Neither is it clear whether the president, or his American backers, have much interest in doing so: after all, Mr Fujimori, and the United States' Central Intelligence Agency and its drug-fighters were happy to rely on Mr Montesinos for a decade.

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Last March, in the most conciliatory speech to date, Mrs Albright said the United States regretted the Central Intelligence Agency's involvement in the 1953 coup that overthrew Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and brought back the Shah.

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Pasha had visited the United States to meet with the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, Leon Panetta, on April 11.

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According to data compiled by the Central Intelligence Agency, the United States has worse income inequality than China or Iran.

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Aside from the military reorganization, the act established the National Security Council, a central place of coordination for national security policy in the Executive Branch, and the Central Intelligence Agency, the United States' first peacetime intelligence agency.

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This methodology is more thorough than that used by America's Central Intelligence Agency, which provides the United States' government's estimates of drug production.

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Given the ongoing threats facing the United States, as well as the leadership transitions at other agencies like the Defense Department and Central Intelligence Agency, I believe continuity and stability at the FBI is critical at this time.

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