clandestine operations

  • 41special operations combat control team — A team of Air Force personnel organized, trained, and equipped to conduct and support special operations. Under clandestine, covert, or low visibility conditions, these teams establish and control air assault zones; assist aircraft by verbal… …

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  • 42Operation Gladio — Emblem of Gladio , Italian branch of the NATO stay behind paramilitary organizations. The motto means In silence I preserve freedom . Operation Gladio (Italian: Operazione Gladio) is the codename for a clandestine NATO stay behind operation in… …

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  • 43Unconventional warfare (United States Department of Defense doctrine) — In US doctrine, unconventional warfare (abbreviated UW) is the term for guerilla warfare conducted or supported by United States Army Special Forces (SF) and other units in the United States Special Operations Command. Guerilla warfare is one… …

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  • 44Edmund Charaszkiewicz — ; Punitz (Poniec), October 14, 1895 mdash; December 22, 1975, London) was a Polish military intelligence officer who specialized in clandestine warfare. Between the World Wars, he helped establish Poland s interbellum borders. Also, for a dozen… …

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  • 45Espionage — Spy and Secret agent redirect here. For other uses, see Spy (disambiguation) and Secret agent (disambiguation). For other uses, see Espionage (disambiguation). Espionage or spying involves an individual obtaining information that is considered… …

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  • 46Official reports by the US Government on the CIA — At various times since the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency, the US Government has produced comprehensive reports on CIA actions that marked historical watersheds in how CIA went about trying to fulfill its vague charter purposes from… …

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  • 47Organizational structure of the Central Intelligence Agency — A CIA Organizational Chart from May 2009 The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a vast and complicated organization with many divisions and subdivisions, consisting mainly of an executive office, four major directorates, and a variety of… …

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  • 48intelligence — /in tel i jeuhns/, n. 1. capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc. 2. manifestation of a high mental capacity: He writes with… …

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  • 49Covert operation — This article is about a particular use of the term connected with military and political organizations. For covert operations in intelligence gathering, organized crime and religious or minor political groups, see Front organization. Covert… …

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  • 50US Intelligence involvement with German and Japanese War Criminals after World War II — While the United States was involved in the prosecution of war criminals, principally at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg and the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo, the Nuremberg Military Tribunals, and… …

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