Jim Greer (CIA)

Jim Greer
Full Name	James Robert Greer
Place of Birth	Jackson, Michigan
Relatives	Robert Greer (father), Ruth Greer (mother), Margaret Greer (sister), Henry Greer (brother)
Affiliations	Central Intelligence Agency (current) United States Navy (formerly)
Ethnicity	African-American
Hair	Brown
Eyes	Brown
Height	6'3 ft.
Weight	203 lbs.

Jim Greer (full name James Robert Greer) was born and raised in Jackson, Michigan. His father, Robert Greer, was a bus driver and U.S. Marine Corps veteran; while his mother, Ruth Greer (née Earl), was a bank teller.

After graduating from Jackson High School in Jackson, Jim went on to Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He double majored in economics and computer science. Jim graduated from Northwestern with both a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science and a commission as an Ensign in the United States Navy via the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps. While at Northwestern, he decided to become an intelligence officer. After attending the Navy and Marine Corps Intelligence Training Center, Jim was assigned to Patrol Squadron 40 at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island as an anti-submarine warfare intelligence officer. He was later attached to SEAL Team 3 as an operational intelligence officer. Jim left the U.S. Navy after four years of service at the rank of Lieutenant.

He then moved to Washington, D.C., where found employment as an associate in the management consulting division at DDI Partners LLC, an international management consulting and investment banking firm. Jim left DDI Partners LLC after two years and enrolled in the four-year doctoral finance program at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. After receiving his PhD in Finance from the Yale School of Management, he returned to DDI Partners LLC and obtained a position as a quantitative analyst and compliance officer in DDI Partners LLC's investment banking division. Six months into his new job with the firm, a high-ranking official with the Central Intelligence Agency named Jeffrey Pelt offered Jim a job as an outside analyst for the Agency. He accepted the job offer and was tasked with using his position at DDI Partners LLC to look for suspicious financial transactions that would indicate terrorist funding. A year later, Jim was recruited into the CIA to work as a full-time economic analyst.

He subsequently resigned from DDI Partners LLC and then went on to the Career Analyst Program at the Sherman Kent School for Intelligence Analysis. After training, Jim was posted to the Terror Finance and Arms Division (T-FAD) in the Counterterrorism Center and assigned to analyze global markets and financial aberrations to uncover funding for terrorist groups. He was given the official cover of a U.S. State Department logistician who runs supply chain logistics for the Western Hemisphere.

A couple of years into his career with the CIA, Jim was assigned to T-FAD's Yemen desk. A little over a month in that capacity, he began monitoring SWIFT network transactions in and around Aden. Over a period of five weeks, Jim red-flagged several transactions as potentially suspicious. He recognized it as anomalous to see large, one-off SWIFT transactions to individuals, especially in Yemen. And normal SWIFT transactions usually occurred in patterns. Jim developed a theory that the individual behind these transactions could be a high-level target. He eventually convinced T-FAD's group chief, Jane Ryan, that his theory was right. Ryan was able to used T-FAD's resources to discover that the target's name was "Suleiman" and then had his bank account frozen. She also had Special Activities Division put a surveillance team on the bank where the account was located. A couple of days later, the SAD officers in the detail and officers of the Yemeni Political Security Organization captured two men attempting to withdraw money from the account.

The Yemeni government believed the two detainees to be couriers. Jim and Ryan flew to Yemen to assist in the interrogation of the detainees. The interrogation took place at a forward operating base in Yemen serving as a CIA black site. A few hours after Jim and Ryan arrived, the site was attack by a terrorist militia. During the attack, Jim surmised that one of the captured men was Suleiman. After a tense battle that left many dead, Suleiman escaped. Once Jim returned to CIA headquarters, he was able to use both confidential and open-source intelligence to find that Suleiman's full name is Musa Bin Suleiman. Ryan pulled Suleiman's phone records, which lead them to Paris. There, Jim and Ryan worked with French DGSI agents and GIGN officers to track down Suleiman. Together, they took part in raiding an apartment that Jim's analysis indicated Suleiman had taken refuge in. In the raid, Suleiman was captured and taken into the custody of the French government.

As a commendation for his role in capturing Suleiman and defunding Suleiman's terrorist cell, Jim was elevated to senior analyst of T-FAD. In that capacity, he is frequently deployed as T-FAD's liaison with either CIA paramilitary units or U.S. military special operations units. Jim is deployed and embedded with these units whenever field operations-acquired financial or economic intelligence requires immediate analysis.

Although his official cover is that he is simply a supervisory logistics management officer in the Bureau of Administration of the Office of Logistics Management at the United States Department of State, Dr. Jim Greer is in fact one of the most exemplary officers of the Central Intelligence Agency.