Obama's Spy Contact

Accidental Spy Is Obama's Top CIA
Briefer -- CQ Politics

"When Michael Morell was growing up in Cuyahoga Falls -- hanging out at the city pool, playing baseball, watching the Browns and Indians -- he had no clue he would wind up at the highest level of the world's biggest spy agency," the Akron Beacon Journal reported last August.

But today, National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell tapped Ohio native Morell, the CIA's third-ranking official, to brief President-elect Barack Obama on the U.S. intelligence community's view of global developments and its secret operations.

Morrel joined the agency in 1980, almost as an accident, he told the Akron paper upon his appointment as CIA associate deputy director.

"I had every intention of going to grad school and getting a Ph.D. in economics and teaching," he said. "But a friend of mine suggested, 'Why don't you send a resume to the CIA?'"

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My Comment: The most important person in President-elect Obama's foreign security team.