Biography
Foggo grew up in the San Diego, California, area and attended San Diego State University. After brief experience in law enforcement, Foggo entered the CIA through the Presidential Management Intern program and has spent much of his career managing and awarding various contracts.
Foggo began in what was then known as the CIA's Directorate of Administration (DA) which handled a significant portion of the agency's contracting. He has spent most of his CIA career in Management General Services, but also did a stint in the Directorate of Science and Technology.
Foggo's early postings included stations in Europe and Latin America, including a position in Honduras in the 1980s where he worked with the US Ambassador to Honduras, John Negroponte, who would go on to become the Director of National Intelligence.
Prior to becoming executive director, Foggo was chief of the CIA's support base in Germany, the base responsible for providing Middle East stations (including Iraq) with logistical support.
As EXDIR, he was responsible for executive management of the CIA bureaucracy. He was appointed, in October 2004, by then-director of the CIA Porter Goss over the objections of CIA staff who said he had a reputation as a hard-drinking womanizer. He was recommended to Goss because he had served in all four of the Agency's directorates.
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