Executive oversight of United States covert operations
Executive oversight of United States covert operations has been carried out by a series of sub-committees of the National Security Council (NSC). == Birth of covert operations in the Cold War == At the beginning of the Cold War, it was not inevitable that covert operations would become the dominion of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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