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In a way they are. It really depends on the assignment the agency has given them.
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Can CIA spies tell their family that they are spies?
No
What is the name of Jim Sturgess' band?
Either CIA,Dilated Spies,or underground spies.
Do the CIA carry badges?
First off there needs to be some serious clarification here, CIA Officers are Americans who work out of U.S. Embassies overseas, and their job is to recruit foreign assets who give our country secret information. When we think of 'spies' we are thinking of CIA Officers, aka Intelligence Officers, Case Officers or Operations Officers. CIA 'agents' on the other hand are usually foreigners who are betraying their own country to pass on this information to the U.S. govt. thru the American CIA Officer (Hollywood and the media screws up this distinction all the time, Jason Bourne would actually be a Paramilitary Operations Officer, not an agent; James Bond would actually be an MI6 Officer not an agent). In the Showtime series Homeland Clair Danes and Mandy Patinkin are Officers, while Brody would be considered an 'agent' when he agreed to go to Iran on behalf of the CIA for a mission. Another term for a CIA 'agent' is a confidential informant or asset. Now to the question of 'Do CIA officers carry badges or guns?' the answer is No. CIA Officers are not cops, they are not Federal law enforcement agents or police, they do not have any law enforcement powers like arrest, search & seizure. Only overseas in certain dangerous, high-threat environments do CIA officers carry weapons, like in Afghanistan. The only CIA employees who carry badges and guns are the Federal Security/Police officers who patrol and protect CIA headquarters in Virginia, and also within the Office of Inspector General (all federal agencies have an OIG), within that office there are criminal investigators who investigate waste, fraud, illegalities and other abuses within the agency, these OIG investigators do have limited law enforcement powers and do carry a badge, but these investigators are not spies and are no different from the OIGs in other govt. agencies like the Postal Service, the Forest Service or State Dept. Those last two examples are the only exceptions to the general rule that the 'CIA does not carry badges and/or guns.'
What are the release dates for Inside Edition - 1988 Stargate CIA psychic spies?
Inside Edition - 1988 Stargate CIA psychic spies was released on: USA: 21 December 1995
What bad stuff did the CIA do in the Cold War?
The CIA conducted covert operations. If people knew what they did, they wouldn't be covert operations.
Do all CIA agents carry guns?
For the most part; no, they are not armed. Unlike in the movies, the CIA is not a law enforcement agency like, say, the FBI. The CIA is primarily dedicated to collecting foreign intelligence. The CIA also, unlike the FBI or in the movies, does not have agents. There is a branch of the CIA called the clandestine service, and they have what are known as Operations Officers ("Spies", if you will). CIA officers are deployed all over the world and they collect intelligence by recruiting people in other countries to give them information. They do this through trust, bribery, blackmailing, etc. Unlike in the movies, the average CIA officer overseas is not dressed in all black tactical gear rappeling through the skylight of a military complex at night and sneaking up on the guards, slitting their throats, and then hacking into the mainframe and downloading Intel and escaping undetected. Instead, in real life, the average CIA officer works a full-time job (as a cover) and will spend the rest of the time trying to befriend people of interest that will eventually, hopefully, give up information. All CIA officer, nonetheless, do go through extensive training prior to being deployed which includes a variety of weapons training, demolition, evasive driving, clandestine surveillance, interrogation techniques, parachuting, and defensive tactics. How much the average CIA officer actually uses any of these skills is probably by far the minority of their overseas career. However, this is not to say that the CIA doesn't do its share of military-style operations. They also have what are called Specialized Skills Operations Officers. These are often the guys more like what you'll see in the movies. They often have former military special operations experience, foreign language proficiency, and other skills and the CIA will deploy them around the world in their areas of expertise to conduct a variety of covert operations - which can include assassination of a target, demolition, raids and searches, capturing suspected terrorists, and working alongside military special operations units to conduct highly classified intelligence missions that require military tactics. But in some cases, like the Spetsnaz, you get awesome weapons-so join the russian CIA
Did Anderson Cooper once work for the CIA?
yes, he was the president of CIA operations for 5 years.
Was the CIA a spy group?
spies do not release any information so we don't know
How did the CIA participate in the Cold War?
The CIA created an airline known as Air America to support operations of the Cold War.
How did Camp X lead to the CIA?
Camp X = Training British, Canadian AND American spies and special agents. Americans took the idea and formed the CIA.
What was the agency of the US government that used spies to get information and to carry out secret actions aboard?
the CIA
What are the release dates for The Capture and Execution as Spies of Two Japanese Officers - 1904?
The Capture and Execution as Spies of Two Japanese Officers - 1904 was released on: UK: April 1904 USA: July 1904
