Alvin Bernard "Buzzy" Krongard (born October 25, 1936) was the executive director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
The Executive Director is the third ranking position within the CIA and the incumbent functions essentially as the Chief Operating Officer of the Agency.
A longtime consultant to DCIs, Krongard joined the Agency full-time in February 1998, following a 29-year business career.
During his private sector career, he served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Alex.
Brown & Sons, the nation's oldest investment banking firm, and Vice Chairman of the Board of Bankers Trust.
[11]At a November 14, 2007 House oversight committee hearing about Blackwater, investigating allegations of improper interference by Krongard's brother, Howard, in Justice Department investigations of Blackwater and other State Department contractors, Chairman Henry Waxman stated that A.
[13][14][15] Committee chairman Henry Waxman issued a memorandum [16] summarizing the discrepancies between the two brothers' recollections of what Buzzy told Howard.