| 2026-03-05 | Iran Secretly Contacts CIA to Discuss End of War; Trump Says It Is "Too Late" for Talks
7 src Donald Trump · Central Intelligence Agency · Iran · Abbas Araghchi · +3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-02-20 | CIA Director Ratcliffe Orders Retraction of 19 Intelligence Products
3 src John Ratcliffe · Central Intelligence Agency |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-24 | CIA Conducts First Land Strike in Venezuela, Destroying Drug Boat Loading Facility
2 src Central Intelligence Agency · Venezuela |
| confirmed |
| 2025-11-26 | National Guard Members Shot Near White House: Beckstrom Killed, Wolfe Critically Wounded
4 src Rahmanullah Lakanwal · Donald Trump · Kash Patel · John Ratcliffe · +1 |
| reported |
| 2025-04-03 | In-Q-Tel Reaches 800th Investment Milestone, Expanding Into AI and Quantum Computing
3 src In-Q-Tel · Central Intelligence Agency |
| confirmed |
| 2021-11-01 | In-Q-Tel Leaders Launch Chain Bridge SPAC, Criticized as 'Revolving Door on Steroids'
2 src In-Q-Tel |
| confirmed |
| 2020-11-20 | CIA Awards Multibillion-Dollar C2E Cloud Contract to Oracle, AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM
3 src 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"
4 src Donald Trump · Mohammed bin Salman · Central Intelligence Agency · King Salman · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2018-05-31 | European Court Finds Romania and Lithuania Hosted CIA Torture Sites, Orders Damages
4 src Central Intelligence Agency · Abu Zubaydah · Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri |
| confirmed |
| 2018-03-13 | Trump Nominates Gina Haspel as CIA Director Despite Role in Torture Program and Evidence Destruction
4 src Gina Haspel · Donald Trump · Mike Pompeo · Central Intelligence Agency · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2018-02-01 | Former CIA Director John Brennan Joins NBC/MSNBC as Analyst and WestExec Advisors, Building Intelligence-Media-Consulting Pipeline
4 src John Brennan · NBC News · Antony Blinken · Avril Haines |
| confirmed |
| 2014-12-09 | Senate Intelligence Committee Releases Torture Report - CIA Program Was Brutal and Ineffective
4 src 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
4 src 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
4 src Central Intelligence Agency · Abu Zubaydah · Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri |
| confirmed |
| 2013-06-01 | Former CIA Director David Petraeus Becomes Chairman of KKR Global Institute, Converting Intelligence Access Into Private Equity Value
3 src David Petraeus · KKR · Central Intelligence Agency |
| confirmed |
| 2013-04-23 | CIA Paid Psychologists Mitchell and Jessen $81 Million to Design Torture Program
4 src James Mitchell · Bruce Jessen · Central Intelligence Agency · George Tenet |
| confirmed |
| 2012-08-30 | Holder Closes Durham CIA Torture Investigations With No Charges — Completing the Obama-Era Ratchet Click on Torture Non-Prosecution
4 src Eric Holder · Barack Obama · Central Intelligence Agency · Gul Rahman |
| confirmed |
| 2012-05-29 | New York Times Exposes Obama's Kill List and Terror Tuesday Assassination Meetings
4 src Barack Obama · John Brennan · Central Intelligence Agency |
| confirmed |
| 2010-03-17 | Obama Authorizes CIA Signature Strikes - Killing Based on Behavior Patterns, Not Identity
4 src Barack Obama · John Brennan · Central Intelligence Agency · Leon Panetta |
| confirmed |
| 2009-07-01 | In-Q-Tel and Google Ventures Co-Invest in Social Media Surveillance Firm Recorded Future
3 src In-Q-Tel |
| confirmed |
| 2009-04-16 | Obama Releases CIA Torture Memos But Promises No Prosecutions for Torturers
4 src Barack Obama · Eric Holder · Central Intelligence Agency · John Yoo · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2009-02-15 | Former NSA and CIA Director Michael Hayden Enters Private Sector, Joins Chertoff Group and Corporate Boards
3 src Michael Hayden · The Chertoff Group · Michael Chertoff |
| confirmed |
