Alfreda Frances Bikowsky

Alfreda Frances Bikowsky
Born1965 (age 58–59)
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Intelligence officer, life coach, businesswoman
Spouse
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(m. 2014)​
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Alfreda Frances Bikowsky (born 1965) is a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer who has headed the Bin Laden Issue Station and the Global Jihad unit. Bikowsky's identity is not publicly acknowledged by the CIA, but was deduced by independent investigative journalists in 2011.[2] In January 2014, the Washington Post named her and tied her to a pre-9/11 intelligence failure and the extraordinary rendition of Khalid El-Masri.[3] The Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture, released in December 2014, showed that Bikowsky was not only a key part of the torture program but also one of its chief apologists, resulting in the media's giving her the moniker "The Unidentified Queen of Torture."[4][5][6]

  1. ^ Roston, Aram (January 26, 2016). "CIA's "Queen of Torture" Married To Former CIA Official Who Urges War Between Sunnis And Shiites". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference salon14Oct2011 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Miller, Greg; Goldman, Adam (January 12, 2014). "A hard-edged defender of spy agencies". Washington Post. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  4. ^ Cole, Matthew (December 16, 2014). "Bin Laden Expert Accused of Shaping CIA Deception on 'Torture' Program". NBC News. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
  5. ^ Mayer, Jane (December 18, 2014). "The Unidentified Queen of Torture". New Yorker. Retrieved December 18, 2014.
  6. ^ Greenwald, Glenn; Maass, Peter (December 19, 2014). "Meet Alfreda Bikowsky, the Senior Officer at the Center of the CIA's Torture Scandals". The Intercept. Retrieved June 25, 2015.