What is Michael Hayden?
{{Infobox US Cabinet official |name = Michael Vincent Hayden |image =Michael Hayden, CIA official portrait.jpg |birth_date= {{Birth date and age|1945|3|17|mf=y}} |birth_place= [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]], [[United States|U.S.]] |party = |order=20th |title=[[Director of the Central Intelligence Agency]] |term_start=May 30, 2006 |term_end=February 12, 2009 |predecessor=[[Porter J. Goss]] |successor=[[Leon Panetta]] |president=[[George W. Bush]] |order2 = 15th |office2 = Director of the National Security Agency |president2 = [[Bill Clinton]]<br />[[George W. Bush]] |term_start2 = March 1999 |term_end2 = April 21, 2005 |predecessor2 = [[Kenneth Minihan]] |successor2 = [[Keith B. Alexander|Keith Alexander]] |profession= [[Military]] [[Officer (armed forces)|Officer]] }} '''Michael Hayden''' (born March 17, 1945) is an American politician, writer and military personnel. He was the head of the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] from 2006 to 2009. On 24 May 2006, he was voted as the new head of the CIA by the [[United States Senate]]. He was the director of the [[National Security Agency|NSA]] from 1999 to 2005. The NSA and CIA are both [[spy]] agencies. He has worked as a spy since 1970. On November 23, 2018, Hayden was hospitalized after suffering a [[stroke]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ex-cia-nsa-director-hospitalized-after-suffering-stroke-n939556|title=Former CIA, NSA director Michael Hayden hospitalized after suffering stroke|last=Martinez|first=Didi|date=November 23, 2018|work=NBC News|accessdate=24 November 2018}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} == Other websites == *[http://www.nsa.gov/about/about00013.cfm Michael Hayden biography from the NSA] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040307141105/http://www.nsa.gov/about/about00013.cfm |date=2004-03-07 }} {{DCIA}} {{US-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hayden, Michael}} [[Category:1945 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:American generals]] [[Category:American political writers]] [[Category