Articles for tag: Central Intelligence Agency

How to Find and Land CIA Jobs

For those who wish they were working for the CIA, jobs are wide ranging, challenging, and rewarding. Anyone can work for the CIA as an accountant, librarian, psychologist, research scientist, medical officer, or even a mechanic. However, when searching for CIA jobs, the first thing that comes to mind is the special agent. This article ...

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Oil Reserves by Country

This article ranks oil reserves by country according to estimates by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The CIA defines oil reserves as “the stock of proved reserves of crude oil in barrels (bbl) . . . which, by analysis of geological and engineering data, can be estimated with a high degree of confidence to be ...

Guide to a Career as a CIA Agent

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is one of the least understood government agencies in the United States. They aren’t in the public eye nearly as much as the FBI because their job is not to investigate crime, but to collect intelligence. The majority of their work is done behind the scenes and without advisement of ...

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How NAFTA Has Affected Mexico

Introduction The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is an agreement between the United States, Canada, and Mexico which provides for free trade among the three countries by removing or reducing restrictions to trade, such as tariffs and quotas, and providing a fair method for settling disputes. NAFTA went into effect in 1994. “The agreement ...

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How to Make Sense of Clancy’s Convoluted Chronology in Jack Ryan Series

It’s been over 20 years since The Naval Institute Press first published ‘The Hunt for Red October’ as one of its fiction offerings. Written by a insurance salesman from Maryland, this novel’s depiction of a Soviet submarine’s officers’ plot to defect to the United States became a runaway bestseller and made Tom Clancy a one-man ...

U.S. Oil Imports by Country of Origin

The United States consumes 18.69 million barrels of oil and oil products each day, 10.74 million of which are oil imports from 15 countries, according to data from the Central Intelligence Agency and U.S. Energy Information Administration. Of those 10.74 million barrels imported each day, 3.77 million (35%) come from the neighboring countries of Canada ...