Central Intelligence Agency

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The Central Intelligence Agency is the US government overseas intelligence agency.

Directors of National Intelligence

Sidney Souers - 1946

Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg - 1946-7

Roscoe Henry Hillenkoetter - 1947-50

Walter Bedell Smith - 1950-53

Allen Dulles - 1953-61

John McCone - 1961-65

William Francis Raborn, Jr. - 1965-66

Richard Helms - 1966-73

James Schlesinger - 1973

William Colby - 1973-6

George Herbert Walker Bush - 1976-7

Stansfield Turner - 1977-81

William Casey - 1981-87

William H. Webster - 1987-91

Robert Gates - 1991-3

James Woolsey - 1993-5

John M. Deutch - 1995-6

George Tenet - 1997-2004 Porter Goss - 2004-5 [1]

Following passage of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorist Prevention Act of 2004 the Director of Central Intelligence was replaced as head of the US Intelligence community by a Director of National Intelligence outside the CIA. [2]

Directors of the Central Intelligence Agency

Notes

  1. [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/directors-and-deputy-directors-of-central-intelligence/directors-of-central-intelligence.html Directors of Central Intelligence - Central Intelligence Agency], accessed 27 February 2008.
  2. [http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB144/index.htm From Director of Central Intelligence to Director of National Intelligence], National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 144, edited by Jeffrey T. Richelson, December 17, 2004, accessed 27 February 2008.
  3. Leadership - Central Intelligence Agency, accessed 27 February 2008.