Andrew Marvin Warren (born 1967;

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) is a former

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operative, who served as

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, during 2007–2008. In 2010, he pleaded guilty to charges of

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of two women and the following year he was sentenced to over 5 years in prison. He served his sentence in federal prison, and was released from prison in 2015. As a result of the criminal charges he was also fired from the CIA.

Early life, education, and career

Warren has

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training, extensive knowledge of the

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, and speaks six

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as well as

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. Warren enrolled at

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in 1986. He earned a

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'' at

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, graduating in 1993 with a 3.9 GPA. He studied history and political science at

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in the summer of 1992, around which time he was spotted by a CIA on-campus agency recruiter. From 1994, he spent two summers continuing his Arabic studies at

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in Jordan. In 1996, he was employed as a language analyst for the

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before being hired by the CIA. Warren's first undercover job was in Kuwait in 1999. He left the CIA in 2001, and took a job with

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a month before the September 11 terrorist attack. He received a call from the CIA that day and was back working with the CIA the next day, where he worked in counter-terrorism in New York. In 2002, he was deployed to the Middle East, his mission was to collect intelligence. He returned to his New York counter-terrorism position in June 2003. In 2004, Warren was promoted to second in command of the CIA's

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bureau. He was stationed in Algeria since 2007 and recalled by the CIA in October 2008. He was fired in 2009.Ex-CIA Official Admits Rape at US Embassy in Algiers
/ref> In an interview in 2013, Warren admitted to participating in the torture of detainees. He drank more heavily as he started to question the morality of his actions.

Criminal case

In late 2008, two Algerian women came forward and accused Warren of drugging and raping them while at his home. On February 17, 2008, Warren admitted that he had sexually assaulted one of the women on the U.S. Embassy property in Algiers, according to the

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. He was

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ed on June 18, 2009, by a

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of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on one count of sexual abuse and was

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ed on June 30, 2009. He was investigated by the Department of State's

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and prosecuted by attorneys from the

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and the

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, Criminal Division, Domestic Security Section. Warren was arrested April 26, 2010, in Norfolk, after he missed a pretrial appearance earlier in the month. He was in possession of a handgun and drug paraphernalia. On June 7, 2010, Warren pleaded guilty to abusive sexual contact and unlawful use of

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while possessing a firearm. Had he been convicted of the

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charge, for which he had originally been indicted, Warren could have faced up to

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. On March 3, 2011, Judge

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sentenced Warren to serve 65 months. The judge added almost two years to the sentence that prosecutors had originally requested, saying it appeared that Warren believed he would get away with the offense because of

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as well as the victim's fear of reporting the crime.

References

External links

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