Cofer Black

Events (40)

• January 6-9, 2000: Top CIA and Clinton Cabinet Officials Repeatedly Briefed about Al-Qaeda Summit in Malaysia 2000-01-06
• After October 12, 2000: CIA Discusses Increased Support for Northern Alliance in Wake ofColeBombing 2000-10-12
• December 29, 2000: CIA Develops ‘Blue Sky’ Plan to Increase Support to Massoud, Strike Bin Laden 2000-12-29
• January 5, 2001 and After: CIA Does Not Tell FBI about Identification of Al-Qaeda Leader by Informer, but Allegedly Thinks It Has Done So 2001-01-05
• May 30, 2001: CIA Leaders Warn Rice about Expected Al-Qaeda Attack 2001-05-30
• June 28, 2001: CIA Leaders Told Bin Laden Will Launch Spectacular Attack against US and/or Israeli Targets within Weeks 2001-06-28
• July 10, 2001: CIA Director Tenet Briefed about Al-Qaeda; Urgent White House Meeting Results 2001-07-10
• July 10, 2001: Urgent CIA Request for Funds to Immediately Deal with Bin Laden Is Denied 2001-07-10
• July 10, 2001: CIA Director Gives Urgent Warning to White House of Imminent, Multiple, Simultaneous Al-Qaeda Attacks, Possibly Within US 2001-07-10
• August 15, 2001: CIA Counterterrorism Head: We Are Going to Be Struck Soon and It Could Be in US 2001-08-15
• (10:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Counterterrorist Center Does Not Evacuate with Rest of CIA Headquarters 2001-09-11
• (Shortly After 10:32 a.m.) September 11, 2001: CIA’s Counterterrorist Center Director Is Unable to Provide Much Information about the Attacks 2001-09-11
• September 12, 2001: British Intelligence Chiefs Fly to US; Delegation Visits CIA and Advises to Concentrate on Afghanistan, Not Iraq 2001-09-12
• September 13, 2001: CIA Presents President with Plan to Confront Global Terrorism; Claims Victory Can Be Achieved in Weeks 2001-09-13
• September 15, 2001: CIA Director Presents Bush and his Cabinet with Extensive Plan for Combating Terrorism Worldwide 2001-09-15
• September 19, 2001: First CIA Agents Heading to Afghanistan Are Told ‘Gloves Are Off’ and to Bring Back Bin Laden’s ‘Head in a Box’ 2001-09-19
• September 26, 2001: First CIA Operatives Arrive in Afghanistan to Launch War against Taliban 2001-09-26
• May 17, 2002: CIA Counterterrorism Head Fired for Criticizing Failure to Capture Bin Laden 2002-05-17
• October 17, 2002: Tenet Misinforms Congressional Inquiry about CIA Knowledge of Hijackers’ Entry into US 2002-10-17
• April 30, 2003: State Department Says MEK is a Terrorist Group; State Official Explains Why MEK Has DC Office 2003-04-30
• January 28, 2004: CIA Director Tenet Privately Tells 9/11 Commission about Urgent Pre-9/11 Warning, but His Testimony Is Kept Secret 2004-01-28
• April 13, 2004: CIA Manager Says, ‘When People Die, You Get More Money’ 2004-04-13
• July 8, 2004: Magazine Correctly Predicts ‘July Surprise’ Al-Qaeda Arrest 2004-07-08
• January 7, 2005: Still-Classified Report Is Said to Blame CIA Leaders For 9/11 Failures, But There Are Pressures to Water It Down 2005-01-07
• Shortly Before September 12, 2006: Blackwater Reportedly Attempts to Hire Top CIA Official 2006-09-12
• September 30-October 3, 2006: 9/11 Commissioners Claim to Be Furious They Were Not Told of July 2001 Warning, When In Fact They Were 2006-10-03
• August 19-20, 2009: Media Learns of CIA Assassination Contract with Blackwater 2009-08-19
• August 11, 2011: Former Counterterrorism ‘Tsar’ Says CIA Deliberately Withheld Information from Him before 9/11 2011-08-11
• May 3, 2012: Republican Presidential Nominee Advised by Neoconservatives who Advocate Huge Military Spending Increases, War with Iran 2012-05-03
• February 2005: Former CIA Counterterrorism Chief Joins Blackwater
• March 2000: US Team Plans to Capture Al-Qaeda Leader in Afghanistan, but Mission Is Aborted
• April 2001: Counterterrorism Chief Warns that ‘Something Big’ Is Coming
• April 2006: Blackwater Vice Chairman Suggests Taking over Peacekeeping Operations
• April 2007: Former CIA Counterterrorism Chief Named Adviser to Presidential Candidate Romney
• June 2001: US Intelligence Fears Al-Qaeda Will Strike on Fourth of July
• June 2005: Revised CIA Inspector General Report Completed; Recommends Accountability Boards for Several Officers
• 1974: Future Counterterrorism Chief Joins CIA
• 1997-2001: CIA Counterterrorist Center Does Not Spend All Funds Allocated, Despite Complaining about Resource Shortages
• 1998 and After: CIA Instigates Co-operation with Uzbekistan against Taliban and Al-Qaeda
• Summer 1999: CIA Decides to Increase Ties with Northern Alliance, Decision Pushed through by Counterterrorist Center