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During Tenet's 1997 confirmation hearing, it emerged that he had failed to disclose telephone company stocks jointly owned with his mother and brother, plus a quarter-share of condominiums in Athens, Greece (worth at least $250,000) bequeathed by his father. Tenet said he only learned of these assets in 1994 and the Senate confirmed him anyway. Under Greek law, income from the Greek property must stay in Greece.
Date: 1997-05-08
Added: 02 May 2026
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In April 2025, Tenet joined the board of directors of Illumio, a breach containment and Zero Trust cybersecurity company. Illumio CEO Andrew Rubin stated Tenet had 'been a mentor, advisor, and supporter of Illumio since our earliest days.'
Date: 2025-04-22
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
SAIC (one of the largest U.S. intelligence contractors) provided Tenet a secure SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) to review and work with classified material while writing his memoir. Arnold Punaro, SAIC's EVP for Government Affairs, arranged the access.
Date: 2006
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
Tenet served as a long-time advisor to Palantir Technologies alongside Condoleezza Rice. In-Q-Tel was an early Palantir investor, putting $2 million into the company. Tenet stated in an interview: 'I wish we had a tool of its power' before 9/11.
Date: 2013-08-19
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
In April 2025, Tenet was named Executive Chairman of CHAOS Industries, a defense technology startup founded in 2022 by his son John Tenet, Dr. Bo Marr, Gavin Hood, and Brett Cummings. In May 2025, CHAOS raised $275M in Series C funding (total $490M raised), led by NEA and Accel, to develop counter-drone radar and detection systems.
Date: 2025-04-08
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
In February 2008, Tenet became a Managing Director at the secretive investment bank Allen & Company, a position that was not publicly announced and only became known through a leak. He served 17 years at Allen & Company, including 12 years as Chairman.
Date: 2008-02-01
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
Tenet received a reported $4 million advance from HarperCollins for his 2007 memoir 'At the Center of the Storm.' He also commanded a speaking fee of $50,000 per corporate engagement. The memoir drew sharp criticism from former CIA colleagues who wrote an open letter accusing him of 'failed leadership.'
Date: 2007-04-30
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
After leaving the CIA in July 2004 at age 51, Tenet received at least $2.3 million in stock and compensation from defense/intelligence contractors whose boards he joined. His post-CIA board seats included L-1 Identity Solutions (which provided him 80,000 shares worth >$1.5 million), QinetiQ Group PLC, Viisage Technology, Guidance Software, and Idemia Identity & Security USA.
Date: 2007-05-07
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
On December 14, 2004, President Bush awarded Tenet the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. The award drew widespread criticism, with some calling it 'hush money.' In 2007, former CIA officers publicly called for Tenet to return the medal.
Date: 2004-12-14
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
Tenet told President George W. Bush in the Oval Office that the case for Iraq possessing WMD was a 'slam dunk' — a phrase that became synonymous with the flawed intelligence used to justify the Iraq War. Tenet later wrote in his memoir that he regretted the phrase.
Date: 2002-12-21
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
In 1999, Tenet created In-Q-Tel, the CIA's nonprofit venture-capital arm, bringing in investment banker A.B. 'Buzzy' Krongard (former head of Alex Brown & Co.) to help structure the firm. In-Q-Tel was publicly announced September 29, 1999, simultaneous stories in The Washington Post and other outlets.
Date: 1999-09-29
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
Tenet served as Staff Director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence from 1985 to 1992, Senior Director for Intelligence Programs at the National Security Council (1993–1995), Deputy Director of Central Intelligence (1995–1997), and Director of Central Intelligence (1997–2004).
Date: 1997
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
Tenet earned a BSFS (1976) from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and an MIA (1978) from Columbia University School of International Affairs. He was appointed Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University after leaving the CIA in 2004.
Date: 2004
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
George Tenet was born January 5, 1953, in Flushing, Queens, New York, the son of Greek immigrants. His father, born in the ethnic Greek community of Himara, Albania, worked in a coal mine in France before arriving in the United States via Ellis Island just before the Great Depression, and later ran a diner in Little Neck, Queens, where George and his twin brother William worked growing up.
Date: 1953-01-05
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
Search scope note: No fec donations found for "George Tenet" in automated database search as of 2026-04-13. This reflects search coverage limits, not confirmed absence from public record.
Added: 13 Apr 2026
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George Tenet filed filing with the SEC on 2006-09-05. Accession number: N/A.
Date: 2006-09-05
Added: 13 Apr 2026
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