The
Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian
intelligence agency of the
United States government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the
Director of National Intelligence, with responsibility for providing
national security intelligence assessment to senior
United States policymakers. Intelligence gathering is performed by non-military commissioned civilian intelligence agents, many of whom are trained to avoid tactical situations. The CIA also oversees and sometimes engages in tactical and
covert activities at the request of the
President of the United States.
Often, when such field operations are organized, the
US military or other warfare tacticians carry these tactical operations out on behalf of the agency while the CIA oversees them.
Although intelligence-gathering is the agency's main agenda, tactical divisions were established in the agency to carry out emergency field operations that require immediate suppression or dismantling of a threat or weapon.
The CIA is often used for intelligence-gathering instead of the U.S military to avoid a
declaration of war.
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