{{Short description|Accountability and audit authority of the CIA}} {{Update|nomination|date=April 2020}} {{Use American English|date=March 2019}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2019}} {{Infobox government agency | agency_name = Office of Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency | seal = File:Seal_of_the_Central_Intelligence_Agency.svg | seal_width = 120px | seal_caption = Seal of the Central Intelligence Agency | logo = | logo_width = | logo_caption = | formed = {{Start date and age|1952}} | date1 = | date1_name = | date2 = | date2_name = | preceding1 = | preceding2 = | dissolved = | superseding = | jurisdiction = United States | headquarters = George Bush Center for Intelligence, Langley, Fairfax County, Virginia | coordinates = | employees = | budget = | chief1_name = Peter Thomson | chief1_position = Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency | chief2_name = | chief2_position = | parent_agency = Central Intelligence Agency | child1_agency = | website = {{official website|https://www.cia.gov/about/organization/inspector-general/}} | footnotes = }}
The '''Office of Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=50 USC 3141: Operational files of the Central Intelligence Agency |url=https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section3141&edition=prelim#:~:text=Office%20of%20Inspector%20General%20of%20the%20Central%20Intelligence%20Agency |access-date=2026-05-26 |website=uscode.house.gov}}</ref> (CIA-OIG) is the internal oversight office for the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States. The first inspector general was appointed in 1952.<ref name="Snider">{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/docs/v44i5a02p.htm#AuthorR |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070613055110/https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/docs/v44i5a02p.htm#AuthorR |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 13, 2007 | title = Creating a Statutory Inspector General at the CIA|first=L. Britt|last=Snider|author-link=L. Britt Snider| access-date = 2009-08-25 | publisher = CIA}}</ref>
==The 1970s== The Rockefeller Commission, Church Committee, and Pike Committee all recommended strengthening the office of inspector general. Their criticisms included claims that the inspector general had few staff, was ignored, and was denied access to information. Their suggestions were not made into law.<ref name="Snider"/>
==1980s== The CIA OIG investigation of the Iran–Contra scandal was criticized in the final report of the Congressional investigation of the Iran–Contra affair.<ref>{{Cite book| publisher = GPO| last = House Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran and the Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition| title = Report on the Iran-Contra Affair| location = Washington DC| date = 1987 |url = https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=146504#relPageId=443 |page=425}}</ref> Members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (especially Boren, Cohen, Specter, and Glenn) wrestled with how to improve the IG while not interfering with the work of the CIA. They tried to make a bill that would satisfy various members of Congress and also not be vetoed by President George Bush.<ref name="Snider"/> Senator Boren (chairman of the SSCI) worked with Robert Gates who was deputy to Brent Scowcroft at the time. In 1989, a new IG law was passed, creating a more independent IG. The IG also would no longer be chosen by the Director of Central Intelligence but would instead be appointed by the president with the "advice and consent" of the Senate.<ref name="Snider"/>
==Global war on terror== There were several controversies surrounding the IG during the years of the global war on terror.
The IG released a controversial report on failures of the intelligence community before 9/11.<ref name="Miller, 2007">Miller, 2007</ref>
IG staff Mary O. McCarthy was fired in 2006.<ref name="Miller, 2007"/>
In 2007, General Michael Hayden, head of the CIA, had attorney Robert Deitz review the work of the IG.<ref name="Miller, 2007"/>
===2004 Inspector General Report=== In 2004, the CIA OIG published a report on prisoner treatment in the global war on terror. It was entitled "CIA Inspector General Special Review: Counterterrorism Detention and Interrogation Activities".<ref>[https://www.aclu.org/oigreport/ "CIA Inspector General Special Review: Counterterrorism Detention and Interrogation Activities"] at the ACLU web site</ref> After a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union, a less redacted version was declassified in 2009 and released to the public.
