John Ratcliffe
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John Lee Ratcliffe is an American politician and attorney who has served as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency since 2025. Ratcliffe served as the director of national intelligence from 2
Official portrait, 2020
Ratcliffe speaks to KETR in February 2015.
Ratcliffe (left) standing next to president Donald Trump in 2017
Ratcliffe (left) monitoring the U.S. intervention in Venezuela from Mar-a-Lago
Central Intelligence Agency
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The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with advancing national security through collecting and analyzing intel
John Ratcliffe
…of national intelligence. Ratcliffe was confirmed by the Senate in May. In November 2024, Trump named Ratcliffe as his nominee for director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Ratcliffe appeared before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence prior to Trump's second inauguration and was confirmed by the Senate that month…
George Bush Center for Intelligence in Langley, Virginia
In 2015, under the tenure of John Brennan, the CIA underwent its largest organizational restructuring since its founding in 1947.
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