Also speaking out lately has been Sudibyo, head of the powerful military intelligence agency BAKIN.
The Court of Cassation also ruled that five senior Italian secret service agents - including the former head of the country's military intelligence agency - should be tried for their role in the kidnapping.
That story originated in the Defense Intelligence Agency, the military intelligence branch of the Pentagon.
Later, the Defense Intelligence Agency became the main military intelligence body.
An official with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate military spy agency contested the U.S. view that Dr. Afridi was a patriot.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Security Agency (NSA), the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and all the military intelligence components agreed with this assessment.
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When the CIA was established under the National Security Act of 1947, it was designed strictly as an intelligence agency, without police or military powers.
Battlefield signal intercepts in time of war are the stock-in-trade of the National Security Agency and, indeed, of military intelligence more generally.
"This operation was conducted following a tip-off from our intelligence, " military spokesman Iliyasu Abbah said, quoted by Reuters news agency.
But documents that were declassified in the 1990s showed Mr. Powers's flight had been a joint Central Intelligence Agency-Air Force mission, making him eligible for military medals.
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Clayton Laurie, a historian at the Center for the Study of Intelligence at the CIA, said the spy agency needed highly skilled military pilots to fly the planes over the Soviet Union.
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In the end the NSA became the primary owner, the NRO (National Reconnaissance Office) owned and built the spacecraft that collected the intelligence and the military branches had organizations (Air Force Security Services, Army Security Agency or Naval Security Group) that manned the collection platforms (airplanes, listening posts, etc) which all fed back into the National Security Agency.
Kim Dae Jung, a liberal former democracy activist, was once a constant target of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, the national security apparatus that conservative Kim Jong Pil formed during military strongman Park Chung Hee's rule.
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