==List of Inspectors General== {| class="wikitable" ! Name ! Term start ! Term end ! Refs |- | Donald F. Chamberlain | July 1973 | July 1976 | |- | John H. Waller | July 1976 | January 1980 | <ref name=ignet>Council of the Inspectors General, ''[http://www.ignet.gov/sites/default/files/files/IG%20History%20(PAS)%20-%207-25-17.pdf Inspector General Historical Data] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090813000106/http://www.ignet.gov/igs/ighistory.pdf |date=August 13, 2009 }}'', 2007 May</ref> |- | Charles Ackerly Briggs | January 1980 | September 1982 | <ref name=ignet/> |- | James H. Taylor | September 1982 | July 1984 | <ref name=ignet/> |- | John H. Stein | July 1984 | December 23, 1985 | <ref name=ignet/> |- | Carroll L. Hauver | December 23, 1985 | January 18, 1988 | <ref name=ignet/> |- | William F. Donnelly | January 18, 1988 | December 1, 1989 | <ref name=ignet/><ref>Wines, 1990</ref> |- | William F. Donnelly (Acting) | December 1, 1989 | November 13, 1990 | <ref name=ignet/> |- | Frederick P. Hitz | November 13, 1990 | May 1, 1998 | <ref name="Snider"/><ref name="Miller, 2007"/><ref name=ignet/> |- | Dawn Ellison (Acting) | May 1, 1998 | August 3, 1998 | <ref name=ignet/> |- | L. Britt Snider | August 3, 1998 | January 20, 2001 | <ref name=ignet/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/press?id=263577|title=Press | Intelligence Committee|website=www.intelligence.senate.gov|access-date=2020-06-10}}</ref><ref>Verton, 2001</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=|title=Unlucky SHAMROCK--The View from the Other Side|first=James G.|last=Hudec|date=2001-01-01|website=Homeland Security Digital Library|access-date=2020-06-10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cia.gov/static/814a15316b3e559bb387efe5300c7d40/Recollections-Church-Committee-Investigation.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119223621/https://www.cia.gov/static/814a15316b3e559bb387efe5300c7d40/Recollections-Church-Committee-Investigation.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 19, 2021|title=Recollections from the Church Committee's Investigation of NSA|first=L. Britt |last=Snider |website=Central Intelligence Agency|access-date=2021-07-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=3665|title=Unlucky SHAMROCK: Recollections from the Church Committee's Investigation of NSA |first=L. Britt |last=Snider|date=January 1999 |access-date=2020-06-10}}</ref><ref>Church Committee</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.computerworld.com/article/2582229/cia-grappling-with-its-role-amid-it-revolution.html|title=CIA grappling with its role amid IT revolution|first=Dan|last=Verton|date=2001-06-22|website=Computerworld|access-date=2020-06-10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fas.org/irp/cia/product/snider.html|title=A Message from the CIA Inspector General|website=fas.org|access-date=2020-06-10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fas.org/irp/cia/product/snider.pdf|title=The Agency and the Hill: CIA's Relationship with Congress, 1946-2004 by L. Britt Snider, Center for the Study of Intelligence, 2008|access-date=2020-06-10}}</ref><ref>[http://intellit.muskingum.edu/alpha_folder/S_folder/snider.html L. Britt Snider - The Literature of Intelligence: A Bibliography of Materials, with Essays, Reviews, and Comments J. Ransom Clark Emeritus Muskingum University New Concord, Ohio]<!-- http://intellit.org/ --></ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/how-a-30-year-old-lawyer-exposed-nsa-mass-surveillance-of-americans-in-1975/|title=How a 30-year-old lawyer exposed NSA mass surveillance of Americans—in 1975|first=Nate|last=Anderson|date=2013-06-30|website=Ars Technica|access-date=2020-06-10}}</ref><ref>[https://www.archives.gov/files/pidb/meetings/minutes12-15-06.pdf "Public Interest Declassification Board Meeting Minutes..." (Dec 15, 2006 - also included a panel discussion of historians from NRO, NSA, DIA, and the Office of the ... L. Britt Snider, Chairman of the PIDB, chaired the...)]