Director of Central Intelligence

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United States government position intelligence agency director role

The Director of Central Intelligence was the former head of the U.S. intelligence community and chief executive of the Central Intelligence Agency prior to the role’s reorganization in 2005.

Aliases (1)

Director of Central Intelligence Agency ×1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	United States government position → intelligence agency director role →
appliesToJurisdiction	federal government of the United States →
appointedBy	President of the United States →
confirmedBy	United States Senate →
country	United States of America →
domain	intelligence and espionage → national security →
employer	Central Intelligence Agency →
endTime	2005 →
hasAuthorityOver	Central Intelligence Agency → United States Intelligence Community →
headOf	Central Intelligence Agency →
inception	1947 →
legalBasis	United States federal law →
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity	District of Columbia →
memberOf	United States National Security Council →
nativeLabel	Director of Central Intelligence →
officeAbolishedBy	Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 →
officeCreatedBy	National Security Act of 1947 →
partOf	United States Intelligence Community →
positionHeldBy	Allen W. Dulles → George H. W. Bush → George J. Tenet → James R. Schlesinger → John A. McCone → John M. Deutch → Porter J. Goss → R. James Woolsey Jr. → Richard Helms → Robert M. Gates → Stansfield Turner → William E. Colby → William H. Webster → William J. Casey →
replacedBy	Director of National Intelligence → Director of the Central Intelligence Agency →
reportsTo	President of the United States →
residence	Washington, D.C. →
responsibleFor	coordinating U.S. foreign intelligence activities → overseeing national intelligence estimates → protecting intelligence sources and methods →
scopeOfRole	chief executive of the Central Intelligence Agency → head of U.S. intelligence community →
seat	Langley, Virginia →
shortName	DCI →
status	defunct position →
usedUntil	creation of the Director of National Intelligence in 2005 →

Referenced by (14)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Allen Dulles → Allen Dulles ("Director of Central Intelligence Agency") → George H. W. Bush → John M. Deutch → Richard Helms → Robert M. Gates → Walter Bedell Smith → William Colby → William J. Casey →	positionHeld
Director of Central Intelligence →	nativeLabel
NSC 10/2 directive →	oversightBy
Office of Policy Coordination →	reportingTo
Office of Policy Coordination →	subordinateTo
Office of Policy Coordination →	supervisedBy