We’ve noted Brent Wilkes’ and Dusty Foggo’s reputations as hell raising ladies’ men before, but recent reporting has added a slew of details to the picture.
First, on Brent Wilkes, the crooked defense contractor who allegedly provided prostitutes to Duke Cunningham and others, there’s this from The San Diego Union-Tribune:
Foggo’s first foreign posting [at the CIA] was to Honduras, the center of the U.S.-backed Contra guerrilla fighters who were trying to topple the Marxist government of Nicaragua.
About that time, Wilkes launched a Washington-based financial firm and accompanied lawmakers on trips to Central America, where they met with Foggo and Contra leaders.
Three of Wilkes’ former friends say he told them he was involved in assignations between some of the legislators and prostitutes in Central America. The former friends â each of whom has known Wilkes and Foggo since high school â would speak only on the condition that they not be identified.
“Brent Wilkes adamantly and vehemently denies ever being involved in getting anybody prostitutes, and that includes congressmen and any other officials,” Wilkes’ attorney said.
And on Dusty Foggo, the CIA’s now former Executive Director, who was at Wilkes’ poker parties, but claims never to have seen a prostitute there, there’s this from Harper’s Ken Silverstein:
Over the past few days, I’ve spoken to six former CIA officials – all of whom spoke on condition of anonymity – who know Foggo or are well acquainted with his work at the agency. They provided a number of previously unreported revelations about Foggo’s career, particularly regarding his years in Honduras in the early 1980s, when the agency was using the country as a base both to support the Nicaraguan contras and for a variety of other covert programs in Central America….
Foggo, said my sources, was also a regular at a local bar named Gloria’s, which one source said was chiefly known for having “a brisk hooker trade.” While my sources had no direct knowledge of Foggo consorting with prostitutes, several said that simply being at a place like Gloria’s was deemed to be a serious security problem and that Foggo’s nocturnal habits were a source of great concern within the local CIA station.
And from Newsweek‘s Mark Hosenball:
During his time in Vienna, Foggo was also the subject of a CIA investigation for allegedly pursuing relationships with women without properly informing his employer – a potential security risk – according to two former CIA officials who also would not be named talking about agency procedures. Foggo’s lawyer, William Hundley, did not respond to numerous requests for comment. But according to a source close to Foggo, who wouldn’t speak about intelligence matters on the record, Foggo denied improprieties with women. Investigators concluded that Foggo hadn’t posed a serious security risk.
