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William J. Burns
William J. Burns is Director, Central Intelligence Agency. Senior officials of the executive branch file their securities transactions with the Office of Government Ethics rather than with Congress. We hold 21 disclosed purchases and sales filed since 31 January 2023, none of them in the last 90 days.
- AgencyCentral Intelligence Agency
- Disclosed buys and sells21 in all, 0 in the last 90 days
- Last disclosure4 March 2023
Positions held
1 post we hold — a term names its own dates; a run of filings only says when they filed- Filed 6 February 2021 — 28 February 2025Director · Central Intelligence Agency9 reports filed with the Office of Government Ethics · source: Office of Government Ethics
Every transaction
21 transactions from Office of Government Ethics — one row each, sort any column, open a row for the filing| 24 Jan 2023 | 4 Mar 2023Office of Government Ethics | 39 d | sold | Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) | $1,001–$15,000 | up +44.3% | up +45.6% |
| 24 Jan 2023 | 4 Mar 2023Office of Government Ethics | 39 d | sold | General Electric Co. (GE) | $1,001–$15,000 | up +405.3% | up +372.0% |
| 20 Dec 2022 | 31 Jan 2023Office of Government Ethics | 42 d | sold | International Paper Co. (IP) | $100,001–$250,000 | down −0.1% | down −17.2% |
| 20 Dec 2022 | 31 Jan 2023Office of Government Ethics | 42 d | sold | Sylvamo Corporation (SLVM) | $15,001–$50,000 | down −29.0% | down −25.4% |
| 22 Nov 2022 | 31 Jan 2023Office of Government Ethics | 70 d | sold | Honeywell International, Inc. (HON) | $15,001–$50,000 | down −5.2% | down −0.6% |
| 22 Nov 2022 | 31 Jan 2023Office of Government Ethics | 70 d | sold | QUALCOMM, Inc. (QCOM) | $1,001–$15,000 | up +42.7% | up +32.4% |
| 22 Nov 2022 | 31 Jan 2023Office of Government Ethics | 70 d | sold | Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (VRTX) | $1,001–$15,000 | up +62.1% | up +61.3% |
| 24 Oct 2022 | 31 Jan 2023Office of Government Ethics | 99 d | sold | Wells Fargo & Co | $1,001–$15,000 | up +98.4% | up +91.3% |
| 24 Oct 2022 | 31 Jan 2023Office of Government Ethics | 99 d | sold | Walmart, Inc. (WMT) | $15,001–$50,000 | up +127.7% | up +120.7% |
| 24 Oct 2022 | 31 Jan 2023Office of Government Ethics | 99 d | sold | W P Carey Inc. | $50,001–$100,000 | up +0.5% | down −16.5% |
| 24 Oct 2022 | 31 Jan 2023Office of Government Ethics | 99 d | sold | Unilever | $15,001–$50,000 | — | — |
| 24 Oct 2022 | 31 Jan 2023Office of Government Ethics | 99 d | sold | Procter & Gamble Co. (PG) | $1,001–$15,000 | up +10.3% | up +0.2% |
| 24 Oct 2022 | 31 Jan 2023Office of Government Ethics | 99 d | sold | Novartis | $1,001–$15,000 | up +76.9% | up +51.7% |
| 24 Oct 2022 | 31 Jan 2023Office of Government Ethics | 99 d | sold | Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) | $50,001–$100,000 | up +98.8% | up +98.4% |
| 24 Oct 2022 | 31 Jan 2023Office of Government Ethics | 99 d | sold | McDonald's Corp. (MCD) | $15,001–$50,000 | down −0.7% | down −5.2% |
| 24 Oct 2022 | 31 Jan 2023Office of Government Ethics | 99 d | sold | Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) | $1,001–$15,000 | up +56.2% | up +63.4% |
| 24 Oct 2022 | 31 Jan 2023Office of Government Ethics | 99 d | sold | iShares MSCI Japan ETF | $15,001–$50,000 | — | — |
| 24 Oct 2022 | 31 Jan 2023Office of Government Ethics | 99 d | sold | General Electric Co. (GE) | $1,001–$15,000 | up +612.0% | up +406.6% |
| 24 Oct 2022 | 31 Jan 2023Office of Government Ethics | 99 d | sold | Meta Platforms Inc. Class A | $1,001–$15,000 | up +403.9% | up +338.8% |
| 24 Oct 2022 | 31 Jan 2023Office of Government Ethics | 99 d | sold | Warner Brothers Discovery Inc. | $1,001–$15,000 | up +111.8% | up +88.3% |
| 24 Oct 2022 | 31 Jan 2023Office of Government Ethics | 99 d | sold | AT&T Inc. | $1,001–$15,000 | up +43.6% | up +23.5% |
Both percentages are the stock’s move, not William J. Burns’s return: a disclosure gives a band, never an amount, so nobody can say how much was bought or what it made. They run to the last close we hold — 9 Sep 2026, except where a name has since delisted, when the row names its own last session. We publish no close, no volume and no dollar figure behind them. 19 of the 21 rows shown carry a percentage; the rest are dashes with the reason on the row.
Positions come from the unitedstates/congress-legislators roster, the Office of Government Ethics and the SEC’s Form 4 index. Every disclosed line names its own source and links the document the government published; we print what the filing says and never a price we did not read from it. Headlines and links come from the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph — the story stays with the publisher. The portrait, where we have one, is the public-domain Congressional Bioguide photograph.
Some filings reach us as photographs of paper rather than as a form we can read as text. Those are shown here only once they have been read and checked, so this page can hold fewer lines than the filings behind it contain. The link on every row opens the original document, which is always the full record.