CIA

The Central Intelligence Agency, created by the National Security Act of 1947, is the primary foreign intelligence and covert action arm of the United States government. Its documented record includes the 1953 coup in Iran, the 1954 coup in Guatemala, the MK-Ultra behavioral control program, and decades of covert paramilitary operations catalogued in the agency’s own declassified ‘Family Jewels’ file. The 1975 Church Committee investigations exposed assassination plots against foreign leaders and illegal domestic surveillance under Operation CHAOS. Files tagged with this entity draw on declassified agency records, congressional investigations, FOIA releases, and court documents. The CIA connects to more archive files than any other single entity, intersecting with MK-Ultra, Operation Gladio, and the modern intelligence-contractor ecosystem.