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John A. Rizzo

American attorney (1947–2021)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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John Anthony Rizzo was an American attorney who worked as a lawyer in the Central Intelligence Agency for 34 years. He was the deputy counsel or acting general counsel of the CIA for the first nine years of the war on terror, during which the CIA held dozens of detainees in black site prisons around the globe.

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“John A. Rizzo” enters the record as american attorney (1947–2021). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what John, Rizzo and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “John A. Rizzo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.