I walked into a building after an hour of going through security. I stepped on a mat and an iron door slid open from both sides. The room in front of me was incredible, the technology in there wasn’t even released to the public it was so advanced. “ Welcome Felix,” said a strange man with a black suit “Hello…?’” “Welcome to the CIA control room” “Thanks” He lead me over to station and everyone was staring at me as if i were the last piece of consumable food left on the whole planet. He sat me down in my chair, it was incredibly comfortable. The keyboard in front of me was also super comfortable and as I looked up my eyes were amazed to see a 42” plasma flat screen TV that had hundreds of wired connected to it. “This is where you will be working most of the time” he pointed to the station “This computer is the most powerful computer in the world and you have access to the information of anyone or …show more content…
anything in the world.Now we have a quick task-” “BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!” An alarm had cut the man off and my entire screen had turned red and flashed saying, Nuclear Missile Approaching. “Code Red16!” He shouted repeatedly, “Stay here Felix and we will fix this” The man ran off to another monitor but as I sat there I was super nervous and felt like dead weight. I knew I had to try something so I moved the mouse and a window popped up saying ‘DANGER NUCLEAR MISSILE APPROACHING’ I closed that window and opened up several tabs to get to the missile’s code. Just then everything around me went dark except for my computer. Everyone inside the compound came rushing to me, their faces pale with fear and sweat coming down from the foreheads. The presence of the most intelligent minds all staring at me made me super nervous and my heart was about to beat out of my chest. I tried not to notice them but all of the sudden the room was super hot and perspiration was visible all over my face. I closed my and to my surprise when i had opened them the man who was talking to me before had come to my side and I looked at him as a drop of sweat dropped off of his hair and slowly coming to the ground with a soft splash. The code in front of me was heavily encrypted and honestly I had no idea what to do.
Completely baffled by the look of the code I opened up Google and looked up a website to decrypt codes. Everyone started whispering and all of the sudden a man shouted “WHAT ARE YOU DOING? WE ARE ABOUT TO GET NUKED!” I ignored him and continued to the site. I pasted the code into the website and to my surprise a nice beautiful code came out a perfectly decrypted code. I pasted it back into the missile’s code and started searching. With all of the pressure on me I felt that every second that I searched and hour had gone by, but finally I found the exact line that said “--” I changed it to “--.” All of the sudden the room lit up and the alarm silenced. For a second there was a moment of silence for the people to get a grasp of what had just happened, Then the compound erupted “Felix! Felix! Felix.” Right then I had also just realized that I had just stopped a nuclear missile from destroying Washington
D.C. Summary This story is about a kid named Felix who is super smart and his parents are rich but he has no friends. one day he is at school and he meets Tom and he becomes friends with him. But then Tom starts to take advantage of Felix and asks him to hack into the school grading system to change his grades and he will only stay friends with him if Felix does that for him. Felix is so desperate for a friend that he does it but gets caught by the police and only he goes to juvie and Tom gets out of it. One day a man comes to Felix to talk to him in juvie to invite him to the CIA because he saw how good he was at computer hacking and how smart he was. Felix accepts the offer and goes to the CIA. During his introduction to the compound everything goes bad and a nuclear missile is targeted to Washington D.C. He opens the Missile’s code and all of the power shuts off and his is the only functional computer in the compound and he hacks the missile and stops it from hitting D.C. He is awarded with several medals by the CIA and continues to work for them.
The book HIDEOUT, written by Gordon Korman, begins with an adventurous group of middle school kids that come to the rescue of one of their friends to hide a fierce Doberman before a crooked businessman can bring him harm. The story starts out in the beginning of August, in Cedarville, New York, with the school friends all heading off to summer camps but they did not know they would be sneaking a dog along with them. There are two main characters in each of the summer camps and the story takes place in all three of these camps. These summer camps are in the woods of New York’s Catskill Mountains. They are Camp Ebony Lake, Camp Ta-da and Camp Endless Pines. These three camps may be in the same woods but they are spread out and are miles away from each other. There is a different theme to each camp and it makes the book more interesting because the setting is always changing.
The Civil War was the bloodiest, most devestating war that has ever been fought on American soil. It began on April 12, 1861, at 4:30 in the morning. The main reason that the war was fought was because Southern states believed that they should have the right to use African-Americans as slaves, and the Northern States opposed that belief.
In the book, The CIA in Hollywood, by Tricia Jenkins, Jenkins explains a brief and clear demonstration on how the CIA has heavily sought to team up with Hollywood to develop certain plans since the 1990s. Jenkins’ intent is to inform the ‘largely hidden history of the CIA in Hollywood’ and to specify how ‘this model of secret influence’ functions (53). Jenkins covers CIA portrayal and involvement, from the Cold War, when it was mostly ‘depicted in a very negative light,’ (133) to the current 9/11 era, as it is ‘trying to circulate whitewashed images of itself through popular media.’ (137).
