Peter Strzok
Former FBI counterintelligence official
Peter Strzok is a former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) counterintelligence official. He headed the probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 US elections.
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American Born 1970 in Sault Ste. Marie, United States
About Peter Strzok
Peter Strzok is a counterintelligence expert and US Army veteran who spent more than twenty years in intelligence work. He served as Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division, and before that he was chief of its Counterespionage Section. He oversaw the probe into Hillary Clinton's handling of email on a private server, and later the probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 US elections. He received the Director's Award for Excellence in 2009. Strzok was dismissed from the FBI in August 2018 over partisan text messages. In 2024 the Justice Department agreed to settle his wrongful termination suit. His 2020 book Compromised became a New York Times and Washington Post bestseller, and he is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University.