CIA

¹

Or C.I.A.

abbreviation

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

Cia.

²

abbreviation

1. Company.

CIA

abbreviation

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of CIA¹

From the Spanish word Compañía

Example Sentences

The CIA was Oracle’s first customer, and it allowed Ellison’s company to use the name.

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When Nixon had CIA Deputy Director Vernon Walters ask Gray, in the name of national security, to halt the FBI’s investigation, Felt and other agency insiders demanded that Gray get this order in writing.

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The CIA previously suffered a disastrous loss of its agents in China after their connections to the dark web were breached by Beijing's Ministry of State Security.

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The Kremlin has long been uneasy of the freedoms offered to people by the internet, which Vladimir Putin once called a CIA project.

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The officer had been slated for an overseas posting, which had been approved by CIA Director John Ratcliffe.

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