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.
William Egan Colby was an American intelligence officer who served as Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from September 1973 to January 1976.
John Edward McLaughlin is an American intelligence official who was Deputy Director of Central Intelligence and briefly acting Director of Central Intelligence. He is a Senior Fellow and Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University.
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.
Robert G Richer was the associate deputy director of operations of the United States Central Intelligence Agency,the number two in clandestine service,responsible for human intelligence operations overseas. He took early retirement in September 2005,after only 10 months on the job,with reports that he "lacked confidence in the agency's leadership" and had "operational issues."
Dick Holm,also known as Richard L. Holm,was an American CIA Operations Officer who served under 13 CIA directors and was awarded with the Distinguished Intelligence Medal,the CIA’s highest award.
Porter Johnston Goss is an American politician and government official 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
Jose A. Rodriguez Jr. is an American former intelligence officer who served as Director of the National Clandestine Service of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He was the final CIA deputy director for operations (DDO) before that position was expanded to D/NCS in December 2004. Rodriguez was a central figure in the 2005 CIA interrogation videotapes destruction,leading to The New York Times Editorial Board and Human Rights Watch to call for his prosecution.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),known informally as the Agency,metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company,is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering,processing,and analyzing national security information from around the world,primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations. The agency is headquartered in the George Bush Center for Intelligence in Langley,Virginia.
The deputy director of the CIA for operations is a senior United States government official in the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency who serves as head of the Directorate of Operations. The position was established December 1,1950 and from January 4,1951,until March 1,1973,it was known as Deputy Director of Plans (DDP). When this unit was known as the Directorate of Plans,it at first accounted for about 75% of the CIA budget and about 60% of the personnel within the CIA.
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.
The Distinguished Intelligence Medal is awarded by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency for performance of outstanding services or for achievement of a distinctly exceptional nature in a duty or responsibility.
John Owen Brennan is a former American intelligence officer who served as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from March 2013 to January 2017. He served as chief counterterrorism advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama,with the title Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism,and Assistant to the President. Previously,he advised Obama on foreign policy and intelligence issues during the 2008 election campaign and presidential transition.
The Intelligence Medal of Merit is awarded by the Central Intelligence Agency for performance of especially meritorious service or for achievement conspicuously above normal duties.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a United States intelligence agency that "provides objective intelligence on foreign countries",also informally referred to as the Agency. The CIA is part of the United States Intelligence Community,is organized into numerus divisions. The divisions include directors,deputy directors,and offices. The CIA board is made up of five distinct entitles called Directorates. The CIA is overseen by the Director of Central Intelligence. Under the Director of Central Intelligence is the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence. Under this the CIA is divided into four directorates. These directorates are as follows:
Enno Henry Knoche was an American intelligence officer who served as deputy director of the CIA and acting Director of Central Intelligence.
Stephen Brent Slick is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operations officer and United States National Security Council official. He is the inaugural director of the Intelligence Studies Project at the University of Texas at Austin,where he is also a Clinical Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and the Bobby R. Inman Chair in Intelligence Studies.
Gina Cheri Walker Haspel is an American intelligence officer who was the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from May 21,2018,to January 20,2021. She was the agency's deputy director from 2017 to 2018 under Mike Pompeo,and became acting director on April 26,2018,after Pompeo became U.S. secretary of state. She was later nominated and confirmed to the role,making her the first woman to become CIA director on a permanent basis.
Mark E. Kelton is a former senior executive of the Central Intelligence Agency,concluding his career with the position of Deputy Director of the National Clandestine Service for Counterintelligence (DDNCS/CI). He is currently an adjunct assistant professor at Georgetown University,and Director of Threat Insider Solutions at Cipher Systems,LLC.
John Christopher Wood is a retired operations officer of the Central Intelligence Agency. After the terrorist attacks of September 11,2001,he was part of the initial team of seven CIA officers that entered Afghanistan in pursuit of al-Qa'ida and the Taliban just 15 days after the attacks. Later he held prominent positions,including Kabul station chief and director of the Counterterrorism Mission Center (CTMC).
