The purpose of the CIA is to gather information from around the world and use that information for national security. Before the CIA was created the United States had other ways or gathering intelligence information but they weren?t nearly as sophisticated as the way that the CIA gathers information. Due to a lack of national security in the United States the Japanese Royal Airforce was able to attack Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941. After this disaster it was apparent that a strong well organized group would need to be put together to gather intelligence information for United States n…