CIA Officer Counseled on “How to Play This”Boy, I bet the prosecutors’ eyes just lit up when they saw this email.
It’s from Dusty Foggo to a person called Wilkes Subordinate X in the indictment (he matches the description of Brent Wilkes’ nephew Joel Combs). At the time, Foggo was helping Wilkes, through his nephew, land a subcontract for procurement services for the CIA. He sent the email just after Wilkes had hosted Foggo at a Hawaiian resort — and can barely contain his giddiness at their scheme to land a contract for Wilkes’ front company, the name of which Foggo apparently didn’t even know.
On or about January 7, 2004, immediately after his Hawaiian vacation with Wilkes, Foggo sent Wilkes Subordinate X an email with a subject line of “Re: Aloha,” stating: “Had a great time - no diving, but still fun. I would like the ‘President’ or ‘CEO’ of ‘[entity]’ to come visit. Brent told me that was you (smile), so lets [sic] get to it. I’ll need to brief you a bit on how we need to play this, but that needs to be face to face, before you meet my people.”
Twenty days later, the indictment notes, Foggo met with Wilkes, Wilkes’ nephew, and the CIA contractor through which Wilkes was getting the subcontract at CIA headquarters.