Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency is named in 95 events across the Capture Cascade Timeline, from 1947 to 2026.
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Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-05 | Iran Secretly Contacts CIA to Discuss End of War; Trump Says It Is "Too Late" for Talks Donald Trump · Central Intelligence Agency · Iran · Abbas Araghchi · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-03 | Iranian Drones Strike U.S. Embassy in Riyadh as War Spreads Across Middle East Iran · Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · U.S. Department of State · U.S. Department of Defense · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-20 | CIA Director Ratcliffe Orders Retraction of 19 Intelligence Products John Ratcliffe · Central Intelligence Agency | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-24 | CIA Conducts First Land Strike in Venezuela, Destroying Drug Boat Loading Facility Central Intelligence Agency · Venezuela | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-20 | Secret Interagency Working Group Coordinates Trump Retaliation Against Political Opponents Pam Bondi · Tulsi Gabbard · Trump Administration · U.S. Department of Justice · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-03 | In-Q-Tel Reaches 800th Investment Milestone, Expanding Into AI and Quantum Computing In-Q-Tel · Central Intelligence Agency · Christopher Darby | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-15 | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Receives Top Secret Clearance for Intelligence Community Oracle · Intelligence Community · U.S. Department of Defense · Central Intelligence Agency | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-01 | Amazon AWS Government Contracts Reach Multi-Billion Dollar Annual Scale Amazon Web Services · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · Pentagon · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-03-05 | Palantir and AWS Formalize Strategic Partnership for Government Data Analytics Palantir Technologies · Amazon Web Services · Central Intelligence Agency · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2020-11-20 | CIA Awards Multibillion-Dollar C2E Cloud Contract to Oracle, AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM Central Intelligence Agency · Oracle · Amazon Web Services · Microsoft · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-20 | Trump Defends Saudi Arabia Despite CIA High-Confidence Finding MBS Ordered Khashoggi Murder - "Maybe He Did, Maybe He Didn't" Donald Trump · Mohammed bin Salman · Central Intelligence Agency · King Salman · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-02 | Jamal Khashoggi Murdered Inside Saudi Consulate in Istanbul by 15-Member Hit Squad Sent by Crown Prince MBS Jamal Khashoggi · Mohammed bin Salman · Saudi Arabia government · Turkish intelligence · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-31 | European Court Finds Romania and Lithuania Hosted CIA Torture Sites, Orders Damages European Court of Human Rights · Romania · Lithuania · Central Intelligence Agency · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-13 | Trump Nominates Gina Haspel as CIA Director Despite Role in Torture Program and Evidence Destruction Gina Haspel · Donald Trump · Mike Pompeo · Central Intelligence Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-11-20 | Amazon Launches AWS Secret Region for CIA and Intelligence Community Amazon Web Services · Central Intelligence Agency · Intelligence Community | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-06 | Intelligence Community Assessment Concludes Putin Ordered Campaign to Influence 2016 Election Vladimir Putin · Central Intelligence Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation · National Security Agency · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2016-05-09 | Twitter Blocks Intelligence Agencies from Using Dataminr for Social Media Surveillance Twitter · Dataminr · Central Intelligence Agency · In-Q-Tel | confirmed | |
