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John Ratcliffe

2020-05-26what this date marks is not recorded

Director of National Intelligence (2020-2021); shared his views on UFOs publicly in 2021, part of a wave of senior officials commenting on the topic around the release of ODNI's Preliminary Assessment. Now serves as CIA Director (2025-present) under Trump's second term.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "ufos". An editorial classification of what thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to. Neighbours were not used - see apply-subjects-2026-09-02.mjs for why.

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Leadership - Office of the Director of National Intelligence

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→ Tulsi Gabbard a reference; no pages of it are held

both held the office of Director of National Intelligence, Ratcliffe in 2020-21 and Gabbard from 2025

Leadership - Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Caveat The ODNI page carries who holds the office NOW and does not list former Directors, so it establishes that neither Ratcliffe nor Gabbard currently does. It does not itself carry their terms; those remain unbound.scope: scoped
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he served as Director of National Intelligence (2020-2021)

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both served as Director of National Intelligence

ODNI / Director of National Intelligence official records
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his 2021 Preliminary Assessment was produced under pressure from Rubio's SSCI directive

ODNI Preliminary Assessment on UAP (Jun 2021) & 2022 Annual Report; May 17 2022 House hearing
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her Pentagon denials contrast with his public calls for more transparency

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John Ratcliffe → Tulsi Gabbard

succeeded him as DNI; now serves alongside him as CIA Director

both held the office of Director of National Intelligence, Ratcliffe in 2020-21 and Gabbard from 2025

Wrong three ways, found 4 September 2026 while looking for a roster to source it. It called Tulsi Gabbard "him". It had the succession backwards - Ratcliffe was DNI 2020-21 and Gabbard from 2025, with Avril Haines between them, so Gabbard followed Ratcliffe and not the reverse. And "now serves alongside" described an arrangement that had ended: odni.gov named Jay Clayton as Director of National Intelligence since 3 August 2026.