History of the Central Intelligence Agency
Summary
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States federal government. It is responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating intelligence to support national security, primarily through overseas operations and sources. The agency was established by the National Security Act of 1947, enacted in response to intelligence coordination failures identified during World War II, including the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Originally created by Northamerica1000
4/28/2015, 4:16:03 AM
Modified
5/3/2026, 9:53:44 AM
Recent revisions
/* Further reading */ Bibliography
/* Congressional investigations */
/* President Clinton */
uppercase is correct per direct link (Manhattan Project)
what do you mean when, it says august 6 right there?? ok, tags resolved, that should keep the newcomer task wave away
resolve another tag
resolve maint tag
/* Hostage trades */ not a sentence fragment
changed "Central Report's staff" to "Central Reports Staff"
/* Origins (1941–1945) */ - → –
Cleaned up using [[WP:AutoEd|AutoEd]] | fixes: whitespace, curly quotes
don't need to link to the US here per [[WP:OVERLINK]]
Corrected an error regarding the location of a city
Reverted edit by [[Special:Contribs/Arkham Knightz|Arkham Knightz]] ([[User talk:Arkham Knightz|talk]]) to last version by RetiredCIEIO
Added commas as needed. Split some long sentences. Restated one sentence.
Undid revision [[Special:Diff/1339679849|1339679849]] by [[Special:Contributions/~2026-43896-9|~2026-43896-9]] ([[User talk:~2026-43896-9|talk]])
Linked U.S. to redirect to the United States and Added the words “Langley, Virginia” to the last sentence
