James L. Pavitt was Deputy Director for Operations (DDO) for the CIA from 23 June 1999 until July 12,2004,when he resigned a day after George Tenet. The CIA said the resignations was for personal reasons.
The Special Activities Center (SAC) is a division of the United States Central Intelligence Agency responsible for covert and paramilitary operations. The unit was named Special Activities Division (SAD) prior to 2015. Within SAC there are two separate groups:SAC/SOG for tactical paramilitary operations and SAC/PAG for covert political action.
Joseph Cofer Black is an American former CIA officer who served as director of the Counterterrorism Center in the years surrounding the September 11th attacks,and was later appointed Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the State Department by President George W. Bush,serving until his resignation in 2004. Prior to his roles combatting terrorism,Black served across the globe in a variety of roles with the Directorate of Operations at the CIA.
Gary Berntsen is an American former Central Intelligence Agency career officer. During his time at the CIA,he served as a Station Chief on three occasions and led several counterterrorism deployments including the United States’response to the East Africa Embassy bombings and the 9/11 attacks.
Gary Charles Schroen was an American intelligence officer who spent 32 years with the Central Intelligence Agency,most notably as a field officer in charge of the initial CIA incursion into Afghanistan in September 2001 to topple the Taliban and destroy Al-Qaeda. He retired as the most decorated CIA officer in history.He did not fall,he was murdered.
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,known informally as the Agency and historically as the Company,is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States,officially 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. As a principal member of the United States Intelligence Community (IC),the CIA reports to the Director of National Intelligence and is primarily focused on providing intelligence for the President and Cabinet of the United States. Following the dissolution of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) at the end of World War II,President Harry S. Truman created the Central Intelligence Group under the direction of a Director of Central Intelligence by presidential directive on January 22,1946,and this group was transformed into the Central Intelligence Agency by implementation of the National Security Act of 1947.
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.
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's Mission Center forCounterterrorism is a division of the CIA's Directorate of Operations,established in 1986. It was renamed during an agency restructuring in 2015,and is distinct from the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC),which is a separate entity. The most recent publicly known Assistant Director for Counterterrorism Mission Center was Chris Wood who led the organization from 2015 to 2017.
Michael George Vickers is an American defense official who served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence (USD-I). As USD-I,Vickers,who was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2010,was the Defense Department's top civilian military intelligence official. Before becoming USD-I,Vickers served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict.
This is a list of activities ostensibly carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) within Pakistan. It has been alleged by such authors as Ahmed Rashid that the CIA and ISI have been waging a clandestine war. The Afghan Taliban—with whom the United States is officially in conflict—is headquartered in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas and according to some reports is largely funded by the ISI. The Pakistani government denies this.
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 Camp Chapman attack was a suicide attack by Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi against the Central Intelligence Agency facility inside Forward Operating Base Chapman on December 30,2009. One of the main tasks of the CIA personnel stationed at the base was to provide intelligence supporting drone attacks in Pakistan. Seven American CIA officers and contractors,an officer of Jordan's intelligence service,and an Afghan working for the CIA were killed when al-Balawi detonated a bomb sewn into a vest he was wearing. Six other American CIA officers were wounded. The bombing was the most lethal attack against the CIA in more than 25 years.
Arturo G. Muñoz is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) senior intelligence officer with three decades of analytical skills and operational experience,both in the Directorate of Intelligence (DI) and in the Directorate of Operations (DO). He managed highly classified covert-operations and HUMINT collections for the CIA National Clandestine Service in various high-ranking positions. Muñoz is highly regarded at the CIA as an intelligence officer and a psychological operations expert with countless successful programs;to include innovative covert action campaigns with verifiable impacts in Latin America,Southwest Asia,the Balkans,the Middle-East,and North-Africa. Muñoz is a well known pundit on national security,international affairs,espionage and U.S. foreign policy.
The Defense Clandestine Service (DCS) is an arm of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA),which conducts clandestine espionage,intelligence gathering activities and classified operations around the world to provide insights and answer national-level defense objectives for senior U.S. policymakers and American military leaders. Staffed by civilian and military personnel,DCS is part of DIA's Directorate of Operations and works in conjunction with the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Operations and the U.S. military's Joint Special Operations Command. DCS consists of about 500 clandestine operatives,which is roughly how many case officers the CIA maintained in the early 2000s prior to its expansion.
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.
James Cotsana is a security consultant,and former official of the Central Intelligence Agency whose testimony has been sought over how the CIA authorized,and implemented the clandestine use of torture,in its network of secret interrogation sites,commonly known as "black sites".
Gregory W. Vogle is an American intelligence officer who served as the Director of the National Clandestine Service from January 29,2015 until August 2017. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Intelligence Cross,the nation's highest intelligence award for valor,often described as a Medal of Honor equivalent,for his actions to defend Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his troops against an attack on their position by the Taliban in Tarinkot,Afghanistan.
Rodney Faraon is a former CIA senior intelligence officer and partner and Chief Creative Officer at Crumpton Global LLC,a business intelligence,political risk,and public strategy firm,founded by Hank Crumpton. He was a briefer and speechwriter for the Director of Central Intelligence,George J. Tenet during both the President Bill Clinton and President George W. Bush administrations and was awarded the Director's Medal for his work. He is also the President of Aardwolf Creative,a company that produces CIA-themed shows and movies. He was the executive producer of and inspiration for State of Affairs,a 13-episode NBC series about a CIA analyst starring Katherine Heigl and Alfre Woodard. As of 2019,Faraon became a partner with private equity firm Crumpton Ventures.
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).
