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Jami Miscik

Deputy Director for
Intelligence


Jami Miscik was appointed Deputy Director for Intelligence on May 28, 2002. In this position, she has oversight responsibility for all of CIA’s intelligence analysts, the production of all-source analysis, and determining what materials should be included in the President’s daily intelligence briefing.

Ms. Miscik joined the CIA in 1983 as an economic analyst working on international debt issues in the Third World. She subsequently led Directorate of Intelligence analytic programs on political instability, economic competitiveness, and civil technologies. From 1995 to 1996, she served on rotation to the National Security Council as the Director for Intelligence Programs where she had oversight responsibility for covert action programs and special reconnaissance missions. From 1996 to 1997, Ms. Miscik was the Executive Assistant to George Tenet, the Director of Central Intelligence. In January 1998, she became the Deputy Director of the DCI’s Nonproliferation Center and in January 1999, Director of the Office of Transnational Issues. She was named Associate Deputy Director for Intelligence in August 2000.

Ms. Miscik was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Redondo Beach, California. She was a double major in economics and political science at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, where she received her B.A. with honors. She received a M.A. in International Studies from the University of Denver. She has twice been the recipient of the Intelligence Commendation Medal.


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