CIA Near East and South Asia Division
The Near East and South Asia Division is an arm of the CIA's clandestine service.[1]
People
Chiefs
- Kermit Roosevelt - 1950- circa 1958
- James Critchfield - Circa 1958 -[2]
- David Blee -1971[3]
- John Waller - 1971-1975[4]
- Alan D. Wolfe - Circa 1977[5]
- Charles Cogen - 1979-1984[6]
- Bert Dunn[7]
- Thomas Twetten - Circa 1988[8]
- James A. Higham
- Frank Anderson - 1991-1994[9]
- Stephen W. Richter
- Stephen R. Kappes
- James R. Hughes
- Rob Richer - 1999-2004[10]
- Michael F. Walker[11]
Notes
- ↑ CIA, Directorate of Operations, 1955-1975, Where is the Middle East?, Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations, accessed 15 March 2010.
- ↑ Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2007, p.163.
- ↑ James Risen, David H. Blee, 83, C.I.A. Spy Who Revised Defector Policy, New York Times, 17 August 2000.
- ↑ CIA Official John Waller; Was Historian and Author, Washington Post, 7 November 2004.
- ↑ Foreign Relations, 1964-1968, Volume XIX, Arab-Israeli Crisis and War, 1967, U.S. Department of State, accessed 15 March 2010.
- ↑ Tim Weiner, Blowback From the Afghan Battlefield, New York Times, 13 March 1994.
- ↑ George Crile, Charlie Wilson's War, Grove Press, 2007, p.410.
- ↑ Steve Coll, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, Penguin, 2005, p.178.
- ↑ Steve Coll, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, Penguin, 2005, p.xiv.
- ↑ Jeremy Scahill, Blackwater: CIA Assassins?, The Nation, 20 August 2009.
- ↑ Michael Javers, Ex-CIA Official: Bin Laden Probably Had Help, CNBC, 3 May 2011.
