Spies and Spooks: The (Mis)Adventures of the CIA

Preparing for the Post–Cold War World
As the Soviet Union dissolved in the early 1990s, the CIA had to develop a different portfolio: the new focus would be terrorism even as cyber-intelligence-gathering and analysis seemed to push aside raw-intelligence-gathering by operatives. The "fusion center," pictured, was one of the command-and-control centers coordinating action against terrorists. As the shift occurred, however, the agency had to do Cold War cleanup, including a lot more battles with the FBI, where the CIA believed Soviet and Russian moles continued to operate.

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