CIA

or C.I.A.

abbreviation for

Central Intelligence Agency: the U.S. federal agency that coordinates governmental intelligence activities outside the United States.

Cia.

CIA

Central Intelligence Agency; a federal US bureau created in 1947 to coordinate and conduct espionage and intelligence activities

Origin of CIA¹

From the Spanish word Compañía

It was the same strategy the C.I.A. pursued in the foreign countries.

He is accused of spying for the C.I.A., a charge his family denies.

The C.I.A. repeated the warnings in the briefs that followed.

And the C.I.A. repeated the warnings in the briefs that followed.

The trouble is that for all of the C.I.A.'s targeted killings, al Qaeda's command structure remains intact.

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