CIA: the American version of the KGB?
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Yes! Under this Administration it is worse than the KGB. When is America going to wake up and demand accountability from George W. Bush, for his abuse of his office and the power bestowed upon him? We impeached Nixon for much less than this. How long are we going to sit back and take this kind of corruption?
699706
CIA works internationally as well as nationally, it  also has a broader jurisdiction. FBI only works nationally and is more focused on specific people, where as CIA works on the organisations. i think CIA is mroe important
99087
See this link, it contains quite comprehensive yet briefly put details\n\nwww.ciaworldfactbook\nOR\nwww.en.wikipedia.com\n\nHopefully this serves the purpose
1120651
Of course......Its called Corporate America.\nNot to mention the NSA and CIA and CPI.
838748
Of course and here's why\n\nAgainst the NSA international spying program\nAgainst the SWIFT program\nWant Geneva Convention protection for non uniformed terrorists\nGive terrorists Constitutional rights\nAgainst a fence on theMexico and the United States boarder\nWant amnesty for illegals (ask Ted Kennedy)\n\nList goes on. Those are off the top of my head
602815
I'm not sure, but this website (from the CIA, no less!) should help you figure it out.
547419
Well the main debate centers around the fact that Hayden is a career military man and the Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian agency.  The CIA is not a branch of the military and furthermore, Hayden used to be the head of the National Security Agency, which is 9 times the size of the CIA and they are in charge of foreign and domestic spying, codebreaking, etc.  Meaning Hayden would likely have signed off on Bush's wiretapping of certain American citizens that caused such an uproar just a few months ago.  It's a bad idea because it will militarize a civilian agency and install a man who isn't all that popular to begin with to a very powerful position as the head of our foreign intelligence branch.
970070
Generally, the BBC is one of the worlds most trusted news agencies, due to its independent funding by the tv license, unlike those news agencies owned by individuals like Rupert Murdoch and his Fox network.\nThis report only raised the question of the presence of CIA agents at the venue before, after and during Bobby Kennedys speech. It states that Bobby was clearly assassinated by someone close behind him, yet there was no evidence of the 3 agents being that close to Bobby, at any stage. Whilst their presence may seem suspicious, it may be a case that the CIA were aware of a potential threat. As to the claim that the CIA would not assign an agent who did not like the Kennedys to investigate such suspicions, or to protect one of them; this is absurd. I have worked for the British Civil Service, and you are expected to put personal ideologies aside, and do your job professionally. CIA agents, like their British Intelligence counterparts can not cherry-pick their assignments. Many Brits do not like the way Israel behaves as a country, and would prefer not to protect Israeli Ministers, but do so, because it is their job. Earlier this year there was an outcry because an Islamic police officer was relieved from protecting the Israeli Embassy during the Lebanon invasion. This would not have been an issue for our Military Intelligence staff, just as fighting a war is not a soldiers choice.\nThis research raised some interesting questions about Intelligence work, but gave no new evidence regarding the assassination.\nIt is a great shame that Bobby Kennedy was killed, as he was the best Kennedy in politics, and would have been an excellent President, both domestically and internationally.
95074
Because "Knowledge is power"  and the US intelligence agencies want power in their hands, and not in the hands of others, including others who are democratically entitled to it, and including those who would misuse it.  Both groups.
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Yes, these things have been widely scientifically tested.\n\nOver a period of more than 20 years, the CIA and Pentagon spent approximately $20 million to study and employ numerous "psychics." They were supposed to help track down terrorists, find hostages, help anti-drug activities, etc. Experiments were conducted on precognition, clairvoyance, and remote viewing.\n\nThe "psychics" were accurate about 15% of the time when they were helping the CIA.   Fifteeen percent?  Is this supposed to convince us to pay them to help the United States government?  Utts says she thinks "they would be effective if used in conjunction with other intelligence." My intelligence tells me that 15% accuracy isn't much help no matter what it's used in conjunction with--that's an 85% failure rate! So 85% of the time, spies would be wasting their time and resources on incorrect information. We're supposed to be happy with that? And that's presuming she's right about the 15%.\n\nThe results have always been the same: psychic phenomena achieve the same results as random guesses.\n\nWhat that means is that they don't exist. People who call themselves psychics are either deluded and simply guessing, or more often they are charlatans like John Edward who try to take people's money by pretending to be psychic,
418786
go to cia factbook and check it out!
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on the web site cia.com
971461
It wasn't. The USSR lied about having missles in Cuba aimed at the  United States. We found out about it from spy photos and told the Russians to remove them or we'd nuke them until they glowed.\n\nThey blinked first and removed the missles.
89679
The main American Cold War policy from that period was known as containment and was the brainchild of George Kennan. It's main doctrine was set out in a famous artcile published in Foreign Affairs called "The Sources of Soviet Conduct" by "x" who was later revealed to be Kennan. It argued that the Soviets were intent on expanding their influence and that the best policy the Americans could pursue was a strategic long term policy on countering their expansionist tendencies
1091194
of course.  the cia also trained bin ladin and his buddies to fight against the soviet union.  how were we to know they would switch gears and turn?
833974
Most of our worst enemies were educated here and many trained by the CIA. The true Bush legacy. This is no secret, the press is just afraid to remind people of it.\n\nIran was sold billions in weapons by the Reagan administration (Ollie North), G.H.W.B. said that he (former CIA director) was "out of the loop".
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First of all it was called the KGB or Committee for State Security [KGB]\n"Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti" \n\nSince the 1920s, an important internal security function of the security police has been ensuring the political reliability of the armed forces. This function was carried out through a network of so-called special departments (osobye otdely), which were under the supervision of the KGB's Third Chief Directorate. Officially designated as a military counterintelligence organization, the Third Chief Directorate performed tasks that extended far beyond counterintelligence to encompass extensive political surveillance of the military and other military security duties. \n\nSpecial departments were responsible for security clearances of military personnel and for ensuring that security regulations and procedures were strictly observed in all branches of the armed forces. Thus they had control over (or at least immediate access to) military personnel files and information relating to the political reliability of members of the armed forces. The leadership claimed that their armed forces were continually threatened by ideological sabotage, i.e., attempts by Western governments to subvert individuals through bourgeois propaganda aimed at weakening their political convictions. Hence a key element of special department activities was political surveillance on both a formal and an informal level. \n\nOfficially, special departments were empowered to investigate armed forces personnel for the same crimes that were under KGB purview for ordinary citizens. In addition, the KGB had the authority to investigate military crimes defined in Article 259 of the Russian Republic's Code of Criminal Procedure--disclosure of a military secret or loss of a document containing a military secret. In investigating cases under their purview, special department employees were supposed to follow set rules of criminal procedure, but they did not always do so. In 1989, however, they no longer had the right to conduct trials, as they did during Stalin's time. Once an investigation was completed, the case was tried by special military tribunals under the Main Military Procuracy.