Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Agency overview
Formed	September 18, 1947; 67 years ago
Preceding Agency	Office of Strategic Services
Headquarters	George Bush Center for Intelligence Langley, Fairfax County, Virginia, U.S.
Motto	"The Work of a Nation. The Center of Intelligence."
Employees	Classified 21,575
Annual budget	Classified ($15 billion, as of 2013)
Agency executives	John O. Brennan, Director Avril Haines, Deputy Director
Parent agency	None (independent)
Website	www.CIA.gov

Central Intelligence Agency is the independently functioning intelligence agency of the United States of America. This functions under Direction of Nations Intelligence and has the major objectives of collecting, organizing and analyzing information from all national and foreign contexts. This information is then made available to policy makers so that they can formulate the laws and rules best for national interest.