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[[File:CIASeal.jpg|thumb|Official seal of the Central Intelligence Agency]] | [[File:CIASeal.jpg|thumb|Official seal of the Central Intelligence Agency]] | ||
| − | '''Central Intelligence Agency''' - The most high profile of the US SIS organisations. As the name suggests, its brief was originally limited to gather information. | + | '''Central Intelligence Agency''' - The most high profile of the US SIS organisations. As the name suggests, its brief was originally limited to gather information. However, it rapidly morphed into a covert agent of foreign policy, after engineering the overthrow of governments in Iran and Guatemala for the sake of the profits of US corporations. It has [[US Efforts to Suppress Democracy since 1945 | instigated dozens of covert regime change actions]]. |
===External Sites=== | ===External Sites=== | ||
Revision as of 17:21, 13 July 2012
Central Intelligence Agency - The most high profile of the US SIS organisations. As the name suggests, its brief was originally limited to gather information. However, it rapidly morphed into a covert agent of foreign policy, after engineering the overthrow of governments in Iran and Guatemala for the sake of the profits of US corporations. It has instigated dozens of covert regime change actions.
