The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
is an independent civilian intelligence agency of the United States
government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director
of National Intelligence, with responsibility for providing national
security intelligence assessment to senior United States
policymakers. Intelligence-gathering is performed by non-military
commissioned civilian intelligence agents, many of whom are trained to
avoid tactical situations.
The CIA also oversees and sometimes
engages in tactical and covert activities at the request of the President
of the United States. Often, when such field operations are organized, the
U.S. military or other warfare tacticians carry these tactical operations
out on behalf of the agency while the CIA oversees them. Although intelligence-gathering is the agency's main agenda, tactical divisions were established in the agency to carry out emergency
field operations that require immediate suppression or dismantling of a
threat or weapon. The CIA was founded in part for intelligence-gathering as a means to prevent a declaration of war based on erroneous conceptions.
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