CIA

CIA Everyone has seen a James Bond movie at some time or another. In this paper we will look at the real life James Bond’s that exist in the United States in the form of the Central Intelligence Agency. Ill cover its inception, mission, where it gets its funding, and what areas it has domain over. I will also talk about some of the controversy that surrounds this secretive organization and the ever-changing role that it has in today’s government. The Central Intelligence Agency was created on September 18th, 1947 by legislation proposed by President Truman and later enacted by Congress. It was created to replace the Office of Strategic Services or OSS, which was terminated due to opposition in the government. Up until that time the OSS was the chief intelligence gathering body for the United States. The CIA was created to replace the OSS and be a permanent and independent executive intelligence agency designed to coordinate intelligence information collected by separately established intelligence agencies. However this proved to be more difficult than it sounded. The FBI, being the CIA’s chief competitor in the intelligence field, began a bureaucratic rivalry between the two agencies that many feel cia, intelligence, states, information, united, agencies, president, cia’s, security, operations, government, various, foreign, directorate, nations, budget, agency, office, national, known, administration, world, through, role, officials, illegal, fbi, covert, actions, years, war, today, terrorism, technology, since