Duelfer, Charles

Charles A. Duelfer is an American weapons inspector and intelligence official. He led the Iraq Survey Group, the body charged with searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq after the 2003 invasion, and was the principal author of its final report, formally the Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the Director of Central Intelligence on Iraq's WMD and widely known as the Duelfer Report, which concluded that Iraq had destroyed its stocks of chemical and biological weapons and abandoned its nuclear program after the 1991 Gulf War. He is Chairman of Omnis, Inc., a consulting firm in aerospace, defense, intelligence, training, and finance. He is a regular commentator in the media on intelligence and foreign policy and is the author of Hide and Seek: The Search for Truth in Iraq.