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  2. Operation Mockingbird - Wikipedia

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    Operation Mockingbird. Operation Mockingbird is an alleged large-scale program of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that began in the early years of the Cold War and attempted to manipulate domestic American news media organizations for propaganda purposes. According to author Deborah Davis, Operation Mockingbird recruited ...

  3. The Culinary Institute of America - Wikipedia

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    443 students applied to transfer to the CIA, with a 98% admission rate and 72% enrollment rate for those admitted. 82% of first-year students lived in college housing, while 61% of all undergraduates lived in college housing. 100% of the student body is enrolled as full-time students.

  4. Central Intelligence Agency - Wikipedia

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    The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) / ˌ s iː. aɪ ˈ eɪ /, known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence ...

  5. Human rights violations by the CIA - Wikipedia

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    Human Rights Watch asserted in a 2019 report that the CIA was backing death squads in Afghanistan. [3] The report alleges that CIA-supported Afghan forces committed " summary executions and other grave abuses without accountability" over the course of more than a dozen night raids that took place between 2017 and 2019.

  6. CIA University - Wikipedia

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    CIA University ( CIAU) is the primary education facility of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Founded in 2002 and located in Chantilly, Virginia, the school holds courses on various intelligence-related subjects, ranging from chemical weapons manufacturing to foreign languages. Students include CIA new hires, experienced officers ...

  7. History of the Culinary Institute of America - Wikipedia

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    The history of the Culinary Institute of America ( CIA) began in 1946 in New Haven, Connecticut, where it was founded as a vocational institute for returning veterans of World War II. With a growing student body, the Culinary Institute purchased a former Jesuit novitiate in Hyde Park in 1970, which remains its central campus.

  8. Special Activities Center - Wikipedia

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    The Special Activities Center ( SAC) is a division of the United States Central Intelligence Agency responsible for covert and paramilitary operations. The unit was named Special Activities Division ( SAD) prior to 2015. [1] Within SAC there are two separate groups: SAC/SOG (Special Operations Group) for tactical paramilitary operations and SAC ...

  9. United States intervention in Chile - Wikipedia

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    A document released by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 2000, titled "CIA Activities in Chile", revealed that the CIA actively supported the military junta after the overthrow of Allende and that it made many of Pinochet's officers into paid contacts of the CIA or U.S. military, even though some were known to be involved in human ...