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((Clandestine))

The Directorate of Operations, less formally called the Clandestine Service, is a component of the US Central Intelligence Agency. It was known as the Directorate of Plans from 1951 to 1973; as the Directorate of Operations from 1973 to 2005; and as the National Clandestine Service from 2005 to 2015.

What does the CIA clandestine service do?

Today's National Clandestine Service

Their work involves coordinating and overseeing the collection of intelligence and how that intelligence is disseminated. Managing the collection of intelligence means determining the significance of intelligence and what should be communicated to U.S. policymakers.

The National Clandestine Service (NCS) is the undercover arm of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the authority on all clandestine operations throughout the world that concerns the nation’s intelligence community.

https://www.ciaagentedu.org/national-clandestine-service/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directorate_of_Operations_(CIA)

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-IC21/html/GPO-IC21-9.html

What does the clandestine service do?

A clandestine service also works in liaison with other spy services to run all types of operations; it taps telephones and installs listening devices; it breaks into or otherwise gains access to the contents of secured facilities, safes, and computers; it steals, compromises, and influences foreign cryptographic …

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