Central Intelligence Agency
Events (1798)
- Late October-Early December 2001: Gen. Franks Ignores CIA Request to Deploy Unused US Troops to Get Bin Laden
- December 2001: CIA Realizes Prague Visit Was Not Made by Hijacker Atta
- December 2001: CIA Unable to Question Pakistani Nuclear Scientists Linked to Pro-Al-Qaeda Charity Front
- December 2001-Early January 2002: ISI Said to Help Bin Laden and Taliban Escape and Resettle in Pakistan
- Early December 2001: Al-Qaeda ‘Puppet Master’ Abu Qatada Disappears in Britain
- December 2001: Pentagon Asks Military Agency for Help in Developing Torture Techniques; Methods Originated with Chinese during Korean War
- Mid-December 2001: Videotape Shows Bin Laden Heading into Pakistan
- December 2002: Interrogators Blow Smoke in Detainee’s Face
- December 2002: Detainee Left in Cold Room, Shackled and Naked
- (December 2002): ’Potentially Injurious’ Stress Positions Used on Al-Qaeda Leader
- December 2002: CIA Official: We Will Find the Intelligence to Allow Bush to Go to War
- Late December 2003 - May 2004: Hussein Gives Wealth of Information in Long Interrogations with FBI Agent; No Harsh Tactics Used
- December 2003: FBI Agent Says Officers in CIA’s Bin Laden Unit ‘Have Blood on Their Hands’ over 9/11
- December 2003: CIA Reduces Time Limit on Standard Technique of Sleep Deprivation
- December 2003: Army Fails to Investigate Claim of Detainee Abuse
- After November 2005: CIA Officer Never Punished for Allegedly Destroying Vital Evidence Without Authorization
- December 1996-June 1999: US Military Fails to Help CIA Plan Operations Against Bin Laden
- December 1996: NSA Refuses to Share Bin Laden Phone Surveillance with Other US Intelligence Agencies
- December 1999: Clinton Administration Issues Wider Memo about Bin Laden without Assassination Authorization
- December 1999: CIA Attempts to Recruit Man with Links to Atta and Hamburg Cell
- Early December 1999: US Takes Action to Stop Al-Qaeda Millennium Bombing Plot
- 1976: Neoconservatives, Cold Warriors Revive Committee on the Present Danger; Group Heralds Ideological Split in GOP
- 1980s: Much US and Saudi Aid Meant for Afghan Fighters Goes to ISI and A. Q. Khan Network
- 1980-1989: CIA and British Train Mujaheddin in Afghanistan and Help Arm Bin Laden
- Late 1980s: Bin Laden, CIA, and ISI Train Core of Future Philippines Militant Group
- Late 1980s: Ramzi Yousef Recruited by CIA?
- 1980: Afghan Fighters Begin Training in US
- Mid-1981 through Late 1981: Neoconservative Attempts to Make Cold War Connection to Assassination Attempt on Pope John Paul II
- 1981-1991: CIA Uses BCCI Bank to Pay 500 British Informants
- 1981-1983: NSC Gains a Clear Picture of BCCI’s Criminal Activities from CIA Reports
- 1982: CIA, NSC Official Becomes Bush’s Foreign Policy Adviser
- 1983: Neoconservative Arrives at Pentagon, Allegedly Acts as Israeli Agent within Defense Department
- 1984 and After: BCCI Dominates Supply Chain of CIA Supplies and Weapons Meant for Mujaheddin
- 1984 and After: US and British Intelligence Are Aware that Terrorist Abu Nidal Is Using BCCI in London, but Take No Action
- (1987): CIA Funds Mujahedeen Leader Who Supports Bin Laden
- 1987-1990: US and British Intelligence Aware Middle Eastern Governments Are Paying Large Sums to Terrorist Abu Nidal, but Take No Action
- September 1987-March 1989: Head US Consular Official Claims He’s Told to Issue Visas to Unqualified Applicants
- 1988: Al Taqwa Bank Co-Founder Is Long-time CIA Asset
- Late 1990s: CIA and German Police Foil Airplane Bomb Plot by Al-Qaeda in Northern Germany
- February 1991- July 1992: CIA Already Spying on Bin Laden in Sudan
- 1996 and After: Al-Qaeda Revives Bosnia Connections through Saudi Government Charity; US Fails to Shut Charity Down
- 1996: Attempted Supression of Bin Laden WMD Report Leads to Division between CIA’s Bin Laden Unit and CIA Leaders
- 1997: Possible Unmanned Aerial Attacks Raise Concerns at FBI, CIA
- 1998: CIA Discovers Links between Arms Dealer Victor Bout, Al-Qaeda, and Taliban
- 1998: CIA Suspects Persian Gulf Royals and Arms Dealer Victor Bout Are Flying Heroin Out of Afghanistan
- 1998-1999: Israeli Spy Operation in US Reportedly Discovered, Said to Cause ‘Incredible Damage’ for US Security
- 1999: FBI Creates Bin Laden Unit
- Early 2000-Summer 2001: NSA Intercepts Communications between 9/11 Hijackers in US and Al-Qaeda Communications Hub
- 2002: CIA Decides Ibrahim Saeed Ahmed Fits Profile of Ideal Courier for Bin Laden
- 2002-2003: Chertoff Advises CIA Can Use Waterboarding and ‘False Flag’ Trickery on Detainees