Talk:History of the Central Intelligence Agency

Much of this article is a list of CIA failures/problems--not a balanced history of the organization. The periods I reviewed--from the 1970s to the present--exclusively catalog errors and failures, and rely mostly on one source: Weiner. Certainly, mistakes and oversights are part of an organization's history, but it's hard to imagine that the CIA has achieved nothing constructive worth mentioning at any point in the last 50 years. A subject-matter expert should review the article and make additions and/or changes to achieve balance.

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✅ Information from Central Intelligence Agency has been merged into this article. North America1000 04:21, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

Why was the section on the NYT article about the cia's climate change research removed?
Why was the section about the New York Times article about the CIA shutting down it's climate change research removed? I haven't looked into it, but it shouldn't be a space problem, and that seems notable.TeeTylerToe (talk) 17:09, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
 * This section was removed in this revision by User:Vanamonde93. It was removed again by User:Arthur Rubin, and then removed a third time by User:Vanamonde93. "Block evasion" was cited as the reason for its removal. Jarble (talk) 03:54, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
 * It was added three times by the same block-evading editor. I'm not sure it belongs in this article, but if a real unblocked editor adds it (preferably after correcting the reference and quote), I probably won't remove it again.  That being said, if a real editor who has a history of proxying for blocked editors restores it, it might still be appropriate to remove it.  — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 06:25, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

Little of the redirected article "Covert United States foreign regime change actions" is found in this document
The well compiled article, "Covert United States foreign regime change actions" was apparently deleted and redirected here, but little of its contents can be found.

Not even the now-public Polish covert regime change action is contained or mentioned anywhere in this article.

The deleted article can be seen in all its detail at archive.org

https://web.archive.org/web/20151212113352/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_United_States_foreign_regime_change_actions

There is no explanation for omission of such public information in the talk related to deletion of that article.

A modicum amount of deleted content is put in a sidebar which contains semi-relevant links, some of which just redirect to this article itself.

Why was this done? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Unity100 (talk • contribs) 6:34, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
 * The article's revision history is still accessible, so we may be able to merge some of its contents into History of the Central Intelligence Agency. Alternatively, we can redirect it to Foreign policy of the United States, which is clearly relevant to this topic. Jarble (talk) 22:35, 7 January 2016 (UTC)


 * The fact that we "may" be able to merge "some of it's contents", still doesn't answer the actual question: Why has this happened in the first place? Merging this articles content in other articles, comes with it's own issues. Case in point merging it into "CIA History", what if no CIA involvement was evident, but it's still easily identifiable as an "US regime change action"? All of this makes even less sense, considering this article is still up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change if anything that article should have been merged or removed with the other one. Instead the one with more content got deleted, while the one that looks like a mess is still around. Considering how many US people took offense to that article, this leaves quite an bad aftertaste 2003:86:8D22:6E2E:E5AB:FD8D:792B:9677 (talk) 19:57, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
 * United_States_involvement_in_regime_change might be a better target for this redirect, then. Jarble (talk) 03:49, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

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National Intelligence Agency
My semi-random wikignoming led me across the path of the National Intelligence Agency (United States) article. I don't know what to make of it. The history is a jumble of claims it exists(or existed), that it's just an artefact of a name error in some document, or is just some kind of joke to do with a game. The references aren't great and the content as it is now is confusing and not really of much use to visitors. I don't really know what to do with this. Should it be renamed to National Intelligence Authority? Should it be a redirect to this article? Or shall we just delete it? -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 22:21, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
 * https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=%22national+intelligence+agency%22+%22national+intelligence+authority%22 Those phrases pop up a bit.  Over time intelligence oversight groups have had different names.  It looks like NI authority was one of those names.TeeTylerToe (talk) 00:33, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

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Timber Sycamore
This covert regime change attempt should be inserted:

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"American Interventionism" listed at Redirects for discussion
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Incorrect Founding Date
The Article Lists The CIAs founding date as September 18, 1947. The Article fails to mention the CIS or Central Intelligence Service. The Biden White House celebrated the 75th anniversary of the CIA on July 8th, 2022 https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/07/08/remarks-by-president-biden-commemorating-the-75th-anniversary-of-the-central-intelligence-agency/ Thoughts on the factual errors? 2601:100:857F:3BE0:7058:8DAD:1130:C957 (talk) 21:25, 13 July 2023 (UTC)