CIA
Central Intelligence Agency
Founded
1947
Country
United States
HQ
Langley, Virginia
On Record
13
The primary foreign intelligence and covert action arm of the US government, established under the National Security Act of 1947. Responsible for collecting, analysing, and acting on foreign intelligence, and for conducting covert operations abroad.
■ Operations
- Cold War · United States CONFIRMED 2026
Operation MKUltra
The CIA's covert program testing mind control on unwitting subjects, 1953–1973.
- Cold War · Iran, United Kingdom CONFIRMED 2026
Operation Ajax
A joint CIA-MI6 operation to overthrow Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister and restore the Shah to absolute power.
- Cold War · United States CONFIRMED 2026
Operation Mockingbird
A CIA program to recruit journalists at major US news outlets and plant pro-Agency narratives across domestic and foreign media.
- Cold War · United States, Cuba CONFIRMED 2026
Operation Northwoods
A Joint Chiefs proposal to stage false-flag terrorist attacks on American soil to justify a US invasion of Cuba. Rejected by Kennedy.
- Modern · Iran CONFIRMED 2010
Operation Olympic Games (Stuxnet)
The NSA and Israeli Unit 8200's joint cyberweapon that physically destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges — the first known state-deployed offensive cyberattack.
- Cold War · Italy, Belgium, France, West Germany, Greece, Turkey CONFIRMED 1990
Operation Gladio
NATO's secret Cold War stay-behind network across 15 European countries, linked to arms caches, political violence, and the Italian Years of Lead.
- Reagan Era · United States, Nicaragua, Iran CONFIRMED 1986
The Iran-Contra Affair
The Reagan administration's secret scheme to sell arms to Iran and funnel profits to Nicaraguan Contras, in direct violation of a Congressional prohibition.
- Cold War · Afghanistan, Pakistan CONFIRMED 1979
Operation Cyclone
The CIA's decade-long covert programme arming Afghan mujahideen against the Soviet Union — the most expensive covert action in the Agency's history.
- Cold War · Iran, Vatican, Libya, Argentina, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland CONFIRMED 1970
Operation RUBIKON (Crypto AG)
CIA and West German BND secretly owned Crypto AG, the world's leading encryption company, allowing them to read the secret communications of over 100 governments for decades.
- Cold War · United States ALLEGED 1963
CIA Involvement in the JFK Assassination
Allegations that CIA officers or CIA-linked Cuban exile networks were involved in the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy — examined in light of the 2025 document release.
- Cold War · Guatemala CONFIRMED 1954
Operation PBSUCCESS
The CIA's 1954 covert operation that overthrew Guatemala's democratically elected President Jacobo Árbenz through psychological warfare, propaganda, and paramilitary force.
- Cold War · Iran CONFIRMED 1953
Operation Boot (Anglo-American Coup, Iran)
MI6 and CIA jointly orchestrated the overthrow of Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953, restoring Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to power.
- Post-WWII · USA, West Germany CONFIRMED 1945
Operation Paperclip
US Office of Strategic Services and Army secretly recruited over 1,600 Nazi German scientists, engineers, and technicians — including war criminals — to work for American defence, space, and intelligence programmes.