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The third-highest office and highest non-political office of the CIA, which manages day-to-day operations and budget, was known as Executive Director or from July 5, 2006 also as Associate Deputy Director (ADD) [9] and was renamed Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the CIA in 2017.
He was an intelligence analyst and operations officer for the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and a consultant for ABC News. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] He was the first U.S. government official to confirm in December 2007 that waterboarding was used to interrogate al-Qaeda prisoners, which ...
John Prados, William Colby and the CIA. The secret wars of a controversial spymaster (University of Kansas 2003, 2009). W. Thomas Smith, Jr., Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency (New York: Facts on File 2003). Evan Thomas, The Very Best Men. The daring early years of the CIA (New York: Simon and Schuster 1995, 2006).
Former CIA operations officer Laura Ballman pressed the federal government to be more transparent about the mysterious drone sightings, theorizing that the disturbing sightings might be part of a ...
John Ratcliffe Confirmed As Next Cia Director The agency has maintained for years it did not have enough intelligence to conclude whether COVID-19 originated in a lab or a wet market in Wuhan, China.
John Owen Brennan (born September 22, 1955) [1] [2] 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 ...
John Ratcliffe speaks during a Senate Intelligence committee hearing on his nomination to be the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025 in Washington, DC.
The Directorate of Operations (DO), less formally called the Clandestine Service, [2] is a component of the US Central Intelligence Agency. [2] It was known as the Directorate of Plans from 1951 to 1973; as the Directorate of Operations from 1973 to 2004; and as the National Clandestine Service (NCS) from 2004 to 2015.