Counterterrorist Intelligence Center

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A Counterterrorist Intelligence Center (CTIC) is, according to a Washington Post front page article of November 18, 2005, a counterterrorist operations center run jointly by the CIA and foreign intelligence services as part of the Global War on Terror.

According to that article, on which the CIA declined to comment:

  • CTICs exist in more than two dozen countries.
  • They are "financed mostly by the agency and employ some of the best espionage technology the CIA has to offer".
  • They are used by the CIA and the foreign services to jointly "make daily decisions on when and how to apprehend suspects [of terrorism], whether to whisk them off to other countries for interrogation and detention, and how to disrupt al Qaeda's logistical and financial support."
  • They are separate from the "covert prisons, known in classified documents as "black sites", that the CIA has been alleged to run at various times in eight countries.

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