Andrew Warren
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Andrew Warren is a former CIA officer whom John Kiriakou worked alongside at headquarters, in a domestic assignment, and in the Middle East, describing him as "one of the chosen few" under their shared supervisor, known as "Mary Margaret" (Mary Margaret Graham). Warren was black, a convert to Islam, and spoke Arabic, qualities Kiriakou says made Graham favor him with an unlimited operational budget, in contrast to Kiriakou's own reprimand over a $5 Burger King expense.

Rise to station chief

Warren moved from a chief-of-liaison posting to one of the Middle East station chief positions Kiriakou himself had been offered in 2002. In that post, a woman called the acting ambassador to report that Warren had drugged and raped her at a party at his home; she told the ambassador that when she confronted him, Warren said, "nobody sleeps under my silk sheets for free."

Arrest and 23 victims

The State Department's regional security officer, after Warren was lured home under a pretext and arrested by the FBI at Dulles Airport, searched his house and found that Warren had raped 23 women, videotaping each attack so he could "enjoy them again later." Investigators also found a filing cabinet stuffed with classified documents, a violation of the Espionage Act, and $100,000 worth of luxury watches they believed were bought with embezzled CIA funds. Only one of the other 22 women agreed to testify against him.

While awaiting trial, Warren was found naked in the street carrying a gun; police were called, and he ran into a local Holiday Inn Express lobby, still nude, and held the gun to his head in a standoff before being disarmed. Officers who searched his home found crack cocaine and methamphetamine. He ultimately took a plea deal on the rape charges and was sentenced to six years and four months in a federal prison in Kentucky.

Conversion, reconversion, and further assault

After his release, Warren earned a master's degree in Middle Eastern studies in Jordan and converted to Islam. He later reverted to his father's Southern Baptist faith and became an assistant preacher at a church in Harlem, New York, where he raped an 88-year-old woman.

Warnings ignored

Kiriakou's wife, Catherine, raised credible allegations through the chain of command that Warren had a problem with forced sex while the two families were stationed together in the Middle East. She was told, "Andrew gets results, mind your own business."

See also

- John Kiriakou
- CIA
