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The military intelligence service of the Centaur Federation.
The Centaur Intelligence Agency (CIA) is actually older that the Centaur Federation by four years. It was set up as part of the resistance movement against the Wolf Dictatorship when the Centaur Rebellion began. Its primary objective was to obtain scientific data on wormdrive technology and its secondary objective was to obtain information on the location of the wormhole into the Wolf star system. It succeeded in both of these roles and collected the information that led to the construction of the Centaur Attack Fleet that defeated the Wolf Dictatorship.
The CIA was deliberately given the initials of a former Earth intelligence organisation from the country that sent the first starship to Centaur. This was a psychological tool to subconsciously lead enemy agents from the Wolf Dictatorship to make an assumption that the Centaur Intelligence Agency was somehow based on that organisation. Notes recovered from the Wolves indicate that the ploy was a success. At the start of the First Interstellar War, the Wolves believed that the colonists from the USA, Europe and the Russian Hegemony had not managed to integrate with each other successfully.
The Centaur Intelligence Agency was actually created with a totally different structure to the Earth CIA and has always had much more power and resources than that organisation. In fact the amount of autonomy given to the military (including the CIA) during the First Interstellar War was probably what enabled the military coup against the democratic government after the war.
In 176 AI (2392 AD) the Centaur Federation ceased control of Centaur and took over all of its government agencies, including the Centaur Intelligence Agency. The Federation expanded the CIA and it now gathers intelligence on many worlds. It is one of the largest government security services. It has agents operating on all of the true independent worlds and probably also on many of the worlds in the other power blocs.
In the past the CIA has been accused of setting up private companies as a facade on vulnerable independent worlds, and then using those companies to employ mercenaries to do things designed to destabilise the governments of those worlds. So far none of these companies has been traced back to the Centaur Federation. However, many of these companies have closed down, had their offices destroyed by arson attacks or vanished in other suspicious circumstances, shortly after a planet has joined the CF.
Most recently, they are thought to be behind Iron Fist, a subversive organisation on Valhalla (DM+71 482), that is believed to have helped organise the Valhallan military coup in 297 AI (2513 AD).