CIA activities in the United States
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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States federal government, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world.
Intelligence agency overview | |
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Formed | September 18, 1947; 76 years ago (1947-09-18) |
Preceding Intelligence agency | |
Headquarters | George Bush Center for Intelligence Langley, Virginia, U.S. 38°57′07″N 77°08′46″W |
Motto | "The Work of a Nation. The Center of Intelligence." Unofficial motto: "And you 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] |
Intelligence agency executive | |
Parent Intelligence agency | None (independent) |
Website | cia |
The National Resources Division is the domestic wing of the CIA. Although the CIA is focused on gathering intelligence from foreign nations, it has performed operations within the United States to achieve its goals. Some of these operations only became known to the public years after they had been conducted, and were met with significant criticism from the population as a whole, with allegations that these operations may violate the Constitution.