list of Central Intelligence Agency directors

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), formally created in 1947, is the principal foreign intelligence and counterintelligence agency of the U.S. government. The CIA is headed by a director and deputy director, only one of whom may be a military officer. The director of central intelligence (DCI) serves as the chief intelligence adviser to the president of the United States. This is a chronologically ordered list of the directors, from the earliest to the most recent.

• Rear Adm. Sidney W. Souers, U.S. Naval Reserve (January 23, 1946–June 10, 1946)
• Lieut. Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, U.S. Army (June 10, 1946–May 1, 1947)
• Rear Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, U.S. Navy (May 1, 1947–October 7, 1950)
• Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, U.S. Army (October 7, 1950–February 9, 1953)
• Allen W. Dulles (February 26, 1953–November 29, 1961)
• John A. McCone (November 29, 1961–April 28, 1965)
• Vice Adm. William F. Raborn, Jr., U.S. Navy (April 28, 1965–June 30, 1966)
• Richard M. Helms (June 30, 1966–February 2, 1973)
• James R. Schlesinger (February 2, 1973–July 2, 1973)
• William E. Colby (September 4, 1973–January 30, 1976)
• George H.W. Bush (January 30, 1976–January 20, 1977)
• Adm. Stansfield Turner, U.S. Navy (March 9, 1977–January 20, 1981)
• William J. Casey (January 28, 1981–January 29, 1987)
• William H. Webster (May 26, 1987–August 31, 1991)
• Robert M. Gates (November 6, 1991–January 20, 1993)
• R. James Woolsey (February 5, 1993–January 10, 1995)
• John M. Deutch (May 10, 1995–December 15, 1996)
• George J. Tenet (July 11, 1997–July 11, 2004)
• Porter J. Goss (September 24, 2004–May 26, 2006)
• Gen. Michael V. Hayden, U.S. Air Force (May 30, 2006–February 13, 2009)
• Leon E. Panetta (February 13, 2009–June 30, 2011)
• Gen. David Petraeus, U.S. Army (September 6, 2011–November 9, 2012)
• John Brennan (March 8, 2013–January 20, 2017)
• Mike Pompeo (January 23, 2017–April 26, 2018)
• Gina Haspel (May 21, 2018–January 19, 2021)
• William J. Burns (March 19, 2021– )