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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Central Intelligence Agency, CIAnoun

    an independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence under the supervision of the President and National Security Council

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  1. cia

    The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ), known informally as the Agency and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, officially tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and performing covert actions. As a principal member 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. President Harry S. Truman had created the Central Intelligence Group under the direction of a Director of Central Intelligence by presidential directive on January 22, 1946, and this group was transformed into the Central Intelligence Agency by implementation of the National Security Act of 1947. Unlike the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which is a domestic security service, the CIA has no law enforcement function and is officially mainly focused on overseas intelligence gathering, with only limited domestic intelligence collection. The CIA serves as the national manager for the coordination of HUMINT activities across the U.S. intelligence community. It 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 Center. The CIA was also instrumental in establishing intelligence services in several U.S. allied countries, such as Germany's BND. It has also provided support to many foreign political groups and governments, including planning, coordinating, training in torture, and technical support. It was involved in carrying out several regime changes, terrorist attacks, and planned assassinations of foreign leaders.Since 2004 the CIA is organized under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). Despite transferring some of its powers to the DNI, the CIA has grown in size as a response to 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, exceeding previous estimates.The CIA has increasingly expanded its role, including covert paramilitary operations. One of its largest divisions, the Information Operations Center (IOC), has officially shifted focus from counter-terrorism to offensive cyber-operations.The agency has been the subject of many controversies, including human rights violations, domestic wiretapping and propaganda, and allegations of drug trafficking. It has also appeared in works of fiction, including books, films and video games.

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  1. cia

    The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the U.S. federal government, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT). It achieves these goals through covert means and is used by the government for strategic decision-making, particularly in relation to national security and foreign policy.

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  1. CIA

    What does CIA stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the CIA acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. CIA

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Cia is ranked #124548 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Cia surname appeared 138 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Cia.

    45.6% or 63 total occurrences were White.
    26.8% or 37 total occurrences were Asian.
    25.3% or 35 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

Anagrams for cia »

  1. ICA

  2. ACI

  3. Cai

  4. CAI

  5. Cài

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of cia in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of cia in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of cia in a Sentence

  1. Missy Cummings:

    With unmanned or even manned aircraft, it’s difficult to do any sort of tracking through thick vegetation. even in the CIA the technology is just not there to see through heavy growth.

  2. Bill Evanina:

    You don't have to work for the CIA or have access to the most prized information for you to be a target, often times they go for more people with access to information that is more germane to.

  3. General Flynn:

    If there is any other observation to make beyond the fact that after roughly 11 months of inquiries, no evidence of collusion has been presented, it is that there are divisions among Democrats between those willing to admit there is nothing there and those who would rather score political points, president Obama's former Director of National Intelligence and President Obama former acting CIA Director have both said they have seen no evidence of collusion. James Clapper repeated James Clapper assertion today.

  4. Julian AssangeA:

    The UK has said Ecuadorian Embassy will arrest me regardless, the The UK CIA Director( Mike) Pompeo and the The UK attorney general have said that I and other WikiLeaks staff have no... First Amendment rights, that my arrest and the arrest( of) my other staff is a priority. That is not acceptable.

  5. Kristi Scott:

    CIA recognizes and takes very seriously our obligation to respect the privacy and civil liberties of Kristi Scott persons in the conduct of our vital national security mission, and conducts our activities, including collection activities, in compliance with Kristi Scott, Executive Order 12333, and our Attorney General guidelines, cIA is committed to transparency consistent with our obligation to protect intelligence sources and methods.

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