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The CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) is the main intelligence agency of the United States, created in 1947, at the same time as the Security Council (National Security Council). It is responsible for intelligence collection abroad, counterintelligence outside the United States, development and rese
The stragglers (in French stragglers) is the English word used to designate the Japanese soldiers of the Pacific War who, after the capitulation of Japan in August 1945 which marked the end of the Second World War, continued to fight . They are called in Japanese zanryu nipponhei (literally remainin
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