Everything about Vincent Cannistraro totally explained
Vincent Cannistraro was Director of Intelligence Programs for the U.S.
National Security Council (NSC) from 1984 to 1987; Special assistant for Intelligence in the office of the
Secretary of Defense until 1988; and Chief of Operations and Analysis at the
Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA)
Counterterrorist Center until 1991.
Before 1984, he was an officer with the CIA's Directorate of Operations, or
National Clandestine Service, in the
Middle East,
Africa,
Europe, and
Central America.
Since leaving the CIA in 1991, after 27 years with the agency, Cannistraro has worked as a consultant on terrorism and security issues for a number of corporate and government clients, including
ABC News and the
Vatican. The Contra program was transferred in 1984 by President
Ronald Reagan to the NSC, and Cannistraro was made Director of Intelligence there later that year. As director, he was responsible for monitoring the U.S. intelligence community budget, coordinating inter-agency meetings on aid for the Contras, and coordinating the approval process for
covert action. He also chaired the
Afghanistan Working Group at the
White House.
Later, as Chief of Operations and Analysis at the CIA's
Counterterrorist Center, Cannistraro led the agency's investigation into the 1988 bombing of
Pan Am Flight 103 over
Lockerbie, which resulted in the conviction in 2001 of a
Libyan intelligence officer. Cannistraro also linked
Iraq with
Osama bin Laden when he alleged that Iraqi intelligence agent
Farouk Hijazi had invited bin Laden to live in Iraq during a December 1998 meeting in
Afghanistan.
He has commented on the forged
Niger "
yellowcake" uranium documents, which attempted to link
Iraq with nuclear weapons development, and on the related disclosure of the identity of CIA agent
Valerie Plame.
Cannistaro runs
IntelligenceBrief, a security and information service for private clients.
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