A. B. Krongard

Alvin Bernard "Buzzy" Krongard (born October 25, 1936) was the executive director of the Central Intelligence Agency.[1] He was appointed by George Tenet on March 16, 2001.

The Executive Director is the third ranking position within the CIA and the incumbent functions essentially as the Chief Operating Officer of the Agency. For three years prior, Krongard had served as Counselor to the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI).

A longtime consultant to DCIs, Krongard joined the Agency full-time in February 1998, following a 29-year business career. During his private sector career, he served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Alex. Brown & Sons, the nation's oldest investment banking firm, and Vice Chairman of the Board of Bankers Trust.

Krongard graduated with honors from Princeton University with an A.B. in philosophy in 1958 after completing a senior thesis titled "The Nature and Meaning of Religious Propositions."[2] He then received a Juris Doctor degree with honors from the University of Maryland School of Law. While at Princeton, Krongard played lacrosse. In 1980, he was inducted as a member of the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame.[3] Krongard played for the storied amateur Mount Washington Lacrosse Club.[4] He served three years of active duty as an infantry officer in the United States Marine Corps.

Krongard resigned from the CIA shortly after the arrival of DCI Porter Goss in September 2004. While at the CIA, he was the connection between Erik Prince of Blackwater Security Consulting and the CIA.[5] Through his influence, Blackwater was able to receive its first black contract.[6]

On March 18, 2005, Krongard was appointed as an outside US director to the Global Board of Directors organized to oversee and coordinate the worldwide operations of DLA Piper, one of the world's largest law firms.

  1. ^ Atkinson, Bill; Schneider, Greg (February 1, 1998). "High finance gives way to espionage Change: In what he RTC calls his final interview, 'Buzzy' Krongard explains why moving from Alex. Brown to the CIA isn't such a long step". The Baltimore Sun. Archived from the original on 2020-05-10. Retrieved August 29, 2015.
  2. ^ Krongard, Alvin Bernard (1958). The Nature and Meaning of Religious Propositions (Senior Thesis). Princeton University.
  3. ^ "Krongard, Alvin B." US Lacrosse, Inc. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-08-07. Krongard . . . was captain of every team on which he ever played.
  4. ^ Alvin B. Krongard Biography Archived 2010-05-24 at the Wayback Machine, National Lacrosse Hall of Fame, retrieved May 26, 2010.
  5. ^ Lazo, Luz; Miller, Greg (2015-08-07). "Former top CIA official arrested at BWI for allegedly trying to bring gun through security". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2016-01-05.
  6. ^ Shane, Scott (2007-11-17). "Brothers, Bad Blood and the Blackwater Tangle". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2015-04-14. Retrieved 2024-08-07.