Director of Central Intelligence

Director of Central Intelligence
Start	January 23, 1946
End	April 21, 2005
Leader of	CIA
Leader of the CIA. Boss of the CIA/Deputy Director.

From its inception on January 23, 1946 this job had twin responsibilities up until April 21, 2005. After that time, during the tenure of Porter Goss the duties were split into "Director of National Intelligence" (DNI) and the "Director of the Central Intelligence Agency" (D/CIA). The reasons for this split remain unclear.

 

Office Holders on Wikispooks

Name	From	To	Description
William Burns	19 March 2021
Gina Haspel	21 May 2018	20 January 2021
Mike Pompeo	23 January 2017	26 April 2018
Meroë Park	20 January 2017	23 January 2017	Acting
John Brennan	8 March 2013	20 January 2017
Michael Morell	9 November 2012	8 March 2013	Acting
David Petraeus	6 September 2011	9 November 2012
Michael Morell	1 July 2011	6 September 2011	Acting
Leon Panetta	13 February 2009	30 June 2011
Michael Hayden	30 May 2006	12 February 2009
Porter Goss	21 April 2005	26 May 2006	Left in acrimonious circumstances, which Daniel Hopsicker connects with 'Cocaine One'.
Porter Goss	24 September 2004	21 April 2005	The last DCI. After this the job was split into "Director of National Intelligence" (DNI) and the "Director of the Central Intelligence Agency" (D/CIA).
John E. McLaughlin	12 July 2004	24 September 2004	Acting
George Tenet	15 December 1996	11 July 2004	The second-longest ever term as DCI, after Allen Dulles.
John Deutch	10 May 1995	15 December 1996	Reportedly "moved quickly to change things".
James Woolsey	5 February 1993	10 January 1995
Robert Gates	6 November 1991	20 January 1993
William Webster	26 May 1987	31 August 1991
William Casey	28 January 1981	29 January 1987	Retired due to a brain tumor.
Stansfield Turner	9 March 1977	20 January 1981
E. Henry Knoche	20 January 1977	9 March 1977	Acting
George H. W. Bush	30 January 1976	20 January 1977	Brought in as an outsider to reform the CIA, Bush’s real job - at which he was highly successful - was to staunch the flow of secrets out of it.
William Colby	4 September 1973	30 January 1976	The 10th DCI, who died in a suspicious boating accident. Appointed as "a professional who would not make waves."
Vernon A. Walters	2 July 1973	4 September 1973	Acting
James Schlesinger	2 February 1973	2 July 1973
Richard Helms	30 June 1966	2 February 1973	Covered up a lot of the details of Project MKUltra by ordering extensive destruction of the CIA documents on the matter.
William Raborn	28 April 1965	30 June 1966
John McCone	1963	28 April 1965	date uncertain
Marshall Carter	1963	1963	Only emerged in 1990 that Marshall S. Carter had this job on 5th August.
John McCone	29 November 1961	1963	date uncertain
Allen Dulles	26 February 1953	29 November 1961
Walter Bedell Smith	7 October 1950	9 February 1953
Roscoe Hillenkoetter	1 May 1947	7 October 1950	During his leadership, the CIA was empowered to undertake "propaganda; economic warfare; preventive direct action, including sabotage, anti-sabotage, demolition, and evacuation measures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance movements, guerrillas and refugee liberation groups, and support of indigenous anti-Communist elements in threatened countries of the free world'. It had already exceeded this mandate.

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
CIA/Deputy Director for Operations	“Going back 50 years, the agency's practice was to publicly identify and praise most of Archibald's predecessors. Why? Paradoxically, it’s a job that requires a certain degree of public exposure. The spy chief's duties require him to visit regularly with the FBI, NSA and the dozen other branches of the U.S. intelligence community, to testify to congressional oversight committees and to meet with his foreign counterparts, either here or in some of the world’s most dangerous neighborhoods. Nearly two dozen of his predecessors have been known to the public. It’s too bad they’re going all black-cloak with Archibald, because after the bumpy tenures of the past few people in that job, the agency could benefit from letting people know that it has a "quiet professional" at the helm, as one former colleague put it, a figure of continuity at an agency that has changed CIA directors six times since 2003.”	Jeff Stein Newsweek	2013

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