Central Intelligence Agency
Events (1798)
- Spring 2000: Saudi Suggestion to Track Bin Laden’s Stepmother in Planned Meeting with Him Is Rejected
- 2006 and After: Some FBI Agents Believe CIA and Saudi Intelligence Attempted to Recruit Hijackers Almihdhar and Alhazmi
- Spring 2002: CIA Taking for Granted US Will Invade Iraq; Tenet Is Warned Invasion Will ‘Break the Back’ of Counterterrorism Efforts
- Late Spring 1998: Kenyan Intelligence Tries to Warn CIA about Embassy Attack
- Spring-Summer 2007: Senators Campaign for Release of Summary of CIA 9/11 Report
- Summer 2003: Libby Discloses Classified Information to Author, Authorized by Bush
- Summer 2003: CIA Officials Obtain Permission from Rice to Use Harsh Interrogation Tactics on New Detainee
- Summer 1980: CIA Agent: Republicans Open Secret Channel to Iran in Preparation for ‘October Surprise,’ Arms Deals
- Summer 1986: CIA Official Told to Lie to Congress
- Summer 1998: KSM Travels to the US until at Least This Time
- Summer 2001: CIA Allegedly Tells Bush Al-Qaeda Has Been Penetrated
- Summer 2001: Two CIA Bin Laden Experts Consider Resigning in Protest
- Summer-Autumn 2001: State Department Official Allegedly Tips Off Nuclear Smuggling Ring about CIA Front Company
- (Between Summer and Winter 2001): CIA Appoints New Head of Sunni Extremist Group Section of Counterterrorist Center
- Summer-Winter 2002: CIA Employee Allegedly Lies to Congressional Inquiry over Notification about Hijacker Almihdhar
- Summer 2002: Later Defender of Waterboarding Transferred to Iraqi Issues
- Spring-Summer 2002 and Possibly Before: Later Defender of Waterboarding Serves as CIA Counterterrorism Chief in Pakistan
- Summer 2003: 9/11 Commission Unhappy with Information Coming from Detainees
- Summer 2003-January 2004: 9/11 Commission Does Not Receive Videotapes of Detainee Interrogations
- Summer 2004: 9/11 Commission’s Zelikow Investigated over Mishandling of Classified Information
- Summer 2005: Director of National Intelligence Tells CIA Not to Destroy Interrogation Tapes
- Summer-Autumn 2006: Renewed US Effort to Find Bin Laden and Al-Zawahiri Frustrated by Pakistan Peace Deal with Militants
- Summer 1999: CIA Asks Immigration Officials across Middle East to Question Anyone Who May Be Returning from Afghan Training Camps
- Summer 1996: British and American Intelligence Agencies Warn of Pakistan Arming North Korea and Iran
- Autumn 1997: CIA Ignores Tip Linking Saudi Charity to Al-Qaeda Plot on US Embassy in Kenya
- Summer 1999: CIA Decides to Increase Ties with Northern Alliance, Decision Pushed through by Counterterrorist Center
- Winter 1999-March 2000: US Intelligence Installs Listening Posts in Afghanistan But Makes Little Use of Intelligence Gained
- Spring 2002-Late 2002: CIA Paris Station Chief Sends Numerous Reports to Langley Dismissing Niger-Uranium Allegation
- Spring 2007: Bush Authorizes New Covert ‘Black’ Operation to Destabilize Iran
- 2002: CIA Intelligence Gathering Operation Indicates That Iraq Has No Weapons of Mass Destruction
- 1964: CIA Spends Millions to Prevent Allende Election
- September 2006: CIA Review Warns that Weak Karzai Government Failing to Extend Authority Beyond Kabul
- Fall 2002: CIA Operation in Athens Frames Iraqi Security Officials in Arms Bust
- September 2009: CIA Expanding Presence in Afghanistan to Historic Levels as Part of Spy and Paramilitary Surge
- Early March 2003: CIA Determines There Is No Evidence That Iraq Is Planning to Attack US Mainland with Drones
- 1967-1975: Project MINARET Illegally Monitors American ‘Subversives’
- October 2001: NSA Creates Massive Database of US Citizens’ Phone Calls
- 1973: CIA Internal Review Finds ‘Dozens’ of Illegal Domestic Surveillance Operations
- February 2001 and Beyond: Three US Telecom Firms Cooperate With NSA Surveillance Program; Qwest Refuses
- February 2005: Connecticut Librarians Refuse to Comply with NSL Over Hoax Terrorist Threat
- 1952: NSA Founded
- Spring 2001: New Bush Administration Policy Allows NSA to Illegally Spy on US Citizens
- April, 1976: Church Committee Reports on Domestic Surveillance and Other Illegal Activities by US Intelligence Agencies
- Late May, 2001: CIA Officer Passes Three Malaysia Summit Photographs to FBI, but Fails to Mention Some Important Details
- Late August 1998: CIA Apparently Arrests Top Militant Leaders by Accident
- August 2002: Al-Qaeda Operative Captured, Warns of Attack on Oil Tanker near Yemen; Disappears into CIA Custody
- February 1999: Classified CIA Report Discusses Responses to an Anthrax Attack through the Mail
- Early January 2003: CIA Report Casts Further Doubt on Allegation that Iraq Trained Al-Qaeda Operatives in ‘Poisons and Gases’
- Before September 2002: CIA Shares Wilson Intel on False Iraq-Niger Uranium Deal With Britain; Report Disputed
- Mid-September, 2001: Cheney and Rumsfeld Create ‘Cabal’ to Influence Foreign Policy