#Cia
Events indexed under #Cia — 65 entries in the record.
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| 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 | |
| 2026-02-20 | 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 | |
| 2025-11-26 | National Guard Members Shot Near White House: Beckstrom Killed, Wolfe Critically Wounded Sarah Beckstrom · Andrew Wolfe · Rahmanullah Lakanwal · Donald Trump · +4 | reported | |
| 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 | |
| 2021-11-01 | In-Q-Tel Leaders Launch Chain Bridge SPAC, Criticized as 'Revolving Door on Steroids' Christopher Darby · Stephen Bowsher · Michael Morell · Jeremy Bash · +3 | 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 | |
| 2018-05-31 | 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 | |
| 2018-02-01 | Former CIA Director John Brennan Joins NBC/MSNBC as Analyst and WestExec Advisors, Building Intelligence-Media-Consulting Pipeline John Brennan · NBC News · MSNBC · WestExec Advisors · +3 | 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 2009-07-01 | In-Q-Tel and Google Ventures Co-Invest in Social Media Surveillance Firm Recorded Future In-Q-Tel · Google Ventures · Recorded Future · Christopher Ahlberg | 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 | |
| 2009-02-15 | Former NSA and CIA Director Michael Hayden Enters Private Sector, Joins Chertoff Group and Corporate Boards Michael Hayden · The Chertoff Group · Motorola Solutions · Michael Chertoff | 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 | |
| 2008-01-01 | 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 2004-05-10 | 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 | |
| 2003-05-01 | 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 | |
| 2003-02-01 | In-Q-Tel Invests in Keyhole's EarthViewer During Iraq War Buildup In-Q-Tel · Keyhole Inc. · National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency · CNN | 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 | |
| 2002-08-01 | Cheney Establishes Legal Framework and Authorization for CIA Torture Program Dick Cheney · George W. Bush · David Addington · John Yoo · +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 | |
| 1996-08-18 | Gary Webb's "Dark Alliance" Exposes CIA-Contra-Crack Cocaine Connection Gary Webb | confirmed | |
| 1995-01-10 | CIA Director James Woolsey Departs, Begins Three-Decade Career Monetizing Intelligence Credentials James Woolsey · Booz Allen Hamilton · Paladin Capital Group · Foundation for Defense of Democracies · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1991-07-05 | BCCI Bank Shut Down After Exposing CIA Drug Money Laundering Network William Casey · Manuel Noriega · Adnan Khashoggi · Manucher Ghorbanifar | confirmed | |
| 1989-12-20 | U.S. Invades Panama to Capture Former CIA Asset Manuel Noriega George H.W. Bush · Manuel Noriega | confirmed | |
| 1987-05-06 | CIA Director William Casey Dies Before Testifying on Iran-Contra Role William Casey · Ronald Reagan · Richard Secord | 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 | |
| 1977-01-01 | Oracle Corporation Founded to Build CIA Database, Named After CIA Project Larry Ellison · Robert Miner · Central Intelligence Agency · Oracle | confirmed | |
| 1976-02-18 | Ford EO 11905: Executive-Self-Regulation of Intelligence Establishes Assassination Ban Without Statute 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 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 Gerald Ford · Nelson Rockefeller · Dick Cheney · Donald Rumsfeld · +2 | 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 1947-07-26 | National Security Act: Structural Transfer of Military-Intelligence Policy From Congressional to Executive Control Harry S. Truman · James Forrestal · Clark Clifford · Ferdinand Eberstadt · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1945-09-20 | Truman Signs Executive Order 9621 Dissolving OSS: Wall Street Intelligence Elite Returns to Private Sector Harry Truman · William Donovan · Allen Dulles · William Casey | confirmed |