Central Intelligence Agency
Events (1798)
- January 9, 1986: North, CIA Official Discuss Possible Connection to Vice President 1986-01-09
- February 7-8, 1986: CIA, State Department Officials Worry about North’s Connections to Humanitarian Funds 1986-02-07
- July 23, 1986: CIA Director Casey Plots to Break Stalled Arms-for-Hostages Deal 1986-07-23
- July 23, 1986: CIA Director: Vice President Should Ask Hussein to Increase Bombing of Iran 1986-07-23
- July 28-August 3, 1986: Vice President Bush Secretly Pressures Hussein to Escalate Air Strikes Into Iran 1986-08-03
- (Shortly After September 26, 1986): Bin Laden Associate Obtains Photos for CIA 1986-09-26
- October 5, 1986: CIA Transport Plane Shot Down in Nicaragua; Story Reveals Illegal Contra-Arms Program 1986-10-05
- October 10, 1986: Press Alleges Bush, Not CIA, Is Government Link to Contras 1986-10-10
- December 15, 1986-1989: ’Blind Sheikh’ Obtains First US Visas with Help from CIA 1986-12-15
- May 27, 1987: CIA Operative Testifies, Turns Questioning into Anti-Soviet Diatribe 1987-05-27
- September 14, 1987-March 2005: Arrested Militant Not Asked by US about Various Crimes 1987-09-14
- September 18, 1987: Lebanese Hijacker Is First Known Islamist Terrorist to Be Rendered by US 1987-09-18
- April 10, 1988: Munitions Explosion Hides Evidence US Aid to Mujaheddin Is Really Funding A. Q. Khan’s Nuclear Program 1988-04-10
- After December 21, 1988: CIA Worried Lockerbie Investigation Will Expose Dealings with Iran 1988-12-21
- February 16, 1989-December 1990: CIA Continues to Work with ‘Blind Sheikh’ and Supports Mujaheddin Despite Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan 1989-02-16
- October 2-6, 1989: Bush Authorizes Closer Ties, More Aid to Iraq 1989-10-02
- November 2, 1989: Kuwait, CIA Agree on Policy to Pressure Iraq Over Border Dispute 1989-11-02
- Around July 25, 1990: US Manipulation of Iraq-Kuwait Conflict? 1990-07-25
- August 8-9, 1990: US Diplomats Decide to Confront Hussein Rather than Negotiate 1990-08-08
- November 5, 1990 and After: US Promotes Lone Gunman Theory in Kahane Assassination, Hiding Evidence of Al-Qaeda Links 1990-11-05
- December 11, 1990: CIA Says It Does Not Have PROMIS Application; Retired CIA Official Disputes Claim 1990-12-11
- January 19-24, 1991: Multiple Reports of Chemical Toxin Releases in Saudi Arabia; None Verified 1991-01-19
- July 5, 1991: Criminal BCCI Bank Is Shut Down 1991-07-05
- July 11, 1991: Arrest Reveals Links between Pakistani Government, A. Q. Khan Network, and BCCI 1991-07-11
- July 17, 1991: Former CIA Official Pleads Guilty to Lying to Congress during Investigation 1991-07-17
- July 20, 1991: Iran-Contra Prosecutor Has Tapes, Transcripts of CIA Conversations 1991-07-20
- July 22, 1991: Iran-Contra Related to BCCI Scandal 1991-07-22
- Between April 6, 1992 and November 1995: CIA Paramilitary Fights in Bosnia 1992-04-06
- January 25, 1993: Militant Kills Two at CIA Headquarters 1993-01-25
- February 26, 1993: WTC Is Bombed but Does Not Collapse, as Bombers Had Hoped 1993-02-26
- January 24, 1994: CIA Concludes It Is ‘Partly Culpable’ for WTC Bombing 1994-01-24
- Before May 22, 1994: CIA Front Company Brewster Jennings Established 1994-05-22
- December 1, 1994: CIA Helps Bin Laden’s Brother-in-Law Come to US after Being Forced Out of Philippines 1994-12-01
- February 3, 1995: Article Exposes Ali Mohamed’s Militant and US Intelligence Connections 1995-02-03
- February 7, 1995: Ramzi Yousef Is Arrested in Pakistan 1995-02-07
- March 9, 1995: CIA Report Claims Serbs Responsible for 90% of War Crimes in Bosnia, but Report Is Later Disputed 1995-03-09
- April 16, 1995: Philippine Government and CIA Keep Data on Bojinka Plotters in US and Overseas from the FBI 1995-04-16
- June 3, 1995: Plot to Crash Plane in CIA Headquarters First Mentioned in Media 1995-06-03
- June 23, 1995: CIA Reports China Has Shipped Nuclear Missile Parts to Pakistan in Last Three Months 1995-06-23
- Shortly After June 26, 1995: US Considers Bombing Bin Laden for Sponsoring Assassination Attempt on Egyptian President 1995-06-26
- July 4, 1995: Kashmir Kidnapping Leads to US Charity, but US Takes No Action Against It 1995-07-04
- August 27, 1995 and Shortly After: CIA and Albanian Intelligence Recruit Knowledgeable Informer 1995-08-27
- October 21, 1995: Clinton Launches Interagency Effort to Track Bin Laden’s Money; Effort Fizzles 1995-10-21
- November 13, 1995: Al-Qaeda Bombing in Saudi Arabia, US Realizes Bin Laden Is More than Financier 1995-11-13
- January 10, 1996: Seven Men Arrested in Lithuania Trying to Sell 100 kg of Uranium on Black Market 1996-01-10
- May 21, 1996: Boat Accident Helps Alert CIA to Al-Qaeda Cell in Kenya 1996-05-21
- After June 25, 1996: CIA Agents Told Not to Track Militants in Saudi Arabia 1996-06-25
- February-September 11, 1996: Investigation of Bin Laden Family Members Is Opened; Then Closed 1996-09-11
- September 30, 1996: CIA Reports Taliban Are Keeping Bin Laden’s Training Camps Open, Closing Some Other Camps 1996-09-30
- June 15, 1997: Killer of CIA Officers Captured in Pakistan and Rendered to US 1997-06-15