George Tenet
| George Tenet | |
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| Director of Central Intelligence | |
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In office July 11, 1997 – July 11, 2004 Acting: December 16, 1996 – July 11, 1997 |
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| President |
Bill Clinton George W. Bush |
| Deputy |
John A. Gordon John E. McLaughlin |
| Preceded by | John Deutch |
| Succeeded by | John McLaughlin (Acting) |
| Deputy Director of Central Intelligence | |
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In office July 3, 1995 – July 11, 1997 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Bill Studeman |
| Succeeded by | John Gordon |
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| Born |
George John Tenet January 5, 1953 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Stephanie Glakas |
| Education |
State University of New York, Cortland Georgetown University (BS) Columbia University (MIA) |
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George John Tenet (born January 5, 1953) was the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) for the United States Central Intelligence Agency as well as a Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University.
Tenet held the position as the DCI from July 1997 to July 2004, making him the second-longest-serving director in the agency's history—behind Allen Welsh Dulles—as well as one of the few DCIs to serve under two U.S. presidents of opposing political parties. He played a key role in overseeing the intelligence behind the Iraq War.
In February 2008, he became a managing director at investment bank Allen & Company.
George John Tenet was born on January 5, 1953, in Flushing, Queens, New York City, New York, the son of Greek immigrants Evangelia and John Tenet. His father, a Greek born in southern Albania (Northern Epirus), worked in a coal mine in France before arriving in the United States via Ellis Island just before the Great Depression. His mother was a Greek from Epirus, Greece, who had fled from the communists by stowing away on a British submarine.
Tenet was raised in Little Neck, Queens, where as a teenager, he and his older brother Bill worked as busboys in their family's diner, the Twentieth Century Diner. Despite Bill and George being fraternal twins, both had different personalities; in his book Ghost Wars, Steve Coll described Bill as "reserved, precise, and studious" (he would later become a cardiologist) and George as "loud, sloppy, and boisterous." Because of his tendency to talk constantly he was known as "the mouthpiece." Sol Winder, a family friend and later owner of their diner, said he was "the type of guy who could never keep a secret." He was also interested in the news; the host of a local current affairs host sent him an autograph in response to Tenet's letters, calling him "the future editorial page editor of The New York Times." He played basketball and softball for his Greek Orthodox church, where he was also an altar server.
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