"A front organization, also known as a front company, is any entity set up to publicly do one thing but secretly performs another. These are sometimes set up by intelligence agencies An intelligence agency is a governmental organization devoted to gathering of information by means of espionage (spying), communication interception, cryptoanalysis, cooperation with other institutions, and evaluation of public sources.
Intelligence agencies are also involved in defensive activities such as counter-espionage or counter-terrorism.

Some agencies are involved in assassination, arms sales as well as coups d'etat and other covert operations, in order to support their own or their governments' interests, and the placement of misinformation (propaganda).
A criminal organization is a groups run by criminals to further their illegal and usually immoral activities. Usually having to do with drugs, prostitution, money laundering and black marketeering. These activities are also called vice and organized crime. Some also engage in acts of political, racist, and religiously motivated violence, and in acts of terrorism."

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Another use of the term criminal organization exists in human rights law and refers to an organization which has been found guilty of crimes against humanity. Once an organization has been determined to be a criminal organization, then one must only demonstrate that an individual belonged to that organization to be punished and not that the individual actually individually committed illegal acts.
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This article is about the airline. See Air America (movie) for the movie and Air America Radio for the liberal radio network.
Air America was an airline secretly owned by the CIA that supplied covert operations in Southeast Asia during the Second Indochina War. It was created in 1959 when the CIA reorganized the Thailand-based assets of Civil Air Transport as a separate airline. From 1959 to 1975 it supplied operations throughout the region, but primarily the Secret War in Laos. It inserted and extracted personnel, transported troops and refugees, and flew photo reconnaissance missions that provided valuable intelligence on enemy activities. It is alleged to have transported opium and heroin, although veterans deny that this was done intentionally.
..... Click the link for more information. was set up by and owned by the CIA

"CIA" redirects here. For alternate meanings, see CIA (disambiguation).
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is the United States' foreign intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. government. It also maintains a vast covert military apparatus, which during the Cold War was responsible for a number of clandestine campaigns against foreign governments, leaders, and citizens. Its headquarters is in Langley, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.
..... Click the link for more information. to provide humanitarian aid but flew many combat support missions. Many criminal organizations use front companies to launder money Money laundering is the practice of engaging in financial transactions in order to conceal the identity, source and destination of the money in question. In the past, the term "money laundering" was applied only to financial transactions related to otherwise criminal activity. Today its definition is often expanded by government regulators, such as the SEC, to encompass any financial transaction which is not transparent based on law. As a result, the illegal activity of money laundering is now commonly practised by average individuals, small and large business, corrupt officials, and members of organized crime, such as drug dealers or Mafia members.



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... Čelna organizacija Medelinskog kartela, poznata kao “the extraditables” (oni koji
bi trebali biti izručeni) objavljuje primirje. U lipnju 1992. ...
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