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Mary O'Neil McCarthy of Bethesda, Maryland, is or was a CIA Analyst who worked in the Office of the Inspector General. She was reportedly fired April 21, 2006 for leaking classified information to The Washington Post regarding black sites.
Career
McCarthy began working for the CIA in 1984, as an analyst in the Directorate of Intelligence. She served as the Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Warning from 1991 to 1994; and as National Intelligence Officer for Warning from 1994 to 1996.
Following her service as National Intelligence Officer for Warning, McCarthy served as Director of Intelligence Programs on the National Security Council staff. In 1998, Sandy Berger, then National Security Advisor for President Clinton but later convicted of a misdemeanor for mishandling classified documents, appointed her as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Intelligence Programs.
Leak Scandal
On April 21, 2006 news reports appeared about the dismissal of a CIA analyst for releasing classified material to The Washington Post. The analyst was subsequently identified as Mary McCarthy by the New York Times, NBC and FoxNews. This happened after she failed a polygraph examination, and then admitted to revealing classified information. McCarthy reportedly had leaked information to the Washington Post's Dana Priest on several occasions. Her identity has as yet not been disclosed officially by government sources.
According to NBC, some of the leaked classified material pertained to special wartime agreements between the U.S. and Eastern European nations to host detainees captured in the U.S.' Global "War on Terror" that commenced September 14, 2001] following the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
U.S. government officials have said the disclosure did "significant damage to relationships between the U.S. and allied intelligence agencies." As of now, no criminal charges have been filed against her.