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Parent topics

• National Security Act of 1947 [r]: Core of legislation that restructured the U.S. military from its traditional structure of a separate Army and Navy, creating the United States Air Force, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the predecessor to the U.S. Department of Defense ^[e]
• Director of National Intelligence [r]: Prior to the attacks of 9/11, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency was the nominal head of the United States Intelligence Community, following 9/11 a more senior position was created, with a measure of actual authority over those agencies ^[e]
• United States intelligence community [r]: Add brief definition or description

Subtopics

• Director of Central Intelligence [r]: Formerly, the U.S. official that headed both the Central Intelligence Agency and the United States intelligence community ; the responsibility is now split between the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (currently Leon Panetta) and the Director of National Intelligence (currently Dennis Blair) ^[e]
• Director of the Central Intelligence Agency [r]: After the Director of National Intelligence was created to head the overall United States intelligence community , the official responsible for the remaining functions of the Central Intelligence Agency in intelligence analysis and research into intelligence methodology, clandestine human-source intelligence and some covert action ^[e]

past Directors

• William Colby [r]: A U.S. intelligence and special operations officer eventually becoming Director of Central Intelligence (1973-1976). ^[e]
• Richard Helms [r]: The first U.S. career intelligence officer to become Director of Central Intelligence (1966-1973); also the only former Director ever convicted of a crime (arguably a technical one) directly related to his official duties ^[e]

Former staff

• David Addington [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Robert Ames [r]: National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and a Central Intelligence Agency employee killed in the 1983 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut ^[e]
• James Jesus Angleton [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Richard Bissell [r]: Central Intelligence Agency official involved in a wide range of operations and high-technology projects; involved in the original creation of the National Reconnaissance Office; resigned over the Bay of Pigs ^[e]
• Cofer Black [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Dino Brugioni [r]: Add brief definition or description
• William Bundy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Vincent Cannistrano [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Kathleen Christison [r]: Add brief definition or description
• William Christison [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Lucien Conein [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hank Crumpton [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Raymond Garthoff [r]: Guest Scholar, Brookings Institution: specialist on arms control, the Cold War, the former Soviet Union and NATO; former U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria and has also advised the State Department on missile treaties; was Central Intelligence Agency analyst on weapons of mass destruction ^[e]

• Philip Giraldi [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Edward Lansdale [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Jami Miscik [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Paul Pillar [r]: Add brief definition or description

• Valerie Plame Wilson [r]: Add brief definition or description

Analytic products

• National Intelligence Estimate [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Special National Intelligence Estimate [r]: Add brief definition or description

Clandestine sources

• Peter Popov [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Oleg Penkovsky [r]: Add brief definition or description

Covert action

• Bay of Pigs invasion [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Project Phoenix [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Operation MONGOOSE [r]: Add brief definition or description

Defectors

• Philip Agee [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Edward Howard [r]: Add brief definition or description

Staff now at ODNI

• Alan Pino [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Julie E. Cohen [r]: Add brief definition or description

Publications

• World Factbook [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

Historians

• National Security Archive, George Washington University [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Jeffrey Richelson [r]: Add brief definition or description

Intelligence community

• Intellipedia [r]: Add brief definition or description

Cooperating agencies

• Secret Intelligence Service [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Australian Security Intelligence Service [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Canadian Security Intelligence Service [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Mossad [r]: Add brief definition or description

Operations involving predecessors

• Intelligence on the Korean War [r]: Add brief definition or description
• U.S. intelligence involvement with World War II war criminals [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • U.S. intelligence involvement with World War II Japanese war criminals [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • U.S. intelligence involvement with World War II Nazi war criminals [r]: Add brief definition or description

Articles related by keyphrases (Bot populated)

• Defense Intelligence Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Staff (military) [r]: Add brief definition or description