Central Intelligence Agency
Events (1798)
- (January 2004): CIA Appoints New Chief of Station in Baghdad
- December 2003-March 2004: Arrests Point to Al-Qaeda Involvement in Drug Network
- January 2004 and Shortly After: Detainees Subjected to Second Round of Interrogations to Answer 9/11 Commission’s Questions
- December 2004: CIA Baghdad Chief Ends Tour as ‘Pariah in the System’
- (January 2005): New CIA Station Chief Appointed in Baghdad
- January 2007: CIA Prevents Justice Department Investigators from Talking to Abu Zubaida
- January-February 2007: Former CIA Bin Laden Unit Chief Considered for Baghdad Station, but Is Rejected
- January-September 2004: British Terror Suspect ‘Rendered’ to ‘Dark Prison’ in Afghanistan
- January 1974 - September 1974: Freedom of Information Act Amendments Challenged by White House
- January 2009: Obama Sends Team to Confer with CIA over Torture, Secret Prisons
- Mid-January 2000: CIA Asks NSA to Pass on New Information about Hijacker Almihdhar, but NSA Fails to Do So
- (September 1984-September 1986): Later Head of CIA’s Alec Station Serves in Central African Republic
- January 1985: Treasury Secretary Regan Reads ‘Dynamite’ CIA Report on BCCI Crimes, But Takes No Action
- January 1995 and After: Alleged CIA Agent Ships Weapons to Hussein’s Forces
- January 1998: CIA Aware of Al-Qaeda Meeting Planning Future Attacks
- February 2000: CIA Rejects Foreign Request for Involvement with Almihdhar Due to Own Investigation
- Between February and September 2000: Malaysian Intelligence Stops Monitoring Al-Qaeda Summit Location, at CIA’s Request
- February 2000: CIA Obtains Videotape from Al-Qaeda Summit in Malaysia, But Shows Little Interest in It
- February 2001: 9/11 Hijacker Almihdhar Stays in Closely Monitored Yemen Hub House Again
- Early February 2001: Richard Clarke Urges Vice President Cheney to Take Action Against Al-Qaeda
- February 2001: US Fails to Back Plan to Overthrow Taliban
- February 2003: CIA Tells Small Group of Congresspeople It Has Detainee Interrogation Tapes; Two Warn CIA Not to Destroy Them
- November 2005: CIA Has Many Reasons Not to Destroy Videotapes of Detainee Interrogations
- February 2004: Secret Detention Facility Commander Alludes to Drugging of Detainees by CIA
- February 2004: Government Officials Testify that Novak Asked Not to Reveal Plame Wilson’s Identity
- February 2004: CIA Officer Lies to Justice Department Inspector General about Passage of Information about Almihdhar’s US Visa
- (February 2004): CIA Determines Passport of Wrongly Held German Citizen Is Not Forged; Detainee Still Held in Afghanistan
- February 2009: State Department Cancels Diplomatic Passport of CIA Officer Involved in ‘Italian Job’ Rendition
- (Late February 2003): CIA Aids Questioning of Recently Rendered Extremist in Egypt
- February 1975: Media Reports on ‘Project Jennifer’; New York Times Sat on Story
- February 1981 and After: US Allegedly Helps Turn Soviet Soldiers Fighting in Afghanistan into Drug Addicts
- February 1991: CIA Already Aware of ‘Al-Qaeda’
- February 1994-Late 1995: US Spy Planes and Predator Drone Help Croats and Muslims Fight Serbs in Bosnia
- Shortly Before February 1996: CIA Already Aware of Term ‘Al-Qaeda’ as It Sets Up Bin Laden Unit
- Shortly After February 1996: Saudis Fail to Give CIA Bin Laden Documents before 9/11
- February 1996-June 1999: CIA’s Bin Laden Unit Has Conflicts with CIA Superiors and Other Intelligence Agencies
- February 1996-May 1998: CIA’s Bin Laden Unit Asks NSA for Full Transcripts of Al-Qaeda Communications, NSA Refuses
- February 1998: Western Intelligence Learns North Korean Diplomat Procuring Items for Nuclear Program in Russia
- February 1999: CIA Apparently Confused over Authority to Assassinate Bin Laden
- February 1999: Clinton Rewrites Memo for CIA, Removing Language Allowing Agency to Use Northern Alliance to Kill Bin Laden
- February 1999: Pilot Suicide Squad Rumored in Iraq
- February 1999: Monitored Al-Qaeda Cell Member Temporarily Lives in Apartment with 9/11 Hijacker Atta and Other Key Cell Members
- 2002: Blackwater Wins No-Bid CIA Contract
- 2002: Cheney Tells CIA Not to Brief Assassination and Capture Program to Congress
- (2002-2003): FBI Agent Who Acquiesced in Withholding of Key Intelligence before 9/11 Becomes Key Briefer at Important Daily CIA Meeting
- March 2000: US Intelligence Learns Al-Qaeda May Attack West Coast
- March 2001 and After: Hijackers Continue to Associate with Al-Qaeda-Linked Imam
- March-April 2001: Taliban Envoy Comes to US and Meets with High-Ranking Officials about Handing over Bin Laden
- March 2001: Regional Expert Sees Continuing Close Ties Between the CIA and ISI
- Early March 2001: Bush Administration Not Ready to Give CIA Expanded Authority to Assassinate Bin Laden