| 2009-01-23 | Obama Dramatically Expands CIA Drone Strike Program - Ten Times More Strikes Than Bush
4 src Barack Obama · Central Intelligence Agency · John Brennan · Leon Panetta |
| confirmed |
| 2008-01-01 | Palantir Gotham Platform Released for Intelligence and Defense Applications
3 src 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
4 src Gul Rahman · Central Intelligence Agency |
| confirmed |
| 2006-09-06 | Bush Publicly Acknowledges CIA Secret Prisons for First Time, Transfers Detainees to Guantanamo
4 src George W. Bush · Central Intelligence Agency · Abu Zubaydah · Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri |
| confirmed |
| 2005-11-09 | CIA Destroys 92 Torture Interrogation Videotapes to Conceal Evidence
4 src Central Intelligence Agency · Gina Haspel · Abu Zubaydah · Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2005-11-08 | Dick Cheney Lobbies Congress for CIA Exemption from McCain Torture Ban
4 src 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
4 src Central Intelligence Agency · Washington Post |
| confirmed |
| 2005-05-10 | Bradbury OLC Memos Reconstruct CIA Interrogation Authorization Post-Goldsmith Withdrawal — Three May 2005 Memos Re-authorize Waterboarding
6 src Alberto Gonzales · David Addington · Dick Cheney · George W. Bush · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2005-01-01 | CIA's In-Q-Tel Makes Strategic Investment in Palantir Technologies
2 src In-Q-Tel · Central Intelligence Agency · Palantir Technologies |
| confirmed |
| 2004-10-27 | Google Acquires CIA-Backed Keyhole, Foundation for Google Earth
3 src Google · In-Q-Tel · Central Intelligence Agency |
| confirmed |
| 2004-08-24 | CIA Awards Blackwater Classified Intelligence Contracts, Creating Private Paramilitary-Intelligence Capability
3 src Blackwater · Erik Prince · Central Intelligence Agency |
| confirmed |
| 2004-07-11 | CIA Director George Tenet Departs After Iraq Intelligence Failures, Joins Investment Bank and Intelligence Company Boards
5 src George Tenet · Central Intelligence Agency · In-Q-Tel |
| confirmed |
| 2004-05-10 | Canada Concludes Maher Arar Wrongly Rendered to Syria for Torture Based on False Intelligence
4 src Central Intelligence Agency |
| confirmed |
| 2003-05-01 | Palantir Technologies Founded by Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, and PayPal Engineers
3 src Peter Thiel · Alex Karp · Joe Lonsdale · John Poindexter · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2003-03-01 | Abu Zubaydah - Waterboarded 83 Times, Tortured for Years, Never Charged with Any Crime
4 src Abu Zubaydah · Central Intelligence Agency · James Mitchell · Bruce Jessen · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2003-02-01 | In-Q-Tel Invests in Keyhole's EarthViewer During Iraq War Buildup
3 src In-Q-Tel · National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency · CNN |
| confirmed |
| 2002-12-01 | CIA Begins Systematic Use of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques on Detainees
4 src Central Intelligence Agency · Abu Zubaydah · Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri · James Mitchell · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2002-08-01 | Cheney Establishes Legal Framework and Authorization for CIA Torture Program
6 src Dick Cheney · George W. Bush · David Addington · John Yoo · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2001-09-17 | CIA Authorized to Conduct Extraordinary Rendition - Kidnapping Suspects for Torture Abroad
4 src Central Intelligence Agency · George W. Bush · George Tenet |
| confirmed |
| 2001-09-04 | Oracle Hires CIA Executive Director David Carney, Establishes Information Assurance Center
3 src Oracle · Central Intelligence Agency · Larry Ellison |
| confirmed |
| 1999-09-01 | CIA Establishes In-Q-Tel as Revolutionary Venture Capital Arm
3 src Central Intelligence Agency · George Tenet · In-Q-Tel |
| confirmed |
| 1998-01-01 | CIA Begins Developing In-Q-Tel Concept -- Intelligence Community Plans Entry Into Venture Capital
4 src George Tenet · Central Intelligence Agency · Lockheed Martin |
