Central Intelligence Agency
Events (1798)
- Fall 2002 and After: Vice President Cheney’s Power Peaks as He Uses Bureaucratic Strategies to Manage Foreign Policy Himself
- Fall 2002: CIA Analysts Resent Pressure from Vice President Cheney and His Staff
- Fall 2002: Cheney, Staffers Give INC Intelligence More Credence than CIA’s, Attempt to Inject INC Intel into CIA Analyses
- Fall 1985: Valerie Plame Joins CIA, Receives Elite Training
- Fall 1989: Plame Assigned to Athens for CIA Recruiting Duty
- Fall 1992 - 1996: Plame Becomes CIA ‘NOC’
- Autumn 1992: UN Inspectors Discover Advanced Nuclear Weapons Program in Iraq
- Fall 1999: CIA Draws Up New Plan to Combat Al-Qaeda; Includes Disruption, Rendition and Capture Operations
- Fall 1999: Former Ambassador Visits Niger at CIA’s Behest, Perhaps to Find Information about Iraq-Niger Uranium Deals
- Late 2000: Military Prepares Options for Striking at Bin Laden, but Not Serious about Using Them
- Late January 2003: 9/11 Commission’s Zelikow Tells CIA 9/11 Was Its Fault; CIA Is Displeased
- Late 2001: German Intelligence Reportedly Prevents Arrest of Alleged Al-Qaeda-CIA Double Agent with 9/11 Foreknowledge
- Late 2002: CIA Recruits New High-Level Al-Qaeda Informant
- Late 2002-Early 2003: More Talented US Personnel Redeployed from Afghanistan to Iraq
- Late March 2004: CIA Manager Agrees to Release Innocent German, Only on Impractical Condition Germans Follow Him
- Late 2003-2004: 9/11 Commission Suspects Interrogated Detainees Are Harshly Treated
- 2002-Early 2003: CIA Sets Up Secret Bases in Pakistan to Hunt for Bin Laden, but Foiled by Pakistani Escorts
- Late April 2003: Chief of Newly Established CIA Station in Baghdad Appointed
- Late April 1998 and Shortly After: Tenet Unhappy over Saudi Information Sharing, Suggests Al-Qaeda Leader Wants to Assassinate Vice President
- Late 2004 or Early 2005: CIA Officer Later Accused of Rape Gets into Parking Lot Dispute, Claims to Be FBI Agent
- Late 2005: CIA Closes Unit Hunting Bin Laden
- (Late May-Early June): FBI Agent at CIA Searches Only One of Two Databases with Information about 9/11 Hijackers
- Late 2005 or After: CIA Officer Involved in ‘Italian Job’ Rendition Declines Deal to Testify against Agency
- Late June 2003: Conservative Columnist Schedules Interview with Deputy Secretary of State
- Late July 2001: Taliban Intelligence Chief Wants Secret Contact with US to ‘Save Afghanistan’
- Late July 2001: CIA Official Says of Al-Qaeda, ‘They’re Coming Here’
- Late July 2001: FBI Agent Possibly Confused by Error in CIA Cable, Fails to Tell FBI Hijacker Almihdhar Has US Visa
- (Late July) 2007: OLC Issues Secret Memo Explicating Torture Methods
- Late August 2002: Abu Zubaida Subjected to One More Waterboarding Session at Insistence of CIA Headquarters
- Late August, 1990: Iraq Presents CIA-Kuwait Memo as Proof of Plot to Destabilize Iraq
- Late September 2001: CIA Learns ISI Is Secretly Advising Taliban to Resist US Invasion
- Late September-Late October 2001: US Military Slow in Entering Afghanistan until Rumsfeld Makes Power Grab
- Late September 2003: Experienced CIA Official Joins Baghdad Station Staff
- Late October-Late November 2000: Confession Leads FBI toColeMastermind
- Late November 2000: FBI Formally Asks CIA about Al-Qaeda Leader and Possible Meeting in Southeast Asia, but Gets No Answer
- Late November, 1976: Team B Breaches Security to Successfully Whip up Fears of Soviet Threat
- Late December 2001: US Decides to Accept Iran’s Help against Al-Qaeda but Offer Nothing in Return
- Late December 2002 or Early January 2003: CIA Official Threatens Al-Nashiri’s Mother, Family
- (Late December 2003): CIA Baghdad Station Chief Fired, Reason for Firing Unclear
- Late 1969: Neoconservatives Escape Punishment for Leaking Classified Information
- Late 1990s: CIA Director Tenet Has Direct, Private Channels to Saudi Leaders
- Late 2001-Mid-March 2002: CIA Looks to Brutal Torture Techniques of Egyptians, Saudis, and Soviets in Setting Up Its Interrogation Program
- Late 2001: Only about 500 US Fighters Take Part in Afghanistan War
- Late 2005: New CIA Push to Get Bin Laden Has Little Impact; Most Experienced Personnel Busy with Iraq War
- Late 2005: Conflicting Prisoner Accounts Point to Importance of Al-Qaeda Courier Ahmed
- Late 2007: CIA Allegedly Produces Report Saying Bin Laden Close to Death
- Late 1990s-2001 and Possibly After: Plame-Wilson Uses Brewster Jennings as CIA Cover
- (1997): CIA Officer Later Accused of Date Rape Joins Agency for First Time
- October 1994: CIA and ISI Allegedly Give Help and Secret Cache of Weapons to Taliban
- Late 1996: Effort to Get Nukes Makes Al-Qaeda Threat Clear