| 2014-12-09 | Senate Intelligence Committee Releases Torture Report - CIA Program Was Brutal and Ineffective Dianne Feinstein · Senate Select Committee on Intelligence · Central Intelligence Agency · John Brennan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-12-09 | Senate Report Documents CIA Torture Worse Than Disclosed - Rectal Feeding, Mock Executions, Deaths Central Intelligence Agency · Gul Rahman · Senate Select Committee on Intelligence · James Mitchell · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-07-24 | European Court Rules Poland Violated Human Rights by Hosting CIA Torture Black Site European Court of Human Rights · Poland · Central Intelligence Agency · Abu Zubaydah · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-01 | Former CIA Director David Petraeus Becomes Chairman of KKR Global Institute, Converting Intelligence Access Into Private Equity Value David Petraeus · KKR · Central Intelligence Agency | confirmed | |
| 2013-04-23 | CIA Paid Psychologists Mitchell and Jessen $81 Million to Design Torture Program James Mitchell · Bruce Jessen · Central Intelligence Agency · George Tenet | confirmed | |
| 2013-03-01 | Amazon AWS Wins $600 Million CIA Cloud Contract Amazon Web Services · Central Intelligence Agency · IBM | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-14 | Jeffrey Sterling Indicted Under Espionage Act for Alleged Leak to James Risen Jeffrey Sterling · James Risen · Central Intelligence Agency · Obama Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-10-23 | John Kiriakou Pleads Guilty - Only Person Jailed Over CIA Torture Program John Kiriakou · Central Intelligence Agency · Obama Administration · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2012-06-04 | Bureau Investigation Exposes CIA Double-Tap Drone Strikes Killing Rescuers and Mourners Central Intelligence Agency · Barack Obama · Pakistani civilians | confirmed | |
| 2012-05-29 | New York Times Exposes Obama's Kill List and Terror Tuesday Assassination Meetings Barack Obama · John Brennan · Central Intelligence Agency · JSOC · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-05-01 | Obama Administration Counts All Military-Age Males Killed by Drones as Combatants Barack Obama · John Brennan · Central Intelligence Agency | confirmed | |
| 2011-09-30 | U.S. Drone Strike Assassinates Anwar al-Awlaki, American Citizen, Without Trial Anwar al-Awlaki · Barack Obama · Central Intelligence Agency · JSOC · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2011-03-17 | CIA Drone Strike Massacres 42 Civilians at Pakistani Tribal Council Meeting Central Intelligence Agency · Barack Obama · Pakistani civilians | confirmed | |
| 2010-03-17 | Obama Authorizes CIA Signature Strikes - Killing Based on Behavior Patterns, Not Identity Barack Obama · John Brennan · Central Intelligence Agency · Leon Panetta | confirmed | |
| 2009-04-16 | Obama Releases CIA Torture Memos But Promises No Prosecutions for Torturers Barack Obama · Eric Holder · Central Intelligence Agency · John Yoo · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2009-02-02 | Former DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff Founds The Chertoff Group, Immediately Monetizing Homeland Security Expertise Michael Chertoff · Chad Sweet · The Chertoff Group · Department of Homeland Security · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2009-01-23 | Obama Dramatically Expands CIA Drone Strike Program - Ten Times More Strikes Than Bush Barack Obama · Central Intelligence Agency · John Brennan · Leon Panetta | confirmed | |
| 2008-07-31 | Carlyle Group Acquires Booz Allen Hamilton for $2.54 Billion, Private Equity Owns Major Intelligence Contractor Carlyle Group · Booz Allen Hamilton · Ralph Shrader · National Security Agency · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2008-05-06 | Tim Shorrock Publishes "Spies for Hire," First Comprehensive Account of Intelligence Outsourcing Tim Shorrock · Booz Allen Hamilton · SAIC · CACI International · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2008-01-01 | Palantir Gotham Platform Released for Intelligence and Defense Applications Palantir Technologies · Central Intelligence Agency · Intelligence Community | confirmed | |
| 2007-11-02 | CIA Detainee Gul Rahman Froze to Death at Black Site - No One Prosecuted for Homicide Gul Rahman · Central Intelligence Agency · Afghanistan | confirmed | |
