Counterterrorist Center
Events (23)
- December 8, 1999: CIA Concludes that Bin Laden Plans Many Imminent Attacks, Including Some inside US 1999-12-08
- (After January 6, 2000): CIA Fails to Check FBI Has Been Notified of 9/11 Hijacker Almihdhar’s US Visa, Although this Is ‘Routine Practice’ 2000-01-06
- June 4, 2001: Congressional Committee Warned of Large Attacks Soon 2001-06-04
- September 9, 2001: Northern Alliance Informs CIA of Massoud Assassination; News Soon Leaks 2001-09-09
- Late 2000-September 10, 2001: US Intelligence Makes No Strategic Assessment about Islamic Militant Threat 2001-09-10
- (10:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Counterterrorist Center Does Not Evacuate with Rest of CIA Headquarters 2001-09-11
- Shortly After 9:03 a.m. September 11, 2001: CIA Counterterrorist Center Learns of at Least One More Plane Unaccounted for 2001-09-11
- Shortly After September 11, 2001: CIA Manager Proposes ‘Hit Teams’ to Carry Out Assassinations in Middle East, Africa, and Europe 2001-09-11
- 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
- July 16, 2003: CIA Inspector General Interviews Counterterrorist Center Officer about Usefulness of Detainee Reporting 2003-07-16
- April 13, 2004: CIA Manager Says, ‘When People Die, You Get More Money’ 2004-04-13
- February 6, 2006: CIA Counterterrorism Chief Removed from Position; Opposition to Torture May Have Impelled Removal 2006-02-06
- March 24, 2008: US Effort to Fight Financing of Terrorism Is ‘Foundering’ 2008-03-24
- (April 2004): Senior CIA Officers Informed of Wrongful Rendition, but Innocent German Remains at Black Site
- (May 2004): CIA Director Informed Agency Is Holding Innocent Man at Afghan Black Site
- June-July 1999: CIA Reports that Bin Laden Plans Attack in US
- August 2001: Persian Gulf Informant Gives Ex-CIA Agent Information About ‘Spectacular Terrorist Operation’
- November 2002: CIA Begins Interrogation Course
- December 2003: FBI Agent Says Officers in CIA’s Bin Laden Unit ‘Have Blood on Their Hands’ over 9/11
- 1997: CIA Establishes Renditions Branch, Helps with Up to 70 Renditions Before 9/11
- Mid-December 2002: Al-Nashiri Assessed to Be ‘Compliant’ after Torture
- Spring 2002: CIA Realizes Bush Administration Is Planning to Invade Iraq
- Summer 2001: Two CIA Bin Laden Experts Consider Resigning in Protest