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| The CIA is precluded from undertaking any intelligence activities within the United States. However, a story could be planted in a media outlet overseas that will also be reported in the United States |
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| An activity or activities of the United States Government to influence political, economic or military conditions abroad, where it is intended that the role of the United States Government will not be apparent or acknowledged publicly |
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| The largest, most violent, and most dangerous covert actions, involving the equipping and training of large armed groups for a direct assault on one’s enemies |
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| That U.S. denials of a role in the events stemming from a covert action appear plausible |
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| The operational support structure—which also includes prearranged meeting places, surveillance agents, letter drops, technical support |
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| An order that the president must sign, approving the operation, based on the president’s finding that covert action is necessary to support identifiable foreign policy objectives of the United States, and is important to the national security of the United States |
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| The old political technique of disseminating information that has been created with a specific political outcome in mind |
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| The practice of sending a foreign criminal or terrorist suspect covertly to be interrogated in a country with less rigorous regulations for the humane treatment of prisoners |
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| The option somewhere between doing nothing in a situation in which vital interests may be threatened, and sending in military force, which raises a host of difficult political issues |
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