CIA

Overview

The CIA, the Central Intelligence Agency, is the US intelligence service in the GTA series. In GTA San Andreas the government agencies stay in the shadows: Mike Toreno works for an agency the game never names, and his rivals are dark-suited agents who appear in a handful of his missions.

In San Andreas

Toreno eventually reveals that he is a government agent and puts CJ to work against rival agencies in exchange for Sweet's release. His links to cocaine money and to conflicts in Latin America fit the agency's reputation, and Barbara Schternvart remarks on a date that the desert is full of CIA. The rival agents are said to fund military dictators abroad in return for arms deals.

Equipment

• Vehicles: Bobcat trucks, Maverick helicopters and an Andromada cargo plane.
• Weapons: Micro SMGs and AK-47s.

Role in the story

• Interdiction: rival agents in black Mavericks ambush a helicopter carrying Toreno's contraband over Arco del Oeste, and CJ shoots them down with a rocket launcher.
• Stowaway: agents land an Andromada at Verdant Meadows. CJ rides a bike into the plane as it takes off, plants a satchel charge and escapes with a parachute taken from an agent.
• Black Project: The Truth warns CJ against working for a government agent before sending him into Area 69 for the Jetpack.

Trivia

• The CIA appears more openly in GTA III, where its agents guard the Shoreside Lift Bridge.