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William Joseph Burns (born April 11, 1956) is an American diplomat and the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the Biden administration since March 19, 2021. He previously served as U.S. deputy secretary of state from 2011 to 2014; in 2009 he served as acting secretary of state for a day, prior to the confirmation of ...
CIA Director William J. Burns. Bill Burns was sworn in as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency in March 2021, making him the first career diplomat to serve as Director. He was promoted to Cabinet rank by President Biden in June 2023.
May 9, 2023 · William J. Burns has for decades been a major actor on the American foreign policy stage. Now he has amassed influence beyond most if not all previous C.I.A. directors. Credit...
Jul 21, 2023 · William J. Burns, a veteran diplomat, has played a key role in the Biden administration’s efforts to thwart the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Mar 18, 2021 · William J. Burns, a veteran diplomat, has vowed to rebuild morale at the C.I.A. after it deteriorated during the Trump administration and to intensify its spying on China.
Jan 11, 2021 · WASHINGTON (AP) — William Burns, a well-known figure in diplomatic circles around the world, is President-elect Joe Biden’s choice to lead the CIA, a selection likely to be embraced by the rank and file at the nation’s premier spy agency.
Bill Burns was president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the oldest international affairs think tank in the United States. Ambassador Burns retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in 2014 after a thirty-three-year diplomatic career.
Jan 11, 2021 · US President-elect Joe Biden has chosen William Burns, who served for three decades as a diplomat, to be his CIA director. Mr Burns led the Obama administration's negotiations with Iran to...
Director Burns received three Presidential Distinguished Service Awards and the highest civilian honors from the Pentagon and the U.S. Intelligence Community. He is the author of the best-selling book, The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal (2019).
Mar 12, 2019 · In The Back Channel, Burns recounts, with novelistic detail and incisive analysis, some of the seminal moments of his career. Drawing on a trove of newly declassified cables and memos, he gives readers a rare inside look at American diplomacy in action.
