# Alfreda Frances Bikowsky

> Alfreda Frances Bikowsky is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer who headed the Bin Laden Issue Station and the Global Jihad unit. Bikowsky's identity is not publicly acknowledged by the CIA, but was deduced by independent investigative journalists in 2011. In January 2014, the Washington Post named her and tied her to a pre-9/11 intelligence failure and the extraordinary rendition of Khalid El-Masri. Bikowsky is widely believed to be one of CIA officers, if not the central one, on whom the character of the protagonist in the film Zero Dark Thirty is based. The Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture, released in December 2014, showed that Bikowsky was not only a key part of the torture program but also one of its chief apologists, resulting in the media's giving her the moniker "The Unidentified Queen of Torture."

*American counterterrorism analyst*

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## Identity
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1965
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Alfreda Frances Bikowsky is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer who headed the Bin Laden Issue Station and the Global Jihad unit. Bikowsky's identity is not publicly acknowledged by the CIA, but was deduced by independent investigative journalists in 2011. In January 2014, the Washington Post named her and tied her to a pre-9/11 intelligence failure and the extraordinary rendition of Khalid El-Masri. Bikowsky is widely believed to be one of CIA officers, if not the central one, on whom the character of the protagonist in the film Zero Dark Thirty is based. The Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture, released in December 2014, showed that Bikowsky was not only a key part of the torture program but also one of its chief apologists, resulting in the media's giving her the moniker "The Unidentified Queen of Torture."

## Fame
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## Sources
- [Alfreda Frances Bikowsky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfreda_Frances_Bikowsky)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16195905)

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