| 2007-09-16 | Blackwater Nisour Square Massacre Exposes Systematic Private Military Corporate-State Fusion Accountability Crisis and Constitutional Violation Blackwater Worldwide · Erik Prince · State Department · Central Intelligence Agency · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2006-09-06 | Bush Publicly Acknowledges CIA Secret Prisons for First Time, Transfers Detainees to Guantanamo George W. Bush · Central Intelligence Agency · Khalid Sheikh Mohammed · Abu Zubaydah · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2006-05-08 | Michael Hayden Nominated as CIA Director Despite NSA Surveillance Controversy Michael Hayden · George W. Bush · Senate Intelligence Committee · National Security Agency · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2005-11-09 | CIA Destroys 92 Torture Interrogation Videotapes to Conceal Evidence Jose Rodriguez · Central Intelligence Agency · Gina Haspel · Abu Zubaydah · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2005-11-08 | Dick Cheney Lobbies Congress for CIA Exemption from McCain Torture Ban Dick Cheney · John McCain · Porter Goss · Central Intelligence Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2005-11-02 | Washington Post Reveals CIA's Secret Prison Network in Eastern Europe Central Intelligence Agency · Dana Priest · Washington Post · Poland · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2005-05-10 | Bradbury OLC Memos Reconstruct CIA Interrogation Authorization Post-Goldsmith Withdrawal — Three May 2005 Memos Re-authorize Waterboarding Steven G. Bradbury · Alberto Gonzales · John A. Rizzo · David Addington · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2005-01-01 | CIA's In-Q-Tel Makes Strategic Investment in Palantir Technologies In-Q-Tel · Central Intelligence Agency · Palantir Technologies | confirmed | |
| 2004-10-27 | Google Acquires CIA-Backed Keyhole, Foundation for Google Earth Google · Keyhole Inc. · In-Q-Tel · Central Intelligence Agency | confirmed | |
| 2004-08-24 | CIA Awards Blackwater Classified Intelligence Contracts, Creating Private Paramilitary-Intelligence Capability Blackwater · Erik Prince · Central Intelligence Agency · Total Intelligence Solutions · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2004-07-11 | CIA Director George Tenet Departs After Iraq Intelligence Failures, Joins Investment Bank and Intelligence Company Boards George Tenet · Allen & Company · QinetiQ · L-1 Identity Solutions · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2004-06-28 | WHIG-Enabled Torture Authorization Establishes Executive Immunity Precedent for Constitutional Crisis Governance John Yoo · Jay Bybee · Alberto Gonzales · White House Iraq Group · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2004-05-10 | Canada Concludes Maher Arar Wrongly Rendered to Syria for Torture Based on False Intelligence Maher Arar · Central Intelligence Agency · Royal Canadian Mounted Police · Syria · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-06-30 | General Dynamics Acquires Veridian for $1.5 Billion, Entering Intelligence Technology Market General Dynamics · Veridian Corporation · Department of Defense · National Security Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-05-01 | Palantir Technologies Founded by Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, and PayPal Engineers Peter Thiel · Alex Karp · Nathan Gettings · Joe Lonsdale · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2003-03-01 | Abu Zubaydah - Waterboarded 83 Times, Tortured for Years, Never Charged with Any Crime Abu Zubaydah · Central Intelligence Agency · James Mitchell · Bruce Jessen · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-02-05 | Colin Powell Presents False WMD Evidence to UN Security Council Colin Powell · George W. Bush · Dick Cheney · Central Intelligence Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2002-12-18 | OSP Fabricates Iraq-al Qaeda Intelligence for WHIG Propaganda Campaign Office of Special Plans · White House Iraq Group · Douglas Feith · Michael Maloof · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2002-12-01 | CIA Begins Systematic Use of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques on Detainees Central Intelligence Agency · Abu Zubaydah · Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri · James Mitchell · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2002-11-20 | OSP Systematically Bypasses CIA Vetting to Feed Fabricated Intelligence to WHIG Office of Special Plans · White House Iraq Group · Douglas Feith · Harold Rhode · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-01 | Pentagon Creates Office of Special Plans for Iraq Intelligence Manipulation Douglas Feith · Abram