Institution

Central Intelligence Agency

1947 · 20th century · Also known as CIA

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is the foreign intelligence service of the United States, created by the National Security Act of 1947. Besides gathering intelligence it carried out covert operations during the Cold War, including the 1953 coup in Iran that overthrew Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, the 1954 coup in Guatemala and the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961.

Central Intelligence Agency
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