Authors: Ronald Kessler
Information
—Unevaluated raw data not yet processed to produce intelligence.
Intelligence
—The product of collection, evaluation, and analysis of information.
Operations officer
—See
CASE OFFICER.
Paramilitary operations
—Operations undertaken by military forces separate from the regular armed forces of a nation.
Processing
—Manipulation of collected raw information of intelligence interest to make it usable for analysis.
Product
—Finished intelligence disseminated to consumers.
Reconnaissance
—Observation mission undertaken to acquire by various means information about a target of intelligence interest.
Requirement
—Statement by a consumer of an intelligence need to be filled.
Security
—Measures taken to protect sensitive activities, data, and personnel against compromise.
Signals intelligence (SIGINT)
—Intelligence derived from the interception, processing, and analysis of communications, electronic emissions, or telemetry.
Strategic intelligence
—Intelligence supporting national- and international-level formulation of policy, plans, and strategy.
Target
—Person, place, or thing against which intelligence operations are directed.
Telemetry
—Electronic signals given off by, for example, missiles or rockets during operational testing.
Excerpted by permission from Dr. Lewis Sorley’s
The Central Intelligence Agency: An Overview,
published by the Association of Former Intelligence Officers.
Abscam,
227
Agee, Philip,
275
Agents v. officers,
5
Al Shiraa,
90
American Police State, The
(Wise),
274
An American Life
(Reagan),
155
Angleton, James,
12
,
74
–77,
133
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222
Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.,
50
–51
Arbenz, Jacobo,
50
Aspillaga Lombard, Florentino,
44
,
46
Assassination plots,
52
–53
Assassinations,
253
Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO),
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Aziz, Tariq,
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Baker, James A. III,
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Baker, William M.,
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–17,
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–76,
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–88,
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–87,
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Ball, George W.,
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Ballistic missiles,
47
Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI),
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Barker, Bernard,
78
Bay of Pigs invasion,
51
–58,
83
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Beilenson, Anthony C.,
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Bell, Griffin,
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–95
Bellinger, John B.,
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–63
Bergson, Abram,
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Berlin Tunnel,
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Birman, Igor,
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Bissell, Richard M., Jr.,
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–52,
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–84,
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Black, Edwin F.,
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Bossard, Frank,
75
Bouterse, Desire D.,
55
Boyce, Christopher J.,
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–98
Brown, Jerry G.,
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Bruemmer, Russell J.,
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–09,
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Bugging devices,
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–13,
15
–19,
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–65,
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–14,
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–05
Bundy, McGeorge,
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–34
Bundy, William P.,
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Bush, George,
70
,
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–67,
222
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258
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265
–68,
271
,
276
,
298
Cable News Network (CNN),
162
Cameron, D. Ewen,
308
Campus ties,
276
Canfield, Cass,
136
Career Training Program,
205
,
206
–15
“Carlos,”
73
Casey, William,
54
–55,
70
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–92,
116
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as DCI,
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–46,
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Castro, Fidel,
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Ceausescu, Nicolae,
68
Cerf, Bennett,
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Chang, Hsien-Yia,
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Chin, Larry Wu-Tai,
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Christian Democrats (It.),
49
Christie Institute,
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Church Committee hearings,
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–87,
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Churchill, Winston,
60
CIA
abuses of,
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–93
bureaucracy of,
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charter of,
20
creation of,
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–24
disdain for Congress,
234
financial controls system,
36
future of,
310
–20
written reports of,
128
CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, The
(Marchetti & Marks),
274
CIA Life
(Gilligan),
43
CIA Under Reagan, Bush & Casey, The
(Cline),
134
Clarke, John M.,
36
–37
Clarridge, Dewey,
70
Classified Information Procedures Act (1980),
307
Clugston, Lynda Jo.
See
Webster, Lynda Jo
Cointelpro (FBI program),
227
Colby, William,
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39
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55
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–75,
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Cold Warrior
(Mangold),
75
Commercial cover,
7
Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES),
227
Committee on Imagery Requirements and Exploitation (COMIREX),
104
Common Interest Network Luncheon,
287
Communication levels,
35
Congress,
317
–18
Conrad, Clyde L.,
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Contract employees,
7
CORONA,
101
Counterintelligence Center,
74
–77,
190
Counternarcotics Center,
73
–74,
317
CounterSpy,
41
Counterterrorism Center,
70
–73,
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COURTSHIP (CIA-FBI jt. oper.),
24
–31
Covert action,
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,
49
–58,
90
–91,
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–40,
301
,
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Covert Action Review Group (CARG),
238
–39
Covert Action Staff,
49
Covert Action
(Treverton),
50
Dead drops,
116
Debugging,
202
–05
Decent Interval,
273
–75
Defector handling,
66
–67,
313
–14
Defense Department,
68
Deputy Director of Operations,
235
DESERT STORM,
160
Desist,
72
DeTrani, Joseph R.,
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Diplomatic immunity,
6
–7
Directorate of Administration,
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,
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–73,
208
–10
Directorate of Intelligence,
36
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–34,
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Directorate of Operations,
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–60,
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Directorate of Science and Technology,
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–104,
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Director of Central Intelligence,
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–25
William Webster as,
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–45
Documents, false,
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–15
Domestic Resources Branch,
21
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Donnelly, William F.,
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Donovan, William J. (Wild Bill),
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–24,
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–87,
276
Double agents,
44
Drug smuggling,
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–91
Dulles, Allen W.,
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–78,
222
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Eastern Europe,
311
Edwards, Don,
234
Edwards, Sheffield,
52
Egypt,
126
Eisenhower, Dwight D.,
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Elder, Walter N.,
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222
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270
Ellsberg, Daniel,
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Engelberg, Stephen,
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80
,
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–97,
299
Enterprise,
291
Ermarth, Fritz W.,
130
Espionage cases,
197
–98
Estimative Intelligence
(Ford),
122
Evaluation and Plans Staff,
36
Fabiew, Serge,
75
Facing Reality: From World
Federalism to the CIA
(Meyer),
193
Fadlallah, Mohammed Hussein,
55
Fahd (King of Saudi Arabia),
159
Falkiewicz, Andrew T.,
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–70
FBI,
23
–30,
70
,
195
–96,
226
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251
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–72,
284
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295
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297
Fernandez, Joseph F.,
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–08
Fielding, Lewis J.,
79
Fiers, Alan D.,
304
Fitzwater, Harry E.,
179
–80,
254
Ford, Harold P.,
122
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS),
98
Foreign Resources Branch,
21
–23
Foster, Gary E.,
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Freedom of Information Act,
173
,
305
Freedom of Information Office,
173
Frei, Eduardo,
53
FR stations,
21
–23
Fuller, Graham E.,
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–43
Gandhi, Rajiv,
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Gates, Robert M.,
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155
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236
–37,
243
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284
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304
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–17
George, Clair E.,
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Gerth, Jeff,
285
–86
Ghana,
198
–99
Giancana, Salvator (Sam),
52
–53
Glaspie, April,
158
Glomar Explorer,
102
–03
Golytsin, Anatoliy M.,
74
Goodwin, Joseph A.,
269