George John Tenet is Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University and was previously the Director of Central Intelligence for the United States Central Intelligence Agency. Tenet held that position from July 1997 to July 2004, making him the second-longest serving director in the agency's history — behind Allen Welsh Dulles — as well as one of the few DCIs to serve under two U.S. presidents of opposing political parties.

Michael Vincent Hayden (born March 17, 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) holds the rank of General in the United States Air Force, and is the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. From April 21, 2005-May 26, 2006 he was the Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, a position which made him "the highest-ranking military intelligence officer in the armed forces," and he is currently the only non-rated Air Force four-star general.

George Herbert Walker Bush was the forty-first President of the United States, serving from 1989 to 1993. Before his presidency, Bush was the forty-third Vice President of the United States in the administration of Ronald Reagan. He has also served as the member of the United States House of Representatives for the 7th district of Texas (1967–1971), the United States Ambassador to the United Nations (1971–1973), …

Robert Michael Gates, born September 25 1943) is currently serving as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense. He took office on December 18 2006. Prior to this, Gates served for 26 years in the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, and under President George H. W. Bush as Director of Central Intelligence. After leaving the CIA, Gates became president of Texas A&M University and was a member of several corporate boards.

Porter Johnston Goss (born December 10 1938) is an American politician, who was the last Director of Central Intelligence and the first Director of the Central Intelligence Agency following the passage of the IRPTA 2004 Act, which abolished the DCI position. A CIA operative in Latin America during the Cold War, he served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 until he took up his post at the agency.

Stansfield Turner (born December 1, 1923 in Highland Park, Illinois, USA) was an Admiral and Director of Central Intelligence. He is currently a senior research scholar at the University of Maryland, College Park School of Public Policy. He is a Christian Scientist.

Richard McGarrah Helms (March 30, 1913 - October 23, 2002) was the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from 1966 to 1973. He was the only director to have been convicted of lying to Congress over Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) undercover activities. In 1977, he was sentenced to the maximum fine and received a suspended two-year prison sentence. Despite this, Helms remained a revered figure in the intelligence profession.

William Egan Colby became Director of Central Intelligence on September 4, 1973, after James R. Schlesinger. It was Colby who launched the Accelerated Pacification Campaign during the Vietnam War. He later would reveal a large amount of information to Congress. He served under President Richard Nixon and President Gerald Ford and was replaced by future President George H.W. Bush on January 30, 1976.

James Rodney Schlesinger (born February 15, 1929) was United States Secretary of Defense from 1973 to 1975 under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He became America's first Secretary of Energy under Jimmy Carter. While Secretary of Defense, he opposed amnesty for draft dodgers, and pressed for development of more sophisticated nuclear weapon systems.

William Joseph Casey (March 13, 1913 - May 6, 1987) was the Director of Central Intelligence from 1981 to 1987. In this capacity he oversaw the entire US Intelligence Community and personally directed the Central Intelligence Agency. A native of Queens, New York, Casey graduated from Fordham University (1934) and St. John's University School of Law (1937).

John Alexander McCone (January 4, 1902 - February 14, 1991) was an American businessman and politician who served as Director of Central Intelligence during the height of the Cold War. McCone was born in San Francisco, California, and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1922 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. A prominent industrialist, McCone also served for more than twenty years as a governmental advisor and official.

John Edward McLaughlin (born June 15, 1942 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania) is the former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence and former Acting Director of Central Intelligence. He was sworn in as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence on October 19, 2000, to serve under DCI George Tenet. After Tenet's resignation on June 3, 2004, the Bush Administration announced that McLaughlin would serve as Acting Director after Tenet's departure on July 11, 2004.

John Mark Deutch (born July 27, 1938) was United States Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1994 to 1995 and Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from May 10, 1995 until December 14, 1996. He is presently an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and serves on the Board of Directors of Citigroup, Cummins, Raytheon, and Schlumberger Ltd. Deutch was born in Brussels, Belgium, to a Russian Jewish father.

General Walter Bedell "Beetle" Smith GBE KCB (October 5, 1895 – August 9, 1961) was Dwight D. Eisenhower's Chief of Staff during Eisenhower's tenure at SHAEF and Director of the CIA from 1950 to 1953. He also served as U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1949. Smith's first military service was as a private in the Indiana National Guard. He continued his service during World War I, in the 4th Division of the United States Army as an Infantry Reserve Officer.

James Jesus Angleton, known to friends and colleagues as Jim and nicknamed "the Kingfisher", was a long-serving chief of the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) counter-intelligence (CI) staff (Associate Deputy Director of Operations for Counterintelligence/ADDOCI). He is known as the "mother" of today's CIA for his deep role in its formation and operations.

Roscoe Henry Hillenkoetter (May 8, 1897 - June 18, 1982), born in St. Louis, Missouri was the third director of the post-WWII U.S. Central Intelligence Group (CIG), and the first director of the Central Intelligence Agency, created by the National Security Act of 1947. He served as director of the CIG and the CIA from May 1, 1947 to October 7, 1950. He was serving as director of the CIA at the time that North Korea invaded South Korea (June 25, 1950), …

Allen Welsh Dulles (April 7, 1893 - January 29, 1969) was the first civilian and the longest serving (1953-1961) Director of Central Intelligence (de-facto head of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency) and a member of the Warren Commission. Between stints of government service, Dulles was a corporate lawyer and partner at Sullivan & Cromwell.