| confirmed |
| 1996-08-18 | Gary Webb's "Dark Alliance" Exposes CIA-Contra-Crack Cocaine Connection
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1995-01-10 | CIA Director James Woolsey Departs, Begins Three-Decade Career Monetizing Intelligence Credentials
3 src Booz Allen Hamilton · Lux Capital |
| confirmed |
| 1991-07-05 | BCCI Bank Shut Down After Exposing CIA Drug Money Laundering Network
3 src William Casey |
| confirmed |
| 1989-12-20 | U.S. Invades Panama to Capture Former CIA Asset Manuel Noriega
3 src George H.W. Bush |
| confirmed |
| 1987-05-06 | CIA Director William Casey Dies Before Testifying on Iran-Contra Role
3 src William Casey · Ronald Reagan |
| confirmed |
| 1981-12-04 | Reagan Signs Executive Order 12333, Loosening Intelligence Restrictions and Enabling Private Contractor Involvement
4 src Ronald Reagan · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · Defense Intelligence Agency · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1977-01-01 | Oracle Corporation Founded to Build CIA Database, Named After CIA Project
3 src Larry Ellison · Central Intelligence Agency · Oracle |
| confirmed |
| 1976-02-18 | Ford EO 11905: Executive-Self-Regulation of Intelligence Establishes Assassination Ban Without Statute
3 src Gerald Ford · George H.W. Bush · Henry Kissinger · U.S. Intelligence Community |
| confirmed |
| 1975-11-20 | Church Committee Interim Report on Assassination Plots Documents CIA Foreign-Leader Targeting
2 src Frank Church · Church Committee · Central Intelligence Agency · William Colby · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1975-01-04 | Ford Creates Rockefeller Commission on CIA Activities to Pre-Empt Congressional Investigation
3 src Gerald Ford · Dick Cheney · Donald Rumsfeld | | confirmed |
| 1974-12-30 | Hughes-Ryan Amendment: Congress Requires Presidential Findings for Covert Action, Ends Plausible-Deniability Era
3 src Gerald Ford · Central Intelligence Agency · William Colby · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1974-12-22 | Hersh NYT Expose of CIA Domestic Surveillance Triggers Church, Pike, Rockefeller Investigations
3 src Seymour Hersh · New York Times · William Colby · Gerald Ford · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1973-05-09 | Acting DCI Schlesinger Orders CIA "Family Jewels" Internal Inventory of Illegal Activities
3 src William Colby · Central Intelligence Agency · Richard Helms | | confirmed |
| 1967-08-15 | CIA Launches Operation CHAOS, Systematic Domestic Surveillance of Anti-War Movement
3 src Richard Helms · Lyndon B. Johnson · Central Intelligence Agency |
| confirmed |
| 1967-03-01 | Ramparts Magazine Exposes CIA Foundation Funding Network, Ending Olin Money Laundering Operation
3 src Central Intelligence Agency · Lyndon B. Johnson |
| confirmed |
| 1958-01-01 | John M. Olin Foundation Begins Eight-Year Operation as Secret CIA Money Laundering Bank
5 src 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
3 src Central Intelligence Agency · Sidney Gottlieb | | confirmed |
| 1955-10-01 | CIA Operation Midnight Climax Begins Dosing Unwitting Americans with LSD in San Francisco Safe House
3 src Sidney Gottlieb · Central Intelligence Agency | | confirmed |
| 1950-08-23 | CIA Secretly Purchases Civil Air Transport, Creating Template for Intelligence Front Companies
2 src Central Intelligence Agency |
| confirmed |
| 1947-12-19 | NSC 4-A Secretly Authorizes CIA Covert Action Using "Fifth Function" Elastic Clause of 1947 Act
3 src Harry S. Truman · National Security Council · Central Intelligence Agency | | confirmed |
| 1947-07-26 | National Security Act: Structural Transfer of Military-Intelligence Policy From Congressional to Executive Control
3 src Harry S. Truman · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1945-09-20 | Truman Signs Executive Order 9621 Dissolving OSS: Wall Street Intelligence Elite Returns to Private Sector
3 src Harry Truman · William Donovan · Allen Dulles · William Casey |
| confirmed |