Director of Central Intelligence

Director of Central Intelligence
Start	January 23, 1946
End	April 21, 2005

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
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 M. 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 R. 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 S. Carter	1963	1963	Only emerged in 1990. 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	The longest ever term as DCI. Dulles was fired by JFK after the Bay of Pigs and bore a grudge against him thereafter.
Walter Bedell Smith	7 October 1950	9 February 1953
Roscoe H. 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
Mike Pompeo	“I was a cadet, what's the cadet motto at West Point? You will not lie, cheat or steal or tolerate those who do. I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. We had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment.”	Mike Pompeo	April 2019

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