John L. Helgerson

John L. Helgerson is a long-time official of the United States' most senior intelligence agency, the CIA.cite web
url=https://www.cia.gov/news-information/press-releases-statements/press-release-archive-2001/pr08032001.html
title=Tenet Names Chairman of the National Intelligence Council; Other Senior Intelligence Posts Announced
publisher=CIA
date=August 3, 2001
accessdate=2007-10-14] cite web
url=https://www.cia.gov/news-information/press-releases-statements/press-release-archive-2002/pr02282002.html
title=Statement By Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet on the Nomination of John L. Helgerson as CIA Inspector General
publisher=CIA
author=George Tenet
date=February 28, 2002
accessdate=2007-10-14] cite web
url=https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/cia-briefings-of-presidential-candidates/blurb.htm
title=CIA Briefings of Presidential Candidates: John L. Helgerson
publisher=CIA
date=
accessdate=2007-10-14] Helgerson is currently the CIA Inspector General. Helgerson is a graduate of Saint Olaf College. His Masters and PhD are from Duke University in Political Science.

Prior to joining the CIA Helgerson was a research associate at the University of Zambia and a Professor at the University of Cincinnati.

Helgerson's tenure since he joined the CIA, in 1971, has been on the research-analytical side, rather than the operational side. His most recent post has been Inspector General.

Helgerson drafted a critical review of former director George Tenet's tenure, delivered to the US Congress in September 2005, that recommended "punitive sanctions".cite news
url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/story/0,11209,1557179,00.html
title=Tenet could face 9/11 reprimand
publisher=The Guardian
author=David Fickling
date=August 26 2005
accessdate=2007-10-10] cite news
url=http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/26/content_472420.htm
title=CIA panel: 9/11 failure warrants action
publisher=China Daily
date=August 26 2005
accessdate=2007-10-10]

In December 2005 press reports quoting unnamed CIA sources state that Helgerson is investigating "erroneous extraordinary renditions" -- that is the extrajudicial kidnapping, for the purpose of extreme interrogation, of suspected enemies, like Maher Arar and Khalid El-Masri, who turned out to be completely innocent.cite news
url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/03/AR2005120301476_pf.html
title=Wrongful Imprisonment: Anatomy of a CIA Mistake: German Citizen Released After Months in 'Rendition'
publisher=Washington Post
page=A01
author=Dana Priest
date=December 4, 2005
accessdate=2007-10-14] cite news
url=http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-12/28/content_507379.htm
title=CIA probes renditions of terror suspects
publisher=China Daily
date=December 20 2005
accessdate=2007-10-14] cite news
url=http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=2712
title=CIA Self-investigation Only Known Renditions Inquiry
publisher=The NewStandard
author=Brendan Coyne
date=December 28, 2005
accessdate=2007-04-27]

In October 2007 it was reported that CIA director Michael Hayden had launched an inquiry into Helgerson's conduct as Inspector General of the CIA.cite news
url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/12/washington/12cnd-cia.html?hp
title=C.I.A. Internal Inquiry Troubling, Lawmakers Say
publisher=New York Times
author=Mark Mazzetti, Scott Shane
date=October 12, 2007
accessdate=2007-10-14]

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* John L. Helgerson [https://www.cia.gov/csi/books/briefing/ Getting To Know the President: CIA Briefings of Presidential Candidates 1952-1992]