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Kyle Foggo

Kyle Dustin “Dusty” Foggo was appointed executive director of the CIA, the agency’s third-highest post, in October 2004. Foggo is under indictment for providing lifelong friend and defense contractor Brent Wilkes with agency contracts.

Key Points:

Foggo is accused of accepting bribes from his long-time friend Wilkes.

Foggo and Wilkes attended Chula Vista, Calif.’s Hilltop High School together, where they played on the football team. The two roomed together while at San Diego State University, served as best man at each other’s weddings, and even named their sons after one another.

Both men took advantage of their friendship in their professional lives. On February 13, 2007, both Wilkes and Foggo were indicted on 11 counts of honest services fraud and conspiracy charges on February 13, 2007. A superseding indictment of 30 counts was brought on May 10, 2007.

Foggo has been accused of helping Wilkes to secure agency contracts for his contracting firm; specifically, he has been accused of ensuring Wilkes a no-bid contract to provide water to agents in Iraq at inflated prices. Foggo also allegedly leaked classified information to Wilkes in order to help him prepare a bid to provide undercover flights for CIA operatives.In exchange, Foggo received from Wilkes expensive vacations, expensive meals and a promised position at Wilkes’ contracting firm upon Foggo’s retirement.

Federal agents raided Foggo’s home and office May 12, 2006.

Foggo resigned from his CIA post May 8. On May 12, federal agents searched his Virginia home and his CIA office as part of an investigation into his ties to Brent Wilkes, identified as the un-indicted “Coconspirator No. 1” in Duke Cunningham’s plea agreement.

Federal prosecutors are looking into whether Wilkes and Mitchell Wade supplied prostitutes to Cunningham or other officials. Wade, who has pleaded guilty to bribing Cunningham, told federal prosecutors that he periodically arranged for a prostitute for the congressman through a limousine service.

The CIA is investigating whether Foggo helped the Wilkes-owned Archer Logistics secure a government contract.

Archer Logistics, one of Wilkes’s companies, was hired by the government to supply CIA field agents in Afghanistan and Iraq with bottled water and first-aid kits. Although Archer had no experience with such work before, the contract was approved by the CIA’s Frankfurt, Germany office, where Foggo was in charge of acquisitions. Critics of the contract, reported at between $2 and $3 million, say the CIA overpaid for the services.

While stationed in Honduras, Foggo helped Wilkes get cozy with congressmen.

During the early part of his CIA career in the 1980s, Foggo was stationed in Honduras, from where the CIA-backed Contras were trying to topple the government in Nicaragua. At the same time, Wilkes set up a business whose activities included accompanying congressmen to Central America to meet with Foggo and Contra leaders. Due to Foggo and his connections, Wilkes was able to establish close relationships with congressmen on the House Armed Services, Appropriations, and Intelligence committees.

Foggo attended Wilkes' poker parties at the Watergate.

For 15 years, members of Congress and CIA officials, including Foggo and CIA agent Brant “Nine Fingers” Bassett, attended Wilkes’s poker games held in hospitality suites at the Watergate and Westin Grand hotels in Washington, D.C. Although the CIA confirmed that Foggo attended the games, the agency denied that any wrongdoing took place while he was present at the parties.

Research by Amram Migdal, Michael Powell and Will Thomas

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