The agency conducts covert operations and paramilitary actions, and exerts foreign political influence through its Special Activities Division.

Although much of its origins are as yet unknown, the IRLA had attracted attention with its threats of paramilitary action.

This gives us the model of a geographic branch with subordinate sections, at least, for intelligence collection and paramilitary actions.

Police said the attack bore the hallmarks of a loyalist paramilitary action.

Discussion of this memorandum brought to the surface an unease about paramilitary covert action that had become ingrained, at least among some CIA senior managers.

He said that Rousseff never participated or planned any paramilitary actions; her role was only political.

In this context, jihad refers to the use of violence, including paramilitary action against persons, governments deemed to be enemies of the fundamentalist version of Islam.

The NCS oversaw a myriad of units for political, economic, and paramilitary covert action.

Radicals became more aggressive, and conservatives turned to paramilitary and vigilante actions.

Then the paramilitary action against the Turks began in December 1963, after which Turkish-Cypriots forcefully withdrew from government.