National Resources Division
{{Short description|Domestic division of the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)}}
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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.{{Cite news |title=CIA Plans to Shift Work to Denver |author=Dana Priest |work=The Washington Post |date=May 6, 2005 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/05/AR2005050501860.html }}{{Cite news |title=The Biggest Little CIA Shop You’ve Never Heard Of |author=Jeff Stein |date=November 14, 2013 |work=Newsweek |url=http://mag.newsweek.com/2013/11/15/cia.html }}
History
The division was formed in 1991 by the merger of the CIA's Foreign Resources Division and the National Collection Division.{{Cite book |title=Denial and Deception: An Insider's View of the CIA |author=Melissa Boyle Mahle |publisher=Nation Books |year=2005 |url=https://archive.org/details/denialdeceptioni00mahl |url-access=registration }}
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.{{Cite book |title=The U.S. Intelligence Community |edition=4th |author=Jeffrey T. Richelson |year=1999 |pages=22 |url=http://lists101.his.com/pipermail/intelforum/2000-July/002042.html }}
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External links
- [https://www.cia.gov/index.html CIA homepage]
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Category:Central Intelligence Agency domestic surveillance operations
Category:1991 establishments in the United States
Category:Government agencies established in 1991
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