Want more? We also have our own in-house "Special Forces Unit"; with personnel drawn from the "Joint Special Operations Command's" various special forces branches. The CIA's deniable operators are persons not officially connected to the CIA in any fashion, but on our payroll nevertheless. For example, the Secret Intelligence Service employs the Special Activies Division to carry out certain operations at home and abroad, while the Special Activities Division also has it's own deniable operators.

Special Activities Division

The Special Activities Division (SAD) is a division of the Central Intelligence Agency's former Directorate of Operations, now the National Clandestine Service, responsible for covert paramilitary operations, effected when the U.S. Government does not wish to be overtly (observable) associated with such activities. As such, members of the unit, when on missions, normally do not carry any objects or clothing that would associate themselves with the United States government.

The CIA's existing paramilitary force, like the Army's Green Berets, trains and supplies weapons and support to local dissident groups and friendly governments. We are capable of more direct action as well, including close-quarters combat and breaking into secure buildings to steal information.

We have unlimited funds collected through public sources and have diverse civilian, military and private contractors, firms and State allies.

Unlike the Green Berets, our officers can operate without uniform or identification as officers of the U.S. government. If YOU are caught or killed, the government can plausibly deny your use. Unlike most military special operations forces, we also include women among the CIA's paramilitary ranks.

This unit is top secret and little is known of it. It consist of around 150 operators divided into a 25 cell mixture among three branches (ground, maritime, airborne). In action we work in 4 to 6 member cells assembled according to mission requirements. Our operators themselves are mostly former (but not limited to) Special Operations personal from the U.S. Army's 1st SFOD-D (Combat Applications Group) Delta Force, U.S. Army Rangers, U. S. Navy (DEVGRU) SEAL Team SIX, U. S. Air Force "Air Commandos 1st Special Operations Wing" (1 SOW), 24th Special Tactics Squadron [24th STS]; and the Marine Corps "1st Force Recon" (Detachment One). Please asked the agency if you wish to join the TEAM.

In recent decades, our paramilitary force had seen heavy use during the Vietnam War, we ran 'Air America' in Laos. Next use in Central America, Angola, Afghanistan and Iraq. In Nicaragua, we mined the harbors and armed the Contra rebels during the Reagan administration.

In Afghanistan, we helped the Mujahedeen fight the Soviet invasion as well as trained the Osama/al-Qaeda cell in beginning of 1988. "We pretty much do what needs to be done in our anti-terrorism efforts".

If you like flying we also have a "Special Removal Unit" we call the GITMO EXPRESS and have full use of "Really Nice Toys" (RNT) including 26 EXTREME aircraft including; a Boeing 737, a Gulfstrean V, a Lear Jet 35, several C-130's and much...much more!

Our interrogation methods, including extraordinary rendition, are blessed as legal methods of physical and psychological coercion that inflicted discomfort "equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death"?

It’s a damn shame what they done to that dog!

We have more tha 24 secret interrogation centers world wide. If we are going to be successful in winning the "War on Terror", a lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our agency.

This unit can only be put into action under secret authorization by:

the President of the United States. Certain top congressional officials also must be informed.

Salaries

Lots of people wonder how much us spies are paid. The answer is; pretty much like regular folks like you & me, beginning around $50,000 per year. Pay normally comes every two weeks and employees can get overtime, holiday pay, night differential, Sunday premiums, bonuses and "Special" allowances.

The CIA takes good care of its workers. You can expect many of the quality of life perks that would be available in a similar corporate environment, including: casual dress when appropriate, fully-equipped fitness facilities, a jogging track, walking paths, access to entertainment tickets, on-site dry cleaners, film processing, and a barber shop.

From retirement plans to family leave, to vacation time, to health benefits, you won't get screwed over when it comes to preparing for your twilight years.

Reasons

Patriotism is cited as one of the main reasons for working at the CIA, plus you are going to love the adventure.

We are not like those As*holes over at the IRS, we have to pay taxes too!

Glossary

Agent (Asset): Foreigner recruited by a CIA case officer.

Base: CIA post that is smaller than a station.

Case Officer: A member of the Directorate of Operations (DO) who recruits and directs agents.

CI (Counterintelligence): Information and action against foreign espionage.

Clandestine Service: The same thing as the Directorate of Operations.

Collection: The gathering of raw intelligence info.

Cover: Official or unofficial position held by a member of the Directorate of Operations.

Covert Operation: Secret operation often done at the direction of the President. The Bay of Pigs invasion, for example.

Dead Drop: Secret location for agents and case officers to exchange information. The KGB used to use a hollow tree trunk in Washington, D.C.

Defector: Someone of interest to the CIA who has left his or her country of citizenship.

Denied Area: Country where the US has no diplomatic or military presence.

Developmental: A potential agent courted by a case officer.

Diplomatic Cover: A fake diplomatic position that protects a case officer from prosecution.

Dissemination: Distribution of intelligence.

Double Agent: Agent who is actually working for another government, normally feeding misinformation to the CIA. In the late 1980s, it was discovered that nearly all Cuban agents were working for Castro and passing on misinformation to the CIA.

False Flag: Agent, officer, or operation disguised to appear as if run by another country.

Handle (also called a vulnerability): Information, money, or other means for a case officer to exert control over an agent.

Hard-Target Country: Nation that the CIA considers to be difficult for spying, such as North Korea, China, France, Iran, and Russia.

HUMINT (human intelligence): Intelligence collected by the Directorate of Operations.

IMINT (imagery intelligence): Satellite imagery from spy satellites costing over $1 billion each, so exceptionally detailed that the numbers on license plates are visible.

Institutional Recruitment: Agent who can be passed down from case officer to case officer.

Legend: False identity of a case officer, often that of a real person, albeit a dead one.

Nonofficial Cover (NOC): A fake or real private sector job used by a case officer as a cover.

PNG: Eviction of a diplomat by declaring him or her a persona non grata, usually for spying. The benefit of official cover is that case officers are kicked out of a country instead of being thrown in jail.

SIGINT (signals intelligence): Intelligence gained by intercepting electronic communications.

Station: A major CIA post.

Takedown: Destruction of a network of foreign agents.

Walk-ins: Agents who are not recruited but instead offer their services.

The Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999* was signed into law by the President on October 20, 1998. Among its provisions, the Act directed that the Headquarters compound of the Central Intelligence Agency located in Langley, Virginia, shall be known and designated as the "George Bush Center for Intelligence."