Central Intelligence Agency
CIA an independent U.S. agency responsible to the president through its Director and to the people of the United States through Congressional intelligence oversight committees. It was officially ...
clandestine operation
An operation sponsored or conducted by governmental departments or agencies in such a way as to assure secrecy or concealment. A clandestine operation differs from a covert operation in that ...
counterinsurgency
N.the military, paramilitary, political, economic, psychological, and civic actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency.
guerrilla warfare
Gǝˈrilǝ ˈwôrˌfermilitary and paramilitary operations conducted in enemy-held or hostile territory by irregular, predominantly indigenous forces.
Intelligence
N.1 the product resulting from the collection, processing, integration, analysis, evaluation, and interpretation of available information concerning foreign countries or areas.2 information and ...
Iran-Contra Affair
In 1985, elements within the US National Security Council centred around lieutenant colonel Oliver North began to sell arms, via Israel, to the Islamic republic of Iran. The arms then went to ...
Lyndon Baines Johnson
(b. 27 Aug. 1908, d. 22 Jan. 1973).36th US President, 1963–9Early careerBorn in Stonewall, Texas, into a moderately wealthy family, Johnson trained at a local teachers' college, and briefly taught in ...
National Security Act
A law signed on July 26, 1947, to reorganize and centralize the military after World War II. It established a National Security Council, which included the newly created Office of ...
National Security Council
(USA)An integral part of the national security architecture of the USA, the NSC was founded by the 1947 National Security Act which also established the CIA and the US Department of Defense. It ...
