Authors: Ronald Kessler
The CIA and FBI jointly recruited a KGB officer in the Soviet embassy in Washington while operating out of a building at 6551 Loisdale Court in Springfield, Virginia.
(Ronald Kessler)
The CIA’s Foreign Resources Division recruited foreign diplomats and intelligence officers in the Washington area from a suite at 7101 Wisconsin Avenue in Bethesda, Maryland.
(Ronald Kessler)
William M. Colby began CIA reforms.
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Stansfield Turner emphasized technical collection.
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William J. Casey embroiled the CIA in the Iran-Contra scandal.
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George Bush, himself a former CIA director, met with William Webster at the new CIA building for a working lunch in August 1990. At left is Richard J. Kerr, deputy director for Central Intelligence.
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President Bush applauded after Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor swore in Robert M. Gates as the fifteenth Director of Central Intelligence on November 12, 1991.
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Sidney W. Souers | January 23, 1946-June 10, 1946 |
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Hoyt S. Vandenberg | June 10, 1946-May 1, 1947 |
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Roscoe H. Hillenkoeter | May 1, 1947-October 7, 1950 |
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Walter Bedell Smith | October 7,1950-February 9, 1953 |
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Allen W. Dulles | February 26, 1953-November 29, 1961 |
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John A. McCone | November 29, 1961-April 28, 1965 |
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William F. Raborn, Jr. | April 28, 1965-June 30, 1966 |
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Richard Helms | June 30, 1966-February 2, 1973 |
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James R. Schlesinger | February 2, 1973-July 2, 1973 |
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William E. Colby | September 4, 1973-January 30, 1976 |
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George H. Bush | January 30, 1976—January 20, 1977 |
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Stansfield Turner | March 9, 1977—January 20, 1981 |
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William J. Casey | January 28, 1981-January 29, 1987 |
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William H. Webster | May 26, 1987-September 1, 1991 |
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Robert M. Gates | November 12, 1991- |
Kingman Douglas | March 2, 1946-July 11, 1946 |
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Edwin K. Wright | January 20, 1947-March 9, 1949 |
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William H. Jackson | October 7, 1950-August 3, 1951 |
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Allen W. Dulles | August 23, 1951-February 26, 1953 |
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Charles P. Cabell | April 23, 1953-January 31, 1962 |
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Marshall S. Carter | April 3, 1962-April 28, 1965 |
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Richard Helms | April 28, 1965-June 30, 1966 |
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Rufus L. Taylor | October 13, 1966-February 1, 1969 |
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Robert E. Cushman, Jr. | May 7, 1969-December 31, 1971 |
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Vernon A. Walters | May 2, 1972-July 2, 1976 |
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Enno H. Knoche | July 7, 1976-August 1, 1977 |
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Frank C. Carlucci III | February 10, 1978-January 20, 1981 |
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Bobby R. Inman | February 12, 1981-June 10, 1982 |
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John N. McMahon | June 10, 1982-March 29, 1986 |
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Robert M. Gates | April 18, 1986-March 20, 1989 |
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Richard J. Kerr | March 20, 1989-March 2, 1992 |
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William O. Studeman | April 14, 1992- |
1.
William Colby and Peter Forbath,
Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA
(Simon & Schuster, 1978), p. 338.
2.
Interview with McMahon on January 25, 1991.
3.
Interview on June 7, 1990, with Saunders.
4.
Interview on September 19, 1990, with Polgar.
5.
Interview on April 13, 1990, with Whipple.
6.
CIA History Staff,
Directors and Deputy Directors of Central Intelligence
(1989), p. 11.
7.
Interview on August 17, 1990, with Colby.
8.
Memo of July 24, 1991, from Leahy to Joe Jamele, press secretary to Leahy; and interview on July 17, 1991, with Jamele.
9.
Interview on July 11, 1990, with Simmons.
10.
Interview on April 13, 1990, with Whipple.
11.
Time,
May 28, 1990, p. 50.
12.
Interview on September 28, 1990, with Polgar.
13.
Commission on CIA Activities within the United States
(the Rockefeller Commission),
Report to the President
(Government Printing Office, 1976), pp. 52—53.
14.
Interview on July 2, 1990, with Clarke.
15.
Tom Gilligan,
CIA Life: 10,000 Days with the Agency
(Foreign Intelligence Press, 1991), p. 252.
16.
Interview on May 2, 1991, with Rodriguez.
17.
New York Times,
March 23, 1988, p. A-1.
18.
New York Times,
March 31, 1989, p. A-6.
19.
Gregory F. Treverton,
Covert Action: The Limits of Intervention in the Postwar World
(Basic Books, 1987), p. 176.
20.
“Secret Intelligence,” a Public Broadcasting Service special that appeared in Washington on WETA-TV on January 17, 1989.
21.
Loch K. Johnson,
America’s Secret Power
(Oxford University Press, 1989), p. 64.
22.
Interview on July 11, 1990, with Bissell.
23.
Report of the CIA inspector general of August 25, 1967, obtained by the author under the Freedom of Information Act, p. 14.
24.
Report of the CIA inspector general of August 25, 1967, obtained by the author under the Freedom of Information Act, p. 4.
25.
An accurate account of the Fadlallah incident appears in David C. Martin and John Walcott’s
Best Laid Plans
(Touchstone, 1988), p. 220.
26.
Interview on January 25, 1991, with McMahon.
27.
Interview on December 6, 1990, with Bruemmer.
28.
Washington Post,
June 14, 1991, p. A-19.
29.
Interview on April 11, 1990, with Bowen.
30.
Harry Rositzke,
The CIA’s Secret Operations
(Reader’s Digest Press, 1977), p. 20.
31.
Curtis Peebles,
Guardians: Strategic Reconnaissance Satellites
(Presidio Press, 1987), p. 13.