Central Intelligence Agency
Events (1798)
- October 2003 or After: Detainee Allegedly Sees Cameras in Cells and Interrogation Rooms
- October 2003: CIA Only Provides 9/11 Commission with ‘Non-Specific’ Information about Detainee Interrogations, Fails to Mention Videotapes
- October 2005: CIA Report Concludes There Never Was Any Hussein-Al-Zarqawi Link
- October 1974: Watergate Burglar Says He Never Asked for ‘Hush Money,’ but Simply What Any Clandestine Intelligence Operative Would Expect
- October 1984: CIA Director Secretly Visits Afghan Training Camps; He Urges Spread of Violence into Soviet Union
- Late October 1990-October 1992: ’Blind Sheikh’ Able to Repeatedly Leave and Reenter US Despite Being on Watch List
- October 1995: FBI and CIA Investigating Bin Laden’s Personal Secretary
- October 1995: FBI Begins Investigating Bin Laden; CIA Already Monitoring Him
- October 1996-Late 2001: Arms Dealer Aligns with Taliban and ISI
- November 1997: No Action Taken After Precise Warning of Embassy Attack
- October 1998: Military Analyst Goes Where Spies Fail to Go, but Her Efforts Are Rejected
- (October 1999): CIA Officer Sends Cable Falsely Linking Iran to Major Al-Qaeda Plot, Is Forced to Withdraw It and Others
- October 1999: CIA Does Not Share Information with Able Danger Program
- October 1999: CIA Considers Increased Aid to Northern Alliance
- October 1999: Joint US-ISI Operation to Kill Osama Falters
- November 2000: Taliban Allegedly Offers to Hand bin Laden to US Officials
- Late October-Early November 2001: Al-Qaeda Fighters and Bin Laden Said to Move into Jalalabad without Hindrance
- November 2002: CIA Team Arrives in Milan for Abduction of Radical Cleric
- November 2002: CIA Begins Interrogation Course
- November 2002: CIA Says North Korea Is Building Uranium Enrichment Facility
- November 2002: CIA Report Concludes Saudi Government Has Made Little Effort to Fight Terrorist Financing
- November 2002: CIA Approves Four Standard Interrogation Techniques
- (November 2002): Detained Al-Qaeda Leader Transferred from United Arab Emirates to Salt Pit Prison
- (Mid-Late November 2002): Detained Al-Qaeda Leader Transferred from Salt Pit Prison to Black Site in Thailand
- Late November 2002: British Intelligence Told CIA Is Going to Rendition Two British Citizens It Knows Are Innocent, but Fails to Help Them
- November 2002: Detainee Later Found Dead Is Uncooperative in Custody
- November 2002: CIA Officer in Charge of Salt Pit Black Site Requests Guidance on Handling Detainees, Requests Are Ignored
- November 2004: CIA Doubts Reliability of Documents about Iran’s Nuclear Program
- November-December 2004: Political Purge of CIA Follows Presidential Election
- November 2005: Station Chief Asks for Permission to Destroy CIA Tapes
- November 2005: CIA Destroys Videotapes of Detainees’ Interrogations without Advance Notification
- November 2005: Top Captured Militants in Secret CIA Prisons Moved From Poland to Mauritania
- November 2005: Senior CIA Official Leaves Agency for Department of Energy
- Mid-November, 2006: Experts Present Alternative Explanations to Iran’s Nuclear Boasting
- Early October 2002: Al-Qaeda Leader Al-Nashiri Arrested in UAE
- Shortly After Early October 2002: Al-Qaeda Leader Al-Nashiri Is Waterboarded in Secret CIA Prison
- November 1975: CIA Instructs Dutch Not to Arrest A. Q. Khan over Passage of Nuclear Secrets; Khan Flees to Pakistan
- November 1976: Team B Browbeats CIA Analysts, ‘Proves’ Soviets Far Ahead of US in Military, Nuclear Capabilities
- November 1986-November 1987: Soviet Union Decides to End Afghan War, US Learns of Decision
- (June-November 1989): US Considers Rendition Operation against Lockerbie Bombers, If Found
- November 1989: CIA Director Meets with Kuwaiti Head of Security
- Mid-November 1990: CIA Allegedy Blocks FBI Investigation of ‘Blind Sheikh’ in Kahane Assassination
- November 1993: Iraqi Exile Plans to Overthrow Hussein, with Approval of Clinton Administration
- (November-December 1999): Al-Zawahiri’s Brother Rendered to Egypt
- Mid-Late December 2000: Some CIA Officers Speculate Almihdhar May Be Al-Qaeda Leader Bin Attash, FBI Not Informed
- Early December 2000: Confession Brings FBI Close to Learning about Hijackers Coming to US, but CIA Withholds Key Information Again
- Mid-Late December 2000: CIA Receives Additional Confirmation of Almihdhar’s Al-Qaeda Connection
- December 2000: Pentagon Develops Plan to Attack Al-Qaeda
- December 2000: Incoming Bush Administration Briefed on Terrorism Threat; Apparently Ignores Recommendations
- December 2001-January 2002: State Department Official Proposes Negotiations with Terror Sponsors; Neoconservatives Reject Idea