Michael V. Hayden

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Michael V. Hayden (2006)

Michael Vincent Hayden (born March 17, 1945 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ) is a former general in the US Air Force and former director of the NSA (March 1999 to April 2005) and the CIA (May 30, 2006 to February 12, 2009). Until his military retirement in 2008, he was the first CIA director since 1981 to remain an active soldier.

Military career

Hayden, son of a welder , first studied history at Duquesne University . In 1967 he received a bachelor's degree as well as the officer 's license and thus his appointment as second lieutenant ; he received his master's degree in modern American history in 1969. The Civil War still fascinates him to this day. Hayden is a graduate of the Reserve Officer Training Corps program. From 1969 Hayden served regularly in the US Air Force and was promoted to First Lieutenant in 1970 .

Hayden served as the commander of the Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency and as the head of the Joint Command and Control Warfare Center , both headquartered at Lackland Air Force Base . He also served in senior administrative positions in the United States Department of Defense and in the US European Command headquarters in Stuttgart . He was also a member of the National Security Council in Washington, DC, and the US Embassy in Bulgaria , and was Deputy Chief of Staff of the United Nations and the United States Forces Korea . Hayden also worked in the Enlightenment in Guam .

From 1999 to 2005, Lieutenant General Hayden was director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and director of the CSS , the NSA's liaison service to the US armed forces. In April 2005, Hayden was promoted to four-star general and in May was appointed first deputy to the newly created Director of National Intelligence . As the NSA director, Hayden was responsible for the massive eavesdropping on the population.

After the resignation of Porter Goss on May 6, 2006, suggested and carried out by the White House , President George W. Bush nominated General Hayden on May 8, 2006 as the new director of the CIA . The confirmation by the Senate took place on May 26, 2006, the swearing-in in office on May 30, 2006. On June 20, 2008 (effective July 1) Hayden entered into military retirement; as a civilian, however, he was director of the CIA until 2009.

After retirement

Hayden emphasized that he had never ordered torture himself ; he insisted, however, that the so-called “tightened interrogation techniques” (see e.g. waterboarding ) had provided valuable information.

In July 2013 ( Edward Snowden had previously made it known to what extent the National Security Agency was listening to the Internet and storing phone data), Hayden said in an interview with ZDF that shortly after the attacks of September 11, 2001, it had been agreed that secret services from the USA and Europe work closely together in an information pool. He could only shake his head at the amazement of many German politicians.

In an interview with Der Spiegel magazine in 2014, Hayden said that the western secret services were the most transparent and that eastern espionage had fallen out of the public eye in the current debate. In a panel discussion at Johns Hopkins University in April 2014, Hayden explained the importance of metadata : "We kill on the basis of metadata".

Hayden is married and has three children with his wife Jeanine.

In November 2018 he suffered a stroke.

Awards

Selection of decorations, sorted based on the Order of Precedence of Military Awards :

literature

Web links

Commons : Michael Hayden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gates Praises Hayden as General Retires to Become Civilian CIA Director (DefenseLink.mil, June 20, 2008; English)
  2. ↑ Birthers, Truthers and Interrogation Deniers - Opinion in the WSJ of June 2, 2011
  3. ↑ Ex-NSA boss scoffs at German politicians , SZ, July 20, 2013
  4. ↑ NSA director Keith B. Alexander made a similar statement: Enlightenment? Does not exist!
  5. ↑ US secret service: Ex-NSA boss apologizes to Germans , Spiegel online
  6. ↑ Ex-NSA boss: "We kill on the basis of metadata" , heise online, May 12, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Hayden, Michael V.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hayden, Michael Vincent (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American intelligence officer, director of the Central Intelligence Agency
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania