{{Short description|American Central Intelligence Agency officer}} {{Use American English|date=March 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2026}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Michael Sulick |image = Michael J. Sulick, former Deputy Director, Clandestine Operations, CIA.jpg |office = Director of the National Clandestine Service |president = George W. Bush<br>Barack Obama |term_start = September 30, 2007 |term_end = July 30, 2010 |predecessor = Jose Rodriguez |successor = John Bennett |birth_date = {{birth year and age|1948}} |birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S. |death_date = |death_place = |alma_mater = Fordham University {{small|(BA, MA)}}<br>{{nowrap|CUNY Graduate Center {{small|(PhD)}}}} }} '''Michael J. Sulick''' (born 1948) is an American intelligence officer who served as Director of the U.S. National Clandestine Service from 2007 to 2010.
Sulick, who grew up in the Bronx, studied Russian language and literature at Fordham University and later earned his Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He also served as a Marine during the Vietnam War.<ref>{{cite news | author=Mark Mazzetti | author-link=Mark Mazzetti |title= Ex-Official Returns to Key Post at the CIA |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/15/washington/15cia.html |work=The New York Times |date=2007-09-15 |accessdate=2007-09-15}}</ref>
Sulick joined the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1980. He was stationed overseas throughout his career, in Eastern Europe, Asia, Latin America, Poland, and Russia. Sulick served as Moscow Station chief from 1994 to 1996 and Chief of Central Eurasian Division from 1999 to 2002. Sulick served as the Associate Deputy Director of clandestine service for a short time in 2004 under Director Porter J. Goss. He parted ways with the CIA in November 2004 during a management change and leadership turmoil at the agency.
On September 14, 2007, Sulick rejoined the CIA to replace Jose Rodriguez as the head of the clandestine service. Sulick retired in July 2010.<ref>{{cite news|last=Finn|first=Peter|title=Retired CIA veteran will return to head clandestine service|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/21/AR2010072105578.html|accessdate=22 February 2011|newspaper=Washington Post|date=2010-07-22}}</ref>
==References== *"[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20789366/site/newsweek/ Intelligence: Return of a Prodigal Spy at the CIA]{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}", ''Newsweek.'' September 24, 2007. Retrieved September 15, 2007. {{Reflist}}
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