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Cia Conflict Of Interest Essay

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Introduction Does having the CIA be the responsible body for carrying out covert action create a conflict of interest when CIA/National Clandestine Service is responsible for both covert action AND collecting and feeding information to CIA/Directorate of Intelligence for strategic intelligence analysis? To answer this question, I will analyze who the CIA delegates human intelligence collection to as well as covert action through the Directorate of Intelligence and the National Clandestine Service, to identify a conflict of interest in any instances over time. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a massive federal government agency that primarily works overseas, in other countries, conducting operations, collecting intelligence, and analyzing it. Discerning whether there is a conflict of interest can only be done by understanding what the National Clandestine Service and the Directorate of Intelligence do and an instance in which may have compromised both the Directorate of Intelligence and the National Clandestine Service, to cause a conflict of interest. …show more content…

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