Under a section entitled History of the CIA, the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States has written:
The United States has carried out intelligence activities since the days of George Washington, but only since World War II have they been coordinated on a government-wide basis. President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed New York lawyer and war hero, William J. Donovan, to become first the Coordinator of Information, and then, after the US entered World War II, head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in 1942. The OSS – the forerunner to the CIA – had a mandate to collect and analyze strategic information. After World War II, however, the OSS was abolished along with many other war agencies and its functions were transferred to the State and War Departments. It did not take long before President Truman recognized the need for a postwar, centralized intelligence organization. To make a fully functional intelligence office, Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947 establishing the CIA. The National Security Act charged the CIA with coordinating the nation’s intelligence activities and correlating, evaluating and disseminating intelligence affecting national security.
On December 17, 2004, President George W. Bush signed the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act which restructured the Intelligence Community by abolishing the position of Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) and Deputy Director of Central Intelligence (DDCI) and creating the position the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (D/CIA). The Act also created the position of Director of National Intelligence (DNI), which oversees the Intelligence Community and the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC)
Under Todays CIA:
The CIA is an independent agency responsible for providing national security intelligence to senior US policymakers. The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (D/CIA) is nominated by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Director manages the operations, personnel, and budget of the Central Intelligence Agency.
The National Clandestine Service (NCS) serves as the clandestine arm of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the national authority for the coordination, de-confliction, and evaluation of clandestine operations across the Intelligence Community of the United States.
Who We Are:
* We are an elite corps of men and women shaped by diverse ethnic, educational and professional backgrounds.
* We conduct our clandestine mission worldwide.
* We collect actionable human intelligence (HUMINT) that informs the U.S. President, senior policymakers, military, and law enforcement.
* Core values guide our professional and personal actions.
Our Mission: The mission of the National Clandestine Service (NCS) is to strengthen national security and foreign policy objectives through the clandestine collection of human intelligence (HUMINT) and Covert Action. We are accountable to the U.S. President, Congress and the American taxpayer.
Human Intelligence: Vital information from human sources acquired by Core Collectors of the National Clandestine Service in response to national intelligence requirements.
Core Values: Core values guide our professional and personal actions.
• Service. We put country first and Agency before self. Quiet patriotism is our hallmark. We are dedicated to the mission, and we pride ourselves on our extraordinary responsiveness to the needs of our customers.
• Integrity. We uphold the highest standards of conduct. We seek and speak the truth - to our colleagues and to our customers. We honor those Agency officers who have come before us and we honor the colleagues with whom we work today.
• Excellence. We hold ourselves - and each other - to the highest standards. We embrace personal accountability. We reflect on our performance and learn from that reflection.
Core Collectors: Core Collectors include Operations Officers (OO) and Collection Management Officers (CMO) who have successfully completed the Clandestine Service Trainee (CST) Program. Core Collectors must demonstrate the skills, abilities and personality traits necessary for operating clandestinely worldwide.
On the 31st March 1964, and before, these Core Collectors were demonstrating their skills, abilities and personality traits necessary for overthrowing the then democratically elected government of Brazil. On the night of 31 March, 1964, a military-led coup overthrew Joao Goulart. The coup installed successive right-wing hardliners as heads of state who suspended civil rights and liberties of the Brazilian people. They abolished all political parties and replaced them with only two, the military government's party called the National Renewal Alliance Party (Aliança Renovadora Nacional - ARENA) and the consented opposition Brazilian Democratic Movement (Movimento Democrático Brasileiro - MDB). However, MDB had no real power, and the military rule was marked by widespread disappearance, torture, and exile of many politicians, university students, writers, singers, painters, filmmakers and other artists.
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In the telegraphs, Gordon also acknowledges US involvement in "covert support for pro-democracy street rallies…and encouragement [of] democratic and anti-communist sentiment in Congress, armed forces, friendly labor and student groups, church, and business" and that he "may be requesting modest supplementary funds for other covert action programs in the near future." The actual operational files of the CIA remain classified, preventing historians from accurately gauging the CIA's direct involvement in the coup.
On March 31, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson shocked the country by announcing at the conclusion of a broadcast address on Vietnam that he would not seek re-election. This was four years, to the day, after he backed the military coup in Brazil.
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