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Allen Welsh Dulles (/ ˈ d ʌ l ɪ s / DUL-iss; April 7, 1893 – January 29, 1969) was an American lawyer who was the first civilian Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), and its longest serving director.
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 ...
John Alexander McCone (January 4, 1902 – February 14, 1991) was an American businessman and politician who served as Director of Central Intelligence from 1961 to 1965, during the height of the Cold War. [1] [2]
The director of the Central Intelligence Agency (D/CIA) is a statutory office (50 U.S.C. § 3036) that functions as the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, which in turn is a part of the United States Intelligence Community. The director reports to the director of national intelligence (DNI) and is assisted by the deputy director of the ...
Following the 1947 creation of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), he rose in its ranks during the presidencies of Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy. Helms then was DCI under Presidents Johnson and Nixon, [1] yielding to James R. Schlesinger in early 1973.
The National Security Act of 1947, signed into law by Truman, gave legislative authority to the new Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Wright was promoted to brigadier general on February 3, 1947, becoming the first deputy director of Central Intelligence (DDCI) (1947-1949), serving under both Vandenberg and his successor (the third DCI) Adm ...
John Ratcliffe, Director of National Intelligence, gestures as he departs with President Donald Trump on travel to West Point, New York from the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, on Dec ...
President Truman persuaded a reluctant Hillenkoetter, then a rear admiral, to become Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), and run the Central Intelligence Group (September 1947). Under the National Security Act of 1947 he was nominated and confirmed by the U.S. Senate as DCI, now in charge of the newly established Central Intelligence Agency ...