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Michael D'Andrea
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Michael D'Andrea is an officer of the
Central Intelligence Agency, who in 2017 was appointed to head the agency's Iran Mission Center. His appointment was the first major sign that the
Trump administration was invoking the hard line the president took against Iran during his campaign.
[1] He was a major figure in the
search for Osama bin Laden, as well as the American
drone strike targeted killing campaign that killed thousands of Islamist militants and hundreds of civilians.
[1] In January 2020, there were unverified reports of his death.
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Early life[edit]
D'Andrea was raised in
Northern Virginia.
[1] His family has ties to the CIA that span two generations.
[2] He met his wife while working overseas with the
Central Intelligence Agency, and converted to
Islam in order to marry her.
[1][3] His wife, Faridah Currimjee D'Andrea is a daughter of a wealthy Muslim family from
Mauritius with
Gujarati origins.
[4] The Currimjee family owns a business and operates in different sectors such as Telecoms, Media, Real Estate, Tourism, Financial Services and Energy. Faridah Currimjee D'Andrea is one of the senior directors of Currimjee group.
[5][6]
Career[edit]
D'Andrea joined the CIA in 1979, and he was considered an underperformer at
Camp Peary.
[7] D'Andrea reportedly began his overseas career in
Africa, and he is listed as a foreign service officer at the
Embassy of the United States in Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania.
[7][8] D'Andrea previously served as chief of station in
Cairo,
Egypt and later in
Baghdad,
Iraq.
[7][9] D'Andrea was reportedly one of the CIA officials who failed to track
Nawaf al-Hazmi, who would later participate in the
September 11 attacks.
[9]
D'Andrea became head of the CIA's
Counterterrorism Center in 2006, replacing
Robert Grenier.
[10] During his nine-year tenure, D'Andrea presided over hundreds of American drone strikes in
Pakistan and
Yemen, advocating for the program to the
United States Congress.
[1][11] In 2015, leadership of the drone program was passed to Chris Wood, following bureaucratic reshuffling by
Director John O. Brennan.
[11][12] During his time at the Counterterrorism Center many reporters referred to him only by the codename "Roger", which was considered unusual for an official not posted overseas.
[3][7][9]
During the hunt for Osama bin Laden, D'Andrea directed an
analysis of competing hypotheses as to who, besides
Osama bin Laden, could be in the targeted
compound in Abbottabad.
[13]
D'Andrea's operatives also oversaw the interrogations of
Abu Zubaydah,
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, which were criticized in a
United States Senate report.
[1][11] He was reportedly involved in the assassination of
Hezbollah member
Imad Mughniyah in
Damascus, Syria.
[1] He received much blame for the
Camp Chapman attack in
Khost,
Afghanistan, when seven CIA operatives were killed by a
suicide bomber, who was allegedly backed by Pakistan's
ISI.
[7][9]
D’Andrea was deeply involved in the detention and interrogation program, which resulted in the torture of a number of prisoners and was condemned in the
Senate report on CIA torture in 2014 as inhumane and ineffective.
He has been nicknamed "Ayatollah Mike."
[1]
Speculated death[edit]
On January 27, 2020, after a
United States military plane crashed in Afghanistan, several websites said D'Andrea died in the crash and that the plane was shot down by the
Taliban.
[14] It was also alleged that D'Andrea was involved in the operation that
killed Qasem Soleimani[14][15] and that D'Andrea's body, along with top secret CIA documents, were taken by militants.
[14][16]
Early reports from an Iranian television network provided no evidence to confirm D'Andrea was killed.
[15][17] According to witnesses and officials, the plane crashed and was not shot down.
[14] Asia Times reported that the photos of the wreckage did not look like the wreckage of a plane that was shot out of the sky.
[16] Time described reports that D'Andrea had died in the crash as "propaganda" and a "dubious story".
[18] Polygraph.infosaid the claims D'Andrea died in the crash were unsupported and likely false.
[14] According to Polygraph.info, there has also been no confirmation of D'Andrea's involvement in Soleimani's death.
[14] The CIA refused to comment on whether any of their personnel were onboard.
[18]