CIA Quiz

CIA Quiz Questions

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1) Which organization is considered the forerunner of CIA?
a) Directorate of Revenue Intelligence
b) Office of Strategic Services
c) Intelligence Bureau
d) Central Bureau of Investigation

2) Which Act established CIA?
a) National Security Act 1947
b) Prevention of Terrorism Act 2002
c) No FEAR Act 2002
d) Intelligence Act 1950

3) Who was Director of CIA and later became Defence Secretary of USA?
a) William Henry Gates
b) Robert Gates
c) Janet Reno
d) Colin Powell

4) Who was Director of Central Intelligence and later became President of USA?
a) William Clinton
b) James Carter
c) George Herbert Walker Bush
d) Ronald Reagan

5) Where are the headquarters of CIA?
a) Langley
b) New York
c) Sacramento
d) Austin

6) When was Radio Free Europe set up?
a) 1945
b) 1947
c) 1949
d) 1951

7) Which operation of CIA recruited news organizations and journalists?
a) Operation Black Thunder
b) Operation Mockingbird
c) Operation Hummingbird
d) Operation Blue Star

8) Which was CIA’s first public setback?
a) Bay of Pigs
b) Return of Hugo Chavez
c) Fall of Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi
d) Fall of South Vietnam

9) Who was overthrown and assassinated in Chile in 1973?
a) Jean Bertrand Aristide
b) Daniel Ortega
c) Oscar Romero
d) Salvadore Allende

10) Who was a CIA operative for many years and after becoming independent was overthrown and arrested in 1989?
a) Lon Nol
b) Manuel Noriega
c) Anastasios Samoza
d) John Kerr

CIA Quiz Questions with Answers

1) Which organization is considered the forerunner of CIA?
b) Office of Strategic Services

2) Which Act established CIA?
a) National Security Act 1947

3) Who was Director of CIA and later became Defence Secretary of USA?
b) Robert Gates

4) Who was Director of Central Intelligence and later became President of USA?
c) George Herbert Walker Bush

5) Where are the headquarters of CIA?
a) Langley

6) When was Radio Free Europe set up?
c) 1949

7) Which operation of CIA recruited news organizations and journalists?
b) Operation Mockingbird

8) Which was CIA’s first public setback?
a) Bay of Pigs

9) Who was overthrown and assassinated in Chile in 1973?
d) Salvadore Allende

10) Who was a CIA operative for many years and after becoming independent was overthrown and arrested in 1989?
b) Manuel Noriega