It was contemplated that the CIA would be limited to foreign intelligence operations and conduct very few of its operations in the United States. The Agency was specifically permitted to be headquartered in the United States and conduct what acts may be necessary to administer that facility.
[Overseas Headquarters brings to mind the French Foreign Legion.] The Agency does lots of things domestically to support their 'overseas' charter. They pay the Skunk Works to design U-2's & Blackbirds. They run (or did...) a rather large training operation at Camp Perry. They keep safehouses for defectors; sometimes expensive ones. [There was a great story in the WSJ a few years back about a white elephant of one they wanted to sell...] They have a rather unique warehouse of James Bond-ish gadgets. I once met the logistics guy who had to account for it all, even when he had no idea what much of it was! They have domestic field offices. (BTW, it's worth wondering what restrictions there'd be if it were not for an ENORMOUS turf battle between them & Jill Edgar Hoover.) But they don't even keep their own domestic guard force; that is all FPS, same as NSA. -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433