However, it was made public for several years in the late 1990s. In 1997 it was of $26.6 billion and in 1998 it was $26.7 billion | budget = Classified | minister1_name = John Michael McConnell | minister1_pfo = Director of National Intelligence | minister2_name = | minister2_pfo = | chief1_name = General Michael Hayden USAF | chief1_position = Director | chief2_name = Stephen Kappes | chief2_position = Deputy Director | chief3_name = Michael Morell | chief3_position = Associate Deputy Director | parent_agency = | child1_agency = | child2_agency = | website = [https://www.cia.gov/ www.cia.gov] | footnotes = }}The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. Its primary function is collecting and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and persons