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William J. Burns (diplomat) William Joseph Burns (born April 11, 1956) [2] is an American diplomat who has served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the Biden administration since March 19, 2021. [3] He previously served as U.S. deputy secretary of state from 2011 to 2014; in 2009 he served as acting secretary of state for ...
William John Burns (October 19, 1861 – April 14, 1932) was an American private investigator and law enforcement official. He was known as "America's Sherlock Holmes" and earned fame for having conducted private investigations into a number of notable incidents, such as clearing Leo Frank of the 1913 murder of Mary Phagan, and for investigating the deadly 1910 Los Angeles Times bombing ...
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May 9, 2023 · Published May 9, 2023 Updated May 10, 2023. To mark the 20th anniversary of the American-led invasion of Iraq, the C.I.A. director, William J. Burns, stood in the lobby of the agency’s ...
Jan 11, 2021 · President-elect Joe Biden has chosen veteran diplomat William Burns to be his CIA director. Biden made the announcement on Monday. A former ambassador to Russia and Jordan, Burns rose through the ranks of the State Department to become deputy secretary before retiring to run the Carnegie Endowment of International Peace in 2014.
Jul 22, 2021 · Ian Morton/NPR. William Burns gives his first sit-down interview since assuming the role of Central Intelligence Agency director in March. In a wide-ranging conversation, NPR's Mary Louise Kelly ...
Apr 14, 2021 · Today in Security. On 14 April 1932, William John Burns, known as “ America’s Sherlock Holmes ” passed away in Sarasota, Florida. Like his predecessor Allan Pinkerton and his successor at the U.S. Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover, Burns was a master of self-promotion. He had an instinct for publicity that magnified the major cases ...
William J. Burns, August 22, 1921 - June 14, 1924. William J. Burns was born around 1860 in Baltimore, Maryland and educated in Columbus, Ohio. As a young man, Mr. Burns performed well as a Secret ...
