Porter Goss

Porter Goss
Born	November 26, 1938 Waterbury, CT
Member of	9-11/Joint Congressional Inquiry, Association of Former Intelligence Officers, Book and Snake, Operation 40, Psi Upsilon
Perpetrator of	"Iran-Contra"
Director of Central Intelligence In office September 24, 2004 - April 21, 2005 Preceded by George TenetJohn E. McLaughlin Succeeded by Porter Goss 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).

Porter Johnston Goss was a CIA officer from 1962 to 1972, and worked in the Miami station during the Cuban missile crisis, primarily as a photo-interpreter.

Background

Goss graduated from Yale University with a degree in Greek classics in 1960, where he joined Book and Snake and Psi Upsilon. He then joined the Army Reserve Officers Training (ROTC) program. From there, to use his own words, he "gravitated to the CIA" in 1961.

CIA

Goss worked in the JM/WAVE station in Miami. Asked about his connections, Goss once stated "I knew [station chief] Shackley but I was so junior compared to those people... a basic Boy Scout at that point."

Porter Goss joined the CIA in 1961 or 1962 when he was a student at Yale University.

Operation 40 Membership

Full article: Operation 40

John Simkin reports that Porter J. Goss was a member of CIA Assassination squad, Operation 40, and indeed a January 1963 photo shows someone generally agreed to be Goss with his arm around David Sanchex Moralez at a table with Barry Seal and many other members of Operation 40. Goss however claims that the photo is not him, and rather improbably for someone with his connections, that he had "never heard of Operation 40".

9-11 Joint Congressional Inquiry

Full article: 9-11/Joint Congressional Inquiry

After initially opposing calls for an inquiry into the events of 9/11, Porter Goss later agreed to lead the first inquiry into 9/11. He pointed out his determination not to find wrongdoing within the US Government, stating "This is not a who-shall-we-hang type of investigation. It is about where are the gaps in America's defense and what do we do about it type of investigation."

CIA directorship

George W Bush said about Goss: "He knows his CIA inside and out. He's the right man to lead this important agency at this critical moment in our nation's history" in a video clip run by CNN, August 10, 2004. On April 21, 2005, Bush made him Director of Central Intelligence. He became CID director on September 24, 2004, and told CIA staff later tht year their job was “to support the Bush administration and its policies in our work”. Some senior CIA figures who opposed the Iraq War resigned, included Michael Scheuer, former head of Bin Laden Station. Vince Cannistraro, a former head of the CIA’s counter-terrorist centre, commented: “It can only be interpreted one way – there will be no more dissenting opinions.”

Goss resigned in May 5, 2006, under pressure for reasons still uncertain. The Los Angeles Times claimed that "Goss was pushed out by Negroponte after clashes between them over Goss' management style, as well as his reluctance to surrender CIA personnel and resources to new organizations set up to combat terrorism and weapons proliferation." Other theories link his resignation to the investigation of Kyle Foggo, a top CIA official who had been accused improperly steered a $2.4 million contract to his close college friend Brent Wilkes, a defense contractor implicated in the Randy Cunningham case.

 

An event carried out

Event	Description
"Iran-Contra"	A drug trafficking/weapons smuggling operation carried out in the 1980s with the approval of the top of the US government.

 

An appointment by Porter Goss

Appointee	Job	Appointed	End	Description
Kyle Foggo	CIA/Executive Director	October 2004	8 May 2006	Resigned amid a multimillion dollar corruption probe.

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