Central Intelligence Agency. The entrance of the CIA New Headquarters Building (NHB) of the George Bush Center for Intelligence.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is one of the principal intelligence-gathering agencies of the United States federal government. The CIA's headquarters is in Langley, Virginia, a few miles west of Washington, D.C.[7] Its employees operate from U.S. embassies and many other locations around the world.[8][9] The only independent U.S. intelligence agency, it reports to the Director of National Intelligence.[10] Several CIA activities have attracted criticism.
They include nonconsentual human experiments, extraordinary rendition, enhanced interrogation techniques, targeted killings, assassinations and the funding and training of militants who would go on to kill civilians and non-combatants.[19][20][21] Purpose. Domestic Surveillance: The History of Operation CHAOS. Corrupt war on drugs. The CIA - at Home from the book The Lawless State The crimes of the U.S. Inteligence Agencies. Excerpted from the book by Morton Halperin, Jerry Berman, Robert Borosage, Christine Marwick Penguin Books, 1976 p135 Responding to enormous pressure from President Johnson to uncover the foreign links to the growing unrest of the late 1960s, the CIA opened up a new division within its Counter-Intelligence Branch.
Over the next seven years, the program conducted by this special staff, known as Operation CHAOS, spied on more than 7,000 American citizens and 1,000 domestic organizations. This was the most extensive, but not the first, CIA spying operation against Americans.