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Feds: Misconduct by CIA's Foggo spanned decades
Associated Press
Issue date: 2/25/09 Section: News
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In court papers, prosecutors describe how Kyle "Dusty" Foggo was investigated in the late 1980s for punching a bicyclist in a traffic dispute and for numerous relationships with foreign women that could have compromised security.
Foggo rose through the ranks to become the agency's executive director from 2004 to 2006. Had his crimes gone uncovered, he planned to retire and run for Congress in San Diego, according to prosecutors.
Instead, Foggo is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria after pleading guilty to a single count of fraud as part of a plea bargain. He is the highest ranking CIA officer ever to be convicted of a federal felony.
The fraud was part of a bribery ring that included Foggo's old friend, contractor Brent Wilkes, and former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, both of whom have been sentenced to years in prison.
Court papers filed this week offer the most detailed glimpse yet of Foggo's misconduct, which included getting his mistress hired to a $100,000 a year job at the CIA and steering millions of dollars in CIA contracts to Wilkes.
In the late 1980s, when Foggo was a young CIA agent, a foreign government filed a formal diplomatic protest following a traffic encounter involving Foggo. According to an affidavit from Jim Olson, a former CIA counterintelligence chief who was Olson's supervisor at an undisclosed location, Foggo's car was blocking a bicycle path and an upset cyclist smacked the car's trunk. Foggo responded by pushing the man off his bike, punching him in the face and driving off.
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