This is the only person who can authorize a covert action
Who is the President?
100
The failure to determine the intentions of a pacific rival led to this surprise attack in 1941
What is Pearl Harbor?
100
This country sheltered six American diplomats in Tehran until the CIA successfully exfiltrated them out of the Iran in 1979.
What is Canada?
100
This is the collection of imagery, primarily from satellite platforms.
What is GEOINT?
100
This is a diagram that consists of overlapping circles and is used to show areas of commonality between an argument or position.
What is a Venn Diagram?
200
The CIA headquarters building is located here.
What is Langley, VA
200
The failure of US and Israeli intelligence to anticipate a coordinated Syrian and Egyptian attack on the Golan Heights in 1973
What is Yom Kippur War?
200
This was the CIA paramilitary operation into Afghanistan following the 9/11 attacks.
What is Operation Jawbreaker?
200
This is intelligence collected from human sources.
What is HUMINT?
200
A visualization of historical events used to establish a baseline understanding.
What is a timeline?
300
The CIA was established in this year
What is 1947
300
Failing to determine Soviet intentions to back a regional ally caught the US by surprise in this 1979 invasion.
What is the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?
300
This was the operation to overthrow Iran's elected leader Muhammad Mossedeq in 1953
What is Operation Ajax?
300
This is information collected from open sources.
What is OSINT?
300
This is a group process that follows specific rules and procedures designed for generating NEW ideas and concepts.
What is brainstorming?
400
He was the Director of the CIA during 9/11
Who is George Tenet
400
This nuclear power test detonated several below ground nuclear weapons in May 1998, completely surprising the CIA.
What is India?
400
This was the insertion of Cuban counter-revolutionaries into Cuba in April 1961
What was the 'Bay of Pigs invasion'?
400
This is the information collected from the measurement of signals
What is MASINT?
400
This technique is for developing multiple alternatives for explaining a particular issue, activity, or behavior.
What is multiple hypothesis generation?
500
This was the CIA version of the Mach 3 SR-71 spy plane
What is A-12 Oxcart?
500
This coordinated campaign against US and South Vietnamese forces in January, 1968 caught US intelligence services off guard and scored a symbolic victory for North Vietnam.
What was the Tet Offensive?
500
This was the operation that killed Osama bin Laden in May 2011
What is Operation Neptune Spear?
500
This is intelligence gained by analysis of electronic signals
What is ELINT?
500
This technique identifies a complete set of alternative hypotheses and systematically evaluates the data that is consistent or inconsistent with each hypotheses.