- Christopher Johnson, Senior Advisor and Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), is a former CIA senior China analyst.
- Scott Modell, Senior Associate (Non-Resident), Burke Chair in Strategy at CSIS, was a senior officer in the National Clandestine Service of the CIA.
- Guy Caruso, Senior Advisor in the Energy and National Security Program at CSIS, worked at the CIA as an international energy economist in the office of Economic Research.
- Sameer Bhalotra, Senior Associate (Non-Resident), Technology and Public Policy Program at CSIS, worked at the CIA.
- Clark Murdock, Senior Advisor and Director, Project on Nuclear Issues at CSIS, served in multiple roles at the CIA.
- David Addington, Senior Vice President and Deputy Chief Operating Officer at the Heritage Foundation, was a senior official at the CIA.
- Lisa Curtis, Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, worked as an analyst for the CIA.
- Bruce Klinger, Senior Research Fellow, Northeast Asia at the Heritage Foundation, worked at the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).
- Douglas Paal, Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP), was a senior analyst at the CIA.
- Bruce Riedel, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings, had a 30-year career at the CIA.
- Kenneth Pollack, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings, was an Iran-Iraq military analyst for the CIA.
- Marie Harf, a current Media Spokesperson for the CIA, was in the Next Generation National Security Leaders class of 2010-2011 at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS).
- Melvin Goodman, Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy (CIP), is a former CIA analyst.
- Arturo Munoz, Senior Political Analyst at Rand Corporation, worked at the CIA for 29 years.
- William Young, Senior Policy Analyst at Rand Corporation, worked for ODNI and the CIA.
- Benjamin Lambeth, Senior Research Associate at the Rand Corporation, worked at the CIA.
- Fiona Hill, Director of the Center on the United States and Europe, and Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Program at Brookings, served as a National Intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at The National Intelligence Council (2006-2009).
- Philip Mudd, Senior Research Fellow at New American Foundation (NAF), is a former high-ranking CIA counterterrorism official.
- Aki Peritz, Senior Policy Advisor for National Security at Third Way, is a former CIA counterterrorism official.
- Richard Bush, Director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at Brookings,was a National Intelligence Officer for East Asia at the National Intelligence Council.
- Paul Pillar, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at Brookings, was an intelligence officer with the CIA and National Intelligence Council.
- John McLaughlin, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at Brookings, was the former Acting Director of the CIA.
- Joseph Nye, a Trustee at CSIS, was the former Chairman of the National Intelligence Council.
- Eugene Rumer, who is joining CEIP as Associate and Director of its Russia and Eurasia Program, was a national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council.
- Michael Shurkin, a political scientist at the RAND Corp., was a former CIA analyst.
- Eugene Rumer, a Senior Associate and Director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at CEIP, served as a national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council.
- Matthew Burrows, Director of the Strategic Foresight Initiative at Atlantic Council, used to work for the CIA.
- Susan Hennessey, a Brookings fellow, is a former NSA lawyer.
- David Shedd, a Visiting Distinguished Fellow at Heritage is former acting director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).
- James Clapper, a Distinguished Senior Fellow for Intelligence and National Security and CNAS, was the Director of National Intelligence (DNI).
- Sue Mi Terry, a Senior Fellow for the Korea Chair at CSIS, was a former CIA analyst.
- Jung Pak, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, is a former Korea analyst at the CIA.
- Naveed Jamali, a Senior Fellow at Foreign Policy Research Institute, was a double agent for the FBI and is currently a reserve intelligence officer in the US Navy.
It looks like CIA Director David Petraeus, who resigned on November 9, 2012 citing an extramarital affair, will be on the market for a think tank job.
The CIA has its own internal think tank, The Global Futures Partnership (GFP), which has a website here.
Please note: This list is periodically update, and some of the above-mentioned scholars may no longer be affiliated with think tank land.
