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Michael D'Andrea
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Michael D'Andrea is an officer of the
, who in 2017 was appointed to head the agency's Iran Mission Center. His appointment was the first major sign that the
was invoking the hard line the president took against Iran during his campaign.
He was a major figure in the
, as well as the American
campaign that killed thousands of Islamist militants and hundreds of civilians.
In January 2020, there were unverified reports of his death.
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Early life[
]
D'Andrea was raised in
.
His family has ties to the CIA that span two generations.
He met his wife while working overseas with the
, and converted to
in order to marry her.
His wife, Faridah Currimjee D'Andrea is a daughter of a wealthy Muslim family from
with
origins.
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.
Career[
]
D'Andrea joined the CIA in 1979, and he was considered an underperformer at
.
D'Andrea reportedly began his overseas career in
, and he is listed as a foreign service officer at the
,
.
D'Andrea previously served as chief of station in
,
and later in
,
.
D'Andrea was reportedly one of the CIA officials who failed to track
, who would later participate in the
.
D'Andrea became head of the CIA's
in 2006, replacing
.
During his nine-year tenure, D'Andrea presided over hundreds of American drone strikes in
and
, advocating for the program to the
.
In 2015, leadership of the drone program was passed to Chris Wood, following bureaucratic reshuffling by
.
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.
During the hunt for Osama bin Laden, D'Andrea directed an
as to who, besides
, could be in the targeted
.
D'Andrea's operatives also oversaw the interrogations of
,
and
, which were criticized in a
.
He was reportedly involved in the assassination of
member
in
.
He received much blame for the
in
,
, when seven CIA operatives were killed by a
, who was allegedly backed by Pakistan's
.
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
in 2014 as inhumane and ineffective.
He has been nicknamed "Ayatollah Mike."
Speculated death[
]
On January 27, 2020, after a
, several websites said D'Andrea died in the crash and that the plane was shot down by the
.
It was also alleged that D'Andrea was involved in the operation that
and that D'Andrea's body, along with top secret CIA documents, were taken by militants.
Early reports from an Iranian television network provided no evidence to confirm D'Andrea was killed.
According to witnesses and officials, the plane crashed and was not shot down.
reported that the photos of the wreckage did not look like the wreckage of a plane that was shot out of the sky.
described reports that D'Andrea had died in the crash as "propaganda" and a "dubious story".
said the claims D'Andrea died in the crash were unsupported and likely false.
According to Polygraph.info, there has also been no confirmation of D'Andrea's involvement in Soleimani's death.
The CIA refused to comment on whether any of their personnel were onboard.