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The Office of United States Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) was the head of the American Central Intelligence Agency from 1946 to 2005, acting as the principal intelligence advisor to the President of the United States and the United States National Security Council, as well as the coordinator of intelligence activities among and between the various U.S. intelligence agencies (collectively known as the Intelligence Community from 1981 onwards).

The office existed from January 1946 to April 21, 2005, and was replaced on that day by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) as head of the Intelligence Community and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (D/CIA) as head of the CIA.

The list includes the following persons:

George H. W. Bush January 30, 1976 – January 20, 1977

William J. Casey, January 28, 1981 – January 29, 1987

Robert M. Gates (Acting) December 18, 1986 – May 26, 1987 & November 6, 1991 – January 20, 1993

Porter Goss September 24, 2004 – April 21, 2005 & April 21, 2005 – May 5, 2006

Michael Hayden May 30, 2006 – February 12, 2009

Leon Panetta February 13, 2009 – June 30, 2011

Michael Morell (Acting) July 1, 2011 – September 6, 2011 & November 9, 2012 – March 8, 2013

David Petraeus September 6, 2011 – November 9, 2012

John Brennan March 8, 2013 – January 20, 2017

Mike Pompeo January 23, 2017 – present

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Here are ten quotes from DCI and D/CIA. Can you identify them? Click on the right answer and it will appear in GREEN. If your choice pops up in RED, try again… Good luck!

1. Even when I was at CIA, I’d go to visit foreign leaders and I’d say, ‘You know, I’m not a diplomat. I’m just an old CIA guy’… I said, ‘If I wanted to be diplomatic, I’d have been a diplomat.’ 

 Robert M. Gates

 Michael Hayden 

 Leon Panetta

 David Petraeus 

2. My literal responsibility as director of the CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Congress – not to seek their approval.

Michael Hayden

  Robert M. Gates

 David Petraeus 

 William Casey 

3. I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

George H. W. Bush 

 Michael Hayden 

 David Petraeus 

 Mike Pompeo 

4. You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

 Leon Panetta

 Robert M. Gates  

 Porter Goss 

 Mike Pompeo 

5. Proud parents document the arrival and growth of their future CIA officer in all forms of social media that the world can access for decades to come.

 David Petraeus

 Michael Hayden 

 Porter Goss 

 Mike Pompeo 

6.  Effective, we were; efficient, we weren’t. And so, as director of the CIA, I went after the inefficiencies part.

Micheal Hayden 

 Robert M. Gates  

 George H. W. Bush 

 Leon Panetta 

7. We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false. 

William Casey 

 Michael Hayden 

 George H. W. Bush 

 David Petraeus 

8.  The one thing that struck me right off the bat was what Donald Trump said about Benghazi.There is this view out there that [Hillary Clinton] lied about what caused the attack, that she said it was the video.

 Michael Morell

 Leon Panetta

 David Petraeus 

 Mike Pompeo 

9. We need to make sure that leaks of classified information, of national security secrets, needs to be rigorously pursued and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. 

 John Brennan

 Robert M. Gates  

 Leon Panetta 

 William Casey 

10.  I couldn’t get a job with CIA today. I am not qualified.

 Porter Goss

 Michael Hayden 

 George H. W. Bush 

 Leon Panetta 

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REFERENCES

Director of Central Intelligence — WIKIPEDIA

Director of the Central Intelligence Agency — WIKIPEDIA