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Greendale High School Eric Hackbarth The CIA’s role in the 1980s was a non-military commissioned civilian intelligence agents, many of whom are trained to avoid tactical situations, perform Intelligence gathering. The CIA also oversees and sometimes engages in tactical and covert activities at the request of the president. Often, when such field operations are organized, the 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 war. Also the CIA tracked the illegal narcotics trade and trained and supplied local militias with weapons to fight soviet influences or more American friendly governments. The attitudes of the CIA towards the KGB is one of any rival organization towards the one that posses it the most threat. The CIA viewed the KGB as threat to America, the CIA, and every country in the world. KGB employed many of the same tactics that the CIA did just for the Soviet Union, which made them a dangerous enemy. The CIA feared the KGB and for good reasons the KGB where sometimes able to get moles into high levels of the American national government but in the end they were always ousted and the Soviet’s plans to gain American technology and secrets were foiled. The CIA’s history up to this point involves its founding in 1947 with the National Security Act of 1947 signed by President Truman. Early founding for the CIA was solicited from James Forrestal and Allen Dulles along with some of the money from the Marshall plan to influence elections in Europe. The National Security Council Directive on Office of Special Projects, June 18, 1948 further gave the CIA the authority to carry out covert operations "against hostile foreign states or groups or in support of friendly foreign states or groups but which are so planned and conducted that any US Government responsibility for them is not evident to unauthorized persons." In 1949, the CIA Act authorized the agency to use confidential fiscal and administrative procedures, and exempting it from most of the usual limitations on the use of Federal funds. It also exempted the CIA from having to disclose its "organization, functions, officials, titles, salaries, or numbers of personnel employed." It also created the program "PL-110", to handle defectors and other "essential aliens" who fall outside normal immigration procedures, as well as giving those persons cover stories and economic support. During the Cold War is when the CIA became the most useful and famous for fighting Soviet influence. Concern regarding the Soviet Union and the difficulty of getting information from its closed society, which few agents could penetrate, led to solutions based on advanced technology. Among the first success was with the Lockheed U-2 aircraft, which could take pictures and collect electronic signals from an altitude thought to be above Soviet air defenses' reach. The CIA would play an important role in Indochina and Vietnam relations with the United States during the Vietnam War. Through the Seventies and Eighties the CIA were discovered to have misused their power in a number of scandals some of which were assignation attempts mostly on Fidel Castro and their aid in the Bay of Pigs invasion and spying on U.S. citizens.