Shulsky · Pentagon · Central Intelligence Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2002-08-01 | Bybee OLC 'Torture Memo' Redefines Severe Pain and Asserts Commander-in-Chief Override of Anti-Torture Statute Jay Bybee · John C. Yoo · Alberto Gonzales · David Addington · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2002-08-01 | Cheney Establishes Legal Framework and Authorization for CIA Torture Program Dick Cheney · George W. Bush · David Addington · John Yoo · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2002-01-15 | Post-9/11 Intelligence Budget Surge Begins, Contractor Spending Will Triple by 2007 George W. Bush · U.S. Congress · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2001-09-17 | CIA Authorized to Conduct Extraordinary Rendition - Kidnapping Suspects for Torture Abroad Central Intelligence Agency · George W. Bush · George Tenet · Cofer Black | confirmed | |
| 2001-09-04 | Oracle Hires CIA Executive Director David Carney, Establishes Information Assurance Center Oracle · David W. Carney · Central Intelligence Agency · Larry Ellison | confirmed | |
| 1999-09-01 | CIA Establishes In-Q-Tel as Revolutionary Venture Capital Arm Central Intelligence Agency · George Tenet · Gilman Louie · Norman Augustine · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1998-01-01 | CIA Begins Developing In-Q-Tel Concept -- Intelligence Community Plans Entry Into Venture Capital George Tenet · Central Intelligence Agency · Sue Gordon · Ruth David · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1994-09-13 | Intelligence Community Deploys Intelink, Classified Web-Based Network Enabling Bulk Information Sharing James Woolsey · R. James Woolsey · Central Intelligence Agency · Defense Intelligence Agency · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1981-12-04 | Reagan Signs Executive Order 12333, Loosening Intelligence Restrictions and Enabling Private Contractor Involvement Ronald Reagan · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · Defense Intelligence Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1979-12-27 | Soviet Afghanistan Invasion Positions BCCI for CIA Covert Operations Expansion Central Intelligence Agency · ISI Pakistan · General Zia ul-Haq · BCCI · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1977-01-01 | Oracle Corporation Founded to Build CIA Database, Named After CIA Project Larry Ellison · Robert Miner · Central Intelligence Agency · Oracle | confirmed | |
| 1975-11-20 | Church Committee Interim Report on Assassination Plots Documents CIA Foreign-Leader Targeting Frank Church · Church Committee · Central Intelligence Agency · William Colby · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1975-04-28 | Church Committee Exposes Psychological Manipulation Techniques in Government Operations Senator Frank Church · Central Intelligence Agency · Intelligence Community · Donald Ewen Cameron · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1975-04-26 | Church Committee Exposes Systemic Intelligence Agency Abuses Frank Church · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation | confirmed | |
| 1975-04-22 | Church Committee: Landmark Democratic Resistance Framework Against Intelligence Abuses Senator Frank Church · Senator John Tower · US Senate · Central Intelligence Agency · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1975-01-27 | Church Committee begins exposing illegal intelligence activities Senator Frank Church · Church Committee · Mike Mansfield · Seymour Hersh · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1974-12-30 | Hughes-Ryan Amendment: Congress Requires Presidential Findings for Covert Action, Ends Plausible-Deniability Era Harold Hughes · Leo Ryan · Gerald Ford · Central Intelligence Agency · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1974-12-22 | Hersh NYT Expose of CIA Domestic Surveillance Triggers Church, Pike, Rockefeller Investigations Seymour Hersh · The New York Times · William Colby · Gerald Ford · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1973-05-09 | Acting DCI Schlesinger Orders CIA "Family Jewels" Internal Inventory of Illegal Activities James R. Schlesinger · William Colby · Central Intelligence Agency · Richard Helms | confirmed | |
