Director of Central Intelligence
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |