Source overview
CIA World Leaders — Chiefs of State & Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
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PEP roster The CIA's 'Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments' directory — current and former heads of state/government, cabinet ministers, central-bank governors and ambassadors for nearly every country — used as the generalized PEP source for jurisdictions without a dedicated national roster.
A match means this person holds or held senior foreign-government office — a standard PEP due-diligence trigger, not an accusation of wrongdoing.
10,889 canonical entities are backed by this source, issued by US Central Intelligence Agency.
About this source
- Issuing authority
- US Central Intelligence Agency
- Official list
- https://www.cia.gov/resources/world-leaders/foreign-governments/
- License
- Public domain — U.S. Government work (17 U.S.C. §105)
- Public redistribution
- Permitted
- Fetch cadence
- Daily (re-fetched when the upstream publish date changes)
- As observed on
- Current list version
- us_cia_world_leaders@2026-07-10
- Manifest SHA-256
- 8c3675a1175db3aaa68b2b73a6704d9cafd50275a530476b487db70fdf4788f0
- Signing
- List version (signing pending — honest degradation)
- Canonical entities backed
- 10,889
- Shared with other lists
- 0 shared · 10,889 on this list only
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