....from War and Piece....
More Cunningham Case Allegations: Poker Parties, Prostitutes -- and Planes. The San Diego Union-Tribune on the poker parties sponsored by Wilkes and Wade:
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People who were present at the games said one of the regular players was Kyle Dustin “Dusty” Foggo, who has been Wilkes' best friend since the two attended junior high school in Chula Vista in the late 1960s. In October, Foggo was named the CIA's executive director – the agency's third-highest position.
Another player was a CIA agent known as “Nine Fingers,” so named because he lost one of his digits while on assignment
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What a source mentioned to me was that among spooks, Wilkes and Wade were known as "lobbyists," who sponsored poker parties at hotel suites involving their buddies and congressmen sometimes entertained by prostitutes. The point: to cultivate and bond with those who could throw business their way. I'm told these poker parties may have indirectly helped put Dusty Foggo on Porter Goss's radar, when the CIA was looking to fill the executive director spot, and Goss's first choice became problematic. According to various sources, Foggo was apparently on the outs with his predecessor Buzzy Krongaard, and would spend time away from the office playing poker with the Wilkes-linked group. Writes one source, "...Wilkes and Foggo played cards together in washington in the late 1990s and early 2000s when Foggo was rumored to be on the outs with then executive director Buzzy Krongaard. It is apparently through this connection that Foggo came to the attention of Goss when Goss' first choice for executive director, Michael Kostiw, was nixed..."
So was the Wilkes-Foggo relationship purely social? A person in the lobbying business told me the other day that on a visit to Wilkes's offices while in San Diego, Wilkes pointed to a room in his ADCS Poway headquarters as "Dusty's playpen" full of the technological gizmos he apparently loves. And according to another source, Wilkes was in discussions to get a very large contract from the Agency: as I have previously reported, to set up an off-the-books plane network. "There were several more opportunities on the board when the federal investigation came down on Wilkes," a source indicates. "Opportunities worth much more than the $5M or $10 million/year deals Wilkes was used to. The FBI probably knows about these from the raids they conducted, but I wonder if they have shared that information with the CIA." The alleged amount of the contract under negotiation? Close to $300 million, I've heard.
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