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The CIA is a U.S. government agency that provides objective intelligence on foreign countries and global issues to the president, the National Security Council, and other policymakers to help them make national security decisions.

The CIA is separated into five basic components that carry out “the intelligence cycle,” the process of collecting, analyzing, and disseminating intelligence information to top US government officials.

CIA is the nation's premier agency providing global intelligence in an ever-changing political, social, economic, technological, & military landscapes. Our mission is straightforward but critical: protect America's national security. We collect valuable foreign intelligence, conduct timely analysis, & execute effective covert actions.

At the CIA, our mission is to preempt threats and further U.S. national security objectives by: Collecting foreign intelligence that matters; Producing objective all-source analysis;

The DA’s flagship product is its daily publication, the CIA World Intelligence Review (WIRe). The DA also contributes to the President’s Daily Brief (PDB), which is an Intelligence Community daily product overseen by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).

A lot happens at the CIA. Browse the latest updates and information about our Agency, including press releases, speeches, recent events, our Ask Molly column, and more.

The Director of the CIA continues to oversee the CIA’s intelligence collection, analysis, and covert action to advance U.S. national security. In 2015, DCIA John Brennan ordered the modernization of the Agency into “mission centers” to improve integration and cooperation among the five directorates to better address the most pressing ...

The Directorate of Digital Innovation (DDI), the Agency’s newest directorate, accelerates innovation across the Agency's mission activities with cutting-edge digital and cyber tradecraft—essentially the 1s and 0s of the CIA.

You can study history in many ways—visiting monuments reading books, finding documents, or exploring museums. In this publication, we tell the story of our Agency through a selection of artifacts collected by the CIA Museum, often called the …