Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with advancing national security through collecting and analyzing intelligence from... Wikipedia
- Formed: September 18, 1947
- Preceding agencies: Office of Strategic Services, Strategic Services Unit, Central Intelligence Group
- Type: Independent (component of the Intelligence Community)
- Headquarters: George Bush Center for Intelligence, Langley, Virginia, U.S.
- Motto: (Official): The Work of a Nation. The Center of Intelligence, (Unofficial): And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free
- Employees: 21,575 (estimate)
- Annual budget: $15 billion (2013)
- executives: John Ratcliffe, Director, Michael Ellis, Deputy Director, Vacant, General Counsel
- Parent department: Office of the President of the United States
- Parent agency: Office of the Director of National Intelligence
- Child agencies: Directorate of Operations, Directorate of Science and Technology, Operations Support Branch
- Data source: DuckDuckGo