The theory of the CIA killing Kennedy is the one theory that many people can’t debunk. Kennedy was fed up with what the CIA was pulling. He found out they were trying to kill Castro, and he didn’t like that. Some people believe that the CIA thought he was going to disband them, which would make him a target (Patterson). Another very hot topic around that time was Kennedy’s failure to support the men of the Bay of Pigs. The CIA was strongly against Kennedy because of these two incidences, which would have given them a motive for the assassination (“The CIA and the FJK Assassination”). There have also been confessions of CIA involvement. In 2007, E. Howard Hunt left behind a confession that he taped. He said that he knew of the plot but
Democrat and Chronicle: A daily newspaper, which targets more liberal readers. It questions the government more severely then others.
In “Spies: the Rise and fall of the KGB in America”, John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev base their information off of a collection of documents that belonged to the KGB. The archives provide the most complete report of Soviet espionage in America ever written. Along with a general look into espionage strategies and the motives of Americans who spied for Stalin, this book settles specific controversies. “Spies: the Rise and Fall of the KGB in America” reveals numerous American spies who were never even under suspicion and also identifies the last unaccounted for nuclear spies who were American. This source focused greatly on Soviet infiltration of the U.S. government, and Haynes, Harvey, and Vassiliev convey why and how penetration contributed to the success and failure of the KGB throughout the Cold War.
The legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, is a novel written by Tim Weiner which the author discusses how the CIA had started and how the CIA have managed to hide all the horrific failures from the world’s knowledge. I thought that this novel was going to be jaw dropping and catching your attention at every page, but unfortunately that was not the case. Tim Weiner had provided a decent amount of information about how the CIA had failed the citizens of America as well as destroy the reputation and left the agency in worse shape than when each leader had obtained it in.
The Central Intelligence Agency is an agency of federal government that gathers information on foreign military, economic and political activities. It also conducts covert political operations against governments to promote national security. The Central Intelligence Agency became incredibly active during the Cold War, which was mostly an intelligence war. During the years 1961 and 1963, the Central Intelligence Agency took many actions in attempt to fight communism and resolve the Cold War under Kennedy’s presidency.
CIA: The CIA is an American Intelligence Agency. Its purpose is to protect America from potential threats. (www.cia.gov) The CIA planned the escape of the six embassy employees. The film is largely based around the role of the CIA, slightly exaggerating the role they played in the crisis.
The Central Intelligence Agency The CIA is one of the U.S. foreign intelligence agencies, responsible for getting and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. government. The State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the Defense Department's Defense Intelligence Agency comprise the other two. Its headquarters is in Langley, Virginia, across the Potomac River from D.C. The Agency, created in 1947 by President Harry S. Trueman, is a descendant of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) of World War 2. The OSS was dissolved in October 1945 but William J. Jonavan, the creator of the OSS, had submitted a proposal to President Roosevelt in 1944.
The Cold War started in 1945 and was the beginning of an intense post-World War II standoff between two world powers, the United States of America and the Soviet Union. They had just ended a war in which they were allies fighting against the Germans, Italians, and the Japanese. This prompted the use of both countries intelligence agencies. The Soviets relied on the KGB to collect intelligence on interior and exterior situations, and started out as their secret police and then turned into their main intelligence agency in 1954. The U.S.A. had all of their intelligence coming from the CIA, which was established in 1947 after President Truman decided that the U.S. needed an agency like them. Both the CIA and the KGB were collecting information about the opposite nation in terms of their abilities and scientific advancements. They were the two main players in this war because they were the ones who found out the “secrets” that their countries needed.
Advanced scientific capacity is obvious by the numerous international awards received by Soviet physicists prior to WWII
The National Security Act of 1947, signed by President Harry S Truman, is how the Central Intelligence Agency was formally created. The “office off director of central intelligence” was also created as a result of this Act. Anyone in this position served as head of the United States intelligence community and acts as the President’s principal advisor. He/She usually updates the President of any and all intelligence issues concerning national security (Wagner 13).
The stewardess then directed me towards the back, away from the cockpit. I looked at my ticket and at what seat I'd be sitting in. I had to duck in and around people putting their luggage into the upper compartments and look for my number on the back of my seat that matched my ticket stamp. As I walked past one of the windows, I glanced out and saw the right wing. It somehow gave me reassurance that I'd be fine and I'd soon be having the time of my life. "I'll soon be in the air."
Employed as a “tool of statecraft” since the Revolutionary days (Daugherty, 2004, p. 1), covert action has long been used as instrument to achieve a number of United States foreign policy objectives. These clandestine activities to influence economic, political, or military conditions in foreign states have been widely regarded as an attractive third option to many Presidential administrations as a cost-effective middle ground measure between diplomacy and overt war. When integrated as but one part of a comprehensive plan, and for specific and achievable objectives, success has often resulted. However, there have been other instances where this tool has been wielded poorly and/or for the wrong reasons, bringing disastrous consequences. Additionally, even outcomes that were initially determined to be successful often had unintended deleterious repercussions later. In spite of this erratic track record and questions of moral ambiguity, covert operations have been utilized by every U.S. President since World War II. Whether undertaken as part of a larger campaign or as a measure of last resort, whether directed at a government or an individual, and whether implemented during peacetime or war, covert operations have been executed to achieve any number of stated, as well as veiled, foreign policy objectives.