大学英语六级改革适用（阅读）模拟试卷379
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How the CIA Works
[A]Despite plenty of Hollywood films about the CIA and its spies, many people still don\’t know what the agency actually does. The CIA stands for the Central Intelligence Agency. Its primary stated mission is to collect, evaluate and spread foreign intelligence to assist the president and senior United States government policymakers in making decisions about national security. The CIA may also engage in covert(秘密的)action at the president\’s request. It doesn\’t make policy. It isn\’t allowed to spy on the domestic activities of Americans or to participate in assassinations, either— though it has been accused of doing both.
[B]The CIA reports both to the executive and legislative branches. During the CIA\’s history, the amount of oversight has ebbed and flowed. On the executive side, the CIA must answer to three groups—the National Security Council, the President\’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and the Intelligence Oversight Board.
CIA History
[C]The United States has always engaged in foreign intelligence activities. Covert action aided the patriots in winning the Revolutionary War. But the first formal, organized agencies didn\’t exist until the 1880s, when the Office of Naval Intelligence and the Army\’s Military Intelligence Division were created. Around World War I, the Bureau of Investigation(the forerunner of the FBI)took over intelligence-gathering duties. The intelligence structure continued through several repetitions. For example, the Office of Strategic Services, known as the OSS, was established in 1942 and abolished in 1945.
[D]After World War II, U.S. leaders struggled with how to improve national intelligence. The Pearl Harbor bombing, which brought the United States into World War II, was considered a major intelligence failure.
[E]In 1947, President Harry Truman signed the National Security Act, which created the CIA. The act also created a director of central intelligence, who had three different roles: the president\’s principal adviser on security issues, the head of the entire U.S. intelligence community and the head of the CIA, one of the agencies within that intelligence community. This structure was revised in 2004, with the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, which created the position of director of national intelligence to oversee the intelligence community. Now, the director of the CIA reports to the director of national intelligence.
[F]Two years later, Congress passed the Central Intelligence Agency Act, which allows the agency to keep its budget and staffing secret. For many years, the agency\’s primary mission was to protect the United States against communism and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. These days, the agency has an even more complex job—to protect the United States from terrorist threats from all over the globe.
CIA Structure
[G]The CIA is broken down into four different teams, each with its own responsibilities. National Clandestine Service is where the so-called \\
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