</ref><ref name="Snider"/> |- | Rebecca Donegan (Acting) | January 21, 2001 | November 14, 2001 | <ref name=ignet/> |- | Rebecca Donegan (Deputy Inspector General) | November 14, 2001 | January 14, 2002 | <ref name=ignet/> |- | George Clark (Acting Deputy Inspector General) | January 14, 2002 | April 26, 2002 | <ref name=ignet/> |- | John L. Helgerson | April 26, 2002 | March 21, 2009 | <ref name="Miller, 2007"/><ref name=ignet/><ref>Panetta, ''Inspector General's Retirement''</ref> |- | Patricia Lewis (Acting) | March 21, 2009 | October 6, 2010 | <ref>[https://www.congress.gov/111/chrg/shrg66164/CHRG-111shrg66164.htm HEARING BEFORE THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE, ONE HUNDRED ELEVENTH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION], congress.gov, September 21, 2010, retrieved January 4, 2010</ref> |- | David Buckley | October 6, 2010 | January 31, 2015 | <ref>[https://time.com/3655198/cia-david-buckley-inspector-general-resignation/ CIA Inspector General David Buckley to Resign], time.com, January 6, 2015, retrieved January 4, 2017</ref> |- | Christopher Sharpley (Acting) | February 1, 2015 | September 9, 2017 | |- | Cristine Ruppert (Acting Deputy Inspector General) | September 9, 2017 | June 28, 2021 | <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ignet.gov/content/central-intelligence-agency|title=IG Net Page on CIA OIG|access-date=April 1, 2021}}</ref> |- | Robin Ashton | June 28, 2021 | December 31, 2024 | <ref>{{cite web |last1=@CIA on Twitter |title="#CIA welcomes Robin Ashton, our new Senate-confirmed Inspector General" |url=https://twitter.com/CIA/status/1409605094795104261 |website=Twitter |access-date=1 July 2021 |language=en}}</ref> |- | Robert Host (Acting) | December 31, 2024 | September 19, 2025 | |- | Peter Thomson | September 19, 2025 | ''Present'' | |}
==See also== * Office of inspector general (United States) * Inspector General Act of 1978 * CIA's relationship with the United States Congress
==References== {{reflist|2}}
==External links== *{{official website|https://www.cia.gov/about/organization/inspector-general/}} *{{cite web|url=http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/61622/CIA_grappling_with_its_role_amid_IT_revolution?taxonomyId=17&taxonomyName=Security|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130119190757/http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/61622/CIA_grappling_with_its_role_amid_IT_revolution?taxonomyId=17&taxonomyName=Security|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-01-19|title=CIA grappling with its role amid IT revolution|last=Verton|first=Dan|date=2001-06-22|access-date=2009-08-25|publisher=Computer World}} * {{cite web | url = https://www.aclu.org/oigreport/ | access-date = 2009-08-25 | publisher = American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) | year = 2009 | title = CIA Inspector General Special Review: Counterterrorism Detention and Interrogation Activities}} * {{cite web | url = https://www.cia.gov/news-information/press-releases-statements/directors-statement-on-ig-retirement.html| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090311030613/https://www.cia.gov/news-information/press-releases-statements/directors-statement-on-ig-retirement.html| url-status = dead| archive-date = March 11, 2009| date = 2009-02-18 | access-date = 2009-08-25 |first=Leon|last=Panetta| author-link=Leon Panetta| title = Message from the Director: Inspector General's Retirement }} * {{cite web | url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-12-na-cia12-story.html | title = The Nation - CIA inquiry targets its own watchdog | date = 2007-10-12 | author = Greg Miller | access-date = 2009-08-25 | work = Los Angeles Times}} *{{cite web|url = https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/30/us/independent-watchdog-takes-post-at-cia.html| title = Independent Watchdog Takes Post at C.I.A. | date = 1990-11-30 | author = Wines, Michael | access-date = 2009-08-25 | work = The New York Times}} * {{cite web |url=http://www.ignet.gov/igs/ighistory.pdf |access-date=2009-08-25 |title=Inspector General Historical Data Federal Departments |publisher=ignet.gov |date=2007-05-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090813000106/http://ignet.gov/igs/ighistory.pdf |archive-date=2009-08-13 }}
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