The CIA is an "independent" civilian intelligence agency of the US government and reports to the Director of National Intelligence.
No - but CIA Director is part of the President's National Security Council
Answer:As of February 12, 2009 Leon Panetta is Director of the CIA
Gen. David Petraeus is confirmed to be the official new director at the cia as of June 30, 2011.
William Colby was the director of the CIA during that time. Following that, in 1976 George H. W. Bush was the next CIA director until 1977.
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Bush became CIA director in 1976.
The CIA director during the Benghazi attack on September 11, 2012, was David Petraeus. However, he resigned as CIA director shortly after the attack due to an unrelated scandal. Michael Morell, the Deputy Director of the CIA, temporarily assumed the role of Acting Director after Petraeus' resignation.
David Cohen
Director of the Central Intelligence.
General Mike Hayden. More info on CIA and Mike @https://www.cia.gov/about-cia/leadership/hayden
No. Harding died more than 20 years before the CIA was created.