Organization
The current structure of the NCS, under its Director, is as follows, according to the Official CIA Organizational Chart:
- Deputy Director of the NCS
- Counterproliferation Division
- Counterterrorism Center
- Counterintelligence Center
- Regional & Transnational Issues Divisions
- Technology Support Divisions
- Deputy Director of the NCS for Community HUMINT
- Community HUMINT Coordination Center
A major headquarters element was the Counterintelligence Staff, most powerful when led by James Jesus Angleton. It was the principal U.S. organization responsible for vetting potential new Clandestine HUMINT assets, and for U.S. offensive counterespionage and deception.
Under an assortment of names, such as Special Activities Division, there is a paramilitary function that may enter and prepare an area of operations before U.S. Army Special Forces enter in a more overt military role. This may or may not include psychological operations, especially black propaganda; paramilitary and psychological functions have split and joined under various historical reorganizations.
Various groups provide support services, such as cover documentation and disguise. A technical services unit, sometimes in the clandestine division and occasionally in the Directorate of Science and Technology, contained both espionage equipment development and sometimes questionable research, such as the MKULTRA mind control program.
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