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 CIA/Director  | |
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 Flag of the CIA | |
| Start | April 21, 2005 |
| Leader of | CIA |
| Deputy | Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency |
| Website | http://www.cia.gov |
| Leader of the CIA. Boss of the CIA/Deputy Director. | |
The Office of United States Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) was the head of the American Central Intelligence Agency from 1946 to 2005, acting as the principal intelligence advisor to the President of the United States and the United States National Security Council, as well as the coordinator of intelligence activities among and between the various US intelligence agencies (collectively known as the United States Intelligence Community from 1981 onwards).
The DCI existed from January 1946 to 21 April 2005, and was replaced on that day by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) as head of the Intelligence Community and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (D/CIA) as head of the CIA.[1]
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 | |
| Marshall Carter | 1963 | 1963 | Only emerged in 1990 that Marshall S. Carter had this job on 5th August. |
| John McCone | 1963 | 28 April 1965 | date uncertain |
| 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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