Director of Central Intelligence
The director of central intelligence (DCI) was the head of the American Central Intelligence Agency from 1946 to 2004, 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 US intelligence agencies.
Director of Central Intelligence
The 16-foot (5 m) diameter granite CIA seal in the lobby of the original headquarters building.
The entrance of the CIA headquarters
Image: Sidney W. Souers
Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations. The agency is headquartered in the George Bush Center for Intelligence in Langley, Virginia.
George Bush Center for Intelligence in Langley, Virginia
William J. Burns, the current Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
The 140 stars on the CIA Memorial Wall in the CIA headquarters, each representing a CIA officer killed in action
CIA director Allen Dulles on the cover of Time magazine in 1953