Center for Strategic and International Studies, 127
Central America, 2, 22, 32, 169, 192
Central Asia, 32, 155, 226
military bases in, 24, 168, 175, 183–85, 189–90, 198, 215
oil in, 145, 168, 170–83, 185, 234
Central Asia Gas and Pipeline Consortum (CentGas), 179–80
Central Intelligence Act (1949), 117
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 3, 8, 10, 12, 36, 42n, 64, 68, 128, 162, 163, 203, 267, 295–96, 308
Afghanistan and, 11, 139, 181, 182, 222
assassinations and, 136
commercial espionage by, 166
Greece and, 205–6
Indonesia and, 209
information on citizens collected by, 122–23
Iran and, 220
Iraq and, 11, 126–27, 223–24, 232, 302, 303, 305, 306
Laos and, 134
Latin America and, 34
Panama and, 69
Pentagon vs., 123, 126–29
Philippines and, 209, 213
Saudi Arabia and, 218
secret budget of, 117
Soviet Union and, 18
Special Activities Division, 11
Yemen strike by, 27
Chechnya, 72, 172, 173, 175
chemical weapons, 101, 129–30, 225
Cheney, Dick, 6, 20, 82, 130, 174, 248, 286
Afghanistan and, 179
Halliburton and, 144–46, 184
Iraq war and, 126, 227–28, 233, 302–3, 308
Chevron (ChevronTexaco,
Chiang Kai-shek, 36, 86
Chief Peter J. Ganci Jr. Air Base (Kyrgyzstan), 183–84
Chile, 9, 75, 193, 224, 267
China, 9, 20, 29–31, 34, 35, 43, 50, 54, 58, 61, 71, 86, 94, 188, 189, 193, 222, 272, 290
Bush II and, 83–88
empire of, 310
Japan and, 48, 50, 131
oil and, 169, 170, 234
Chirac, Jacques, 300
Christianity, 43, 47, 138, 285, 287
Christopher, Warren, 163
Chun Doo-hwan, 89
Churchill, Winston, 91
Cicero, 285
CINCs (commanders in chief), 121–22, 124–26
