Chris Wood (CIA)
Chris Wood | |
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Counterterrorism Center | |
Director | |
In office 2015–2017 | |
President | Donald Trump Barack Obama |
Preceded by | Michael D'Andrea |
Succeeded by | Classified |
Personal details | |
Nationality | US Invasion of Afghanistan |
John Christopher Wood is a retired
Early life
Wood earned a Bachelor of Arts in government and international politics from George Mason University's School of Policy and Government before joining the CIA.[1]
Career
Wood joined the CIA in 1985, serving in various roles throughout the agency's Directorate of Operations.
In 1997 Wood was assigned as a case officer in
As the
In 2010 Wood served a stint as Afghan specialist at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, before returning to Kabul Station a year later, this time as chief of station, overseeing a far larger unit than he had been a part of eight years earlier. He took the reins of station in Afghanistan at the same time as agency officers who spent years hunting Osama Bin Laden finally found their man.[4] After 2011, Wood served time in Washington, D.C., where he served as the chief to a number of critical agency offices, and his rotational assignments included stints with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Office of the Director of National Intelligence.[4][1] Some time later Wood became a member of the Senior Intelligence Service when he returned to overseas duty in charge of all operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan, holding the position of an assistant director, and leading several field commands in sensitive overseas assignments.[4]
In 2015, Wood was tapped by
Post intelligence career
Wood is a board member of the Third Option Foundation, an organization dedicated to providing support and resiliency to the families of members of the CIA's paramilitary operations units, and which bears the motto of the CIA's Special Activities Center: Tertia Optio.[1]
References
- ^ a b c "People". Third Option Foundation. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
- ^ Harnden, Toby, "First Casualty: The Untold Story of the CIA Mission to Avenge 9/11. Little, Brown, 2021. p. 354
- ^ "Cables". Inglorious Amateurs. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
- ^ ISBN 9780525557302.
- ^ a b Devotion to Duty: Responding to the Terrorist Attacks of September 11th. Langley: Central Intelligence Agency. 2010. pp. 34–35. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015.
- ^ Tenet, At the Center of the Storm, pp. 209, 211, 217, 221–3. Cf. Franklin Freeman, "Afghan Massacres...", Liberty Strikes Back.
- ^ "The Spymasters: CIA in the Crosshairs". Showtime. 2017-01-01.
- ^ ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
- ^ ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
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