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James Monroe, CIA paramilitary officer during Vietnam War [10] Thomas W. "Pete" Ray, posthumously for the Bay of Pigs invasion [11] Riley W. Shamburger, posthumously for the Bay of Pigs invasion [9] Greg Vogle, paramilitary officer and CIA trailblazer [12] [13] Molly Huckaby Hardy, posthumously for the 1998 United States embassy bombings in ...
The director reports to the director of national intelligence (DNI) and is assisted by the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency (DD/CIA). The director is a civilian or a general or flag officer of the United States Armed Forces [2] nominated by the president of the United States, with the recommendation from the DNI, [3] and must ...
James "Pete" McCarthy Jr. Born in 1925, a world War II Veteran [24] and later a paramilitary operations officer who died in 1954, on a training flight in Southeast Asia. [25] 1956 May 15, 1956: Wilburn S. Rose: Three CIA Lockheed U-2 pilots who died in plane crashes – Rose, Grace, Carey were honored with stars in 1974. [26] August 31, 1956 ...
James R. Clapper, Director of National Intelligence; A man in a black suit with a white tie. Though his head is out of frame, he has been identified as a CIA analyst, publicly known only as "John", who was "the first to put in writing [in summer 2010] that the CIA might have a legitimate lead on finding bin Laden." [5]
The 16-foot (5 m) diameter granite CIA seal in the lobby of the original headquarters building. The entrance of the CIA headquarters. 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 ...
Obama accepted his resignation on 9 November, [204] and Petraeus cited his affair when announcing that same day that he would resign as CIA Director. [205] Eventually, Petraeus pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of mishandling the classified information that he provided to his mistress and biographer.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA / ˌ s iː. aɪ ˈ eɪ /), known informally as the Agency, [6] metonymously as Langley [7] and historically as the Company, [8] 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 ...
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).