Former Deputy Director for Analysis, CIA
Linda Weissgold was the CIA’s Deputy Director for Analysis from March 2020 until April 2023. She spent 37-years at CIA. Before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, she was an analyst and leader of analytic programs focused on the Middle East. She served as head of the CIA’s Office of Terrorism Analysis and helped to identify Usama Bin Laden’s location and the rise of ISIS. For more than two years, she served as President George W. Bush’s intelligence briefer.