Robert James Woolsey Jr. (born September 21, 1941) is a foreign policy specialist and former Director of Central Intelligence of the Central Intelligence Agency (February 5, 1993 - January 10, 1995). Woolsey was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1941 where he graduated from Tulsa Central High School. In 1963 he received his AB from Stanford University (Phi Beta Kappa), and in 1965 his MA from Oxford University-where he was a Rhodes Scholar-and an LLB from Yale Law School in 1968.

Sidney William Souers (March 30, 1892 - January 14, 1973) was an American admiral and intelligence expert. He held the posts of: * Director of Central Intelligence, Central Intelligence Group, 1946 * Executive Secretary, National Security Council, 1947-1950 * Special Consultant to the President on military and foreign affairs, 1950-1953 Rear Admiral Souers was appointed as the first Director of Central Intelligence on January 23, 1946 by President Harry S. Truman.

Vice admiral William Francis Raborn, Jr., USN (June 8, 1905 - March 6, 1990) was a United States Navy officer, the leader of the project to develop the Polaris missile system, and the seventh Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Born in Bromlow, Texas on June 8, 1905, he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1928. During World War II he directed the Gunnery Training Section at the Bureau of Aeronautics.

Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg (January 24, 1899-April 2, 1954) was a U.S. Air Force general, its second Chief of Staff, and director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Vandenberg was briefly the U.S. Chief of Military Intelligence during World War II, but his primary duty was as commanding general of the Ninth Air Force, a tactical air force in England and in France, supporting the Army, from August 1944 until V-E Day.

Vice Admiral Albert M. Calland, III was the Deputy Director for Strategic Operational Planning at the National Counterterrorism Center. He also previously served as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from July 2005 to July 2006. Calland is a 1974 graduate of the United States Naval Academy and a 1996 graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.

William Hedgcock Webster (born March 6, 1924) was the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 1978 to 1987 and Director of Central Intelligence from 1987 to 1991. He was a former federal judge who ascended to the CIA after his successful coups against the New York mafia families while director of the FBI under President Jimmy Carter.

Michael Vincent Kostiw is a former employee of the US Central Intelligence Agency. Kostiw worked as a case officer for the CIA for about ten years. In late 1981, Kostiw was caught shoplifing a package of bacon worth $2.13 from a Langley, Virginia supermarket and he was placed on administrative leave. In 1982, the CIA arranged for the misdemeanor charges to be dropped when Kostiw resigned and agreed to counseling.

R. James Woolsey , Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton, Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

William H. Webster was born on March 6, 1924, in St. Louis, Missouri, and received his early education in Webster Groves near St. Louis. He was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree from Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1947, where, in 1975, he received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree. Judge Webster received his Juris Doctor degree from Washington University Law School, St. Louis, Missouri, in 1949.

Admiral Stansfield Turner Stansfield Turner is a native of Highland Park, Illinois. He completed two years at Amherst College before transferring to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. There, he completed a Bachelor of Science degree, played varsity football, and was the Commander of the Brigade of Midshipman.

Nancy McGregor served as special counsel to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, as special assistant to the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and as special assistant to the General Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission. She also was with Steptoe and Johnson, a Washington, D.C. law firm.

Dale V. Hogue started Hogue Investigative Services soon after a 27-year career as a Special Agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI). While with the FBI, he had national and international cases and was stationed in New Orleans, Boston, Lubbock, Dallas and Ft. Worth.

Al Tarasiuk CIO Central Intelligence Agency Al Tarasiuk was appointed as the Chief Information Officer of the Central Intelligence Agency on October 1, 2005. His responsibilities span the CIA�s global IT enterprise. Before becoming CIO, Tarasiuk was the Director of the CIA�s Information Services Center. In this role, he had responsibility for development, deployment and operational support of the CIA's global information technology infrastructure.

Judge Webster is former chair of Milbank’s Litigation Department and is involved in the firm’s international corporate, banking, and administrative law practices and active in the areas of arbitration and mediation. Throughout his tenure at Milbank, he has continued his extraordinary commitment to public service and is often called on by both federal and state governmental agencies to lead prominent public policy commissions and investigative panels.

A.B. Krongard Lead Director A.B. Krongard has been a director of Under Armour since July 2005 and Lead Director since May 2006. Mr. Krongard served as Executive Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2001 to 2004 and as counselor to the director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2000 to 2001. Mr. Krongard previously served in various capacities at Alex.Brown, Incorporated, including as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board.

MR. WEBSTER: If -- may I try to answer that question? If -- you are talking -- are we headed toward a federal police, I'd say absolutely not. I think if there's anything that's fundamental in this country it is that we do not want a federal police system, and that's why we have the checks and balances that are there. We have to build up a more effective means of communicating between federal authorities and state and local in the times that we are going through.

George Rollie Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2004) He got caught in traffic at 4 a.m. on the way to the White House, which left the President not overbrimming with confidence [ 5.13 ].

Rob Konrad Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2000) [ 1.21 ]