, ex ...