Central Intelligence Agency
Events (1798)
- (1987): CIA Obtains Detailed Information about Pakistan Nuclear Weapons Plant
- Autumn 2000: CIA Front Company Leads to Suspicions CIA Is Attempting to Infiltrate Florida Cell
- Autumn 2004: US Misses Chance to Learn Secrets from Taliban’s Top Drug Kingpin
- Autumn 2005 or Before: Fears Over CIA Evidence Cause FBI to Build Cases against Guantanamo Detainees
- Autumn 2006- February 2007: Head of US Forces in Afghanistan Compiles Dossier Showing Pakistan’s Support for Militants, but to Little Effect
- Late Autumn 2001: Document Suggests Link between Al-Qaeda and Pakistani Nuclear Scientists
- Autumn 1988: CIA Has Secret Slush Fund for Covert Operations at BCCI; Fails to Tell US Customs about It
- Autumn 2006-Late April 2007: Al-Qaeda Leader Is Kept in Secret CIA Prison, Revealing that CIA Prison System Is Still Operating
- Autumn 2006: Key Link between Al-Qaeda Leaders and Al-Qaeda in Iraq Is Arrested
- Autumn 1998: US Intelligence Aware of ‘Unholy Alliance’ between ISI, Taliban, and Al-Qaeda
- Before February 2008: New Chief of CIA Cover Division Appointed
- Between November 2005 and Summer 2006: Hayden Learns CIA Videotapes Have Been Destroyed; Does Not Inform Congressional Leaders
- Before November 2005: Mid-level CIA Lawyers Find No Bar to Destruction of Interrogation Videos
- Before Mid-January 2002: Top CIA Official Reportedly Describes 9/11 as ‘Triumph’
- Before Summer 1995: CIA Begins Tracking Islamist Militants in Europe
- Between April 2002 and November 2005:: CIA Interrogation Videos Held Overseas Despite Security Risk
- Between April 2002 and November 2005: Parts of CIA Interrogation Tapes Transmitted to US, Reviewed by Headquarters Officials
- Between Late 2005 and February 2008: CIA Shuts Down Most ‘Black Stations’
- Between Mid-January and July 2000: CIA’s Counterterrorist Center Reorganized, Bin Laden Unit Placed in Larger Group
- Between Mid-December 2002 and June 2004: Inspector General Finds Pre-9/11 Bin Laden Analysis by CIA Inadequate
- Early 2000: US Develops Mysterious New Technique for Detecting Bin Laden
- Early 2000: Treasury Department Blocked from Freezing Assets of Al-Qaeda Financiers in Saudi Arabia
- Early January 2001: CIA Passes Photos of Hijackers Alhazmi and Almihdhar for Source to Identify
- Early 2001: CIA Reduces FBI Access to NSA’s Al-Qaeda Intercepts
- Early 2001: Taliban Disinformation Project Is Cancelled
- Early 2002: Last Good Intelligence Leads on Bin Laden’s Whereabouts
- Early 2002: Troops and Equipment Redirected from Afghanistan to Iraq
- Early 2002-January 2003: Syrian Government Helps US with Al-Qaeda Intelligence until US Cuts Off Relationship Because of Iraq War Priority
- Early 2004: 9/11 Commission Allegedly Prevented from Naming Junior CIA Officer Responsible for Pre-9/11 Failure by Threats from Senior CIA Officials
- Early 2004: White House Asks 9/11 Commission Not to Call for CIA Director Tenet’s Resignation
- Mid-May 2001: CIA Assigns Officer to Examine Malaysia Summit in Her Free Time
- Early 2005: Defense Secretary Rumsfeld Cancels Mission to Capture Al-Zawahiri in Pakistan
- Early October, 2003: Plame Wilson Interviewed by Senate Staffers
- Early November 2003: US Military Official Tells CIA Station Chief Insurgency Is Getting More Deadly
- Early November, 2004: CIA’s Deputy Director of Operations, Subordinate Resign over Attacks on Integrity from New Director
- Early December 2003: CIA Baghdad Station Chief Meets with President following Alarming Report
- Early 1998: CIA Ignores Warning that KSM Is Heading Al-Qaeda’s Terrorist Operations
- Early 2001: CIA Asset Tests Al-Qaeda Training Camp for Chemical Weapons
- Early 2002: CIA First Learns Alias of Trusted Bin Laden Courier Ahmed
- Early 2004: CIA Lacks Resources to Monitor Al-Qaeda Haven in Pakistan, Due to Iraq War
- Early 1975: Vice President Rockefeller Investigates CIA; Blocks Democrats from Getting Information for Better Investigation
- Early 1976: Neoconservative ‘Team B’ of Outside Intelligence Analysts Created
- Early 1986: CIA Aware of Bin Laden’s Activities in Pakistan; Knows He Is ‘Tapping into’ CIA-Backed Operation
- Early 1990s: Iraqi Opposition Leader Chalabi Deepens Ties with Iran
- Early 1996: China Ships Centrifuge Parts to Pakistan, US Takes No Action
- Early 1997: CIA Unit Determines Bin Laden Is Serious Threat, But Cooperation Is Poor
- Early 1999: NSA Monitoring Hears 9/11 Hijacker Names, This Information Is Not Shared with CIA or FBI
- Mid-January 2000: Senior FBI Representative to CIA Bin Laden Unit Resigns Over Illness, Hampering Passage of Information to FBI
- Early Summer 2001: Italian Intelligence Agency Gives US Forged Nigerien Documents
- Fall 2002: Justice Department Lawyers Lose Argument over Indefinite Detentions to Cheney’s Counsel