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The National Resources Division (NR) is the domestic division of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. Its main function is to conduct voluntary debriefings of U.S. citizens who travel overseas for work or to visit relatives, and to recruit foreign students, diplomats, and business people to become CIA assets when they return to their countries.

History

The division was formed in 1991 by the merger of the CIA's Foreign Resources Division and the National Collection Division.

The Domestic Resources Division was created in 1963 as the Domestic Operations Division and given the responsibility for clandestine operational activities of the Clandestine Services conducted within the United States against foreign targets. Its eventual function was to locate foreign nationals of special interest who resided in the United States and recruit them to serve as CIA assets when they returned home (or to some other foreign location).

The National Collection Division collected intelligence from U.S. residents who had traveled abroad, including scientists, technologists, economists, and energy experts returning from foreign locations.

References

1. Dana Priest (May 6, 2005). "CIA Plans to Shift Work to Denver". The Washington Post.
2. Jeff Stein (November 14, 2013). "The Biggest Little CIA Shop You've Never Heard Of". Newsweek.
3. Melissa Boyle Mahle (2005). Denial and Deception: An Insider's View of the CIA. Nation Books.
4. Jeffrey T. Richelson (1999). The U.S. Intelligence Community (4th ed.). p. 22.

External links

• CIA homepage

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Transnational activities	Alleged drug trafficking (Involvement in Contra cocaine trafficking) Arms control, WMD, and proliferation Black sites Controversies Counterterrorism Crime and illicit drug trade Health and economy Human rights violations Influence on public opinion
Directors of Central Intelligence and Directors of the Central Intelligence Agency	William J. Donovan (OSS) Sidney Souers Hoyt Vandenberg Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter Walter Bedell Smith Allen Dulles John A. McCone William Raborn Richard Helms James R. Schlesinger William Colby George H. W. Bush Stansfield Turner William J. Casey William H. Webster Robert Gates R. James Woolsey Jr. John M. Deutch George Tenet Porter Goss Michael Hayden Leon Panetta David Petraeus John Brennan Mike Pompeo Gina Haspel William J. Burns
Major international operations	Operation Ajax Operation PBSuccess Secret War 1960 U-2 incident Congo Crisis Bay of Pigs Invasion Operation Mongoose Phoenix Program Operation Rubicon United States intervention in Chile Operation Cyclone Iran–Contra affair Drone strikes in Pakistan Operation Neptune Spear Timber Sycamore
Notable works	The Invisible Government (1964) All the Shah's Men (2003) Ghost Wars (2004) Overthrow (2006) Legacy of Ashes (2007) The Unexpected Spy (2019)
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