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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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Directors of Central intelligence

Sidney W. Souers
*

January 23, 1946-June 10, 1946

 

Hoyt S. Vandenberg

June 10, 1946-May 1, 1947

 

Roscoe H. Hillenkoeter

May 1, 1947-October 7, 1950

 

Walter Bedell Smith

October 7,1950-February 9, 1953

 

Allen W. Dulles

February 26, 1953-November 29, 1961

 

John A. McCone

November 29, 1961-April 28, 1965

 

William F. Raborn, Jr.

April 28, 1965-June 30, 1966

 

Richard Helms

June 30, 1966-February 2, 1973

 

James R. Schlesinger

February 2, 1973-July 2, 1973

 

William E. Colby

September 4, 1973-January 30, 1976

 

George H. Bush

January 30, 1976—January 20, 1977

 

Stansfield Turner

March 9, 1977—January 20, 1981

 

William J. Casey

January 28, 1981-January 29, 1987

 

William H. Webster

May 26, 1987-September 1, 1991

 

Robert M. Gates

November 12, 1991-

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Kingman Douglas

March 2, 1946-July 11, 1946

 

Edwin K. Wright

January 20, 1947-March 9, 1949

 

William H. Jackson

October 7, 1950-August 3, 1951

 

Allen W. Dulles

August 23, 1951-February 26, 1953

 

Charles P. Cabell

April 23, 1953-January 31, 1962

 

Marshall S. Carter

April 3, 1962-April 28, 1965

 

Richard Helms

April 28, 1965-June 30, 1966

 

Rufus L. Taylor

October 13, 1966-February 1, 1969

 

Robert E. Cushman, Jr.

May 7, 1969-December 31, 1971

 

Vernon A. Walters

May 2, 1972-July 2, 1976

 

Enno H. Knoche

July 7, 1976-August 1, 1977

 

Frank C. Carlucci III

February 10, 1978-January 20, 1981

 

Bobby R. Inman

February 12, 1981-June 10, 1982

 

John N. McMahon

June 10, 1982-March 29, 1986

 

Robert M. Gates

April 18, 1986-March 20, 1989

 

Richard J. Kerr

March 20, 1989-March 2, 1992

 

William O. Studeman

April 14, 1992-

Notes

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.

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