The CIA has an executive office and five major directorates:
Main article: Organizational structure of the Central Intelligence Agency
It has also appeared in works of fiction, including books, films and video games. The agency has been the subject of many controversies, including human rights violations, domestic wiretapping and propaganda, and allegations of drug trafficking. One of its largest divisions, the Information Operations Center (IOC), has officially shifted focus from counter-terrorism to offensive cyber-operations. The CIA has increasingly expanded its role, including covert paramilitary operations. In 2013, The Washington Post reported that in the fiscal year 2010, the CIA had the largest budget of all IC agencies, exceeding previous estimates. Despite transferring some of its powers to the DNI, the CIA has grown in size as a response to the September 11 attacks. Since 2004 the CIA is organized under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). It has also provided support to many foreign political groups and governments, including planning, coordinating, training on torture, technical support, and was involved in several regime changes, terrorist attacks, and planned assassinations of foreign leaders. The CIA was also instrumental in establishing intelligence services in several U.S. It exerts foreign political influence through its tactical divisions, such as the Special Activities Center. It is the only agency authorized by law to carry out and oversee covert action at the behest of the President. The CIA serves as the national manager for the coordination of HUMINT activities across the U.S. Unlike the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which is a domestic security service, the CIA has no law enforcement function and is officially mainly focused on overseas intelligence gathering, with only limited domestic intelligence collection.
As a principal member of the United States Intelligence Community (IC), 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.
aɪ ˈ eɪ/), known informally as the Agency and the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, officially tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT). The Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA / ˌ s iː.