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  1. Dec 25

    CIA Artifact of the Week: Pigeon Camera Don’t get the spy in your life a partridge in a pear tree. Get them a pigeon with a camera.

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  2. Dec 25

    50 years ago, we started “Operation Santa Claus” as a way for the CIA family to donate new to disadvantaged children. Since our formal collaboration with ’s “Toys for Tots” program in 2000, our toy collection has grown each year.

    Toys and CIA headquarters main foyer
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  3. Dec 21

    Here's a final set of our favorite messages the CIA family wrote for officers working overseas. Read about our letter-writing campaign:

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  4. Dec 20

    If you're home for the through the international terminals at Chicago O'Hare () or Washington Dulles (), be on the lookout for our recruitment campaign!

    Screen in airport
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  5. Dec 19

    More messages written for our officers serving overseas. Read about our letter-writing campaign:

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  6. Dec 19

    Looking for a summer ? We're accepting applications for the Directorate of Operations from undergraduate first year college students through 15 March 2019. Summer internships with other Directorates open in January.

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  7. Dec 18

    CIA Artifact of the Week: Pan Am 103 Lapel Pin Designed by the widow of one of the victims, this pin is given to the family & friends of those whose lives ended when a terrorist bomb exploded on Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland in December 1988.

    Lapel pin
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  8. Dec 17

    CIA Deputy Director Vaughn Bishop's wife, Mrs. Marian Bishop, championed the letter-writing campaign. She visited with local children and helped them to craft these holiday wishes.

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  9. Dec 17

    CIA officers & their families have been writing heartfelt messages to show our officers overseas just how much their & sacrifice are appreciated. This week, we're sharing our favorites. Read about our letter-writing campaign:

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  10. Dec 14

    The original tale of this hero was first told in the February 1982 “Jordan Bureau Monthly Report” by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS). You can read the report, and millions of other declassified CIA documents, here:

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  11. Dec 14

    He swung the terrified child up onto his back and scrambled back down. Safely on the ground, he placed the boy into the arms of his grateful mother. He was hailed a hero, and his chief put in a request for him to receive “a size medium t-shirt.”

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  12. Dec 14

    Flames leapt 30 feet into the air from the 3-story apartment building next door. A young child was trapped on the roof, screaming in terror. The officer—barefoot—scaled the outside of the rough sandstone building.

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  13. Dec 14

    CIA officers often find themselves in situations which are not exactly part of their job description, but they rise to the occasion. Such was the case for an officer who scaled a burning 3-story building to save a child. Read the CIA story:

    Man climbing burning building to save child
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  14. Dec 13

    The next and final installment will be available in January. To read more of these declassified reports, check out the previous installments here:

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  15. Dec 13

    In addition, this release includes reports about the Berlin crisis, negotiations involving the Arab-Israeli conflict, and Soviet efforts to isolate Marshal Tito’s Yugoslavia.

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  16. Dec 13

    Today’s release totals 403 pages of Daily Summary reports from 1949—the year the long-running Chinese civil war came to an end with Mao Zedong’s Communist forces taking control of the country over the Nationalists led by Chiang Kai-shek.

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  17. Dec 13

    Today we released the 5th set of declassified daily intelligence reports President Harry Truman received from CIA & our predecessor organization, the Central Intelligence Group, between 1946 & 1951.

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  18. Dec 12

    Excel at editing and writing? Passionate about foreign affairs? Want to contribute to national security? Click here to learn more about being a Collection Management Officer:

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  19. Dec 11

    Alliluyeva expressed a desire to defect to the US, Switzerland, or Canada. She included a brief contextual history of her lineage as well as a note to be sent to her two adolescent children, who were not with her and would remain in the Soviet Union.

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  20. Dec 11

    CIA Artifact of the Week: Handwritten Letter from Stalin’s Daughter While traveling in India in 1967, Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of the late Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, approached the US Embassy in New Delhi to seek asylum in the United States.

    Handwritten letter
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