Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government.

Other

Other Government Agency or OGA is reportedly slang for the CIA, as is The Agency.

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A pejorative term for people who work for the CIA or other intelligence agencies is often 'spook'; the phrase "Virginia farmboys" is also occasionally used.

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One of the CIA's publications, the CIA World Factbook, is unclassified and is indeed made freely available without copyright restrictions because it is a work of the United States federal government. Much of the demographic information presented in Wikipedia is drawn from this publication.

Related Topics:
CIA World Factbook - Copyright - Wikipedia

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