George John Tenet is an American intelligence official and academic who served as the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) for the United States Central Intelligence Agency,as well as a Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University.
The director of central intelligence (DCI) was the head of the American Central Intelligence Agency from 1946 to 2004,acting as the principal intelligence advisor to the president of the United States and the United States National Security Council,as well as the coordinator of intelligence activities among and between the various US intelligence agencies.
The director of national intelligence (DNI) is a senior cabinet-level United States government official,required by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to serve as executive head of the United States Intelligence Community (IC) and to direct and oversee the National Intelligence Program (NIP). All IC agencies report directly to the DNI. The DNI also serves,upon invitation,as an advisor to the president of the United States,the National Security Council,and the Homeland Security Council on all intelligence matters. The DNI,supported by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI),produces the President's Daily Brief (PDB),a classified document including intelligence from all IC agencies,handed each morning to the president of the United States.
Paul Henry Nitze was an American businessman and government official who served as United States Deputy Secretary of Defense,U.S. Secretary of the Navy,and Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department. He is best known for being the principal author of NSC 68 and the co-founder of Team B. He helped shape U.S. Cold War defense policy over the course of numerous presidential administrations.
James L. Pavitt was Deputy Director for Operations (DDO) for the CIA from June 23,1999,until July 12,2004,when he resigned a day after George Tenet. The CIA said the resignations was for personal reasons.
The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is a graduate school of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington,D.C. with campuses in Bologna,Italy and Nanjing,China.
The deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency (DD/CIA) is a statutory office and the second-highest official of the Central Intelligence Agency. The DD/CIA assists the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (D/CIA) and is authorized to exercise the powers of the D/CIA when the director's position is vacant or in the director's absence or disability.
Stephen R. Kappes was the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (DDCIA),until his resignation on April 14,2010. He had served in the CIA since 1981,with a two-year hiatus. A career clandestine operations professional,Kappes supervised the extraordinary rendition program,a non-judicial system of rendering persons suspected of terrorism to secret locations where most of them were interrogated. Kappes also helped persuade Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi to abandon his nuclear weapons program in 2003. In 2009,Kappes was convicted in absentia by an Italian court for his headquarters-based role in the rendition and torture of an Egyptian citizen who was kidnapped from Italian soil by the CIA.
John L. Helgerson is a retired career intelligence officer who spent 38 years at the Central Intelligence Agency,his final role was CIA Inspector General from 2002 until his retirement in 2009. He was responsible for investigating CIA interrogations of terror suspects,and compiled a report critical of agency practices in 2005 which was released in 2009 by the Obama administration.
Porter Johnston Goss is an American politician who served as the head of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2004 to 2006. He was the last Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from 2004 to 2005,then became the first Director of the Central Intelligence Agency following the passage of the 2004 Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act,which abolished the DCI position and replaced it with the Director of National Intelligence on December 17,2004
Jack Gregory Downing was an American field officer for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He served as its Deputy Director for Operations (DDO) from 1997 until July 1999. He was the only person to act as the agency's station head in both Moscow and Beijing.
Michael Joseph Morell is an American former career intelligence analyst. He served as the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2010 to 2013 and twice as its acting director,first in 2011 and then from 2012 to 2013. He also serves as a professor at the George Mason University - Schar School of Policy and Government.
The Public Interest Declassification Board (PIDB) is an advisory committee established by the United States Congress with the official mandate of promoting the fullest possible public access to a thorough,accurate,and reliable documentary record of significant U.S. national security decisions and activities. The Board is composed of nine individuals:five appointed by the President of the United States and one each appointed by the Speaker of the House,House Minority Leader,Senate Majority Leader,and Senate Minority Leader. Appointees must be U.S. citizens preeminent in the fields of history,national security,foreign policy,intelligence policy,social science,law,or archives.
The CIA interrogation videotapes destruction occurred on November 9,2005. The videotapes were made by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during interrogations of Al-Qaeda suspects Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri in 2002 at a CIA black site prison in Thailand. Ninety tapes were made of Zubaydah and two of al-Nashiri. Twelve tapes depict interrogations using "enhanced interrogation techniques",a euphemism for torture. The tapes and their destruction became public knowledge in December 2007. A criminal investigation by a Department of Justice special prosecutor,John Durham,decided in 2010 to not file any criminal charges related to destroying the videotapes.
Judith A. "Jami" Miscik is an American intelligence analyst who was also the Central Intelligence Agency's Deputy Director for Intelligence,the Agency's most senior analytic post. In 2005 she left CIA to become Global Head of Sovereign Risk for the now-bankrupt financial services firm Lehman Brothers. Miscik is former President and Vice-Chairman of Kissinger Associates,Inc. in New York and currently CEO of Global Strategic Insights,a private consulting firm. In 2009 she was appointed to President Obama's Intelligence Advisory Board.
The Foreign Policy Institute (FPI) is an American research center based at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington,D.C.,United States. FPI is housed in the Benjamin T. Rome building on the Embassy Row in Washington,D.C. It organizes research initiatives and study groups,and hosts global leaders as resident or non-resident fellows in fields including international policy,business,journalism,and academia.
The Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program is a report compiled by the bipartisan United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) about the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)'s Detention and Interrogation Program and its use of torture during interrogation in U.S. government communiqués on detainees in CIA custody. The report covers CIA activities before,during,and after the "War on Terror". The initial report was approved on December 13,2012,by a vote of 9–6,with seven Democrats,one Independent,and one Republican voting in favor of the report and six Republicans voting in opposition.
Adam Jacob Szubin is an American lawyer and former government official. Szubin served as the Acting Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence and the Acting Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. He served as the acting secretary from January to February 2017 after the resignation of Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Deputy Treasury Secretary Sarah Bloom Raskin during the 2017 presidential transition. He previously served as the Director of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
The Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence,Policy,and International Security is a think tank in Arlington County,Virginia focused on the intelligence community including topics related to intelligence studies education,intelligence analysis techniques,the operations of intelligence agencies,and public policy and international relations related to national security,international security,and foreign policy through shared experiences of senior intelligence service leaders,military officers,elected officials,journalists,academics,and other civilian scholars.
Peter Clement is an American political scientist and former US intelligence officer. He is a Senior Research Scholar and interim director of the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at the School of International and Public Affairs,Columbia University.