| 1972-06-23 | Smoking Gun Tape: Nixon Orders CIA to Block FBI Watergate Investigation Richard Nixon · H.R. Haldeman · Vernon Walters · L. Patrick Gray · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1972-01-01 | Jules Kroll founds innovative private intelligence firm Kroll Associates Jules Kroll · Kroll Associates · Central Intelligence Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1970-07-14 | Nixon Approves Huston Plan Authorizing Illegal Surveillance, Rescinded After Hoover Objects Richard Nixon · Tom Charles Huston · J. Edgar Hoover · Richard Helms · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1967-08-15 | CIA Launches Operation CHAOS, Systematic Domestic Surveillance of Anti-War Movement Richard Helms · Lyndon B. Johnson · Central Intelligence Agency · James Angleton · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1967-03-01 | Ramparts Magazine Exposes CIA Foundation Funding Network, Ending Olin Money Laundering Operation Ramparts Magazine · Central Intelligence Agency · National Student Association · Sol Stern · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1965-08-20 | CIA Begins Phung Hoang/Phoenix Program Neutralization Operations Against Viet Cong Infrastructure Central Intelligence Agency · William Colby · Robert Komer · MACV-SOG · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1958-01-01 | John M. Olin Foundation Begins Eight-Year Operation as Secret CIA Money Laundering Bank John M. Olin Foundation · Central Intelligence Agency · John M. Olin | confirmed | |
| 1957-06-01 | MKULTRA Subproject 68 Funds Ewen Cameron Psychic Driving Experiments at McGill Donald Ewen Cameron · Central Intelligence Agency · Sidney Gottlieb · McGill University · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1955-10-01 | CIA Operation Midnight Climax Begins Dosing Unwitting Americans with LSD in San Francisco Safe House George Hunter White · Sidney Gottlieb · Central Intelligence Agency · Federal Bureau of Narcotics | confirmed | |
| 1954-06-27 | CIA Operation PBSUCCESS Overthrows Guatemalan Democracy, Protects United Fruit Company Interests Central Intelligence Agency · Allen Dulles · John Foster Dulles · United Fruit Company · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1953-08-19 | CIA Operation Ajax Overthrows Democratic Iranian Government, Installs Shah Dictatorship Central Intelligence Agency · Kermit Roosevelt Jr. · Allen Dulles · John Foster Dulles · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1953-04-13 | CIA MKULTRA Project Officially Begins Central Intelligence Agency · Allen Dulles · Sidney Gottlieb | confirmed | |
| 1950-09-23 | McCarran Internal Security Act Passes Over Truman Veto, Requires Communist Registration Pat McCarran · Karl Mundt · Harry Truman · Hubert Humphrey · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1950-08-23 | CIA Secretly Purchases Civil Air Transport, Creating Template for Intelligence Front Companies Central Intelligence Agency · Claire Chennault · Whiting Willauer · Civil Air Transport · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1947-12-19 | NSC 4-A Secretly Authorizes CIA Covert Action Using "Fifth Function" Elastic Clause of 1947 Act Harry S. Truman · National Security Council · Central Intelligence Agency · George Kennan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1947-09-18 | Central Intelligence Agency Begins Operations Under 1947 National Security Act Harry S. Truman · Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter · Central Intelligence Agency · Allen Dulles · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1947-07-26 | National Security Act Establishes Permanent Warfare State and Military-Industrial Framework Harry S. Truman · U.S. Congress · U.S. Department of Defense · Central Intelligence Agency · +1 | confirmed |
Network neighbors
National Security Agency
14× shared
Barack Obama
10× shared
Federal Bureau of Investigation
9× shared
George W. Bush
8× shared
Dick Cheney
7× shared
George Tenet
7× shared
In-Q-Tel
7× shared
U.S. Department of Defense
7× shared
Abu Zubaydah
6× shared
John Brennan
6× shared
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
5× shared
Amazon Web Services
5× shared
David Addington
5× shared
William Colby
5× shared
Allen Dulles
4× shared
Bruce Jessen
4× shared
Department of Justice
4× shared
Donald Trump
4× shared
Gina Haspel
4× shared
Intelligence Community
4× shared
James Mitchell
4× shared
Oracle
4× shared
U.S. Congress
4× shared
Alberto Gonzales
3× shared
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