The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is the successor to World War II’s Office of Strategic Services (OSS).
   
The CIA has also been nicknamed “The Agency,” “Pickle Factory” (since at least 1965), “The Company” (since at least 1972), “Christians In Action” (since at least 1978), “Capitalism’s Invisible Army” (by R. Buckminster Fuller in 1981), “Cocaine Importing Agency” (since at least 1988), “Capitalism’s International Army” (since at least 1995), “Virginia Farm Boys” (after its headquarters in Langley, Virginia, as used in the 1996 film Mission: Impossible), “Certified Idiots of America” (since at least 1996), “Crooks In Action” (since at least 2010), “Clowns In America” (since at least 2010) and “Catholic Intelligence Agency” (since at least 2012).
 
     
Wikipedia: Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA; /siaɪˈeɪ/) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, officially tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT). As one of the principal members of the United States Intelligence Community (IC), the CIA reports to the Director of National Intelligence and is primarily focused on providing intelligence for the President and Cabinet of the United States.
   
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I always thought C.I.A. stood for Cocaine Importing Agency or Child Importing Agency . I heard a version from Q . Clowns In America ?
3:25 AM · Oct 1, 2020·Twitter for Android