George Tenet

George John Tenet was the Director of Central Intelligence for the United States Central Intelligence Agency, and he is Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University.

George John Tenet was born on January 5, 1953, in Flushing, Queens, New York City, New York, the son of Greek immigrants Evangelia and John Tenet. His father, a Greek born in modernday Northern Epirus , worked in a coal mine in France before arriving in the United States via Ellis Island just before the Great Depression. His mother was a Greek from Epirus, Greece who had fled from the communists by stowing away on a British submarine. Tenet was raised in Little Neck, Queens, where as a teenager, he and his older brother Bill worked as busboys in their familys diner, the Twentieth Century Diner. Despite Bill and George being fraternal twins, both had different personalities in his book Ghost Wars, Steve Coll described Bill as reserved, precise, and studious and George as loud, sloppy, and boisterous. Because of his tendency to talk constantly he was known as the mouthpiece. Sol Winder, a family friend and later owner of their diner, said he was the type of guy who could never keep a se

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