Andrew Warren

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Andrew Marvin Warren (born 1967 in Chesapeake, Virginia) is a former CIA officer who served as the CIA station chief in Algiers, Algeria, from 2007 to 2008. He was fired from the CIA and later went to prison.

Education and career: Warren studied at Old Dominion University and earned a Bachelor of Arts, graduating with high honors from Norfolk State University in 1993. He also studied history and political science at Indiana University and spent time studying Arabic in Jordan. He worked as a language analyst for the NSA in 1996 before joining the CIA. His CIA career included an undercover post in Kuwait (1999), counter-terrorism work in New York, and missions in the Middle East. In 2004 he was promoted to second in command of the CIA’s Cairo bureau and was stationed in Algeria from 2007 until he was recalled in 2008.

Criminal charges and sentencing: In late 2008 two Algerian women accused him of drugging and raping them at his home. He admitted in February 2008 that he had sexually assaulted one woman on U.S. Embassy property in Algiers. He was indicted in June 2009 on a sexual abuse charge and arrested in April 2010 after missing a court appearance. Warren pleaded guilty on June 7, 2010 to abusive sexual contact and unlawful use of cocaine while possessing a firearm. He was sentenced on March 3, 2011 to 65 months in prison (about 5 years and 5 months). He was released from prison in 2015 and was fired by the CIA because of the charges.

Later reflections: In a 2013 interview, Warren said he participated in the torture of detainees and noted that he began to question the morality of his actions.