The Red Scare
For most of the 20th century, the “war on communism” ebbed and flowed, and sometimes hit riptide as it did during the late 1940s and 1950s. When the Soviet Union – our World War II ally – became our “Cold War”...
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The Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the National Security Council were created by the National Security Act of 1947. As the Soviet Union loomed as a new threat, the CIA was given the task of coordinating intelligence activities aimed at foreign powers...
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Revisions to FBI Operations Guidelines Open the Door to Troubling Abuses
The FBI guidelines as revised in May 2002 allowed the FBI to freely infiltrate mosques, churches and other meeting places, participate in online chat rooms, obtain information from data mining companies and conduct full investigations for one year with no evidence that...
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Operation CHAOS
Photo: Richard Nixon resigns. In Operation CHAOS – in the dawn of the computer age – we find the kind of information sharing and reliance on technology that would become a hallmark of surveillance operations in the 21st century. According to the...