page_title: Central Intelligence Agency
section_title: Early Cold War, 1953–1966
hierarchical_section_title: Central Intelligence Agency / History / Early Cold War, 1953–1966
caption_attribution_description: العربية: طائرة لوكهيد SR-71 بلاك بيرد، يقودها مركز دريدن لبُحوث الطيران تحت مُسمّى ناسا 831، تنزلقُ فوق قمم جبال سييرا نيڤادا الجنوبيَّة المُكللة بالثلوج، في كاليفورنيا بعد أن تمَّت إعادة تعبئتها بالوقود بواسطة طائرة أُخرى حاملة للوقود في مشهدٍ من سنة 1994م. كانت النسخة SR-71B هي النسخة التدريبيَّة للأصليَّة، أس SR-71. لاحظ قُمرة القيادة مُزدوجة المقاعد بغرض السماح للمُدرِّب أن يبقى إلى جانب تلميذه. English: The SR-71B Blackbird, flown by the Dryden Flight Research Center as NASA 831, slices across the snow-covered southern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California after being refueled by an Air Force tanker during a 1994 flight. SR-71B was the trainer version of the SR-71. Notice the dual cockpit to allow the instructor to fly the airplane. Español: Lockheed SR-71, fotografiado en las montañas de Sierra Nevada (California, EEUU) en diciembre de 1994 después de realizar un aprovisionamiento en vuelo. El SR-71B fue una versión de entrenamiento del SR-71. Se puede observar que posee una segunda cabina para el instructor de vuelo. Français&#160;: SR-71B Blackbird, photographié en décembre 1994 depuis un avion de ravitallement en vol. Le SR-71B était une version d'entrainement du SR-71. A noter, le second cockpit pour l'instructeur. Português: Pássaro negro SR-71B, protografado em Dezembro de 1994. SR-71B era a versão de teste do SR-71. Note a segunda cabine para o instrutor.
context_page_description: The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence. As one of the principal members of the United States Intelligence Community, the CIA reports to the Director of National Intelligence and is primarily focused on providing intelligence for the President and Cabinet of the United States.
  Unlike the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which is a domestic security service, the CIA has no law enforcement function and is mainly focused on overseas intelligence gathering, with only limited domestic intelligence collection. Though it is not the only agency of the federal government of the United States specializing in HUMINT, the CIA serves as the national manager for coordination of HUMINT activities across the U.S. intelligence community. Moreover, the CIA is the only agency authorized by law to carry out and oversee covert action at the behest of the President. It exerts foreign political influence through its tactical divisions, such as the Special Activities Center.
context_section_description: The CIA was involved in anti-Communist activities in Burma, Guatemala, and Laos. There have been suggestions that the Soviet attempt to put missiles into Cuba came, indirectly, when they realized how badly they had been compromised by a US–UK defector in place, Oleg Penkovsky. One of the most significant operations ever undertaken by the CIA was directed at Zaïre in support of general-turned-dictator Mobutu Sese Seko.
caption: The USAF's SR-71 Blackbird was developed from the CIA's A-12 OXCART.
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