CIA Contract Given To Company That Bribed Jailed Congressman Under Investigation...
The CIA: Questions About a Contract—And a Friendship
Newsweek
March 20, 2006 issue -
The CIA's inspector general is examining a recent contract the agency gave to an obscure Virginia company headed by a relative of Brent Wilkes, an unindicted co-conspirator in the federal bribery case against former San Diego congressman Randy (Duke) Cunningham. The contract was issued by the logistics office of the agency's main base near Frankfurt, Germany, at a time that office was headed by agency veteran Kyle (Dusty) Foggo, now the CIA's third-ranking official; Foggo and Wilkes have been friends since childhood. The IG's investigation of Foggo's relationship with Wilkes is a consequence of Wilkes's role as "Co-conspirator No. 1" in the Cunningham case. Cunningham recently was jailed for more than eight years; in one document, prosecutors say "Co-conspirator No. 1" agreed to give Cunningham $525,000 in return for $6 million in government contracts. Four sources familiar with the probe, who asked for anonymity because inquiries are ongoing, told NEWSWEEK the IG is looking at a specific contract awarded to Archer Logistics, headed by Joel Combs, a Wilkes nephew and business associate. The recently expired contract is said to have been worth $2 million to $3 million and involved delivering bottled water and other household goods to CIA personnel in "war zones" including Iraq and Afghanistan. Although the classified contract was arranged while Foggo headed the Frankfurt office that awarded it, Foggo himself didn't sign the contract. The sources added that investigators have questioned financial aspects of the contract because the agency seems to have been paying a high price for a modest amount of goods. Two sources said the high costs had been attributed to high risks.
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