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The FBI searches the home and office of former CIA Executive Director Kyle "Dusty" Foggo. Foggo is under investigation over his ties to a defense contractor linked to the bribery case against former Republican Representative Randy "Duke" Cunningham of California. |
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Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., questions the soundness of a military officer appointed to run a civilian intelligence agency. On Monday, House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., expressed concern that the ouster of Porter Goss as CIA director was a "power grab" by John Negroponte, as Hayden currently s ... |
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Newsweek reports that American diplomats in Iraq are engaging in face-to-face talks with high-level Iraqi Sunni insurgents in Anbar province as well as in Syria and Jordan. Some Iraqi leaders wish to prevent Iranian intervention and influence in the country. U.S. intelligence officials have admitt ... |
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Senator Mike DeWine and Representative Carolyn Maloney discuss with CIA officials their belief that the US Central Intelligence Agency is withholding further details on its employment of Nazi war criminals during the Cold War. The Associated Press reports that an anonymous CIA contact has confirmed ... |
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Jami A. Miscik, head of the CIA's analytic division, tells her staff that she is being forced out and will leave her post by February 4th. Miscik has been the target of criticism because her department was largely responsible for erroneous prewar assessments that Iraq had stockpiles of chemical and ... |
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The New York Times reports that a classified CIA cable sent last month indicates that the situation in Iraq deteriorating and unlikely to improve any time soon. Specifically, the document cautioned that security in Iraq was likely to deteriorate unless the Iraqi government made significant progress ... |
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Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua |
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Central Intelligence Agency director Porter Goss orders his new chief of spy operations to expand the use of deeper-cover field agents These individuals will be at greater risk than embassy diplomats who are merely expelled when found guilty of espionage. Deeper-cover field agents would not be affo ... |
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The US Senate confirms Porter Goss to be the next Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, replacing George "Slam-Dunk" Tenet. |
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A U.S. Senate panel approves the nomination of Rep. Porter Goss, R-Florida, to head the US Central Intelligence Agency, overcoming objections from Democrats that Goss was too political for the job. |
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US President George W. Bush nominates Republican Congressman Porter Goss to be the new director of the Central Intelligence Agency. |
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John McLaughlin, acting head of the Central Intelligence Agency, announces that the current threat to American security "is as serious a threat environment as I've seen since 9/11." Officials claim they have credible evidence of a planned attack, but no specific information. |
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The New York Times reports that White House and Central Intelligence Agency officials have refused to surrender a one-page summary of pre-war intelligence on Iraq prepared for Presi dent George W. Bush to the US Senate Intelligence Committee. Congressional officials also said that notes taken by Se ... |
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U.S. Central Intelligence Agency announces that an officer killed in a Mazar-e Sharif prison fight is first confirmed U.S. combat death in the action in Afghanistan.
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Aldrich Ames, formerly with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, pleads guilty to providing the Soviet Union and Russia with U.S. secrets. |
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Former CIA agent Aldrich Ames is jailed for life after he admits selling secrets to the Soviet Union and then to Russia. This is regarded as one of the most damaging spy cases in US history, in which 10 US agents lost their lives in the former Soviet Union. According to the Federal Bureau of Priso ... |
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Aldrich Ames and his Colombian-born wife, Rosario are arrested by the FBI who charg him with providing highly classified information to the Soviet KGB and its successor organization, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service. |
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William Casey, the director of the US Central Intelligence agency during the Iran-Contra affair, suffers a cerebral seizure. |
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President Reagan authorizes the CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence.
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George H. W. Bush ends his term as the 11th director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He is replaced by Admiral Stansfield Turner, USN (Retired). |
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Following the election of Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush resigns as head of the US Central Intelligence Agency. |
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President Ford personally apologizes to the family of Frank R. Olson because he was given a dose of LSD by Central Intelligence Agency agents 1953. |
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U.S. President Richard Nixon and his chief of staff H.R. Haldeman are recorded in a discussion concerning the use of Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins. |
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The domestic operations division of the Central Intelligence agency is created. |
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CIA director Allen W. Dulles approves $1 million to be used "in any way that would bring about the fall of Mossadegh," Iran's democratically elected prime minister who had cut ties with Great Britain nationalized the oil industry which was previously operated by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. |
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Following North Korea's surprise invasion, CIA Director Roscoe Hillenkoetter is removed from office and returns to the Navy to command the Pacific Fleet's Cruiser Division One. |
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U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act and thus creats the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council. |
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Rear Admiral Sidney W. Souers, US Navy Retired, becomes the first director of the newly formed Central Intelligence Agency. |
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