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Revision as of 12:38, 31 March 2024
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Parent topics
- Office of Strategic Services [r]: Add brief definition or description
- National Security Act of 1947 [r]: Core of legislation that restructured the U.S. military from its traditional structure of a separate Army and Navy, creating the United States Air Force, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the predecessor to the U.S. Department of Defense [e]
- Director of National Intelligence [r]: Prior to the attacks of 9/11, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency was the nominal head of the United States Intelligence Community, following 9/11 a more senior position was created, with a measure of actual authority over those agencies [e]
- United States intelligence community [r]: The United States' intelligence agencies coordinated by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. [e]
Subtopics
- Director of Central Intelligence [r]: Formerly, the U.S. official that headed both the Central Intelligence Agency and the United States intelligence community; the responsibility is now split between the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (currently Leon Panetta) and the Director of National Intelligence (currently Dennis Blair) [e]
- Director of the Central Intelligence Agency [r]: After the Director of National Intelligence was created to head the overall United States intelligence community, the official responsible for the remaining functions of the Central Intelligence Agency in intelligence analysis and research into intelligence methodology, clandestine human-source intelligence and some covert action [e]
past Directors
- William Colby [r]: A U.S. intelligence and special operations officer eventually becoming Director of Central Intelligence (1973-1976). [e]
- Richard Helms [r]: The first U.S. career intelligence officer to become Director of Central Intelligence (1966-1973); also the only former Director ever convicted of a crime (arguably a technical one) directly related to his official duties [e]
Former staff
- David Addington [r]: U.S. lawyer, closely affiliated with Dick Cheney, who is an advocate of extremely strong Presidential power [e]
- Robert Ames [r]: National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and a Central Intelligence Agency employee killed in the 1983 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut [e]
- James Jesus Angleton [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Richard Bissell [r]: Central Intelligence Agency official involved in a wide range of operations and high-technology projects; involved in the original creation of the National Reconnaissance Office; resigned over the Bay of Pigs [e]
- Cofer Black [r]: Central Intelligence Agency officer who headed the Counterterrorism Center before the 9/11 attack, reporting directly to Jim Pavitt under George Tenet [e]
- Dino Brugioni [r]: Former senior official at the CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center who helped establish imagery intelligence (IMINT); after retirement, worked on the use of imagery in historical research; discovered, well after WWII, photographic evidence of Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp [e]
- William Bundy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Vincent Cannistrano [r]: President of Cannistrano Associates, former Central Intelligence Agency officer who headed the Counterterrorism Center; Director for Intelligence Programs at the National Security Council in the Ronald Reagan Administration; Special Assistant for Intelligence in the office of the Secretary of Defense. [e]
- Kathleen Christison [r]: Central Intelligence Agency officer who retired in 1979; charter member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity who resigned, along with her spouse, William Christison, over the specific recommendation to ask for Dick Cheney's resignation; she continues as an author on topics related to Palestine [e]
- William Christison [r]: Retired Central Intelligence Agency officer, a founding member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity who resigned when the group went beyond what he and Kathleen Christison considered policy, in calling for the resignation of Dick Cheney; he was a very early CIA officer, joining in 1950 serving in analysis for 28 years; he was also, from the 1970s a National Intelligence Officer for several regions; his last assignment was Director of the CIA's Office of Regional and Political Analysis; spouse of CIA veteran Kathleen Christison [e]
- Lucien Conein [r]: (1919-1998), a U.S. clandestine operations officer working both for the Office of Strategic Services and the Central Intelligence Agency; he was the direct contact to the 1963 coup against Ngo Dinh Diem. [e]
- Hank Crumpton [r]: Coordinator for Counterterrorism in U.S. State Department, with the rank of Ambassador; long a Central Intelligence Agency covert action officer [e]
- Raymond Garthoff [r]: Guest Scholar, Brookings Institution: specialist on arms control, the Cold War, the former Soviet Union and NATO; former U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria and has also advised the State Department on missile treaties; was Central Intelligence Agency analyst on weapons of mass destruction [e]
- Philip Giraldi [r]: Francis Walsingham Fellow, American Conservative Defense Alliance; Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity; contributor to AntiWar.com contributing editor on terrorism, intelligence, and security issues for the American Conservative magazine; signatory, "Beyond Guantanamo"; Former Central Intelligence Agency Chief of Base in Barcelona (1989-1992), senior officer for Olympic Games support, liaison to the Spanish Security and Intelligence services [e]
- Fiona Hill [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Edward Lansdale [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Jami Miscik [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Paul Pillar [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Michael Scheuer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Valerie Plame Wilson [r]: Add brief definition or description
Analytic products
- National Intelligence Estimate [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Special National Intelligence Estimate [r]: Add brief definition or description
Clandestine sources
- Peter Popov [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Oleg Penkovsky [r]: Add brief definition or description
Covert action
- Bay of Pigs invasion [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Project Phoenix [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Operation MONGOOSE [r]: Add brief definition or description
Defectors
- Philip Agee [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Edward Howard [r]: Add brief definition or description
Staff now at ODNI
- Alan Pino [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Julie E. Cohen [r]: Add brief definition or description
Publications
Historians
- National Security Archive, George Washington University [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Jeffrey Richelson [r]: Add brief definition or description
Intelligence community
Cooperating agencies
- Secret Intelligence Service [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Australian Security Intelligence Service [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Canadian Security Intelligence Service [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mossad [r]: Add brief definition or description