National Clandestine Service/Director

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Main.png National Clandestine Service/Director 

Start13 October 2005
Leader ofCIA/Directorate of Operations
Leader of the CIA/Directorate of Operations


Going back 50 years, the agency’s practice was to publicly identify and praise most of Archibald’s predecessors. Why? Paradoxically, it’s a job that requires a certain degree of public exposure. The spy chief’s duties require him to visit regularly with the FBI, NSA and the dozen other branches of the U.S. intelligence community, to testify to congressional oversight committees and to meet with his foreign counterparts, either here or in some of the world’s most dangerous neighborhoods. Nearly two dozen of his predecessors have been known to the public. It’s too bad they’re going all black-cloak with Archibald, because after the bumpy tenures of the past few people in that job, the agency could benefit from letting people know that it has a “quiet professional” at the helm, as one former colleague put it, a figure of continuity at an agency that has changed CIA directors six times since 2003.[1]


 

Office Holders on Wikispooks

NameFromTo
Michael Sulick20072010
David Cohen19951997
Thomas A. Twetten1 January 19911993
John H. Stein14 July 19811 July 1984
William Colby2 March 197324 August 1973

 

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CIA/Deputy Director for Operations“Going back 50 years, the agency's practice was to publicly identify and praise most of Archibald's predecessors. Why? Paradoxically, it’s a job that requires a certain degree of public exposure. The spy chief's duties require him to visit regularly with the FBI, NSA and the dozen other branches of the U.S. intelligence community, to testify to congressional oversight committees and to meet with his foreign counterparts, either here or in some of the world’s most dangerous neighborhoods. Nearly two dozen of his predecessors have been known to the public. It’s too bad they’re going all black-cloak with Archibald, because after the bumpy tenures of the past few people in that job, the agency could benefit from letting people know that it has a "quiet professional" at the helm, as one former colleague put it, a figure of continuity at an agency that has changed CIA directors six times since 2003.”Jeff Stein
Newsweek
2013

 

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Document:1975 WUBRINY Memomemo29 November 1975FBI
Gale Allen
A 1975 memo from before George H. W. Bush was made DCI that reveals years of involvement in CIA operations.
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