Charles Sam Faddis

Charles “Sam” Faddis is a retired American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operations officer, author, political operative, and conspiracy theorist.

Early life and education
Faddis graduated from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland School of Law.

Service in the Military
Faddis is a Captain (retired) and served US Army Armor Branch and Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG) officer.

Service in the CIA
Faddis claims to have led the first CIA team into Iraq nine months in advance of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He then served as head of the CIA's Counter Terrorism Center (CTC)’s Weapons of Mass Destruction unit.

Authorship and media analysis
Sam Faddis has authored numerous books on intelligence and the 2003 Iraq War. He is the author of Beyond Repair: The Decline And Fall Of The CIA and Willful Neglect: The Dangerous Illusion Of Homeland Security. He co-wrote Operation Hotel California: The Clandestine War Inside Iraq. Faddis' work has been questioned as having relied too heavily on self-research and scant citations in the bibliographies.

A regular commentator on conservative media, Sam Faddis often shares support for conspiracy theories Faddis first appeared on Fox News about the 2012 Benghazi Attack and China. Faddis is a regular on Steve Bannon's War Room

Conspiracy theorist
After Faddis retired from the CIA, he published And Magazine, a news and conspiracy newsletter. He is a political operative and former US Senate Candidate in Maryland, now organizing statewide coalitions in Pennsylvania to spread disinformation about 2020 election conspiracies. Faddis organizes a coalition of self-described Patriot groups in Pennsylvania.