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- 1From:Foreign Policy in Focus"As you are aware, recent media coverage has painted a very bleak picture of the CIA's capabilities--depicting an organization which is both unable to run secure and worthwhile operations and which blindly (and perhaps...
- 2From:School Library Journal (Vol. 49, Issue 4)www.cia.gov/cia/pub lications/factbook/geos/in.html. U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. (Accessed 1/14/03). Gr 7-12--Entries ill the CIA's site include geographical data including size of the country and an "area...
- 3From:Queen's Quarterly (Vol. 103, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMotivation is the central mystery of espionage. Why do people spy? What compels them to trade in the currency of secrets? How are they able to court trust and seduce confidences when their purpose, all along, is to...
- 4From:The Quill (Vol. 84, Issue 3)A loophole to former Pres. Jimmy Carter's executive order that forbids the CIA from posing as journalists in undercover activities was discovered. The 1977 decree apparently allows the CIA director to waive the ruling...
- 5From:Cinema Journal (Vol. 56, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: This article examines the production, content, and public reception of Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012) and Argo (Ben Affleck, 2012). The two Oscar-winning films are set within the context of the...
- 6From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5910)In June 1962, an important gathering of anglophone African writers took place at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. Ezekiel Mphahlele (later Es'kia Mphahlele), the expatriate South African fresh from the success of...
- 7From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 61, Issue 01)Byline: Greg Barnhisel Sometime in the 1980s, in a lecture hall at a provincial ag school, a recruiter from the Central Intelligence Agency tried to tempt the soil-science and animal-husbandry majors into a career. A...
- 8From:Risk Management (Vol. 57, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed"It's been a while." --CIA Director Leon Panetta, in response to a question asking when the United States last "had good intelligence" on the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden--something he hasn't seen since the early...
- 9From:The Quill (Vol. 94, Issue 6)Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen who claims he was kidnapped and tortured for five months by the CIA, will not be allowed to pursue a lawsuit against the U.S. government for $75,000, the Reporters Committee for Freedom...
- 10From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 47, Issue 36)Byline: JENNIFER YACHNIN As professors at Wittenberg University dusted off their commencement regalia for last week's graduation ceremony, some 30 added an extra touch -- white armbands. They wanted to call...
- 11From:Government Computer News (Vol. 22, Issue 30)GCN: How do you draw a distinction between the CIA's CIO operation and that of the intelligence community? Do these overlap? DAWSON: They are actually very separate responsibilities. The CIA's CIO enhances support of...
- 12From:World Affairs (Vol. 179, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn May 2007, I concluded my remarks to the graduates of Duquesne University (my Alma Mater) with these words: "Life will soon bring you increased responsibilities, and it is rare that you will have a legitimate choice...
- 13From:Building & Landscapes (Vol. 22, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAndrew Friedman Covert Capital: Landscapes of Denial and the Making of U.S. Empire in the Suburbs of Northern Virginia Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. 432 pages, 24 black-and-white...
- 14From:Air Power History (Vol. 68, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCold War overflight of the USSR provided critical intelligence updates of Russian long-range bombers, nuclear warhead production, ICBMs, and nuclear submarines. Collection of IMINT, ELINT, COMINT, and TELINT from...
- 15From:China Media Research (Vol. 16, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe democratization of Taiwan and the growth of civil society have drastically shifted her national focus from merely economic to more sustainable development. To protect the natural environment and wildlife ecology,...
- 16From:Political Science Quarterly (Vol. 120, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTo cover with the veil of secrecy the common routine of business is an abomination in the eyes of every intelligent man and every friend to his country. -- Patrick Henry For those of us defending the government from...
- 17From:Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics (Issue 28) Peer-ReviewedThis article explores the cultural process through which British colonialism was rearticulated by the institutions and discourses of American anti-communism. Focusing on George Orwell, the author provides a critical...
- 18From:Information Today (Vol. 9, Issue 1)The Director of Central Intelligence's Information Handling Committee has published a CD-ROM proof-of-concept demonstration disc, for MS-DOS systems, designed to facilitate testing and evaluation of its proposed CD-RDx...
- 19From:The Quill (Vol. 84, Issue 4)The practice of spies posing as journalists endanger the lives of real journalists. The Central Intelligence Agency maintains a policy that recruits journalists to act as intermediaries and authorizes agents to pose as...
- 20From:Government Computer News (Vol. 22, Issue 9)The CIA's In-Q-Tel venture capital arm has handed $500,000 to a California software company to add more foreign languages to its mohoClassifier Web-based filtering system. The CIA uses the classification software...