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Unofficial motto: And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.

John 8:32 ) 2 Employees 21,575 (estimate) 3 Annual budget 15 billion (as of 2013 update ) 3 4 5 Agency executives William Joseph Burns, Director David S.

Cohen, Deputy Director Courtney Simmons Elwood, General Counsel Website www.cia.gov.

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.

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.

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It has also provided support to many foreign political groups and governments, including planning, coordinating, training on torture, technical support, and was involved in several regime changes, terrorist attacks and planned assassinations of foreign leaders.

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.

It has also appeared in works of fiction, including books, films and video games.

Today, its primary purpose is to collect, analyze, evaluate, and disseminate foreign intelligence, and to carry out covert operations.

The Executive Director is in charge of the day-to-day operation of the CIA.

Each branch of the military service has its own Director.

The Associate Director of military affairs, a senior military officer, manages the relationship between the CIA and the Unified Combatant Commands, who produce and deliver to the CIA regionaloperational intelligence and consume national intelligence produced by the CIA.

The name reflects its role as the coordinator of human intelligence activities between other elements of the wider U.S.

HUMINT operations.

This Directorate was created in an attempt to end years of rivalry over influence, philosophy, and budget between the United States Department of Defense (DOD) and the CIA.

In spite of this, the Department of Defense recently organized its own global clandestine intelligence service, the Defense Clandestine Service (DCS), 25 under the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).

Many of its innovations were transferred to other intelligence organizations, or, as they became more overt, to the military services.

The U-2s original mission was clandestine imagery intelligence over denied areas such as the Soviet Union.

It was subsequently provided with signals intelligence and measurement and signature intelligence capabilities, and is now operated by the Air Force.

Subsequently, NPIC was transferred to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).

The Langley, Virginia -based offices mission is to streamline and integrate digital and cybersecurity capabilities into the CIAs espionage, counterintelligence, all-source analysis, open-source intelligence collection, and covert action operations.

It provides operations personnel with tools and techniques to use in cyber operations.

It works with information technology infrastructure and practices cyber tradecraft.

This means retrofitting the CIA for cyberwarfare.

DDI officers help accelerate the integration of innovative methods and tools to enhance the CIAs cyber and digital capabilities on a global scale and ultimately help safeguard the United States.

They also apply technical expertise to exploit clandestine and publicly available information (also known as open source data ) using specialized methodologies and digital tools to plan, initiate and support the technical and human-based operations of the CIA.

Before the establishment of the new digital directorate, offensive cyber operations were undertaken by the CIAs Information Operations Center.

Little is known about how the office specifically functions or if it deploys offensive cyber capabilities.

The director has challenged his workforce, the rest of the intelligence community, and the nation to consider how we conduct the business of intelligence in a world that is profoundly different from 1947 when the CIA was founded, Schiff said.

Following the end of the Cold War, the CIAs training budget was slashed, which had a negative effect on employee retention.

In response, Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet established CIA University in 2002.

CIA University holds between 200 and 300 courses each year, training both new hires and experienced intelligence officers, as well as CIA support staff.

Students are selected, and their progress evaluated, in ways derived from the OSS, published as the book Assessment of Men, Selection of Personnel for the Office of Strategic Services.

Additional mission training is conducted at Harvey Point, North Carolina.

The facility was established in 1951 and has been used by the CIA since at least 1955.

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