Central Intelligence Agency
Events (1798)
- (2003-2004): Three White House Officials Asked about Destruction of CIA Interrogation Tapes, Response Unclear
- May 2000: CIA Details Al-Qaeda Using Honey Trade to Move Drugs and Weapons, but No Action Taken Until After 9/11
- May 2000: CIA and FBI Again Reject Sudan’s Offer to Provide Al-Qaeda Files
- May 2001: CIA Director Tenet Secretly Visits Pakistan, but ISI Director Refuses to Share Information about Bin Laden
- May 2001: Report Warns of Al-Qaeda Infiltration from Canada
- May 2001: CIA Learns Bin Laden Associates Are Heading to US, Preparing for Martyrdom
- May 2001: ABC Fails to Report al-Qaeda Plan to Hijack Plane, after Pressure from Unknown Intelligence Agency
- May 2001: TV Drama Series Writer Considers Storyline about Bin Laden Organizing Hijacking of Three US Planes
- May-June 2001: New Muslim Convert Inadvertently Learns of 9/11 Plot Involving 50 Operatives, with Five Suicide Attacks Coming Soon, 15 More Later
- May 2001: CIA Official Connected to Cases of Moussaoui and 9/11 Hijackers Starts Helping FBI
- May 2002: CIA and FBI Are Increasingly Skeptical of Alleged Atta Meeting in Prague, but Do Not Share Skepticism with Public
- Mid-April-May 2002: FBI Is Appalled by CIA Interrogation of Zubaida; Withdraws Its Personnel
- Mid-May 2002 and After: CIA Headquarters Approves and Closely Monitors Zubaida’s Torture
- May 2002: Latin American Specialist Appointed Head of CIA Counterterrorism
- May 2002-2003: CIA Uses Controversial Waterboarding Technique on Several High-Ranking Al-Qaeda Detainees
- May 2003: CIA Informs Italian Military Intelligence Kidnapped Cleric Being Interrogated in Cairo
- May 2003: Vice President Cheney Begins Inquiring about Wilson’s Trip to Niger
- May 2003: CIA Inspector General Reviews Videotapes of Abu Zubaida’s Interrogations; Several Blank, Waterboarding Sessions Missing
- (May 2004): National Security Adviser Told CIA Has Innocent Man at Black Site
- (May 2004): CIA Director Informed Agency Is Holding Innocent Man at Afghan Black Site
- May 2005: Author Claims CIA Hid Explosive Zubaida Interrogation Transcripts from 9/11 Commission and FBI
- May-September 2005: Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Requests Over 100 Documents about CIA Interrogation Program, Receives No Reply
- May 2006: CIA Continues to Keep Some Suspected Terrorists off No-Fly List
- Between May and Late 2006: CIA Bans Use of Waterboarding
- (May 2009): Special Counsel Summons CIA Officers Involved in Tape Destruction to Appear before Grand Jury
- May 1979: CIA Begins Working with Hekmatyar and Other Mujaheddin Leaders Chosen by ISI
- May 1984: CIA Officer Introduces NSC’s Oliver North to Nicaraguan Contra Leaders
- May 1986: Air Transport Owner Refuses to Run Supplies to Contras, Informs CIA Director of Program
- (May 1989-January 1991): Later Head of CIA’s Alec Station Serves in Niger
- January-May 1990: India and Pakistan Come Close to Nuclear Attack on Each Other
- May 1990: US Embassies Underestimate Risk of Nuclear War Due to Suppressed Intelligence
- May 1990: US Concerned over Possible Deployment of Pakistani Nuclear Weapons
- May 1993: Egyptian President Says ‘Blind Sheikh’ Worked with CIA
- May 1997: David Edger Is New CIA Chief of Station in Germany
- May 1998: CIA Director Prefers Saudi Plan to Bribe Taliban over Direct Action against Bin Laden
- May 1998-May 1999: Ten Opportunities to Strike Bin Laden in One Year
- May 1999: US Intelligence Provides bin Laden’s Location; CIA Fails to Strike
- 2005: Bush Surprised by Small Number of CIA Hunting Bin Laden, but Problem Not Fixed
- 2005: CIA Director Asks Inspector General to Review Italian Rendition, Subordinate Countermands Order
- (Mid-June-Mid-July 2000): 9/11 Hijacker Almihdhar Stays in Yemen Hub House Closely Monitored by US Intelligence
- June 2001: CIA Hears Key Al-Qaeda Operatives Are Disappearing, Preparing for Suicide Attack
- Late June 2001: CIA Holds Exercises to Consider Killing Bin Laden Using an Armed Drone
- June 2001: CIA Gets Hints of Imminent, Multiple Al-Qaeda Attacks
- June 2001: US Intelligence Fears Al-Qaeda Will Strike on Fourth of July
- June 2001: Germans Warn of Plan to Use Aircraft as Missiles on US and Israeli Symbols
- June 2001: Spain Does Not Heed French Warning to Arrest Future Madrid Train Bomber
- June 2002: Secret CIA Report Says North Korea Is Enriching Uranium with Pakistani Help
- June 2002: CIA Claims to Get Vital Intelligence from Torture of Zubaida, but Others Claim His Leads Are Mostly Vague and Useless
- June 2002: Zubaida Subjected to Intensive Interrogations by CIA Agents
- (June 2003): Chief of CIA Station in Baghdad Departs